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

ConsequenceScenes

GTA 6 to Simulate Hurricanes Because Weather Isn’t Bad Enough IRL

September 29

In a time when festivals are getting washed out left and right, Rockstar Games is about to launch a re-engineered, advanced weather system in Grand Theft Auto VI that simulates tropical storms and…

Read at Consequence ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

GTA 6 to Simulate Hurricanes Because Weather Isn’t Bad Enough IRL

More from Consequence on XLR MAG

ScenesDaughtry Announce 2027 Leg of “20 Years Unplugged” US Tour Consequence

ScenesNew Found Glory Honor Late Guitarist Chad Gilbert at EPCOT Show Consequence

ScenesSpider-Man’s Infamous Clone Saga Being Developed as Prime Video TV Series Consequence

ScenesJet Announce First-Ever South American Tour for 2027 Consequence

ScenesBilly Joel Announces Massive Turnstiles 50th Anniversary Box Set with 54 Unreleased Tracks Consequence

ScenesFoo Fighters to Open for AC/DC at Rescheduled MetLife Show Consequence