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Competition: win a copy of Scott Walker's Bish Bosch LP, with a fragment of...
Win one of three copies of Scott Walker's Bish Bosch (including 2xLP, CD and booklet) out on 4AD on 3 December. Included with each LP is a fragment of the original album art (see picture above). To...
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Listen: Bill Orcutt live at Incubate
Holland's Incubate festival has uploaded a series of recordings to its Soundcloud of ex-Harry Pussy man Bill Orcutt's live set at the festival. The six tracks were recorded on 12 September this year...
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Peter Brötzmann puts his Chicago Tentet on ice
Peter Brötzmann has written a letter announcing that he'll be mothballing his Chicago Tentet, having reached what he feels is the project's creative peak. He told David Keenan in The Wire 345: "For...
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Her Noise launch online archive
The Her Noise project, started by Lina Džuverović and Anne Hilde Neset (contributing editor at The Wire), has launched an online archive. It includes video and audio recordings of interviews, talks...
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High Wolf robbed and stranded in Belgium
French psychedelic drone maker High Wolf has been forced to cancel his European tour and was temporarily stranded after a bag containing his fees for six shows, merch money, train tickets, and...
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Andrew WK deemed inappropriate choice as US Cultural Ambassador
Andrew WK was formally invited by the US State department to visit Bahrain as a Cultural Ambassador to the Middle East promoting "music, freedom, and positive party power" at a concert in Manama on 2...
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Low return with new album produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy
Low return next year with an album produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy for SubPop. The release will be their tenth, and coincides with the group's 20th anniversary. The new record, titled The Invisible...
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Sound recordings of Seville's Holy Week processions published as multimedia PDF
In 2007–2008 artists Duncan Whitley and James Wyness took a trip to Seville and made multi-channel recordings of the Holy Week processions there, which involve 58 Catholic brotherhoods plus floats and...
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Berlin's CTM festival announces second wave of acts
Berlin's CTM festival, sister festival to Transmediale, has announced its second wave of acts. Dean Blunt will be performing The Narcissist for the first time, and Terre Thaemlitz will give a talk and...
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Rune Grammofon releasing 7LP Arve Henriksen box set
Norwegian musician Arve Henriksen (one third of improvising group Supersilent) is releasing a seven LP box set via Rune Grammofon. The box set, titled Solidifcation, spreads four albums across 14...
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Kraftwerk's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 in London's Turbine Hall next year
Kraftwerk are bringing their retrospective show to London next year, following this year's New York MoMA series and January's Dusseldorf shows. The eight night run will take place 6–14 February. 1 2 3...
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Rewind 2012 issue out now
The Wire’s crucial review of the last 12 months in underground sound and music is out now. The issue includes releases of the year, opinions and reflections from a host of musicians and critics, and...
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Dave Brubeck RIP
Popular jazz stalwart Dave Brubeck has died of heart failure a day before his 92nd birthday. An American pianist composer and bandleader born in the Bay Area of San Francisco, Brubeck considered...
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Jonathan Harvey RIP
Composer Jonathan Harvey has died. Quietly spoken, Harvey was the first British composer to make a lasting impression on a Central European contemporary music scene that was traditionally ignored by...
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Cafe Oto fundraising for new equipment
Cafe Oto in Dalston is aiming to raise £25,000 for new equipment, and is holding its own fundraising auction of sorts, à la WFMU. The fundraiser includes thankyou gifts for donations, auctions and a...
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My Bloody Valentine announce UK live dates for 2013
Brief live news: My Bloody Valentine have announced three live dates in the UK in March next year. The shows will take place in Glasgow, Manchester and London. Dates are as follows: Glasgow...
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Music & Liberation
An exhibition about feminists who used music as a tool to empower women during the 1970s and 80s has just opened at London’s Space Station Sixty-Five gallery. The show, titled Music & Liberation,...
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Sound recordings of Seville's Holy Week processions published as multimedia PDF
In 2007–2008 artists Duncan Whitley and James Wyness took a trip to Seville and made multi-channel recordings of the Holy Week processions there, which involve 58 Catholic brotherhoods plus floats and...
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Jonathan Harvey RIP
Composer Jonathan Harvey has died. Quietly spoken, Harvey was the first British composer to make a lasting impression on a Central European contemporary music scene that was traditionally ignored by...
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Sound recordings of Seville's Holy Week processions published as multimedia PDF
In 2007–2008 artists Duncan Whitley and James Wyness took a trip to Seville and made multi-channel recordings of the Holy Week processions there, which involve 58 Catholic brotherhoods plus floats and...
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