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Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Peter Brendler… And Then, Nothing Bassist and composer Peter Brendler celebrates a newfound freedom on the joyous and exhilaratingly diverse And Then, Nothing… In any endeavor, be it artistic, athletic, personal or career-oriented…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Michael League & Bill Laurance, Close to Home The essence of the duo formed by pianist Bill Laurance and bassist and oud player Michael League: say a lot with very little – a concept that, through two albums released to date and acclaimed…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: Ernie Ball Music Man DarkRay II Bass Ernie Ball Music Man proudly introduces the DarkRay™ II bass, expanding on the aggressive, modern foundation of the original DarkRay with fully integrated, polyphonic octave-up and octave-down…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: Fender Redefines Heavy with LE Player Fusion Series Fender rolls out the Limited Edition Player Fusion Series, built for the players redefining what heavy looks like.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: UnitBasse 2.0 for Mac UNITBASSE 2.0 FOR MAC: WRITE YOUR BASS LINES AND PLAY WITH A REAL RHYTHM SECTION… UnitBasse 2.0, is the new version of its practice app for bass players on Mac.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Professor John, Study Hall Vol. 1 Bassist and producer Professor John has released Study Hall, Vol. 1: Lessons in Daydreaming, a nine-track instrumental hip-hop album that features fretless bass as the lead instrument.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: Fender Introduces Military Discount via ID.me In honor of Veterans Day today, Fender is introducing a new 10% sitewide military discount through ID.me, expanding access to savings across the Fender website for those who have served our country…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: CODEX Bass Preamp The CODEX is engineered to give ultimate control over your tone, delivering unparalleled low-end clarity and precise tone shaping while meeting the high-fidelity demands of the modern bass player.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Alberto Rigoni Introduces ECHOID with Debut Album, The Silent Era Italian bassist and composer Alberto Rigoni founded ECHOID to bring together musicians from Italy and Sweden.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsInterview with Arild Andersen: Career, Bass, Equipment, and More… Photo courtesy of Roar Vestad and Arild Andersen Arild Andersen is a Norwegian jazz bassist, composer, and bandleader. He has been one of Europe’s leading bass players for more than 30 years.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsReview: Kikuchi Hermes RV5 Passive Bass After all these years of playing bass, I’ve come to realize that you can put together a pretty impressive list of specifications, use the finest woods, install expensive hardware, and still end up…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNov 9 Edition – This Week’s Top 10 Basses on Instagram Check out our top 10 favorite basses on Instagram this week… Click to follow Bass Musician on Instagram @bassmusicianmag FEATURED @dingwallguitars @henrix_guitars @nouse_91 @sanctguitars…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: Music Man Session Series Sterling announced Music Man Session, a new premium line that brings the family of Music Man brands closer together than ever before.

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsGear News: Kid-Friendly Fender x Loog Precision Bass Children’s instrument brand Loog® and Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC), announced two new additions to the Fender x Loog collection: the Fender® x Loog® Precision Bass®, marking Loog’s…

Bass Musician MagazineGuitarsNew Music: Derek Frank, In Case You Missed It, Volume 2 In Case You Missed It, Volume 2 – Live at The Baked Potato officially drops today, November 6, 2026! Here’s some info from the official press release: Recorded at the legendary Los Angeles jazz club…

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About

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.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: 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.

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