Inside The Wire 336 | February 2012
Lil B over the Bay Bridge by Jason Fulford
The Masthead 4
Letters 6
Bitstream 8 News and more from under the radar
Trip Or Squeek 9 Cartoon strip by Savage Pencil
Bites 10 Masaki Batoh, Ian Nagoski, I Burn For You, Listen, Whitey!, Suzanne Ciani, plus Unofficial Channels
2011 Rewind + 16 An alternative Releases of the Year chart culled from the votes of The Wire’s subscribers
Charts 52
Out There 89 Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings
Subscriptions 96
Below The Radar + The Wire Tapper 97 Free downloads and CDs
Reviews Index 53
Soundcheck 54 This month’s selected CDs, vinyl and downloads, including Earth, Marcus Schmickler and Karen Dalton. Plus specialist columns, unusual formats and reissues
The Inner Sleeve 75 Jeremy Deller on The KLF’s “Last Train To Trancentral” video
Print Run 76 New music books: a new conception of Infinite Music, South African jazz women, and a Source magazine compendium
On Screen 78 Films & DVDs: Kevin Coyne live; Peter Vogel’s The Sound Of Shadows
On Site 79 Exhibitions, installations, etc: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard in London; a Sound Art Theories Symposium in Chicago
On Location 80 Festival and concert reviews: Caroline Kraabel, Balam Acab, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO, AraabMuzik, Mika Vainio, Annie Gosfield and more
Collateral Damage 18 We’re too quick to assume digital culture only equals online culture, argues Terre Thaemlitz
Global Ear Delhi – Jaipur 20 Dave Stelfox follows the peripatetic brass bands blasting mutated wedding music around North India
Cross Platform Ian Helliwell 22 The Brighton boffin celebrates electronica’s hobbyist years in a new documentary. By Joanne Lee
Los Llamarada 24 Byron Coley mourns the demise of a heroic, Mexican avant rock outfit, victims of social decline
Ital 25 Part-time Sex Worker Daniel Martin-McCormick channels YouTube effluent into the rickety House structures of his latest project. By Robin Howells
Invisible Jukebox Charles Hayward 26 The avantist drummer of This Heat, Massacre, About Group and more drops a beat with The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Mike Barnes
Keith Fullerton Whitman 30 Derek Walmsley hears tales of modular madness, computer geniuses and pinball wizardry from the New England composer/archivist
ICES Festival 36 In 1972, maverick impresario Harvey Matusow staged a carnival of experimental music and art in London that’s never been surpassed. Story by Julian Cowley
Lil B 44 Lisa Blanning travels to San Francisco for an audience with the Based God, who’s subverting hiphop with complex notions of sexuality and race
Epiphanies 98 A Barbara Hepworth sculpture connects the dots between meditation and folk protest for Linder
