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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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Guitar Magazine (ギター・マガジン)Japan

キクタニミュージック、“KIKUTANI STRAP”からジャガード生地とイタリアン・レザーの2026年秋モデルをリリース

September 16

高い耐久性と演奏性と誇るKIKUTANIブランド（キクタニミュージック）より、KSTRシリーズ・ギター・ストラップの2026年秋モデルがリリースされた。ジャガード生地の“KSTR-300シリーズ”とイタリアン・レザーを使用した“KSTR-5000シリーズ”の、合わせて9モデルが新たに仲間入りする。 .my_adslot { width: 300px; height: 250px; } @media(min-width: 340px)

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