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Lily Allen praises David Harbour’s “generous” reaction to her break-up album ‘West End Girl’

NMEScenesLily Allen praises David Harbour’s “generous” reaction to her break-up album ‘West End Girl’ Lily Allen has praised her ex-husband David Harbour for his response to her recent album ‘ West End Girl ‘. READ MORE: Lily Allen live in London: a powerful retelling of one of pop’s most gut-wrenching albums Allen’s fif

Support acts and backing band pull out of Ed Sheeran’s tour over Macklemore Palestine controversy

NMEScenesSupport acts and backing band pull out of Ed Sheeran’s tour over Macklemore Palestine controversy Finneas , Lukas Graham , Beoga and Aaron Rowe have made a stance so that all support acts and a backing band have pulled out pf Ed Sheeran ‘s tour in protest of Macklemore being kicked off for sharing his support of Pale

Lankum’s Radie Peat announces debut solo album ‘No Human Tongue Can Tell’ with stirring new single ‘The Moon and Stars’

NMEScenesLankum’s Radie Peat announces debut solo album ‘No Human Tongue Can Tell’ with stirring new single ‘The Moon and Stars’ Lankum vocalist Radie Peat has announced her debut solo album ‘No Human Tongue Can Tell’ and released a haunting new single ‘The Moon and Stars’. Listen below. READ MORE: Lankum: “This generation of Irish artists have a

Lily Allen on downsizing venues for her ‘West End Girl’ North America tour: “The ticket sales weren’t there”

NMEScenesLily Allen on downsizing venues for her ‘West End Girl’ North America tour: “The ticket sales weren’t there” Lily Allen has explained why several venues were downsized on her North America tour. READ MORE: Lily Allen live in London: a powerful retelling of one of pop’s most gut-wrenching albums The singer has been performing he

Ed Sheeran speaks out on Macklemore being dropped from tour over Palestine row: “I am not complicit”

NMEScenesEd Sheeran speaks out on Macklemore being dropped from tour over Palestine row: “I am not complicit” Ed Sheeran has spoken out following Macklemore being dropped as a support act from his tour regarding comments about Palestine, telling fans that he is “not complicit”. Controversy around the rapper began when he made an

Blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon, Billy Talent, Turnstile top Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park 2027 line-ups

NMEScenesBlink-182, Bring Me The Horizon, Billy Talent, Turnstile top Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park 2027 line-ups The line-ups have been announced for Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park 2027, featuring huge names including Blink-182 , Bring Me The Horizon , Billy Talent and Turnstile . READ MORE: Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus on death, defianc

Suno admits using music from YouTube to train AI models

NMEScenesSuno admits using music from YouTube to train AI models Suno has admitted to using music from YouTube to train its AI models. Read More: In the age of AI Oasis, there’s no point being ordinary The AI music creation firm is currently battling a lawsuit brought forth by Univers

New Order’s Gillian Gilbert shares that she is “living with cancer”, and husband Stephen Morris is not “seriously ill”

NMEScenesNew Order’s Gillian Gilbert shares that she is “living with cancer”, and husband Stephen Morris is not “seriously ill” New Order ‘s Gillian Gilbert has told fans that she is living with cancer, and not her husband Stephen Morris, as recent reports had suggested. READ MORE: “It felt like we were changing the world”: inside New Order’s sem

Bob Dylan to release ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings’

NMEScenesBob Dylan to release ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings’ Bob Dylan is set to release a huge new box set called ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings’ – check out all the details below. READ MORE: ‘A Complete Unknown’ review: don’t think twice about seeing this b

Beck tells us about ‘Ride Lonesome’: “It took a long time to get that kind of courage to be this direct and emotional”

NMEScenesBeck tells us about ‘Ride Lonesome’: “It took a long time to get that kind of courage to be this direct and emotional” Beck has spoken to NME about tapping into a certain spiritual and emotional realm for his new album ‘Ride Lonesome’, as well as his often misunderstood genre-hopping musical journey to here from the ’90s. We met Beck in

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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.