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

The Line of Best FitScenes

Meg Lui’s fear of missing out

September 18

]]> Ahead of her Sufjan Stevens-produced debut record, Meg Lui tells Best Fit how she had to confront millennial arrested development and lean on her robust community up in the Catskill Mountains.

Features Interviews

Read at The Line of Best Fit ↗

Also covered by: Consequence

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Meg Lui’s fear of missing out

More from The Line of Best Fit on XLR MAG

ScenesJames Marriott announces third album Warning Signs The Line of Best Fit

ScenesBaby Queen educates us on South African birds for this week's Talk The Line podcast The Line of Best Fit

ScenesMietze Conte announces new album (L)ove (I)s (F)or (E)veryone The Line of Best Fit

ScenesToria Wooff announces new album Aleister and shares "The Morrigan" The Line of Best Fit

ScenesKwamie Liv returns after six years with "No One Owns the Sunrise" single The Line of Best Fit

Scenesuntitled (halo), Billboard Style, Silk Road, Starling and Gone Future lead this week's New Music Discovery playlist The Line of Best Fit