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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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ポッドキャスト「くちひげとめがね」EP1_2が公開。テーマは『Backslashのお題が決まるまで』

September 11

TBWA HAKUHODOのカルチャーラボ「backslash Tokyo」とQeticによる共同ポッドキャスト「くちひげとめがね」の第2回が公開。今回はメンバーを一新し、TBWA HAKUHODO backslash Tokyoから池邊沙也加・濵田真由美、Qeticから兵藤香月・笠井美里が登場する。 Backslashのテーマが生まれる“現場”へ冒頭では、前回からの宿題だった番組タイトル決めの続きも。「くちひげとめがね」「カルチャー

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