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.

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“I’d rather stay and stack the dishwasher”: Liam Gallagher explains why Oasis won’t be attending their Rock Hall induction

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Over the years, Liam Gallagher has made his feelings on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame pretty clear ; back in 2021, the singer insisted he wasn’t “interested” in that form of recognition , and in 2024…

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