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

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We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music by Stephanie Phillips – Book Review

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We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music by Stephanie Phillips Da Capo | 368 pages | published August 27th 2026 in the UK; November 17th 2026 in the U.S.

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