THE Wire literally has been around since the early 1980s and tends to cover more avant-garde and underground music and art. It's a print magazine that is a pretty big deal in the music world over here in the UK and is sold in most record shops and news agents and I know they sell it at Barnes and Nobles stores in America. Simon Reynolds is probably their most prominent full-time writer (he's written several popular and acclaimed books about the post-punk, glam, and 90s rave music scenes) and big names like Brian Eno, Lee Ranaldo, and Robert Fripp have frequently contributed to the magazine in the past.
can you fucking wire marketing people fuck off already
Owen Martin
next time sage you fucking shill
where are the mods?
Joshua Flores
is wire the first Sup Forums mey mey of 2017?
Connor Parker
torrent? where to download for free?
Grayson Taylor
>implying the wire is actually shilling on Sup Forums Have you people really never heard of it before last week?
Lucas Richardson
Wire is literally Marcel-tier
They're no-names
Jayden Baker
why is anyone who posts about the wire a """shill"""?
is the wire too progressive for you Sup Forums types?
Daniel Wright
This. Nobody outside of Sup Forums has ever even heard of them. Hell, only like 5 people in Sup Forums seem to actually read them. They're lower than Marcel. Complete nobodies.
Jason Price
>THE Wire literally has been around since the early 1980s and tends to cover more avant-garde and underground music and art. [citation needed]
>It's a print magazine that is a pretty big deal in the music world over here in the UK and is sold in most record shops and news agents and I know they sell it at Barnes and Nobles stores in America [citation needed]
>Simon Reynolds is probably their most prominent full-time writer (he's written several popular and acclaimed books about the post-punk, glam, and 90s rave music scenes) and big names like Brian Eno, Lee Ranaldo, and Robert Fripp have frequently contributed to the magazine in the past. [citation needed]
>They're bigger than Sup Forums. Hahahaha. I'd be surprised if their readership was above double digits.
Logan Edwards
Because nobody has ever heard of the wire until they started spamming themselves on Sup Forums. Plus they're unabashed white guilt SJW Top 40 rap, pop, and RnB proponents who have never covered real experimental music in their life.
Nathan Torres
There's a 35GB torrent on rutracker with all issues from 1982 to 2016 but no seeders plus I can't read the discussion because it's in Russian. Suspicious. Could be a giant hoax.
Jonathan Hernandez
What could be a giant hoax?
Michael Richardson
The magazine - there is no The Wire! It's a plot of the Russian government to get American teenagers into downloading a nonexistent bibliography that is actually comprised of trojan horses by pretending that there is this unheard of hip music magazine and advertising it on Sup Forums ;^)
I'm on to you!
Nathaniel Adams
Honestly it's got to be fake. No way this shit has been going since the 80s. Now that you mention it, I've never actually seen any of their content except the covers and the 2016 AOTY list. I honestly think this is all some elaborate plot by some autistic guy who made up a fake magazine to shill here and rip people off.
Landon Perez
Believe me, I know a lot of music websites, but I literally never heard of this "magazine" before two weeks ago and the only place it's ever been mentioned is Sup Forums.
And somehow they've supposedly had everyone from Bjork to Thom Yorke to Aphex Twin to Michael Gira "featured" on their covers?
I call bullshit.
Joshua Martin
Downloaded the torrent, it's all empty .pdfs This magazine doesn't exist, abort this thread, don't download the torrent and check your devices for spyware immediately! OP is a Russian spy and wants your nuclear weapons!
Liam Martinez
Srs?
Sebastian Kelly
>Simon Reynolds is probably their most prominent full-time writer I like Rip It Up. Really good book on post-punk.
Jose Peterson
I saw his new glam rock history in an airport book store the other day, but didn't get it since it was $25. Rip it Up is fantastic as is Energy Flash if you're into that sort of thing. Retromania is really fascinating look at the nostalgia epidemic in pop culture in recent years.
Dominic Anderson
>avant-garde and underground music and art. >Blackstar AOTY
Tyler Cruz
This may be the most fucking annoying thing this board has ever gotten its balls stuck on, and that's really fucking saying something.
Zachary Gray
>>Blackstar AOTY Yes, it's a surprisingly and unusually conventional choice, but that doesn't negate the fact that they cover primarily avant-garde and underground music and art in their magazine.
