Love these. Looking through old hi-fi ads is a really powerful experience – a vision of the future what was
Blue Tapes@bluetapes.bsky.social · 2mo agoSanyo MR-JJ
Derek Walmsley
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I'm almost always trying to make the text flow better or reduce the number of words. Music writing in The Wire, Electronic Sound, The Quietus, LRB, elsewhere. slowmotion.blog
Blue Tapes@bluetapes.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Gig photographers: stop taking pics in black and white! It's not 1959.
I also found this absolutely shocking. The theory that the Earth is flat is becoming a growing fault line in online bantz. But….
Alan Lester@alanlester.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?
This terrific piece is not part of the genre of Beatles interviews
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 2mo agoA lovely interview. Anyone who's interviewed McCartney or read enough interviews with him knows the usual pitfalls, the bromides and oft-told tales disguised with easy familiarity, but this felt fresh and funny. A tough gig.
As a freelancer, if there's one phrase that makes me twitch like Herbert Lom in the Pink Panther films, it's "Raise a Purchase Order".
Come for the music intel, stay for the A-class pun action
JR Moores@spinal-bap.bsky.social · 2mo agoI have three On Location live reviews in the latest issue of The Wire: Supersonic Festival, Froglord, and (cover stars) EarthBall. 💥 🐸 🌎 Remember to support print magazines that cover mad music. @thewiremagazine.bsky.social @supersonicfest.bsky.social
It's being reported that Julio Le Parc has died. I met Le Parc in Paris (for this @friezeofficial.bsky.social feature www.frieze.com/article/peri...) nearly thirteen years ago and liked him a lot. There was something impish and irrepressible about him even then, at 84 years old.
Peripheral Visions
For more than 50 years, the Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc has been exploring spectatorship, movement and participation. Following a major survey show at the Palais de Tokyo, Robert Barry considers ...
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joyous invisible jukebox in this month's wire with richard 'hows yr reverb' dawson. what a top human.
Plus I visited the Archipel festival in Geneva, where Antoine Läng did a radio thing on the role of journalism in music with Hanne Wagner, Wioleta Zochowska + me. They both had great things to say! You might find their work at positionen.berlin, seismograf.org etc www.mixcloud.com/FestivalArch...
Positionen – Texte zur aktuellen Musik
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Some very cool stuff in the brand new Wire, including a great window onto the weirdo music scene over on Vancouver Island in Emily Pothast’s EarthBall feature, and I reviewed this and that including an amazing effectively new Margareth Kammerer album
The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Wire 509 is out now! Featuring EarthBall on the cover, plus DoYeon Kim, Onilu, Jocy de Oliveira, Tomáš Šenkyřík, Eoobe, Aldana Duoraan & Tomáš Niesner, Richard Dawson’s Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
So sad to her about this loss of the very great, and very generous, Steve Barrow. When The Congos played in London last year, he was the only person they gave a shout out to from the stage. Imagine just how great a reissue label must be to be that guy who gets a namecheck from the band.
Tom Robinson@marsdenmouse.bsky.social · 2mo agoReally sad news, hearing that the mighty Steve Barrow has passed. Partnered the Daddy Kool shops in the 70’s and compiled 100’s of essential sets. When he co-founded Blood & Fire in 1993, he transformed the reggae music business, making sure those players got their due. A knowledgeable, kind soul
Sonny Rollins (7 September 1930–25 May 2026) The great saxophonist has died aged 95. We have made the cover story from The Wire 18 free to read in our online library, including Richard Cook’s interview, and Stuart Nicholson’s essay on 1956's Saxophone Colossus. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
Sonny Rollins (7 September 1930–25 May 2026) - The Wire
The great saxophonist has died aged 95. As a tribute, we have made the cover story from The Wire 18 free to read in our online library for one month, including Richard Cook’s interview, and Stuart N...
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Rollins was giving great interviews even fairly recently www.jazztimes.com/features/int...
Sonny Rollins Interviewed by Joshua Redman: Newk's Time - JazzTimes
Two generations of jazz saxophone meet as Joshua Redman interviews his hero Sonny Rollins.
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So sad to hear of the death of Sonny Rollins. Way back in the day I bought any live jazz disc that had Village Vanguard or Birdland on it. This one was nothing I'd ever heard before, the saxophone telling stories worth entire novels or films www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk5p...
A Night In Tunisia (Afternoon Take / Live At The Village Vanguard/1957)
YouTube video by Sonny Rollins - Topic
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Going to spend the afternoon listening to versions of "Mirrors" by Joe Chambers
Bastion of indie cultural writing tQ is searching for more subscribers to help it keep going. Bung em some love.
Luke Turner@luketurner.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Quietus is 90% funded by subscribers, and we need another 500 this spring to help us fight the AI-pocalypse – with this in mind, there's a huge sale on our top tier subscriptions. If you like what we do, here's how you can help: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Little shoutout to Tony Rettman’s avant rock column. Tony writes about a hoard of scuzzy, scummy and generally kick ass rock, most of which I don’t know, which is always worth its weight in gold
The brand new Wire is out! A tonne of good stuff as ever, amid which, I wrote about sound system culture finding new venues in London, and two new Keith Jarrett films
The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Wire 508 is out now! Featuring Seefeel on the cover, plus Ibrahim Alfa Jnr, Asher Gamedze, Magic Tuber Stringband, Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier, Guttersnipe's Jukebox, KINACT, Egg Meat, Paul Pinto and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
i made a new zine about the (many) similarities between david foster wallace's postmodern classic infinite jest and queer hockey series heated rivalry – my two primary obsessions of the past few months. i made stickers too! available here if you are the same kind of insane as me: fwyl.bigcartel.com
I'd quite forgotten about that Wailing Souls song. Remarkable to have two great reggae songs titled and themed so similarly.
Tom Waits' Shiver me Timbers is another excellent one, though I guess to be fair it's not *necessarily* about fishing
The Congos. The Waterboys. Are all songs about Fisherman amazing?