Phil Freeman

Issue 346

December 2012

On the cover: Scott Walker – In a rare interview, the singer and composer talks Mike Barnes through his ambitious, brutal and absurdist new album, Bish Bosch. Inside: Peter Brötzmann redux, Wyrd sounds from the West Country, Jonas Mekas, David S Ware, Pinch, the Slowfoot label, Fontanelle, and much more.

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Issue 331

September 2011

On the cover: My Cat Is An Alien - Ken Hollings visits the Italian duo’s Alien Studios in Turin to hear how they harness the music of the spheres with rayguns and cosmic drones. Plus Alan Howarth's Invisible Jukebox, Prurient, Fela Kuti in London, Herb Diamante, Andy Stott and much more.

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News

Burning Ambulance Issue 4 Out Now

09|06|2011

The fourth edition of Wire contributor Phil Freeman’s Burning Ambulance magazine is out now. Burning Ambulance looks at jazz and Metal, and...

Issue 324

February 2011

On the cover: Deerhoof - Now in their 16th year, the mercurial rockers have shapeshifted into a disciplined global mobile unit. By Joseph Stannard. Plus: Vanessa Rossetto, Tri-Angle Records, Hype Williams's Invisible Jukebox, Matthew Shipp, Captain Beefheart remembered and much more

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Interview from Issue 263

Noah Howard interview

September 2010

Read the unedited transcript of Phil Freeman's interview with free jazz saxophonist Noah Howard who died 3 September, 2010. An article based on this interview appeared in The Wire 263, January 2006

The Portal

Portal 03/09/2010

September 2010

Issue 315

May 2010

On The Cover: Excepter - Electronic body music and consciousness-altering improvised marathons collide in this Brooklyn sextet’s discordian disco noise. By Phil Freeman. Plus Daniel Carter, Sweet Seoul Music, August Darnell's Jukebox, Jahtari, Lil B, Toro Y Moi, Craig Baldwin in Cross Platform, Aaron Dilloway on Drunks With Guns, John Wiese on the Haters, Virgo and more

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The Portal

Portal 19/04/2010

April 2010

Interview from Issue 312

Wadada Leo Smith - uncut

February 2010

Read Phil Freeman's unedited transcript of his interview with the avant jazz giant

Issue 312

February 2010

On The Cover: Wadada Leo Smith - Phil Freeman meets a free music cosmopolitan who has explored free space with Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Spring Heel Jack and more. Plus Mark Ernestus, Mattin, Eliane Radigue's Invisible Jukebox, Raymond Dijkstra, Moon Wiring Club, David Grubbs in Cross Platform, Pangaea, Robert Ashley's Inner Sleeve, Billy Ray Martin, Nicolas Collins on Alvin Lucier and more

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WAITING FOR TONY from Issue 311

Rewind 2009: Contributors Charts

January 2010

Jennifer Allen Sunn O))) Monoliths And Dimensions (Southern Lord) Black Dice Repo (Paw Tracks) Zola Jesus The Spoils (Sacred...

Issue 308

October 2009

+ The Wire Tapper 22

Broadcast: Collaborating with hauntologists The Focus Group, Warp's defining post-rock duo summon an occult pop laden with psychedelia. By Joseph Stannard. Plus Lou Reed's Invisible Jukebox, Iancu Dumitrescu, Dopplereffekt, Kosmische Primer, Rashied Ali, Sun Araw, Hans Peter Kuhn in Cross Platform and more

Stuck To The Cover: Free 20 track CD - Arrington de Dionyso, Climax Golden Twins, Elodie Lauten, Pink Mountain, Shits And Giggles, Yoshio Machida and more

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Issue 304

June 2009

+ Exploratory Music From Poland 01

On The Cover: Ornette Coleman: Music as medicine, sound as universal grammar: Phil Freeman hears the philosophy of the free jazz legend. Plus: The Caretaker, Comus, Dan Graham, Andy Moor's Invisible Jukebox, Bora Yoon, Graham Lambkin, Arrington de Dionyso and more

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Issue 301

March 2009

+ BiP-HOp: [Reciprocess:+/vs.]

On The Cover: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Will Oldham's mask of sorrow. Plus: Joan La Barbara, Andrew Cyrille, Joe Morris's Jukebox, Menace Ruine, Seymour Wright, Zomby, Jerry Dammers on Sun Ra, Carsten Nicolai meets Michael Nyman and more.

Click to see a sample digital issue.

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Issue 300

February 2009

+ Audio Foundation: Dirt Beneath The Daydream

On The Cover: Jeff Mills - Space is still the place for the Detroit Techno pioneer. Exclusive interview by Derek Walmsley. Plus No-Neck Blues Band, William S Burroughs Primer, James Plotkin's Invisible Jukebox, Martyn, Mary Halvorson, Hamilton Yarns, Christina Carter on Jandek, Chris Petit's Epiphany, Global Ear from Tehran and more!

