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LCD Soundsystem free download

There's 20 000 free downloads of their upcoming single "Bye Bye Bayou" available on www.lcdsoundsystem.com on a first come first serve basis. It will be available for purchase in shops on 12" 9 November and digitally for purchase on 24 November. According to the publicist "Bye Bye Bayou" is not going to appear on their new album, which comes out early 2010.

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RIP Maryanne Amacher

The great composer and installation artist died yesterday October 22. "A sound artist with a reputation for overwhelming volume, precise speaker placement, and site-specific environmental and architectural installations" wrote Alan Licht in his interview with her in March 1999. A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a collaborator of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Alvin Curran and others, she has been dubbed New Music's best kept secret. Thurston Moore made a fascinating documentary on Amacher called Daytrip Maryanne , clips are available here: http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/daytrip/ . Alan Licht's personal piece on listening to her work Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear) from The Wire issue 181 is now uploaded here http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3220/ .

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The Wire on Stack

You can now buy The Wire as part of a bundle of independent magazines from Stack, which describes itself as “a unique service that brings together the best independent English language magazines from around the world and delivers them direct to your home. Beautifully made and offering an intelligent, alternative view of films, music, culture, current affairs and whatever else crosses their pages, they guarantee to bring a fresh perspective on the world.” stackmagazines.com And if you want to find out a little bit more about The Wire , where it came from, where it’s at, and maybe even where it’s heading, the Stack blog has just posted the transcript of an interview with the magazine’s publisher, Tony Herrington stackmagazines.com/blog/slightly-strange

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Calling Out Of Context

The full bill for the ICA's Calling Out Of Context festival is now online, including info on an event on 20 November that has been programmed by The Wire and features live performances by AGF and Mira Calix: Calling Out Of Context

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Orcutt acoustic

Fantastic new video clip of Bill Orcutt playing acoustic guitar – Edwin Pouncey's review of Orcutt's new solo disc can be found in The Wire 309, the November issue, which has just come out...

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Adventures In Modern Music Thursday 15 October

Adventures In Modern Music tonight is part two of our The Wire Primers special. Derek Walmsley will be playing another selection of tracks discussed in The Wire 's brand new book, our guide to the core recordings of the most exciting musicians of the past century, from Fela Kuti to AMM, Tropicália to Grime. On Resonance FM, 104.4FM from 21:00 tonight, streaming on www.resonancefm.com on the web.

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Sun Ra: talk, film, music

To coincide with the Sun Ra Arkestra’s forthcoming two-day residency at East London’s Café Oto, on Monday 19 October The Wire will host a special discussion at the venue on Ra’s music with Kodwo Eshun, Edwin Pouncey and Pat Thomas chaired by The Wire ’s editor-in-chief and publisher, Tony Herrington. The night will also feature a screening of Phill Niblock’s film on Ra, Magic Sun , plus customised cosmic jazz DJ sets courtesy of Soul Jazz Records. cafeoto.co.uk

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Into The Vortex: update!

Due to an illness in the family, The Skaters’ Spencer Clark has had to cancel his appearance at Into The Vortex on Fri 9 October. Instead, his partner in The Skaters, James Ferraro, will perform a solo set of his trademark hypnagogic psych-drone-pop.