XLR8R
Encyclopedia
XLR8R is a magazine and website that
covers music, culture, style, and technology. It was founded as a
newsprint ‘zine
Zine
A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....

 in 1993 by publisher Andrew Smith in Seattle; the
magazine currently has offices in San Francisco and New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. While
XLR8R’s initial focus was on electronic music, it has over the years
widened its scope to include indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

, hip-hop, and reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

/
dancehall
Dancehall
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably,...

 music as well as related trends in style, art, fashion, and
technology.

XLR8R is published 10 times per year and distributed
internationally. Special issues include a Music Technology issue, a
year-end "Best Of" issue, and an entire issue devoted to the music
scene of a particular city (Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, San Francisco, L.A., Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, etc.). Subscribers receive Incite, a free monthly CD of tracks
hand-picked by the magazine's editors.

Standout features of the publication include "Audiofile," a
collection of short pieces on up-and-coming musicians; "Machines," a
section devoted to technology (reviews, recording techniques of
various artists, etc.); "Vis-Ed," a showcase of emerging
illustrators, photographers, and designers; and "Bitter Bastard," a
curmudgeonly rant on various frustrating topics within the music
world. Each issue traditionally has hundreds of reviews of various
albums, singles, compilations, books, and DVDs.

XLR8R’s website features breaking music and culture news , high-resolution music videos and free weekly MP3 downloads and podcasts. Additionally, back issues of the print magazine are accessible from 2003 to the present as freely downloadable PDFs.

In March 2007, XLR8R launched XLR8R TV, an internet TV show hosted by Revision3, with a new episode appearing every Tuesday. The show features musicians, artists and scenes covered in the pages of XLR8R magazine.
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