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The Wire Miracle Continues with PF456 Deluxe

June 11, 2021June 11, 2021 Tim Sommer 3 Comments 2021, Bruce Gilbert, Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, PF456 Deluxe, Pink Flag, Post-Punk, Wire

This anticipated Record Store Day exclusive is the UK punk icons’ most feral and creative release

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Indie Rock New Wave Post-Punk

ALBUMS: Exceptional Dry Cleaning Service

May 24, 2021 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 16 Lovers Lane, 4AD, Dry Cleaning, English Settlement, Fables of the Reconstruction, John Lydon, New Long Leg, Phoebe Waller Bridge, R.E.M., Radiohead, The Bends, The Go-Betweens, The Queen is Dead, The Suburbs, Wire, XTC

Believe the hype about New Long Leg, the debut album by this young and profoundly distinctive South London quartet

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Why Billy Childish Matters

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 Tim Sommer 0 Comments BILLY CHILDISH, Bob Dylan, Charles Ives, Louis Jordan, Moondog, Phil Ochs, Scott Muni, The Circle Jerks, The Kinks, The Lurkers, The Ramones, Thee Headcoats, Vini Reilly, Wilko Johnson, Wire

Like, more than anyone else in Rock & Roll

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Music Journalism

Who Were The Best Artists of 2020?

December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 Tim Sommer 2 Comments AC/DC, Bob Dylan, Chubby and the Gang, Deli Girls, Dry Cleaning, Lucidvox, Wire

Our cranky friend offers his review of the year in music

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Music Journalism Remembrance

All You Need to Know About Van Halen by Someone Who Was an Actual Teenager in the 1970s

October 9, 2020October 19, 2020 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Billy Joel, Blondie, Bread, CHEAP TRICK, CSN, James Taylor, Kansas, Kraftwerk, Led Zeppelin, Little River Band, Neu!, Styx, The Ramones, Van Halen, Wilko Johnson, Wire

A remembrance of the era that gave us Eddie Van Halen from someone on the ground during their ascension to superstardom

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Indie Rock New Wave Pop Post-Punk

The Soft Boys: This Was Us

July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 Chris Parker 0 Comments 1980, I Wanna Destroy You, Insanely Jealous, Kemberley Rew, Robyn Hitchcock, The Soft Boys, The Stranglers, Underwater Moonlight, Wire

Underwater Moonlight offers the mentally unbalanced view of love

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New Wave Post-Punk

On 10:20, The Wire Miracle Continues

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Tim Sommer 4 Comments 10:20, Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Margaret Fielder, Matthew Simms, Pink Flag, Robert Gotobed, Robert Grey, Wire

The English post-punk institution continues its latest hot streak with LP no. 18

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Alternative Rock New Wave Post-Punk

Oh How Their Favours Change: Elastica at 25

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 Eric Davidson 1 Comment 1995, Blur, Brett Anderson, Catatonia, Damon Albarn, Elastica, Geffen, Justine Frischmann, Kinickie, Powder, Republica, Sleeper, Suede, Wire

if you were around to enjoy it’s streamlined pleasures, Elastica was actually a fairly important album in 1995

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ALBUMS: Inside Wire’s Hive

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Tim Sommer 1 Comment 2020, Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Mind Hive, Pink Flag, Pink Floyd, The Go-Betweens, The Kinks, The Who, Wire

43 years after its debut, Mind Hive proves this British punk institution is still making flawless records

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Like A Glove: The Convergence of Wire and Mike Watt

December 9, 2019December 30, 2019 Ryan Bray 1 Comment fIREHOSE, Fitted, Flipper, Graham Lewis, Jaki Liebezeit, Jumpstarted Plowhards, Mike Watt, Pink Flag, The First Fit, The Minutemen, Wire

Fitted represents a perfect meeting of musical minds

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THE BEST REISSUES OF 2019: The Damned Finally Get the Greatest Hits Album They Deserve

December 3, 2019December 19, 2019 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Black is the Night, Captain Sensible, Dave Vanian, Hall and Oates, Pink Floyd, Punk, Radiohead, Strawberries, Suicide, Taylor Swift, The Beatles, The Black Album, The Damned, Wire

A celebration of the Captain and Co.’s essential two-disc anthology Black Is The Night

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The Eternal Moonshine of Post Punk Music

September 4, 2019September 5, 2019 Tim Sommer 1 Comment Beatles, Glintshake, Holger Gzukay, Johnny Thunders, Joy Division, Krautrock, Love Will Tear us Apart Again, Pet Sounds, PiL, Post-Punk, Public Image, The Cure, Wire, Young Marble Giants, ГШ

Thanks to Moscow’s ГШ, 1979 has never sounded so good

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‘The 70s Album We Enjoyed the Most Making’

August 31, 2018September 1, 2018 Tim Sommer 1 Comment 1978, 40th Anniversary, Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Wire

We mark the 40th Anniversary of Wire’s Chairs Missing with a lot of adjectives from Tim and insightful comments from Colin Newman

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Anal C*nt and the Power of Microsong

June 7, 2018June 7, 2018 Tim Sommer 0 Comments AxCx, Brian Eno, Hootie & The Blowfish, Microsoft, Microsong, Screen Gems, Wire

We are not here to comment on the ludicrous manner of a musician’s mortal defenestration. However, I will note that after Anal C-nt guitarist Josh Martin died while horsing around on an escalator, I spent a lot of time thinking about this ridiculous, obscene, beer fart in a car crash of a band. Like President James Buchanan or The Danny Thomas Show, Anal C-nt is a lot more important than

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