XLR

Latest

On the calendar

· Trade shows and launch events, this week's stories from each corner of the industry, and what its press is covering.

On view

This week, from that corner the newest stories from the corner of the industry you picked

The wire their own posts, translated

How records get made in 2026 from the industry's own reports

Sources

Fetched every three hours, linked to the original

About

XLR is a magazine, a radar and a diary about music gear and the making of music — for the people who make records and put on shows, wherever they do it.

The name is the three-pin connector that every signal in the business passes through: the microphone on stage and in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX cable that runs the lights. Studio, stage and lighting rig share it, and so does this magazine. Every few hours XLR collects what the makers shipped, what the reviewers heard, what the studios and the touring crews are doing, which producers and collectives are surfacing and what they are saying — synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lights, the rooms and the people — from a few hundred sources in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more, then plots what is moving. The editor writes a letter every few days. Nothing is sold here; when a link leads to a shop, that is the maker's shop, not ours.

← XLR Archive

Gorilla vs. BearScenes

The Crying Nudes – <i>DJ</i>

July 26

Under the cover of night, elusive group the Crying Nudes ( Fine + Dean Blunt , allegedly) drop an ethereal/ephemeral 13-minute masterpiece in their gorgeous and heartbreaking new breakup record, DJ . It's been fun,

DJ gear

Read at Gorilla vs. Bear ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

The Crying Nudes – <i>DJ</i>

Related

VoicesWATCH: The Next Phase For DJ Control Video Series Performer

Synths2026 PARAL·LEL PLUS + Befaco

Live & DJThe 2026 Chroma Drive: Our New DJ USB Drive (with no cap to lose) DJ TechTools

Live & DJPhase Adds Single-Cable HID For Rekordbox Digital DJ Tips

Live & DJAlphaTheta XDJ-AN: A $1,200 Standalone 2-Channel Replacing the XDJ-RR, Only Takes USB-C Drives DJ TechTools

Live & DJThe CDJ-1500X is AlphaTheta’s first budget-minded media player since the XDJ-1000MK2 DJ TechTools