"There are those who say Wire was the best punk band ever because it broke all of the rules, didn't stick with any of the blueprints and did actually what it wanted," Colin Newman told Rolling Stone ...

The post Wire Announce New Album 10:20, North American Tour appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Wire rang in the new year with their 17th (!) studio effort, Mind Hive. There’s plenty more to come ...

The ever-evolving Wire offer up radically transformed versions of older material; despite dating from two distinct periods of the band, it holds together as its own entity. When Wire plays live there ...

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Perhaps the most telling song about Wire’s state of mind is the opening cut, “Be Like Them,” on which Newman describes scenes of hopelessness (“tearing skeletons into piles of bones”) and feeling a ...

Are you ready for the summer? it’s here, officially, and we’ve got a big week of releases, including new albums from Hollie Cook, Real Estate frontman Martin Courtney, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, ...

The following is a verbatim transcript of the thoughts of yours truly not long after embarking on a search to find this week's cannon fodder for this column: "Uh, OK. Let's see. There really just ...

If you're reading this, there is a large chance that you've heard the music of The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. I am going to pretend you haven't listened to them, and will focus on the ...