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.

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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.

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soccer Committee and Fergus Jones team up for debut collaborative album, belongs

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]]> soccer Committee — the solo project of Dutch artist Mariska Baars — and Scottish artist Fergus Jones have announced their first album, belongs, and shared their debut track "The Heavens Are High".

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