{"product_id":"wire-magazine-issue-512-october-2026-mike-watt","title":"Wire Magazine Issue 512 (October 2026) Mike Watt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWire Magazine Issue 511 (September 2026) Space Afrika\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMike Watt: From Minutemen to fIREHOSE, the San Pedro bass man has charted an unclassifiable career through the heart of US punk and improv scenes. By Alan Licht\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMike Watt Eight Pack: Eight places to start with the bassist’s back catalogue. By Byron Coley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Primer: Aphex Twin: A user’s guide to the music of the shapeshifting, mercurial mainstay of the UK electronic underground. By Derek Walmsley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou and Me Festival: The Beijing free festival offers a place for experimental performance in the shadow of the connected society. By Drew Daniel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKaja Draksler: The Slovenian pianist’s chafing against jazz orthodoxy leads to thrilling innovations. By Peter Margasak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvisible Jukebox: Pamela Z: Will the US vocalist and composer breeze to the end of The Wire’s mystery record selection? Tested by Marc Weidenbaum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTruck Violence: Montreal four-piece drive masculinity in new directions. By Miloš Hroch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinn Loxbo: The Swedish guitarist’s fingerpicking figures. By Stewart Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGlobal Ear: New music by the lake at Slovenia’s Bled Contemporary Music Week. By Keith Potter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnlimited Editions: Belgium’s Aspen Edities’ unique brand of Northern European pastoralism. By Peter Margasak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Inner Sleeve: Yuko Mohri on Yuming’s Pearl Pierce\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst The Grain: Listening in the shadow of Palantir. By Stephen Roddy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecret History of Film Music: Philip Brophy’s column returns to the pages of The Wire appraising Jon Brion’s work for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and more\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEpiphanies: Corey Mwamba on threading his vibraphone with washing line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoundcheck: Olivier Alary; Dewa Alit \u0026amp; Gamelan Salukat; Oren Ambarchi; Siavash Amini \u0026amp; Eugene Thacker; Arca; King Ayisoba; Angelo Badalamenti; Ka Baird \u0026amp; Chris Ryan Williams; Belbury Poly; Bhajan Bhoy; Black Bananas; Adam Bohman\/Danny Kamins\/Adrian Northover; Adam Bohman\/Sue Lynch\/Crystabel Efemena Riley; Laura Cannell; Cities Aviv; Cold Light; Ned Collette; Faith Coloccia \u0026amp; Tashi Dorji; Loren Connors \u0026amp; David Grubbs; Alison Cotton; Cyst; Sarah Davachi; Dream_Mega; Eartheater; Eldritch Priest; Barbara Ellison; Lawrence English; Alexander Hawkins; Haruomi Hosono; Immersion; Hans P Kjorstad; Locust; John McCowen; Stephen O’Malley; Alexander Ortolan; Francisco Mela; Jowie Omicil \u0026amp; Francisco Mela; OSEES; Matthew Putman\/Hill Greene\/Francisco Mela; Raymond Roussel; Rhins; Crystabel Efemena Riley; Yvonne Rogers; Paul Rooney; Rosso Polare; Ryuichi Sakamoto \u0026amp; Alva Noto; Charanjit Singh; SML; Squanderers; A Tomb Full Of Stars; Topdown Dialectic; Ben Townsend; Windy \u0026amp; Carl Optigan Conservatory; Alicia Witt; Matthew Wright; Xiu Xiu; Rafael Zaldivar; Various, The Travel Agency Is On Fire; Various, Veneration For The Sacred Action\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Columns: Avant Rock by Antonio Poscic; Dub \u0026amp; Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Emily Bick; Global by Francis Gooding; Hiphop \u0026amp; R\u0026amp;B by Tim Fish; Jazz \u0026amp; Improv by Bill Meyer; Noise, Industrial \u0026amp; Beyond by Emily Pothast; Size Matters by Byron Coley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoomerang: Can; Coil; Funkadelic; Gas; Gentle Fire; Hallucinator; Joe Harriott Quintet; Ton de Leeuw; Negro Leo; Mad Professor; MLO; Monolake; Mos Def; Portion Control; Steve Reich; Alan Skidmore Quintet; Larry Stabbins; John Tilbury; Various, Melodies International Presents Ariwa Sounds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrint Run: We Were Here: A History Of Black People In Alternative Music by Stephanie Phillips; Where Shit Happened: The Paper Trail To Speak In Tongues edited by John Delzoppo; The Sounds Of Lost Futures: British Musical Hauntology by Jamie Sexton; Do What You Fear Most: The History Of The Velvet Underground by Richie Unterberger; Conversation Avec Edgard Varèse by Gunther Schuller; Building A Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin by Zeynep Bulut\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Screen: Alice Coltrane: Eternity’s Pillar; Grant Gee, Everybody Digs Bill Evans\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Location: Jazz Em Agosto, Lisbon, Portugal; Music We’d Like To Hear, London, UK; Heroines Of Sound, Berlin, Germany; Darius Jones \u0026amp; Otomo Yoshihide Quintet, London, UK; Sunn O))), Leeds, UK; Disappearing Images, London, UK; Klang Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark; No Fun: New Perspectives, New York, US; Jazzwerkstatt Peltz, Peltz, Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Site: Nomenclature For The Time Being, London, UK; Elisa Giardina Papa, She Flickered In And Out Of History, London, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCheckout \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thewire.co.uk\/home\/\" title=\"The Wire Magazine\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/a\u003e website...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Periodicals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67904760840326,"sku":"wire-512","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0088\/2959\/9806\/files\/wire-512.jpg?v=1793991106","url":"https:\/\/www.parasolrecords.com\/products\/wire-magazine-issue-512-october-2026-mike-watt","provider":"Parasol Mail Order","version":"1.0","type":"link"}