Kevin Gonzalez
this weak as bait
a.k.a: marcel
Henry Barnes
nobody gives a fuck, you've posted this shit like 3 times in like 2 days, i'm considering making it a copypasta.
Lol wow this meme is getting more and more indepth by the sec
you guys are really putting some effort into this one
Jack Allen
I've got Retromania. Haven't read it yet. Seems interesting.
Brandon Harris
I just saw their top 50 list and I take it back, this magazine doesn't exist.
David Hernandez
Yeah, because Sup Forums is fucking retarded and has either never heard of the wire or thinks they're some sort of Top 40 magazine because of that fake list that's been spammed.
>bait
So saying that The Wire is an underground music and art magazine that's existed since the early 80s, spawned important music critics like Simon Reynolds, and featured contributions from Brian Eno, Lee Ranaldo, and Robert Fripp is bait? In what sense?
Robert Lee
t. Marcel
Carson Butler
I honestly don't think it does. It has to be an elaborate ruse. The only existing "evidence" of it is just these supposed "magazine covers" featuring Sup Forumscore artists and their year end list (which is awful btw).
Nathan Smith
Guys I was being serious. Found a lot of Jazz and Micro House shit from them.
Is this a post-meme meme? I'm really confused over everyones reaction to a music publication
Isaiah Ross
I remember watching an interview thing of an artist who kept issues of The Wire in his bathroom because he believes "that's where it belongs."
Sebastian Gutierrez
>Found a lot of Jazz and Micro House shit from them. They only cover Top 40 rap and pop. Nice try.
>I'm really confused over everyones reaction to a music publication Yeah, a "music publication" that nobody has ever heard of outside of Sup Forums, that has never been mentioned on Sup Forums prior to two weeks ago, and has a highly suspect "existence" at best and some horrid taste.
Austin Martin
dude just pls stop roleplaying
its starting to get cringy
Ethan Price
>So saying that The Wire is an underground music and art magazine that's existed since the early 80s, spawned important music critics like Simon Reynolds, and featured contributions from Brian Eno, Lee Ranaldo, and Robert Fripp is bait? In what sense?
Because that's all blatant bullshit.
Jose Martin
> spawned important music critics like Simon Reynolds >not bait lmao
Sup Forums doesn't give a fuck, stop spamming it on this board, there are like 4 threads now and they're by your marketing team, it's see-through as fuck and it's annoying AF.
>spawned important music critics like Simon Reynolds Simon Reynolds is a Pitchfork writer FAGGOT and I doubt Eno or the Sonic Youth are even aware of this glorified blog's existence.
Isaiah Ramirez
Kek. All you have to do is click the link ;) Nice trips Post meme meme confirmed.
Either that or someone formally at the Wire is super mad and taking revenge on an image board
Liam Smith
>Wire literally Merzbow, Boredoms, Gerogerigegege, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brainbombs, Egor Letov, Death in June, Current 93, La Monte Young, Moondog, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Luigi Russolo, Popol Vuh, Fishmans, Jean Jacques Perrey, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Rainbow Caroliner, Taj Mahal Travellers, Fushitsusha, Peter Brötzmann, John Cage, Scott Walker, Unwound, Dead, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nang Nang, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Nara Leão, Basic Channel, Raymond Scott, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Noah Howard, Terry Riley, Peter Sotos, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Boyd Rice, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Flynt, Kazumoto Endo, David Tudor, Aporea, Half Japanese, Mega Banton, Secret Chiefs 3, Keiji Haino, Ramleh, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Robbie Basho, Phil Spector, Faxed Head, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, Fred Frith, The Residents, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Hans Krüsi, Royal Trux, Jandek, Yat-Kha, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Pärson Sound, The Dead C, Comus, Cromagnon, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Doyle, Shizuka, The Red Krayola, Henry Cow, Magma, Opus Avantra, Pan.Thy.Monium., Murmuüre, Ksiezyc, Gong, Cukor Bila Smert', cLOUDDEAD, Muslimgauze and Kaoru Abe, the list goes on: The Magazine
Cameron Wood
>I doubt... the Sonic Youth are even aware of this glorified blog's existence. That is exceedingly unlikely, given that Sonic Youth made it a point to know critics and publications and place the band in close proximity to them.
