Here playing the bleakest Scott Walker I can find

Bring in the heatwave this evening with some cool, sweet sonic scoops 🍦

The Wire 507 is out now! Featuring Sunn O))) on the cover in special Savage Pencil black and white editions, plus Delphine Dora, The Sleeves, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, Brion Gysin, Irmin Schmidt’s Invisible Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra which was hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social and featured tracks by Tara Clerkin Trio, Wendy Eisenberg, Carlos Giffoni, Zeal Minus and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing new music by The Sleeves, Wendy Eisenberg, LINTD (pictured), KADAPAT & Nova Ruth and many more. Tune in from 9pm GMT: extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 by Omar Baala

This evening on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social plays music by Dälek, Kavari (pictured), Yellow Swans, Jessica Williams, RP Boo, Caius Williams and Tara Cunningham, and many more. Tune in from 9pm GMT extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 by Spit Turner

This year I've noticed high fashion piggybacking on experimental cultures that are much more precarious and amorphous than it. Is this new? What effect does it have? Is it even a problem? Attempted to answer these questions in this short end-of-year essay for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

Listen back to last Thursday's edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show, which was hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social and included music by Ivor Cutler, Teoniki Rożynek, TAAHLIAH, Kalia Vandever, Marianne Faithfull, and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Lucy Thraves hosts Adventures In Sound and Music, playing tracks by Ivor Cutler, Meredith Monk (pictured), TAAHLIAH, Kalia Vandever, Marianne Faithfull, and more. Tune in from 9pm GMT: extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 by Amber Mahoney

Chatted to claire rousay for this month's Wire cover. We spoke about sobriety, San Antonio, field recordings, atonement, William Basinski’s clothes, living in cities, the confessional mode, self sacrifice & much besides. Her new album a little death comes out end of Oct. www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

The Wire 501. Out tomorrow. On newsstands from Thursday.

end-of-summer shoe

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Adventures In Sound And Music returns after its summer break, with @lucythraves.bsky.social playing music by Ornette Coleman Trio, Weston Olencki, feeo, Valentina Magaletti & YPY & many more. Tune in from 9pm GMT+1 extra.resonance.fm/schedule

Still find it surreal that I get to contribute to the life of this miraculous publication. To be soppy and grandiose about it (what else are milestones for?), it's changing my life, which is kind of what it does, if you let it.

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This is both correct, and not radical enough: we should ban 99% of all privately-owned cars from inner cities. Blue badge holders, emergency services, finite number of permits for commercial deliveries, buses, bikes, and that’s it. No able-bodied person in Zone 1 actually needs a Land Rover, sorry.

I hear rumours that 2035 is going to beat both of them!

Devastated at the news about JD Twitch. Keith has been a constant in our lives and all those who love music. Sending love to his family and Jonnie❤️ @optimo-espacio.bsky.social

I reviewed a new book about land access by a writer purporting to be a neutral observer to that debate. It turns out, that's a lie.

Some sonic soup for the soul

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing music by DJ Marcelle, Mark Stewart (pictured), Larry Stabbins & Mark Sanders, B Abbas & R Abou-Rahme & more. Tune in from 9pm GMT+1 extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Leon Chew

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This 1990s anime’s ability to capture the mood of America 2025 is uncanny

Desiring truth Virginia Woolf, ‘Monday or Tuesday’

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Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing new and recent releases by Goldie (pictured), Quade, Donna Candy, OHYUNG, aya, and many more. Tune in from 9pm GMT: extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 by Gus Coral

I'll be talking to Toby Manning about his Marxist history of pop this Wednesday in Walthamstow.

Interviewed Infinity Knives for the issue of The Wire. Life is tough; smoking a cig (backwards) helps

i feel like the only person who could possibly get close to making sense of sinkholes - aesthetically, narratively, even scientifically - is M John Harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A beauty ❤️

Listen back to last night's edition of Adventures In Sound And Music, hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social. The episode featured music by Circuit Des Yeux, Infinity Knives, John Wall, Annette Peacock, Lonnie Holley, Lucrecia Dalt and more. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

On the radio this eve playing some of my favourite new music and indulging some (late, but no less sincere) David Lynch tribute-mongering

‘The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be carried along by her flow, to circle in the eddies of her experience.’ @frasermacdonald.bsky.social on growing up in Nan Shepherd’s village: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Neil Kulkarni left us a year ago. He ripped through the music press like a benevolent hurricane, laid waste to monumental mediocrities but never punched down. He was fired by a raging sense of inclusivity, the belief that things could, should be so much radically better for everyone. Sorely missed.

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Inside The Wire 491/492: Bridget Hayden The Todmorden based musician and sometime Vibracathedral Orchestra member surrenders to the ghostly pull of melancholic folk Read the interview with @lucythraves.bsky.social in our latest issue: www.thewire.co.uk/shop/back-is...

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Little Black Egg (in other worlds Yo La Tengo) at Cafe OTO this evening. Get in!

Had a great time seeing @theclientele.bsky.social this eve, poets of the pain and glory of urban solitude

Some stuff I've been playing recently

Tonight on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra, Lucy Thraves presents The Wire's weekly radio show Adventures In Sound And Music, playing music by YATTA (pictured), Richard Dawson, Gong Gong Gong 工工工 & Mong Tong, Terry Riley, Sun Araw, and more. Listen from 9pm: resonancefm.com Photo by Louie Perea

Fantastic to see The WIRE now on bluesky @thewiremagazine.bsky.social This mag has been giving small artists/labels the true royal treatment for ages. Deathbomb owes so much to them. Here are just a few of the in depth pieces they're published on DBA acts that no other publication ever would.