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

ConsequenceScenes

Tickets On Sale Today: Slipknot, Hilary Duff, Lizzy McAlpine & More

October 2

If you’ve been waiting to lock in your 2027 concert plans, today is a big day: Tickets for a number of newly announced tours officially go on sale Friday, October 2nd, including Slipknot, Roger…

Read at Consequence ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Tickets On Sale Today: Slipknot, Hilary Duff, Lizzy McAlpine & More

More from Consequence on XLR MAG

ScenesRobbie Williams Apologizes for Decades-Long Argentina Absence During First Show Back: “I Had to Go to Rehab 15 Times” Consequence

ScenesDrake Releases FOMO with “Choosin’ Texas” Remix and Three More New Songs: Stream Consequence

ScenesNoah Kahan Releases “Draw You Out” from The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Consequence

ScenesKATSEYE Enlist DJ Pedro Sampaio for Brazilian Funk Remix of “HOOTIE FRUTTI”: Watch Consequence

ScenesTurnstile Promise Not to Trash SNL Set in New Promo Consequence