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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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神奈川・大磯に新フェス＜PROX＞誕生｜岩間俊樹、HUGEN、rice water Grooveら出演

September 14

音楽とキャンプを軸とした新たなフェス＜PROX（プロックス）＞が、2026年11月7日（土）から8日（日）早朝にかけて、神奈川・大磯のDAN OISOで開催される。このたび、第一弾出演アーティストが発表された。音楽、食事、アート、自然、キャンプが交わる＜PROX＞＜PROX＞のテーマは、「Proximity＝近接性・親密性」。同じ場所で音楽を聴き、食事をし、夜を越えることで、人と人だけでなく、音楽と人、異なるジャンル、都市と地域、出

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