1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

AND a whole lot of your favourite music journalism.

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7) The Wire 400 26 page supplement (Issue 400, June 2017)

6) The Wire 300 online essays series (Issue 300, Feb 2009)

4) 100 records that set the world on fire (while no one was listening) (Issue 175, September 1998)

3) 150 sonic essentials and aural obscurities (Issue 150, August 1996)

2) 100 most important records ever made (Issue 100, June 1992)

Next week, The Wire will publish its 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th issue, which feels like something worth celebrating. By way of reflection, we've taken a look back through the archive at our previous milestones. 1) 50 Undersung Musicians (Issue 50, April 1988)

FFS British Vogue, not again

Why articles explaining why Britpop nostalgia just won’t go away just won't go away.

The Wire's very own Joseph Stannard @jjstannard.bsky.social will be in conversation with Slomo and Stephen O'Malley on 1st Sept 👇

Ilia is also down at a tremendous looking @cafeotodalston.bsky.social evening tonight, with their new Mute Frequencies project exploring sewing machines, Specialist Machines. Who is not fascinated by sewing machines? www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/proje...

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There are no AI bands with a large and engaged listenership. That black mirror nonsense is not happening, at all, anywhere. Each time one of these prompt-generated music projects is in the press because it's doing meaningful numbers, it's just a stream-fraud ring stealing income from the pool.

Some sonic soup for the soul

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slacker and metropolitan, we watch them every new year's eve

And I suggest that the United States should seize and nationalize Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink. We can both make suggestions!

The Wire 494 is out now! Our brand new issue features Raven Chacon on the cover + Ingrid Laubrock, Bastard Assignments, Infinity Knives, Cleaners From Venus, Jeff Mills' Invisible Jukebox, Lukas De Clerck, Penelope Trappes, Ciaran Mackle & much, much more. www.thewire.co.uk/issues/494

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, join @jjstannard.bsky.social on The Wire’s weekly radio show for a superlative sonic selection featuring tracks from Klein (pictured), Knives, Dead Pioneers, Zoë Mc Pherson, and more Listen from 9pm GMT. extra.resonance.fm Photo: Joyce NG

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mappa tonight at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social

David Lynch (20 January 1946–16 January 2025) The US filmmaker has died aged 78. As a tribute, we have made the extended cover feature that appeared in The Wire 486 - for which Lynch also designed the cover - free to read in our online library. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...

thanks to @anniezaleski.bsky.social for this one!

Hilda couldn't wait to open her present, we found her like this this morning after she'd raided the tree overnight:

Christmas is coming so here's a Christmas Tree Godzilla

🎧 No matter how you feel about Christmas as a holiday, there’s no disputing how Bruce Haack feels about it. He liked it, and he celebrated with this epic lo-fi vocoder-analog-electro jam. Bring the whole family together. #musicsky #holidaymusic youtu.be/GmQhpDvwWew?...

Anyway, the party scene featured a performance from what appeared to be a genuine but uncredited psych band. We've got websites about film locations, how about a site that identifies any musician or group who turns up in a film, acting or not? Get busy, someone.

Here's the inside dirt on the Wire's charts & how the sausage is made...lots of good recs in here worth a listen even if they didn't make the top 50, check it out...

Tonight on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra, join The Wire’s Joseph Stannard for a festive cornucopia of sonic delicacies including tracks by Kate Bush (pictured), The Unthanks, The High Llamas, and more. Tune in tonight from 9pm GMT extra.resonance.fm/series/the-w...

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