The Wire

Archived since Summer 1982 (Issue 1)

Complete Archive

509 issues

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The Wire is the world's leading independent monthly music magazine. The first issue was published in 1982. More than four decades on the magazine remains committed to reporting on a dynamic global network of underground, alternative and experimental musics by publishing journalism and photography by some of the subculture’s most original and authoritative critics and observers.

A digital subscription gives access to the complete online archive of back issues of The Wire since issue one, summer 1982 — that's over 40 years, 470 issues and 40,000 pages.

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Mike Watt: exclusive interview + on record guide, The Primer: Aphex Twin, Drew Daniel on Beijing’s You and Me festival, Kaja Draksler, Truck Violence, Finn Loxbo, Invisible Jukebox: Pamela Z, Secret History of Film Music: Jon Brion, Against The Grain: audio surveillance, Unlimited Editions: Aspen Edities, The Inner Sleeve: Yuko Mohri, Epiphanies: Corey Mwamba, Global Ear: Bled Contemporary Music Week, and in the reviews sections: Immersion, Francisco Mela, Funkadelic, Barbara Ellison, A Tomb Full Of Stars, Zeynep Bulut, Alice Coltrane and Bill Evans on film, Darius Jones & Otomo Yoshihide Quintet, and much more.

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