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XLR is a magazine, a radar and a diary about music gear and the making of music — for the people who make records and put on shows, wherever they do it.

The name is the three-pin connector that every signal in the business passes through: the microphone on stage and in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX cable that runs the lights. Studio, stage and lighting rig share it, and so does this magazine. Every few hours XLR collects what the makers shipped, what the reviewers heard, what the studios and the touring crews are doing, which producers and collectives are surfacing and what they are saying — synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lights, the rooms and the people — from a few hundred sources in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more, then plots what is moving. The editor writes a letter every few days. Nothing is sold here; when a link leads to a shop, that is the maker's shop, not ours.

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“I’m not trying to toot horns, but Joe Bonamassa said there are only a few guitar players that can do the Albert King bends correctly, and he said my name”: From teenage rigs to stage disasters – the life and times of Eddie 9V

September 12

Eddie 9V has a whole lot coming to you on his eclectic fifth studio full-length , Down Here, and the vibe is downright electric. Though he’s an Atlanta-raised six-stringer who began self-producing music when he was a tee

Electric guitars & amps

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GuitarsPink Floyd has a Dark Side of the Moon guitar pick made from gold – and it’s one of the most expensive guitar picks ever made Guitar World

EuropeFriedman JOSE 20: Kompakter Vollröhren-Amp als Topteil & Combo delamar

EuropeHarley Benton SC Special Hybrid: Neue Single-Cut Gitarre mit P90 & Humbucker delamar

GuitarsPointy Guitars Weren't Just For Metal Players: 'A Quick Way You Could Have A Makeover,' Author Explains [News] Ultimate Guitar

“He was for me what Elvis probably was for most other people. His style on every level was fantastic. Doing all the things we would later come to associate with Jimi Hendrix”: Buddy Guy at 90 – how the world’s greatest living bluesman transformed guitar

Gear“He was for me what Elvis probably was for most other people. His style on every level was fantastic. Doing all the things we would later come to associate with Jimi Hendrix”: Buddy Guy at 90 – how the world’s greatest living bluesman transformed guitar MusicRadar

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