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Roland ArticlesMakersEarthSonic’s Ruth Daniel on ADE 2026 and Mobilizing Music for Change In Place of War and EarthSonic CEO Ruth Daniel is on a mission: “Climate change is affecting us all now, and we need to act.” Yet many of us feel powerless in the face of environmental crisis.

11.13

Roland ArticlesMakersLA x Hamamatsu: Egyptian Lover and DāM-FunK Visit the Inspiration Hub While AI is helping to change many of the services and products we use, from websites to music production, the shift doesn’t represent the entire picture.

11.13

Roland ArticlesMakersA Few Minutes With Surfaces Blending a laid-back mix of genres not limited to surf rock, jazz, pop, hip hop, and reggae, Surfaces is the kind of feel-good music reminiscent of lazy weekends on the water.

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Roland ArticlesMakersZERØBPM and Nadia Struiwigh at ADE Stillness. Sound. Community. Music can create space for reflection, connection, and wellbeing, so what would emerge from combining these practices in a single intentional environment?

11.09

Roland ArticlesMakersA Few Minutes with Gilla Band Gilla Band is the definition of uneasy listening. With its dense slabs of dissonance, jumpy polyrhythms, and vocal provocations, the Dublin group’s sound works like a rake to the mind, clearing away…

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Roland ArticlesMakersHybrid Theory: Riley Breckenridge of Thrice Hybrid drumming fuses the traditional acoustic drum set with the latest digital percussion technology, enabling players to perform with the electronic sounds and processed textures that drive modern…

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Roland ArticlesMakersCareers in Music: Matt Lange Matt Lange has lived many musical lives. After picking up piano and guitar as a kid, he found his teen years rocking gritty squats in his native New York City.

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Roland ArticlesMakersA Few Minutes with Cornelius As a child in Tokyo, Keigo Oyamada watched Yellow Magic Orchestra turn avant-garde electronics into a national obsession.

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Roland ArticlesMakersHybrid Theory: Joseph Butler IV and Torrence Thomas of THEBROSFRESH Hybrid drumming fuses the traditional acoustic drum set with the latest digital percussion technology, enabling players to perform with the electronic sounds and processed textures that drive modern…

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Roland ArticlesMakersA Few Minutes with Chmba Positioned between Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia in Southeast Africa, the Republic of Malawi is one of the world’s least-developed nations, mired by a rural economy and landlocked location.

10.19

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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