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
Hypnagogic pop
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Hypnagogic pop is a loosely defined style of pop and psychedelic music that evokes cultural memory and nostalgia for the popular entertainment of the past. It emerged in the 2000s through a wave of Am
The Wire (magazine)
…defined in the pages of The Wire in that decade, including microhouse, by Philip Sherburne, in 2001; New Weird America, by David Keenan, in 2003; and hypnagogic pop, also by Keenan, in 2009. In 2007, The Wire reportedly sold about 17,500 copies per issue. A press release from the same year gave the magazine's monthly…
A compact cassette. Hypnagogic pop artists often use or emulate outdated cassette recording technology.
The term "hypnagogic pop" was inspired by comments made by musician and artist James Ferraro (pictured in 2012).
Ariel Pink performing in 2007