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

VisionsEurope

Neue Single "Outlaw" von The Bobby Lees

October 9

Ein massiver Blur-Effekt und die unbändige Symbiose von Sängerin Sam Quartin aka Lady Boy, Bassistin Kendall Wind und Schlagzeuger Macky Bowman ergeben einen harten Fußtritt in bereits weit geöffnete…

Read at Visions ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Neue Single "Outlaw" von The Bobby Lees

More from Visions on XLR MAG

EuropeDeafheaven veröffentlichen Überraschungs-EP »At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb« Visions

EuropeGeordie Greep reagiert während Soloset auf Vergewaltigungsvorwürfe Visions

EuropePower Trip kündigen neues Album mit Doppelsingle an Visions

EuropeDraußen! Neue Alben von John Coffey, Teenage Fanclub, Bilderbuch und mehr Visions

EuropeUS-Streamingbetrüger muss ins Gefängnis, verdiente Millionen mit KI-Musik Visions

EuropeRoyal Blood kündigen Deutschlandkonzerte für März 2027 an Visions