Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.

← XLR MAG Archive

The Line of Best FitScenes

Four unearthed Pixies songs arrive on streaming platforms

11.02

]]> Pixies have rolled out four previously buried songs – “Dig For Fire (Albini Version)”, “Go Man Go”, “Brackish Boy”, and “Punk Loop” – after they appeared on vinyl as part of Dinked’s remastered…

News

Read at The Line of Best Fit ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Four unearthed Pixies songs arrive on streaming platforms

More from The Line of Best Fit on XLR MAG

ScenesMighty Hoopla announces Robyn and The Pussycat Dolls for 10th birthday edition The Line of Best Fit

ScenesJoyeria announces Live At The Windmill album The Line of Best Fit

ScenesSofia and the Antoinettes shares “Eden” and announces first of a two-part release The Line of Best Fit

ScenesGee Vaucher Foundation launches campaign to archive work of seminal protest-artist The Line of Best Fit

ScenesRoscoe Roscoe announce debut album and share “Bossa 916” The Line of Best Fit

ScenesSufjan Stevens releases first Christmas song in 15 years The Line of Best Fit