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

Nostalgie-Radios bei McDonald’s sehen ganz schön alt aus

11.04

Der Burger-Brater fährt gerade zurück in die Vergangenheit. Neben lange nicht mehr aufgelegten Bouletten-Klassikern gibt es auch musikalische Gimmicks zum Menü. Die 2000er sind zurück.

Read at Musikexpress ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Nostalgie-Radios bei McDonald’s sehen ganz schön alt aus

More from Musikexpress on XLR MAG

EuropeU2: Presale für Berlin läuft – das kosten die Tickets fürs Olympiastadion Musikexpress

EuropeTarantino-Star Bridget Fonda sieht (wieder) völlig anders aus Musikexpress

EuropeParis Jackson fordert 600 Millionen vom Nachlass Musikexpress

EuropeBerghain-DJ Efdemin wird Professor an der UdK Berlin Musikexpress

EuropeLISTEN TO BERLIN Awards 2026: Alle Gewinner:innen im Überblick Musikexpress

EuropeWalter Koenig: Todesursache des „Star Trek“-Stars steht fest Musikexpress