The Wire #511

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210 x 296 mm, 100 pages London, UK Monthly Published since 1982 Publisher: Tony Herrington Editor: Emily Bick Art direction: Sean Charlton & Oliver Long ‘Adventures in sound and mu sic’ A must for any underground music fan, The Wire reports on alternative, underground and non-mainstream music, ‘waging war on the mundane and the mediocre.’ Issue #511 is an inadvertent ode to Blackpool, host to The White Hotel’s ‘The Black Lights Festival’ earlier this summer, which attracted a new cohort of underground music fans to the seaside town. Space Afrika are the cover feature this issue, interviewed inside about their early and pioneering contributions to the UK’s hardcore lineage, as well as their recent multi-sound collaborations with the likes of Cobey Sey, Mica Levi and LA Timpa. Also inside: composer Nuno Canavarro, underground icon Jennifer Herrema, and duo Conflux Coldwell. thewire.co.uk Show more