The Wire 300: Simon Reynolds on the Hardcore Continuum Series #6: Two-Step Garage (1999)

February 2013

Originally published as "Adult Hardcore" in The Wire #182 April 1999.

The Wire 300: Simon Reynolds on the Hardcore Continuum #7: Grime (And A Little Dubstep) (2005)

February 2013

Originally published as "The Primer: Grime " in The Wire #254, April 2005.

The Wire 300: Alan Licht on the emergence of experimental DJ culture

February 2013

A previously unpublished essay by NYC's own Alan Licht, specially commissioned to mark the magazine's 300th issue.

The Wire 300: David Stubbs on Sonic Youth and the Blast First axis

February 2013

A previously unpublished essay by David Stubbs, on Paul Smith's Blast First label and Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon's Sonic Youth.

The Wire 300: Will Montgomery on the changing uses of field recordings

February 2013

A previously unpublished artlcle commissioned especially for The Wire 300 online season.

The Wire 300: The Dead C’s Bruce Russell searches for new sonic hybrids in the rubble of modernism

February 2013

Previously unpublished essay commissioned for The Wire's online 300th issue celebrations

The Wire 300: Joe Stannard tracks Metal’s journey from the mosh-pit to the art house

February 2013

Previously unpublished essay commissioned for The Wire's online 300th issue celebrations

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

February 2013

Previously unpublished essay commissioned to celebrate The Wire's 300th issue

The Wire 300: Keith Moliné on the rise of Noise

February 2013

Previously unpublished essay commissioned to celebrate The Wire's 300th issue

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

February 2013

Previously unpublished essay commissioned to celebrate The Wire's 300th issue

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

February 2013

Previously unpublished essay commissioned to celebrate The Wire's 300th issue

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

February 2013

Previously unpublished essay commissioned to celebrate The Wire's 300th issue.

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

February 2013

Previously unpublished essay commissioned to celebrate The Wire's 300th issue.

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

February 2013

Previously unpublished essay commissioned to celebrate The Wire's 300th issue.

Collateral Damage: Alex Neilson on Topic records

February 2013

As the Topic label prepares to put its vast archive online, Alex Neilson sees unexpected connections between folk music's pluralist roots and the new routes promised by digital culture.

Collateral Damage: Mark Fell

January 2013

Mark Fell argues that the limits of technological systems do not frustrate creativity.

Richard Cook Tributes

November 2012

A collection of tributes to the late former editor of The Wire, who died August 2007

Charles Mingus: Hit In The Soul

September 2012

After the extraordinary achievements of his early years, the great bassist/composer Charles Mingus faced crisis – and a nervous breakdown – in the mid-1960s. But his comeback in the 70s, though constrained by illness, led to a few late masterpieces. as Brian Priestley reports in the concluding part of our Mingus retrospective. This article was originally published in The Wire 76, June 1990.

Essay

Collateral Damage: archivist Will Prentice

September 2012

As recording formats become obsolete, sound archivists are rethinking the paradigms around methods of preserving our audio heritage. By Will Prentice of the British Library.

Essay

Collateral Damage: Awesome Tapes From Africa's Brian Shimkovitz

May 2012

Digital transparency has revealed dimensions to African music beyond Western received ideas. But how to market it sympathetically, asks Brian Shimkovitz