The Wire - Adventures in Sound and Music
On the cover: AR Kane: The dreampop originators return with an archival retrospective, live performances – and a brand new line-up.By Simon Reynolds. Plus: Intermodulation: A hidden history of UK electroacoustic experimentation is told via an extensive new reissue.By Julian Cowley; Cuntroaches: Berlin’s experimental noise punks tap into the sounds of the sewer.
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On the cover: AR Kane : The dreampop originators return with an archival retrospective, live performances – and a brand new line-up. By Simon Reynolds. Plus: Intermodulation : A hidden history of UK electroacoustic experimentation is told via an extensive new reissue. By Julian Cowley; Cuntroaches : Berlin’s experimental noise punks tap into the sounds of the sewer. By Claire Biddles; Sun ...
The Wire Issue 467 - January 2023
Issue 467 January 2023. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 467. Inside this issue: 2022 Rewind: the year in underground music Releases Of The Year: We asked our contributors to nominate their top ten records, CDs, downloads and streams of the year, then we added up the votes Critics’ Reflections: Wire …
The Wire Issue 476 - October 2023
Issue 476 October 2023. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 476.. Inside our brand new issue: L’Rain: Taja Cheek’s fluid songforms are a kaleidoscopic and personal response to the modern world. By Laina Dawes Blevin Blectum: Blectum From Blechdom’s Bevin Kelley builds brave new worlds from mind-melding sound.
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1. What is The Wire? The Wire is an independent print and online music magazine covering a wide range of global alternative, underground and experimental musics.The Wire celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronic music, hiphop, new jazz ...
The Wire Issue 458 - April 2022
Issue 458 April 2022. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 458. Inside this issue: Justin K Broadrick: With his prolific output – both solo and as part of Napalm Death, Godflesh, Techno Animal, Zonal and Jesu – the extreme music pioneer reckons with his own vulnerability.By Antonio Poscic; The Primer: A …
The Wire Issue 448 - June 2021
Issue 448 June 2021. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 448. Inside this issue: Van Der Graaf Generator: Ahead of a major retrospective box set and with a new tour on the horizon, Emily Bick speaks to the dark magi of UK progressive rock, led by the indefatigable Peter Hammill.Plus: The Primer: Mike Barnes essays a user’s guide to the recordings of the ...
The Wire Issue 466 - December 2022
Issue 466 December 2022. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 466. Inside this issue: Richard Pinhas: At the age of 71 the French experimental guitarist and Heldon founder is still going all the way out.By Daniel Spicer The Primer: French underground rock: A user’s guide to the subcultural eruption that belched forth the likes of …
The Wire Issue 452 - October 2021
Issue 452 October 2021. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 452. Inside this issue: Faust: On the eve of a new box set chronicling their 1970s music, the German band’s members and crew discuss their contrarian art of falling apart that has kept them going over 50 years.By Daniel Spicer. Plus, a survey of Faust’s often equally fractious contemporaries ...
The Wire Issue 469 - March 2023
On the cover: The Necks : Onward, ever onward with the inexhaustible Australian outfit. By Daniel Spicer. Plus: The Necks’ solo projects: Album guide by Bill Meyer; Marc Hollander : The Crammed Discs founder and Aksak Maboul agitator reflects on his cross-cultural career. By Julian Cowley. Plus: Crammed Discs: Highlights from the catalogue by Clive Bell; Invisible Jukebox: James Brandon ...