Tracks
Listen: Global Ear St Louis tracks
August 2013
Listen to tracks by musicians featured in The Wire 355 Global Ear on St Louis, selected and annotated by its writer, Matthew Erickson.
Listen to tracks by musicians featured in The Wire 355 Global Ear on St Louis, selected and annotated by its writer, Matthew Erickson.
Listen to some of the tracks we've been playing on the office hifi during the making of The Wire 355 September 2013 issue.
Shane Woolman and Daisy Hyde spin new bass and beats on NTS, excavated from The Wire's daily postbag.
The Wire's latest 20 track CD, free to all readers with The Wire 354 August issue.
Listen to a recording made by Danish electronic music pioneer Else Marie Pade, with sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard.
Jennifer Lucy Allan plays tracks from Robbie Basho's first album, Meredith Monk's Beginnings, L Ron Hubbard's funk band, plus new releases by Joachim Nordwall, Helena Hauff, Starving Weirdos and more.
Derek Walmsley spins a tonne of new Norton wax and features an interview with Norton co-founder and ex-Cramps drummer Miriam Linna, plus assorted 7"s from the depths of their catalogue.
Listen again to our bi-weekly radio show on NTS, hosted by Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman, with a special guest mix by Erikoisdance label head Tom Backström.
The career of the New York City based artist and composer Meredith Monk spans 40 years and takes in music, film, dance and theatre, listen to a collection of her early work in the 1960s and 70s.
Listen to a track by the Hamburg DJ and producer, featured in an article by Joe Muggs in The Wire 354.
Listen to solo work by Chicago Underground musician Rob Mazurek, and a track by his Exploding Star Orchestra.
Listen to solo and collaborative tracks by the Falcon (ex-Circle) frontman and Ektro Records boss Jussi Lehtisalo. Lehtisalo is the subject of The Wire 354 Invisible Jukebox, tested by Petri Kuljuntausta.
Our regular Thursday evening radio show on Resonance FM. This week hosted by Chris Bohn, with tracks by Grateful Dead, Merzbow, Makoto Kawabata, Gintas K and more, plus selections from Bôłt Records' Sounding The Body Electric compilation.
Listen to recordings by the Portland based American folk guitarist. Anderson talks to Nick Southgate in The Wire 354.
The anti-government protests that have shaken Istanbul since the end of May have prompted a wide range of musicians to respond with new work, inspired and informed by the uprising in Taksim Square’s Gezi Park.
Listen to three exclusive recordings of late 1980s/early 90s UK psychedelic heroes Terminal Cheesecake rehearsing in early July, in a farmhouse in Le Roche, France.
Listen to a selection of tracks that were played in The Wire offices during the production of the August 2013 issue.
This week's show on Resonance FM is hosted by Frances Morgan, playing music by Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins and others, inspired by the recent Cherry primer in The Wire 353.
Wire staffers Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman decamp to NTS Radio's East London studio for another session of Rewired, The Wire's fortnightly show, featuring tracks by Ta-Ku, Zomby, Claro Intelecto, Young Echo and more.
Listen to a selection of tracks as a primer to The Wire Salon, which returns after a two month break with an illustrated talk by historian David Crowley, exploring the politics of experimentation that reigned in the state funded radio and recording studios of Eastern Europe during the 1960s and 1970s.