In The Wire 365 Torturing Nurse founder Cao Junjun (aka Junky) tells Josh Feola how the inspiration for his long running Shanghai group came in 2004, when he first encountered Japanese noise stalwarts ...
All systems open might be the rallying cry of artists the world over, but Mark Fell argues the case for technological limitation as a trigger for creativity. Back in the early 1980s, the synth pop ...
Joseph Stannard: What united the musicians involved in this - for want of a better word - scene? Matt Elliott: Me, Kate Wright, Rachel Brook, Matt and Sam Jones and some of the wider Movietone members ...
After David Naegele’s departure, David Storrs had little connection with Valley Of The Sun, as replacement music director Robert Slap’s sensibilities skewed more towards the commercial, progressive ...
Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as those featured in ...