THE Wire literally has been around since the early 1980s and

can you fucking wire marketing people fuck off already

>>70001876
next time sage you fucking shill

where are the mods?

is wire the first /mu/ mey mey of 2017?

>>69999887
torrent? where to download for free?

>>70001876
>implying the wire is actually shilling on /mu/
Have you people really never heard of it before last week?

Wire is literally Marcel-tier

They're no-names

>>70002017
why is anyone who posts about the wire a """shill"""?

is the wire too progressive for you /pol/ types?

>>70002374
This. Nobody outside of /mu/ has ever even heard of them. Hell, only like 5 people in /mu/ seem to actually read them. They're lower than Marcel. Complete nobodies.

>>69999887
>THE Wire literally has been around since the early 1980s and tends to cover more avant-garde and underground music and art.
[citation needed]

>It's a print magazine that is a pretty big deal in the music world over here in the UK and is sold in most record shops and news agents and I know they sell it at Barnes and Nobles stores in America
[citation needed]

>Simon Reynolds is probably their most prominent full-time writer (he's written several popular and acclaimed books about the post-punk, glam, and 90s rave music scenes) and big names like Brian Eno, Lee Ranaldo, and Robert Fripp have frequently contributed to the magazine in the past.
[citation needed]

>They're bigger than /mu/.
Hahahaha. I'd be surprised if their readership was above double digits.

>>70002388
Because nobody has ever heard of the wire until they started spamming themselves on /mu/. Plus they're unabashed white guilt SJW Top 40 rap, pop, and RnB proponents who have never covered real experimental music in their life.

There's a 35GB torrent on rutracker with all issues from 1982 to 2016 but no seeders plus I can't read the discussion because it's in Russian. Suspicious. Could be a giant hoax.

>>70002603
What could be a giant hoax?

>>70002649
The magazine - there is no The Wire!
It's a plot of the Russian government to get American teenagers into downloading a nonexistent bibliography that is actually comprised of trojan horses by pretending that there is this unheard of hip music magazine and advertising it on 4chan ;^)

I'm on to you!

>>70002743
Honestly it's got to be fake. No way this shit has been going since the 80s.
Now that you mention it, I've never actually seen any of their content except the covers and the 2016 AOTY list. I honestly think this is all some elaborate plot by some autistic guy who made up a fake magazine to shill here and rip people off.

Believe me, I know a lot of music websites, but I literally never heard of this "magazine" before two weeks ago and the only place it's ever been mentioned is /mu/.

And somehow they've supposedly had everyone from Bjork to Thom Yorke to Aphex Twin to Michael Gira "featured" on their covers?

I call bullshit.

Downloaded the torrent, it's all empty .pdfs
This magazine doesn't exist, abort this thread, don't download the torrent and check your devices for spyware immediately! OP is a Russian spy and wants your nuclear weapons!

>>70003461
Srs?

>>69999887
>Simon Reynolds is probably their most prominent full-time writer
I like Rip It Up. Really good book on post-punk.

>>70003647
I saw his new glam rock history in an airport book store the other day, but didn't get it since it was $25. Rip it Up is fantastic as is Energy Flash if you're into that sort of thing. Retromania is really fascinating look at the nostalgia epidemic in pop culture in recent years.

>>69999887

>avant-garde and underground music and art.
>Blackstar AOTY

This may be the most fucking annoying thing this board has ever gotten its balls stuck on, and that's really fucking saying something.

>>70003746
>>Blackstar AOTY
Yes, it's a surprisingly and unusually conventional choice, but that doesn't negate the fact that they cover primarily avant-garde and underground music and art in their magazine.

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>>70002357
>>70002388
>>69999887
>>70002017
this weak as bait

>>70002889
a.k.a: marcel

>>70003819
nobody gives a fuck, you've posted this shit like 3 times in like 2 days, i'm considering making it a copypasta.

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/ivoliveira/the_wire___2000_2009__rewind/
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/travellear/the_wire_100_30_records_that_set_the_world_on_fire/
The wire led me on to some great albums. Here's a link to some of their lists

>>70003953
STOP
THIS
FUCKING
SHIT:

>>70003953
Lol wow this meme is getting more and more indepth by the sec

you guys are really putting some effort into this one

>>70003678
I've got Retromania. Haven't read it yet. Seems interesting.

I just saw their top 50 list and I take it back, this magazine doesn't exist.

>>70003882
Yeah, because /mu/ is fucking retarded and has either never heard of the wire or thinks they're some sort of Top 40 magazine because of that fake list that's been spammed.

>>69999887
>bait

So saying that The Wire is an underground music and art magazine that's existed since the early 80s, spawned important music critics like Simon Reynolds, and featured contributions from Brian Eno, Lee Ranaldo, and Robert Fripp is bait? In what sense?

