The Wire #489 - November 2024

The Wire #489 - November 2024 

On the cover: Marshall Allen: The Arkestra’s legendary guiding light celebrates his century with his very first solo album. By John Morrison. Plus: Once Upon A Time In Vilnius: The journey of avant rock trailblazers IVTKYGYG embodies the tensions and creative fire of a reborn Lithuania. By Ilia Rogatchevski; Water Damage: Don’t mess with Austin, Texas’s shapeshifting drone rock network. By Miloš Hroch; Frank Chickens: Kazuko Hohki’s ninja warriors celebrate four decades of iconoclastic performance. By Claire Biddles; Invisible Jukebox: Pharmakon: Will The Wire’s mystery record collection prove a Bestial Burden for Margaret Chardiet? Tested by James Gormley. Also inside this issue: Global Ear in Riga; Unlimited Editions Reading Group; The Inner Sleeve by Eleni Poulou; Seo; Callahan & Witscher; Kamilya Jubran; Epiphanies by David Borden; The Wire Tapper 66; pages of reviews and much more.

About The Wire

The Wire is an independent print and online music magazine covering a wide range of global alternative, underground and experimental musics. The Wire celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronic music, hiphop, new jazz, improvised music, modern composition, traditional musics and more. Passionate, intelligent and provocative, The Wire wages war on the mundane and the mediocre. Its office is based in London, but it serves an international readership.