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.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.

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“The most positive and creative force in any room he walked into”: Pop-punk’s elite pay tribute to Chad Gilbert, founding New Found Glory guitarist who has died at 45

September 21

The news hit over the weekend that Chad Gilbert – founding guitarist of Florida pop-punk stalwarts New Found Glory, and former husband of Paramore ’s Hayley Williams – had tragically died aged just…

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“The most positive and creative force in any room he walked into”: Pop-punk’s elite pay tribute to Chad Gilbert, founding New Found Glory guitarist who has died at 45

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