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

3voor12Europe

Keo: ‘Een ruimtemissie die op een gruwelijke manier ontspoort’

September 28

Eindelijk bracht de Londense gitaarband Keo de langverwachte debuutplaat Put A Smile On For Me uit, een topplaat die de grunge van Pearl Jam, Nirvana en Alice in Chains verenigt met de eerste platen…

Interview

Read at 3voor12 ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Keo: ‘Een ruimtemissie die op een gruwelijke manier ontspoort’

More from 3voor12 on XLR MAG

EuropeThe Klittens houdt de touwtjes liever zelf in handen 3voor12

EuropeKom jij bij de publieksjury van de 3voor12 Award 2025? 3voor12

EuropeTeardrinker’s schreeuw om vrijheid 3voor12

EuropeAlbum van de Dag: Gilla Band - Pugnello 3voor12

EuropeGilla Band: ‘Geluid is pas echt interessant wanneer het oncomfortabel wordt’ 3voor12

EuropeBenny Sings - 22 Durnham Dew 3voor12