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

Ruhrpott-Maxxing: So war das Zinnober Festival 2026

September 30

Wer sich herausnimmt, in der vorletzten Septemberwoche der ausgehenden Festival-Saison noch einmal sein letztes bisschen Sommerfeeling abzutrotzen, macht sich die Sache nicht leicht.

Read at Visions ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Ruhrpott-Maxxing: So war das Zinnober Festival 2026

More from Visions on XLR MAG

EuropeGelegenheitssex und Hexerei: UK-Dance-Punks kündigen zweites Album an mit neuer Single an Visions

EuropeDeath From Above 1979 kündigen neues Album "Private Lives" an Visions

EuropeHot Water Music kündigen Tour für April 2027 an Visions

EuropeSlipknot-Gitarrist Jim Root über neues Album: »Es wird einige Gefühle verletzen« Visions

EuropeHörst du meins, hör' ich deins: Coheed And Cambria vs. Getdown Services Visions

EuropePaerish mit neuer Single "What You Want" vom kommenden Album "Rita" Visions