Current Issue: #336 | February 2012
Photograph by Jason FulfordFeaturing: Keith Fullerton Whitman, Charles Hayward, Ian Helliwell, Ital, Lil B, Linder, Los Llamarada, Terre Thaemlitz
On the cover: Lil B – Lisa Blanning travels to San Francisco for an audience with the Based God, who’s subverting hiphop with complex notions of sexuality and race. Plus: Keith Fullerton Whitman, Julian Cowley on Harvey Matusow's 1972 ICES Festival, Charles Hayward's Invisible Jukebox, Terre Thaemlitz's Collateral Damage, Ian Helliwell, Los Llamarada, Ital, Linder, Jeremy Deller and more.
Below The Radar …A Quiet Position Edition Two
With this month's January rewind issue get free access to Below The Radar …A Quiet Position Edition Two, an exclusive download of an an ongoing series of gatherings focusing on listening, through work that involves field recording, curated by Jez riley French.
New T-shirts in the shop
Two new T-shirt designs by Spencer Longo and John Godbert aka Herb Diamante.
Off The Page 2012
Here are details of the programme for The Wire and Sound And Music's Off The Page festival 2012, with more to announce in the coming weeks. Off The Page 2012 takes place 24–26 February 2012 at the Playhouse Theatre, Whitstable. £40 weekend pass/£12 Friday pass/£20 Saturday pass/£15 Sunday pass. Tickets... » Read more...
ICES 72 and Harvey Matusow Portal
Find out more about Harvey Matusow, American ex-Communist and McCarthy collaborator-turned-avant garde impresario. Matusow promoted the International Carnival of Experimental Sound (ICES) at London's Roundhouse in 1972. ICES 72 – which involved AMM, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Annea Lockwood, Steve Beresford, Lol Coxhill, David Bedford, Charlotte Moorman, Penny Rimbaud and many more – is featured in an article by Julian Cowley in The Wire 336.
Adventures In Sound And Music 26 January 2012
Hosted by Chris Bohn, with tracks by Itta, Wire, Oren Ambarchi, Asi Mina, Mars, The Complainer and more.
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