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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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Haywire sign to Roadrunner, announce new LP & video, threw $$ into the crowd at Sound & Fury, keep touring & stuff (BV-exclusive vinyl)

August 19

Boston punks Haywire are one of the fastest rising hardcore bands of recent times, and now they’ve announced their second full-length album, I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye , due October 2 via their new label home, Roadrunner

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