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.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.

← XLR MAG Archive

Ari's TakeIndustry

How Deezer is Approaching AI Music And Payments

10.08

Listen on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Acast This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Alexis Lanternier, the CEO of global music streaming…

AI in music

Read at Ari's Take ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

How Deezer is Approaching AI Music And Payments

Related

AI tools6 Best AI Voice Cloning Tools for Video Production (2026) LALAL.AI

IndustryMusic Publishing Catch Up: BMG & Concord Complete Landmark Merger, Global Publishing Revenue Grows by 9.6%, Major AI Lawsuits & More Synchtank

AI toolsLALAL.AI Is the Lovie Awards Finalist! Vote for Us to Help Us Win LALAL.AI

AI toolsLALAL.AI Wins the International Sound Awards 2026 in the Product Category LALAL.AI

VoicesIs AI Killing Voiceover? Not So Fast The Pro Audio Suite

IndustryIntroducing Chartmetric Flow: AI Built for the Music Industry Chartmetric