Jeremiah Barnes
>literally Merzbow, Boredoms, Gerogerigegege, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brainbombs, Egor Letov, Death in June, Current 93, La Monte Young, Moondog, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Luigi Russolo, Popol Vuh, Fishmans, Jean Jacques Perrey, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Rainbow Caroliner, Taj Mahal Travellers, Fushitsusha, Peter Brötzmann, John Cage, Scott Walker, Unwound, Dead, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nang Nang, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Nara Leão, Basic Channel, Raymond Scott, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Noah Howard, Terry Riley, Peter Sotos, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Boyd Rice, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Flynt, Kazumoto Endo, David Tudor, Aporea, Half Japanese, Mega Banton, Secret Chiefs 3, Keiji Haino, Ramleh, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Robbie Basho, Phil Spector, Faxed Head, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, Fred Frith, The Residents, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Hans Krüsi, Royal Trux, Jandek, Yat-Kha, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Pärson Sound, The Dead C, Comus, Cromagnon, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Doyle, Shizuka, The Red Krayola, Henry Cow, Magma, Opus Avantra, Pan.Thy.Monium., Murmuüre, Ksiezyc, Gong, Cukor Bila Smert', cLOUDDEAD, Muslimgauze and Kaoru Abe, the list goes on: The Magazine
Explain:
Carson Martin
>tfw Friendo might be a wire shill
Friendo no!!
Tyler Murphy
Fuck off Friendo. The Wire doesn't even cover the likes of Sonic Youth anyway. Their more Rihanna than Ranaldo if you know what I mean.
lol look how poorly designed and awful looking this website is. it looks like some kid in computer class made it for a project lol this has to be a scam
Luis Bell
The fuck are you people talking about, this magazine DOES NOT EXIST! It's Russian spyware clickbait!
Justin Diaz
So pray tell, "Friendo", red-pill on what "The Wire" actually is.
Jaxson Miller
this looks photoshopped as fuck
it has to be fake
Ryan Kelly
It most likely is.
Jonathan Williams
I don't actively follow any publications because I don't follow contemporary music.
>"magazine" >it's literally a free website with shitty boring ass articles
Dominic Wright
literally looks like someone took a stock image and wrote some hogwash
its a front for damn sure
Jordan Stewart
Yeah, there's no way this is legit. The articles on the website aren't even about the artists on the "covers" and there doesn't even appear to be an actual "magazine" or any current or back issues to read
Eli Perez
"Moscow", eh? Sure seems fishy to me...
Nathan Cooper
Trust me. They've been around forever! I even have a bunch of copies
Jace Smith
> taking the time to photoshop this get a social life user.
Juan Thompson
>ok lets print some blank papers with some nice covers, take a photo of it, and post it when people get suspicious
nice try
Chase Adams
nice try buddy
Jaxon Nguyen
>nobody has ever heard of them before now >but i'm an expert listen to my analysis
Mason Baker
Tell Putin we won't fall for his shit.
Brayden Butler
How much is the wire paying you for doing this?
Angel Anderson
What did they mean by this?
David Moore
christ the shills are spreading
Jose Brooks
Im not lying! Heres another photo with my headphones and a pair of socks for comparison!
Oliver Sullivan
Oh yeah? Are those woolen socks? What size are they? Where did you buy them and when? Do you have any personal stories about them?
Eli Nguyen
>fake pop music magazine that isn't even physically published >/lit/ related
hoo boy
Christian Perry
Those magazines literally could be anything moron. This proves nothing.
Anthony Morris
So? here's a photo of your overlord riding a bear. what was this meant to prove?
Joseph Howard
nice try but you still can't explain the stock photos A+ for effort though
William Cook
literally FUCK the wire
Caleb Allen
those words could be literal gibberish
that's probably why you took those photos from that angle
Jonathan Powell
It's a pretty good show. A little overrated, but a really good show nonetheless.
Ayden Evans
Maybe if you had a certain body part in the shot as well.
How can this be explained if it's "not a real magazine?"
Jeremiah Ross
Anyone can make a wikipedia page
Jackson Ramirez
Russians are ruthless, they are communists and know a thing or two about fiddling with "public" dictionaries.
Dominic Evans
Do you know how Wikipedia works? You literally just need links that are not directly from the subject. If you actually read the sources, they're pretty to be honest. I may open a Wiki account just to try and delete the page to show the lack of notability.