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Issue 293

July 2008

On The Cover: Mark Stewart - The former Pop Group and Maffi a godfather talks up his new outernationalist album and warns against being absorbed into a consumerist ‘flatpack reality’. Plus: Trumpeter Bill Dixon, improv trio The Necks, .snd's Invisible Jukebox, Pianist Vijay Iyer's Epiphany, Rustie, Franz Hautzinger, Materials Library in Cross Platform and more

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Issue 285

November 2007

Underground Resistance founder 'Mad' Mike Banks explains campaign strategy to Mark Fisher. Plus interviews with Loren Connors, Russel Haswell and Sonny Simmons; JG Thirlwell's Jukebox, Thurston Moore's Inner Sleeve, Juneau/Projects/ in Cross Platform plus our 22-page Reviews section, Epiphanies, Global Ear, Savage Pencil's Trip Or Squeek and more

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Issue 284

October 2007

+ The Wire Tapper 18

Stuck To The Cover: The Wire Tapper 18 - The latest volume in our ongoing series of new music compilations

On The Cover: Robert Wyatt - In a revealing interview, the garrulous singer and his wife Alfreda Benge discuss the troubled backdrop to his latest album Comicopera. By David Toop

Features: Han Bennink's Invisible Jukebox, Oxbow, Once Upon A Time In Bristol, Walter & Sabrina, Shape Of Broad Minds, The Bug, Ute Wassermann

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Issue 274

December 2006

+ The Wire Tapper 16

ON THE COVER: Melvins - The unpredictable California based quartet intersperse neo-Metal albums with art film soundtracks, avant garde provocations and audience baiting antics. By Phil Freeman

STUCK ON THE COVER: The Wire Tapper 16 - Free 21 track CD with tracks by Califone, Pansonic, Derek Bailey, The Slits, Alan Vega and more

FEATURES: John Surman, Texan Hiphop, Marc Ribot, Charles Atlas, Steve Mackay, Reanimator, Hisato Higuchi, Beat Furrer

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Issue 272

October 2006

ON THE COVER: Pere Ubu - After 14 albums and several line-up changes, David Thomas's group continue to map out America's ghost towns and lost highways. By Phil Freeman

FEATURES: Rafael Toral, Invisible Jukebox: Chris Corsano, Once Upon A Time In Melbourne, Cross Platform: Jayne Parker, James Blackshaw, COH, Little Annie

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Issue 267

May 2006

ON THE COVER: AGF - Word processing in Berlin with polystylistic laptopper and digital 'poemproducer', Antye Greie. By Keith Moliné

FEATURES: Scott Walker, Conrad Schnitzler, Ryoji Ikeda, Invisible Jukebox: William Parker, Scatter, Mattin, David Rothenberg

Issue 263

January 2006

ON THE COVER: Rewind 2005: Eyes down for The Wire's annual selection of the year's best music, plus critics' and musicians' reflections

FEATURES: Noah Howard, Invisible Jukebox: Nurse With Wound, Volcano The Bear, Tetuzi Akiyama, Burning Star Core, Dan Wilson, Yannis Kyriakides

Issue 260

October 2005

ON THE COVER: Boards Of Canada - In a rare interview on home turf, the Scottish gnarly electronica duo share campfire stories with Rob Young

FEATURES: Eliane Radigue, The new London silence: Mark Wastell and Sound 323, Invisible Jukebox: The Dirty Three, Jarboe, Alexander Tucker, Birchville Cat Motel

Issue 254

April 2005

ON THE COVER: Mike Patton - Phil Freeman meets the voice of unreason behind Fantômas, Tomahawk, various John Zorn collaborations and Ipecac

FEATURES: Invisible Jukebox: Ira Cohen, Antony & The Johnsons, Elliott Sharp, Primer: Grime, Richard Barrett, Venetian Snares, MIA

Issue 222

August 2002

ON THE COVER: Tom Waits - Barfly, beatnik, hobo, hipster, Weimar cabaret singer, Stallone co-star, Harry Partch fan: the chronicler of the American underbelly has been playing confidence games with his identity and music since the 70s. By Phil Freeman

FEATURES: Invisible Jukebox: Arthur Lee, William Parker, Lou Harrison, Leif Elggren & CM Von Hausswolff, To Live & Shave In LA, Boom Bip, Tchad Blake, Kevin Drumm, Peter Hammill, Sonic Process

Current Issue 352

June 2013

On The Cover: Babble On! – In a 20 page special, Wire contributors assess and rethink the relationship between underground music and words, text and language. Including Rob Young on songs about themselves, Ken Hollings on Cage’s pulverised language, Derek Walmsley on dread talk, Alasdair Roberts on verbal jousting, Daniel Spicer on hip semantics, David Toop on Improv words and gestures, Nina Power on female machine voices, Hua Hsu on vocalese, Marcus Boon on profane rappers, Rory Gibb on Footwork’s vocal science, and more.

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