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

MusikexpressEurope

Metallica tauschen Sphere-Setlist komplett durch

October 5

Keine Wiederholungen, dafür 16 neue Songs: Beim zweiten Abend ihrer Las-Vegas-Sause haben Metallica ihr Set komplett neu besetzt.

Read at Musikexpress ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Metallica tauschen Sphere-Setlist komplett durch

More from Musikexpress on XLR MAG

EuropeDakota Johnson: Damon Albarn ist ihr Celebrity Crush – Anne Hathaway kennt ihn nicht Musikexpress

EuropeDarum kehrt Jesse Eisenberg nicht als Mark Zuckerberg zurück Musikexpress

EuropeWarum KID A von Radiohead einfach nur nervt Musikexpress

EuropeHarry Styles in Berlin: Wie man Tickets fürs Zusatzkonzert bekommt Musikexpress

EuropeGlastonbury 2027: Tickets in Minuten ausverkauft – Fans wütend Musikexpress

Europe„GTA 6“ bekommt eigenes Album mit 34 neuen Songs Musikexpress