THE WIRE 507 SUN O))) by The Wire
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Sunn O))): The robed pair get lost in the woods of the Pacific Northwest for their new album. By Rob Turner
Delphine Dora: The French multi-instrumentalist fuses made up language and spiritual texts in her metaphysical music. By Miloš Hroch
Jair-Rohm Parker Wells: The bassist and composer channels the vibrations of ECM into his low end explorations. By Phil Freeman
The Sleeves: Guitarists Tara Cunningham and Jack Cooper take a scalpel to indie pop. By Lucy Thraves
Brion Gysin: Collaborator Ramuntcho Matta reflects on the artist’s freshly reissued Dreamachine album. By Daniel Spicer
Invisible Jukebox: Irmin Schmidt: Will the Can founder doo right by The Wire’s mystery record selection? Tested by Leah Kardos
Regan Bowering: Under the drumskin. By Derek Walmsley
Holy Sun Opera House: Sounding the corridors of the unconscious. By Stephanie Phillips
Global Ear: Battle of the bells in Moretonhampstead, Devon. By Clive Bell
Unlimited Editions: Outernational sounds by way of Brighton’s Hive Mind label. By Daniel Spicer
The Inner Sleeve: MIC on Black Sheep Wall’s I’m Going To Kill Myself
Against The Grain: Deborah Nash on the transportive power of the jukebox
Epiphanies: Young Adam Bohman’s pocket money opens up a world of improvised music
Soundcheck: Asteroid Ekosystem; Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou; BEAM SPLITTER; Rachel Beetz; The Black Warhols; Blood Sucking Maniacs; Nicolas Collins & Birgit Ulher; dälek; Dark Sky Burial; Darsombra; Earth x Black Noi$e; Egg Meat; Wendy Eisenberg; Shane Embury & Null Assembly; JK Flesh/Monrella; Carla dal Forno; Tyler Friedman; Kristen Gallerneaux; Gnod; Gong; Gush; Simon Hanes; Harriet Tubman & Georgia Anne Muldrow; HYPER GAL; Irreversible Entanglements; Jarboe; Knats; Anastasia Kristensen; Last Scene Alive; Daniel Lopatin; Mayhem; Matilde Meireles; Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns; Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D Oberland; Mr Vast; My New Band Believe; Alex Paxton; Devon Rexi meets John T Gast; Roman Rofalski; Speedy J; Squarepusher; Sunn O))); Swell Maps; Birgit Ulher & Jaap Blonk; Venom; Zosha Warpeha; Tomos Williams; Various When There Is No Sun: Intergalactic Music Is Of The Outer Darkness
The Boomerang: Bibiotheca Hermetica; The Brides Of Funkenstein; Darkthrone; Fugazi; Julius Hemphill; Huggy Bear; Musica Transonic + Mainliner; Nausea; Nean; Ohkami No Jikan; Hans Reichel; Rotting Telepathies; Marnie Weber; Various Changing My Scene: Art, Music & The Beatles From Stockhausen To The Goons; Various Eternal Journey: The Arrangements & Productions Of Charles Stepney
The Columns: Avant Rock by Edwin Pouncey; Critical Beats by Yewande Adeniran; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Emily Bick; Jazz & Improv by Bill Meyer; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley
Print Run: Space Age Batchelor Pad Music: The Story Of Stereolab In 20 Songs by Ben Cardew; BLAST: Distorted Memories – From Einstürzende Neubauten To Symphonic Drone by Alexander Hacke; Love Magic Power Danger Bliss: Yoko Ono And The Avant-Garde Diaspora by Paul Morley; Drawings, Collages, Paintings by Adam Bohman; I Hear Freedom: The Great Migration, Free Jazz, And Black Power by Cisco Bradley
On Screen: Aaron Brookner & Rodigo Areias Nova 78; Jack Archer Salim Nan Daoine (Psalms Of The People)
On Location: Borealis, Bergen, Norway; Frequency Festival 2026, Chicago, US; Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Outline, New York, US; bAdBLUEbirdz + Waltz Time, Shenzhen, China; Guy Klucevsek Memorial Concert, New York, US; MENT, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Theodora Laird/Charles Hayward/Caius Williams + Tom Malmendier/Emilie Škrijelj + Theo Guttenplan/Ute Kanngiesser, London, UK; Tom Malmendier + Emilie Škrijelj + Colin Webster + Caius Williams, London, UK; GLARCIVERSARY, Glasgow/London, UK; Mihály Vig + Balaton, London, UK; Adam O’Farrill’s ELEPHANT, London, UK
On Site: The Art Of Noise, New York, US; Christine Kozlov Conceptual Art And Christine Kozlov, London, UK
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Title
The Wire 507, Sun O))), May 2026
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Publisher
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Dimensions
210 x 297mm
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Format
Softcover
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Year
2026
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