The Wire #494

The Wire is an independent print magazine covering a wide range of global alternative, underground and experimental music. They've been publishing since 1982.

In this issue: 

• Raven Chacon: The Dine/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical works for ensembles, electronics and noise
• Infinity Knives: From Tom and Jerry to sociopolitics, rapper Tariq Ravelomanana keeps it unreal
• Bastard Assignments: The radical new music ensemble get lost in the woods with their satire of the English countryside
• Invisible Jukebox: Will Detroit Techno's great conceptualist be a wizard IDing The Wire's mystery record selection? 
• Ingrid Laubruck: The New York based reedist creates settings for koans and poems as part of a unique new compositional practise 
• Global Ear: Osaka's proto-industrialists revitalize the city's experimental music scene
• Unlimited Editions: Robert Ridley Shackleton's Cardboard Club cutouts
• The Inner Sleeve: Loraine James on Circe Survive's On Letting Go
• Against The Grain: Mosi Reeves takes on underground hiphop's gender imbalance

London, UK; 230mm x 280mm; 106 pages; April 2025, CD inlcuded