>>70004021
t. Marcel

>>70004005
I honestly don't think it does. It has to be an elaborate ruse. The only existing "evidence" of it is just these supposed "magazine covers" featuring /mu/core artists and their year end list (which is awful btw).

>>70003972
>>70003990
Guys I was being serious. Found a lot of Jazz and Micro House shit from them.

Is this a post-meme meme? I'm really confused over everyones reaction to a music publication

I remember watching an interview thing of an artist who kept issues of The Wire in his bathroom because he believes "that's where it belongs."

>>70004075
>Found a lot of Jazz and Micro House shit from them.
They only cover Top 40 rap and pop. Nice try.

>I'm really confused over everyones reaction to a music publication
Yeah, a "music publication" that nobody has ever heard of outside of /mu/, that has never been mentioned on /mu/ prior to two weeks ago, and has a highly suspect "existence" at best and some horrid taste.

>>70004075
dude just pls stop roleplaying

its starting to get cringy

>>70004021
>So saying that The Wire is an underground music and art magazine that's existed since the early 80s, spawned important music critics like Simon Reynolds, and featured contributions from Brian Eno, Lee Ranaldo, and Robert Fripp is bait? In what sense?

Because that's all blatant bullshit.

>>70004021
> spawned important music critics like Simon Reynolds
>not bait
lmao

/mu/ doesn't give a fuck, stop spamming it on this board, there are like 4 threads now and they're by your marketing team, it's see-through as fuck and it's annoying AF.

>>70004075
>guuuuysss, immmm seriousss ittsss goooooooooddddd
fuck off.

>>70004021
>spawned important music critics like Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds is a Pitchfork writer FAGGOT and I doubt Eno or the Sonic Youth are even aware of this glorified blog's existence.

>>70004111
Kek. All you have to do is click the link ;) Nice trips
>>70004124
Post meme meme confirmed.

Either that or someone formally at the Wire is super mad and taking revenge on an image board

>>69999887
>Wire
literally Merzbow, Boredoms, Gerogerigegege, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brainbombs, Egor Letov, Death in June, Current 93, La Monte Young, Moondog, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Luigi Russolo, Popol Vuh, Fishmans, Jean Jacques Perrey, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Rainbow Caroliner, Taj Mahal Travellers, Fushitsusha, Peter Brötzmann, John Cage, Scott Walker, Unwound, Dead, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nang Nang, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Nara Leão, Basic Channel, Raymond Scott, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Noah Howard, Terry Riley, Peter Sotos, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Boyd Rice, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Flynt, Kazumoto Endo, David Tudor, Aporea, Half Japanese, Mega Banton, Secret Chiefs 3, Keiji Haino, Ramleh, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Robbie Basho, Phil Spector, Faxed Head, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, Fred Frith, The Residents, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Hans Krüsi, Royal Trux, Jandek, Yat-Kha, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Pärson Sound, The Dead C, Comus, Cromagnon, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Doyle, Shizuka, The Red Krayola, Henry Cow, Magma, Opus Avantra, Pan.Thy.Monium., Murmuüre, Ksiezyc, Gong, Cukor Bila Smert', cLOUDDEAD, Muslimgauze and Kaoru Abe, the list goes on: The Magazine

>>70004194
>I doubt... the Sonic Youth are even aware of this glorified blog's existence.
That is exceedingly unlikely, given that Sonic Youth made it a point to know critics and publications and place the band in close proximity to them.

>>70004220
>literally Merzbow, Boredoms, Gerogerigegege, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brainbombs, Egor Letov, Death in June, Current 93, La Monte Young, Moondog, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Luigi Russolo, Popol Vuh, Fishmans, Jean Jacques Perrey, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Rainbow Caroliner, Taj Mahal Travellers, Fushitsusha, Peter Brötzmann, John Cage, Scott Walker, Unwound, Dead, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nang Nang, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Nara Leão, Basic Channel, Raymond Scott, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Noah Howard, Terry Riley, Peter Sotos, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Boyd Rice, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Flynt, Kazumoto Endo, David Tudor, Aporea, Half Japanese, Mega Banton, Secret Chiefs 3, Keiji Haino, Ramleh, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Robbie Basho, Phil Spector, Faxed Head, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, Fred Frith, The Residents, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Hans Krüsi, Royal Trux, Jandek, Yat-Kha, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Pärson Sound, The Dead C, Comus, Cromagnon, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Doyle, Shizuka, The Red Krayola, Henry Cow, Magma, Opus Avantra, Pan.Thy.Monium., Murmuüre, Ksiezyc, Gong, Cukor Bila Smert', cLOUDDEAD, Muslimgauze and Kaoru Abe, the list goes on: The Magazine

Explain: >>70002727

>>70004412
>tfw Friendo might be a wire shill

Friendo no!!

