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

GaffaEurope

Klichéerne er det bedste ved den her kærlighedsdebut

October 8

Den danske sanger Dahlin balancer mellem det poetiske og det bidende banale i sine kærlighedssange til en generation af røde flag og AI-undskyldninger.

New producers & collectives

Read at Gaffa ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Klichéerne er det bedste ved den her kærlighedsdebut

Related

AsiaHYBE's Weverse Con Festival to make international debut in India in March 2027 Bandwagon Asia

ScenesOsbourne Family To Host Premiere of Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning Film in LA Consequence

ScenesDlala Thukzin to make Ghana debut at Accra House Fest Music In Africa

GearHow a broken body let Scott Holiday’s mind run free on his trippy solo debut MusicRadar

EuropeJaviera Mena celebrará veinte años de su debut en Madrid y Barcelona Mondosonoro

Scenes‘24 Hour Party People’ cast reunite for premiere anniversary screening in Manchester NME