The Wire (or simply Wire) is a British music magazine publishing out of London, which has been issued monthly in print since 1982. Its website launched in 1997, and an online archive of its entire back catalog became available to subscribers in 2013. Since 1985, the magazine’s annual year-in-review issue, Rewind, has named an album or release of the year based on critics’ ballots.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
In this rare, extended interview, the 20th century’s leading cosmic courier gets all starry-eyed about music’s final frontier, and takes Ken Hollings on a voyage beyond the planets towards the future of sound
Invisible Jukebox: Stock, Hausen & Walkmen
The sampladelic pranksters attempt to identify tracks by Throbbing Gristle, General Strike, Derek Bailey, The Beat Junkies, Henri Chopin, Björk and more. Tested by Tony Herrington
The Primer: Tropicalia And Beyond
Three decades ago, the modified bossa nova of Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, Milton Nascimento and others sparked a velvet revolution in Brazilian music. Ben Ratliff sifts through the evidence
The Dead C
Via their numerous group projects and labels, the duo of Michael Morley and Bruce Russell has established New Zealand as a core node on the international noise music network. By Philip Matthews
Undercurrents #6: White Line Fever
In our series tracking the hidden wiring of 20th century music, Biba Kopf hits the autobahn with the German pioneers of motorik rock: Kraftwerk, Neu!, La Dusseldorf and Harmonia