>>70004412
Fuck off Friendo. The Wire doesn't even cover the likes of Sonic Youth anyway. Their more Rihanna than Ranaldo if you know what I mean.

>>70004194
Found the refutation(s).
http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/217
http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/171
http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/268
There are probably more, but I think that three is enough.

>>70004462
That is incorrect.

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>>70004511
lol look how poorly designed and awful looking this website is. it looks like some kid in computer class made it for a project lol this has to be a scam

The fuck are you people talking about, this magazine DOES NOT EXIST! It's Russian spyware clickbait!

>>70004511
So pray tell, "Friendo", red-pill on what "The Wire" actually is.

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this looks photoshopped as fuck

it has to be fake

>>70004611
It most likely is.

>>70004445
I don't actively follow any publications because I don't follow contemporary music.

>>70004565
http://www.thewire.co.uk/about/

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>>70004542

>>70004667
>>70004542
>"magazine"
>it's literally a free website with shitty boring ass articles

>>70004667
literally looks like someone took a stock image and wrote some hogwash

its a front for damn sure

>>70004700
Yeah, there's no way this is legit. The articles on the website aren't even about the artists on the "covers" and there doesn't even appear to be an actual "magazine" or any current or back issues to read

>>70004667
"Moscow", eh? Sure seems fishy to me...

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Trust me. They've been around forever! I even have a bunch of copies

>>70004809
> taking the time to photoshop this
get a social life anon.

>>70004809
>ok lets print some blank papers with some nice covers, take a photo of it, and post it when people get suspicious

nice try

>>70004809
nice try buddy

>>70002548
>nobody has ever heard of them before now
>but i'm an expert listen to my analysis

>>70004809
Tell Putin we won't fall for his shit.

>>70004905
How much is the wire paying you for doing this?

>>>/lit/8906145

What did they mean by this?

>>70004996
christ the shills are spreading

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>>70004857
>>70004863
>>70004894
>>70004916
Im not lying! Heres another photo with my headphones and a pair of socks for comparison!

>>70005030
Oh yeah? Are those woolen socks? What size are they? Where did you buy them and when? Do you have any personal stories about them?

>>70004996
>fake pop music magazine that isn't even physically published
>/lit/ related

hoo boy

>>70005030
Those magazines literally could be anything moron. This proves nothing.

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>>70005030
So?
here's a photo of your overlord riding a bear.
what was this meant to prove?

>>70004809
>>70005030
nice try but you still can't explain the stock photos
A+ for effort though

literally FUCK the wire

>>70005030
those words could be literal gibberish

that's probably why you took those photos from that angle

>>70005248
It's a pretty good show. A little overrated, but a really good show nonetheless.

>>70005030
Maybe if you had a certain body part in the shot as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEJSe8vutnM
I don't think the band every started a magazine OP, what are you talking about?

>>70005318
The wire not wire

>>70005318
Bands starts magazines all the time, looks at the rolling stones

Wire band
Wire zine
Wire show

how are they all so good?

>>70005635
>Wire band
good
>Wire zine
shit and barely even a real "zine"
>Wire show
overrated

>>70005508
"the wire" gave me zero results on google, why are you lying op?

>>70005629
not only is that not my point, it is not even true.

>>69999887
>old
+
>in print

>=relevant
kek

>>70005734
>>old
founded this year
>>in print
can't even get physically published and distributed
>>relevant
it never has been and never will be

>make music mag
>add subtitle to the name
yuck

>>70005799
it was so they could share the name with a white guilt tv show

https://en.www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire_(magazine)

How can this be explained if it's "not a real magazine?"

>>70005847
Anyone can make a wikipedia page

>>70005847
Russians are ruthless, they are communists and know a thing or two about fiddling with "public" dictionaries.

>>70005847
Do you know how Wikipedia works? You literally just need links that are not directly from the subject. If you actually read the sources, they're pretty to be honest. I may open a Wiki account just to try and delete the page to show the lack of notability.

>>70005858
What about the refrences?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire_(magazine)
Here's the actual link by the way. I linked it wring like a fucking idiot.

>>70005911
Do it. Please do. Shut these shills up.

>>70005911
Meant to say "they're pretty weak," in relation to the sources.

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lads can you stop this the wire is a nice magazine there's no need to meme it to death and ruin the reputation of it in /mu/ for good

>>70006017
>implying they didn't start this by shilling themselves

>>70006017
дoкaзaтeльcтвo?

