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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.

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Ella Langley’s hit is about to break Mariah Carey’s Billboard record — and it started with a kangaroo

September 15

Ella Langley is on the verge of making Billboard history with “Choosin’ Texas” — a song whose unlikely origin involves Miranda Lambert, a kangaroo and a story about getting pulled over by a cop. The 27-year-old country s

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GuitarsNoel Gallagher on the day Johnny Marr bought a nine-pickup Strat: “This is the best bit of advice I’ve ever been given” Guitar Player

GuitarsTony Iommi urged Ozzy Osbourne to skip Black Sabbath’s final show: “It was difficult seeing him like that” Guitar Player

GuitarsDavid Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen reunite for the first time in more than a decade: “This is also a step towards world peace” Guitar Player

GuitarsWe review the Warm Audio Dirty Boy Jr. Overdrive, Fuzz and Booster effects pedals: "For players seeking a classic U.K. palette” Guitar Player

GuitarsDolly Parton honored at the Emmys as Sally Field remembers her: “If there are truly angels on Earth, then we just lost one” Guitar Player

Dave Grohl on how Nirvana were blindsided by the success of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”: “We played that song for the first time and the audience went nuts”

GuitarsDave Grohl on how Nirvana were blindsided by the success of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”: “We played that song for the first time and the audience went nuts” Guitar Player

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