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#324 February 2011
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WIRE 324 WIRE 324
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1/24/2011

"On the cover of this month's issue: Deerhoof (Now in their 16th year, the mercurial rockers have shapeshifted into a disciplined global mobile unit). Features: Captain Beefheart (Strictly personal tributes, including a comic strip by Savage Pencil, a poem by Byron Coley and some insider Magic Band knowledge from Gary Lucas); Vanessa Rossetto (The Texas based artist tells Nick Cain about composing and improvising with quotidian sounds); Tri-Angle Records (Derek Walmsley bags a rare interview with the man behind the London spectral pop label); Global Ear: Stockholm (The Swedish capital's new Audiorama is the latest in a long line of electronic live spaces); Invisible Jukebox: Hype Williams (Inga Copeland and Dean Blunt stop being polite and 'get reel' with The Wire's mystery record selection); Matthew Shipp (How the broadminded New York pianist peeled away from the jazz fleet to sail in the open waters of Thirsty Ear's Blue Series); Epiphanies: Salomé Voegelin kneels in the presence of Morton Feldman's contemplative masterpiece Rothko Chapel."