>>70006017
>The Wire writer detected
>tfw you realize shilling the company you work for has consequences
wew

>>70006017
hello shill

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How can it be underground music if it's published in a big name magazine?

Checkmate, atheists.

>>70006062
this. No legimate music critic website shills on /mu/. Wire does so because their literally a garbage blog run out of some autistic anon's basement.

>>70006108
Except for the fact that The Wire is neither big name nor an actual "magazine" nor does it cover experimental music (unless you consider Rihanna to be experimental)

>>70002603

use google translate, doofus

rutracker almost always deletes fake shit, not sure why you would worry, it's also a forum so people have reputations to uphold

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>>70006113
>No legimate music critic website shills on /mu/.

>>70006181
Name 1 that does

I stopped trusting their taste-making credentials when they gave Splazsh AOTY. Since then they've also fallen for the poptimism meme.

Read with caution.

>>70006199
youre moms vagina

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It's real apparently

also this is their actual top 50:

David Bowie – Blackstar
Shirley Collins – Lodestar
Moor Mother – Fetish Bones
Autechre – elseq 1-5
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina
Yves Tumor – Serpent Music
Gaika – SECURITY
Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Yermande
Gate – Saturday Night Fever
Solange – A Seat at the Table
Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
Oren Ambarchi – Hubris
Babyfather – “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow
75 Dollar Bill – Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
Anna Meredith – Varmints
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS
A Tribe Called Quest – We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service
Carla dal Forno – You Know What It’s Like
David Toop – Entities Inertias Faint Beings
Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
Kendrick Lamar – Untitled Unmastered
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – We Be All Africans
Laura Cannell – Simultaneous Flight Movement
Ectoplasm Girls – New Feeling Come
Steve Gunn – Eyes on the Lines
Ian William Craig – Centres
Matmos – Ultimate Care II
Laraaji & Sun Araw – Professional Sunflow
Scott Walker – The Childhood of a Leader (OST)
Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
Elysia Crampton – Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City
Katie Gately – Color
Shackleton with Ernesto Tomasini – Devotional Songs
Anxiety – Anxiety
Skepta – Konnichiwa
Puce Mary – The Spiral
The Dwarfs of East Agouza – Bes
Catherine Christer Hennix – Live At Issue Project Room
Horse Lords – Interventions
Roy Montgomery – R M H Q: Headquarters
Frank Ocean – Blonde
Thalia Zedek – Eve
Charlemagne Palestine – Cathédrale De Strasbourg
Kepler Quartet – Ben Johnston: String Quartets Nos. 6, 7, & 8
Circuit Des Yeux – Jackie Lynn
Zomby – Ultra
Klara Lewis – Too
Peder Mannerfelt – Controlling Body

>>70006206
I mean why wouldn't you take everything a music publication says with a huge grain of salt?

The Wire being a fake magazine is one of the spicier /mu/ memes in recent memory. Do none of you live near a library or university campus?

>>70006272
>It's real apparently
what made you think it wasn't?

>>70006385
That and neo-/mu/ is primarily underage and are all spoonfed flavor of the month Top 40 pop, rap and "indie" garbage by pitchfork and fantano and would never come across the wire because of it

>>70006272
>It's real apparently
that's not proof?

Memes aside, how come European magazines like UK's The Wire and the Italian Blow Up among others tend to cover a wider range of musical genres/formats while US based Pitchfork and Rolling Stones are very limited in comparison?

Like shit, compare this list to the Rolling Stone 500

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/funks/blow_up_magazines_600_essential_albums/

i enjoyed their year end lists since teh mid 00s at least. good time. cant wait for th... actually i think they mixed it up recently. but anyway. i always discover so much new good shit at the very end of the year. in noise, avant rock, dub, electronic , free jazz and what have u

>>70006395
>>70006272
>being this gullible

>>70007524
> how come European magazines like UK's The Wire
Because your imagination has no limits, while in the real world where publications actually exist they have limited staff with limited capabilities.

anyone has a link to december's issue?

The Wire is patrician. Not faux-patrician like p4k or meme-patrician like TMT or Marcel, but full-blown, autism spectrum-tier patrician. The only thing above it in patricianhood is academic music review. Don't even attempt to read if your musical IQ is below the three digits

>>70008303
not on rutracker yet

>>70008362
hoo boy

>>70004443
see >>70005270

>>70008362
this desu

>>70008362
>>70008370
>>70008400
>>70008383
>still trying to bumb their own magazine on an image board
you guys are seriously pathetic, stop this cringy shit, no one has ever cared about this fake magazine and nobody ever will.

>>70006206
Splazsh is a masterpiece, though

I swear to god I'm gonna kill the RYM autist that started this shitty meme. Back the fuck off?!?

>>70008492
no