The Wire
The Wire is an independent, monthly music magazine covering a wide range of alternative, underground and non-mainstream 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, electronica, hiphop, new jazz, modern composition, traditional musics and beyond. Passionate, intelligent and provocative, The Wire wages war on the mundane and the mediocre. Its office is based in London, but it serves an international readership
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- United Kingdom
- Monthly (12 issues)
- Music
- First issue 1982
- ISSN 0952-0680
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St Vincent The Tulsa born guitarist and songwriter’s restless anxiety derails and undermines conventional songforms. By Joseph Stannard
Trevor Wishart The Yorkshire electronic music pioneer and vocal improvisor dreams up sonic theatres that channel the will of the people. By Andy Hamilton
Lee Gamble The London producer hacks into the structures of reality to play games with distance and scale in sound. By Rory Gibb
Filastine The globe trotting beat-maker harnesses the sound of protest. By Robert Barry
Günter Schickert The veteran krautrock guitarist channels the dark side of life into resurrected trio Ziguri. By Keith Moliné
Huddersfield sound systems A new book tells the story of the Yorkshire town’s sound systems. By Steve Barker
Collateral Damage Crowdsourced music creates the facade of community but only serves to divide composers and listeners. By Emily Bick
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