The Wire 300

The February 2009 edition of The Wire is the magazine’s 300th issue. To mark the event, we are publishing a number of online essays, some specially commissioned, by a number of our regular writers and contributors that examine various musical trends and initiatives that have emerged during the lifetime of the zine (ie since the publication of its first issue back in the summer of 1982), and that still inform, influence and animate our world today. The essays will be posted here regularly throughout February, March and April 2009

The Wire 300: Byron Coley commemorates one of the New Weird America’s founding fathers

The Wire 300: Peter Shapiro celebrates two landmark moments in cut ’n’ paste culture

The Wire 300: Alan Cummings on the origins of the Tokyo underground sound

The Wire 300: Joe Muggs on Warp’s Artificial Intelligence series

The Wire 300: David Keenan locates the roots of the UK’s current DIY underground in the anarchic activities of The A Band

The Wire 300: Keith Moliné on the rise of Noise

The Wire 300: Dan Warburton on the sound sorcerors of EAI

The Wire 300: Joe Stannard Tracks Metal’s Journey From The Mosh-Pit To The Art House

The Wire 300: Peter Shapiro On SST, New Alliance And The Legacy Of Hardcore

The Wire 300: The Dead C’s Bruce Russell Searches For New Sonic Hybrids In The Rubble Of Modernism