Rewind is the annual year-in-review issue of The Wire, a British music magazine founded in 1982. The year-end issues have been published every January since 1986, adopting the current "Rewind" title i
The Wire no. 263: the "2005 Rewind" issue
The American avant-garde jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman topped The Wire's poll in two consecutive years.
American jazz pianist Cecil Taylor (pictured at right) placed first in the 1988 poll and, in 1990, received a "special accolade" for a box set that would have otherwise topped the poll.
American hip-hop group Arrested Development topped the critics' poll in 1992, the first year that the magazine placed an all-genre list ahead of its jazz list.
Maxinquaye is the debut studio album by English rapper and producer Tricky, released on 20 February 1995 by 4th & B'way Records, a subsidiary of Island Records. In the years leading up to the album, T
Rewind (The Wire)
…Alternative hip hop US "The Critics' Choice" 1993 Björk Debut Electronic pop ISL "Record of the Year" 1994 Portishead Dummy Trip hop UK 1995 Tricky Maxinquaye Trip hop 1996 Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die Post-rock US 1997 Robert Wyatt Shleep Art rock UK 1998 Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves Experimental…
Tricky, photographed in 2008
An Akai S1000 sampler, among the equipment used for the album
Martina Topley-Bird (2010)