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NAMMEvents15th Anniversary She Rocks Awards to Be Held at 2027 NAMM Show 15th Anniversary She Rocks Awards to Be Held at 2027 NAMM Show John Dolak Wed, 08/19/2026 - 10:16 <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type

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NAMMEventsTayfun Çağlar Tayfun Çağlar Alexander Rossner Tue, 06/30/2026 - 16:26

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NAMMEventsDavid Gartland David Gartland Alexander Rossner Tue, 03/03/2026 - 09:43

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NAMMEventsJames Hutchinson James Hutchinson Alexander Rossner Fri, 02/20/2026 - 16:49

February 21

NAMMEventsJohn Riddle John Riddle 1941 - 2026 Alexander Rossner Wed, 02/18/2026 - 15:58

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NAMMEventsMisha Guiffre Misha Guiffre Alexander Rossner Wed, 02/18/2026 - 08:31

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NAMMEventsJerry Kennedy Jerry Kennedy 1940 -2026 Alexander Rossner Fri, 02/13/2026 - 11:27 <div class="field field--name-field-video field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"

February 13

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April 19

NAMMEventsFederal Appropriations Bill Sees $20 Million Increase in Title I Funding Federal Appropriations Bill Sees $20 Million Increase in Title I Funding <div class="field__label

April 15

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.