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

“Hot Topic Live” Performance Series Launches with Pierce the Veil: Watch

10.22

Pierce the Veil played the first edition of “Hot Topic Live,” a new series dedicated to live performances at a custom-built studio at Hot Topic’s flagship retail location in…

Read at Consequence ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

“Hot Topic Live” Performance Series Launches with Pierce the Veil: Watch

More from Consequence on XLR MAG

ScenesSharon Osbourne: Black Sabbath Bandmates “Didn’t Know How Sick Ozzy Was” at Final Concert Consequence

ScenesInterpol Announce 2027 US Tour with Deafheaven Consequence

ScenesFleetwood Mac Documentary Sets January 2027 Premiere on Apple TV Consequence

ScenesKid Rock Says Trump Allegiance Has Cost Him Corporate Deals and Late-Night TV Appearances Consequence

ScenesSNL Sets New Episodes with The Strokes and Phoebe Bridgers Consequence

ScenesAnuel AA Announces Corridos Album, Maluma Reveals Plans to Explore Música Mexicana Consequence