The Wire - Adventures in Sound and Music
On the cover: Marshall Allen: The Arkestra’s legendary guiding light celebrates his century with his very first solo album.By John Morrison. Plus: Once Upon A Time In Vilnius: The journey of avant rock trailblazers IVTKYGYG embodies the tensions and creative fire of a reborn Lithuania.By Ilia Rogatchevski; Water Damage: Don’t mess with Austin, Texas’s shapeshifting drone rock network.
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.
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 469 - March 2023
March 2023. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 469. Inside our brand new look issue: 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 ...
The Wire Issue 472 - June 2023
Issue 472 June 2023. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 472.. Inside our brand new issue: Totally Wire-d: A 20 page special unpicking everything you wanted to know about Mark E Smith and The Fall by the totally Wire-d writers’ squad: Claire Biddles, Graham Duff, Esi Eshun, Louise Gray, Michael Fenton, Jo Hutton, Leah Kardos, Stewart Lee, Craig Leon ...
The Wire Issue 481 - March 2024
Issue 481 March 2024. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 481.. Inside our brand new issue: The Haxan Cloak: From his bedroom in Wakefield to the City of Angels, the UK born producer, composer and musician talks darkness, light and scoring the unspeakable.By Joseph Stannard DJ Znobia: The Angolan kuduro innovator relates the invention and evolution of the ...
The Wire Issue 477 - November 2023
November 2023. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 477. Inside our brand new issue: Irreversible Entanglements: With a new album in the can, the US quintet discuss freedom, community and dismantling the mechanisms of oppression. By Phil Freeman. The Primer: Jazz & Poetry: A user’s guide to the ongoing ...
The Wire Issue 463 - September 2022
Issue 463 September 2022. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 463. Inside this issue: Neu! Now: With a 50th anniversary box set on the (endless) horizon The Wire takes an in-depth look at the legacy of avant rock’s most linear outfit. Including: Michael Rother: How the German guitarist helped develop a new vocabulary for …
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 459 - May 2022
Issue 459 May 2022. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 459. Inside this issue: Reynols: For three decades the Argentinian psych travellers have surfed a cosmic sea of collaboration and communication.By Emily Pothast. Reynols on disc: A short guide to some of the outfit’s most notable releases.