The Wire (magazine)
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The Wire is a British music magazine published in London, which has been issued monthly in print since 1982. Its website launched in 1997, and an online archive of its entire back catalogue became ava
"Freedom Principles" The Wire no. 370, Dec. 2014
Mark Sinker (pictured in 2014) had a brief, controversial tenure as editor of The Wire. Though he was fired, his run as editor has received retrospective praise.
In the 1990s, longtime contributor Simon Reynolds (pictured in 2011) coined the genre "post-rock" and wrote influential essays on a variety of developments in rave that he termed the "hardcore continuum".
Steve Lacy
Noise music
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Noise music is a subgenre of experimental music that is characterised by its use of unwanted noise as a primary musical element. The genre has roots in early 20th century avant-garde music, but later
Depiction of charivari, early 14th century (from the Roman de Fauvel)
Luigi Russolo and his assistant Ugo Piatti in their Milan studio in 1913 with the Intonarumori (noise machines)
Merzbow, prominent Japanoise musician, in 2007
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