Current Issue: #336 | February 2012

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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.

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Below The Radar …A Quiet Position Edition Two

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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.

Off The Page 2012

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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...

Stream music by Los Llamarada

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Listen to the now-defunct Mexican outfit's 2009 The Collapse Of Today.

The Wire Salon: Infinite Music: Imagining The Next Millennium Of Human Music-Making

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Listen to the January 2012 edition of our regular discussion night at London's Cafe Oto, featuring a presentation by Adam Harper on the future of music.

Adventures In Sound And Music 2 January 2012

Talking Black Power/Black Music with Pat Thomas, author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965–1975 on the line from Seattle.

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