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The Wire 509 is out now!
Featuring EarthBall on the cover, plus DoYeon Kim, Onilu, Jocy de Oliveira, Tomáš Šenkyřík, Eoobe, Aldana Duoraan & Tomáš Niesner, Richard Dawson’s Jukebox, and much more.
Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
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- The Wire is shocked to hear of the sudden death of Steve Albini. Yesterday we were excited to announce the new issue of the magazine with a cover story on his group Shellac. Now it has become a memorial to Steve. We send our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. RIP.
- SOPHIE 17 September 1986 – 30 January 2021 Photo by Charlotte Wales
- Happy Birthday to Marshall Allen, who turns 99 today. “All I do is to still know nothing. I don’t know what I know. Just listen and try to feel what he is telling you to express.” Marshall Allen, The Wire 440, October 2020 thewire.co.uk/issues/440 reader.exacteditions.com/issues/89752/s…
- Invisible Jukebox: Steve Albini 30 years ago Steve Albini took The Wire’s Invisible Jukebox test, commenting on tracks by Black Sabbath, The Raincoats + more. As a tribute to Steve, who died 7 May, the interview is now free to read in our online library:
- We're giving everyone one week's FREE access to our online archive containing every issue of The Wire ever published. That's more than 430 issues to while away the time. tinyurl.com/rcpcnj8 To support us, buy 3 months access for £7.99. shop.exacteditions.com/the-wire #StayAtHome
- Ryuichi Sakamoto (17 January 1952–28 March 2023) Ryuichi Sakamoto died on 28 March aged 71. Read Clive Bell's interview with the electronic composer and producer from February 2000 for free in our online library:
- Peter Brötzmann (1941–2023) As a tribute to the German saxophonist who has died at the age of 82, we have made David Keenan’s epic two-part 2012 interview, and Daniel Spicer’s guide to Brötzmann’s many recordings, free to read in our online library:
- The Wire 488 is out now! thewire.co.uk/issues/488 Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitusha figurehead keeps pushing into rock’s outer limits. Plus: Shamica Ruddock, a user's guide to John Butcher, Seppuku Pistols, Wolfgang Voigt's Jukebox, Céline Gillain +++
- Phill Niblock (2 October 1933–8 January 2024) As a tribute to the American composer and film maker we have made Dan Warburton’s 2006 cover feature from The Wire 265 free to read online
- MF Doom 9 January 1971 – 31 October 2020 Photo featured in The Wire 253 from March 2005. Taken by Jo Ann Toy
- “I wanted it to be for keeps”: an Oral History of Shellac On 15 April, @emilypothast interviewed Shellac for the cover story of The Wire 484. Following the death of Steve Albini on 7 May, here we publish the full transcript with an introduction by Emily:
- Greg Tate (15 October 1957–7 December 2021) By way of tribute to the author and critic we have made a number of articles Greg wrote for the magazine free to read in our online archive for the next month: thewire.co.uk/in-writing/the…
