Inside The Wire 507: Brion Gysin
The Beat-adjacent conceptualist's collaborator Ramuntcho Matta discusses Gysin's immense impact on literature, music, cut-ups and collages, as revealed in a Paris exhibition
By Daniel Spicer
www.thewire.co.uk/issues/507
This strategy—using fake AI profiles to boost political causes—was tested during the 2022 recalls in San Francisco.
We called them the "Wencils" and they disappeared after being mapped and exposed. And now:
Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...
I love that the Artoffact label sends out Bandcamp messages celebrating the birthdays of their artists. Sweet.
Something about online really incentivizes you to call out other people's houses for being messy and disincentivizes looking at your own
Delightful isn’t it?
When I was a kid I got a tape recorder one Christmas, me and my brother used to leave it recording in empty rooms then closely listened back to the tapes, ears straining through mono tape hiss and council house room tone hoping to find evidence of supernatural activity
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The Wire fue el referente para que en 1984 un grupo de periodistas de Barcelona creara Rockdelux, que se convertiría en probablemente la mejor revista de música independiente del mundo hispanohablante.
Casi nada.
There’s a similarly expanded cassette version of Perhaps, which features the superior extended remix of “Those First Impressions” among other bits and pieces.
Nice to hear more about the Rogue Trooper film but I’d be more excited for a Bad Company adaptation.
Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of experimental music for over 40 years; here are some examples of his visual art.
www.thewire.co.uk/galleries/ga...
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Prog 484
Artist, Brett Ewins use of light and shadowing here is sublime. This might be one of my favourite ever prog covers yet!
Kevin O'Neill
By way of illustration…
New Franck Vigroux! One of my favourite electronic musicians along with Calsutmoran, Vern Avola (Trigger Object) and Eve Maret.
Orange 🍊 (Yeahhh that’s right)
Fading through 🌞
I experience a strong positive response to buildings of this shape. Truly delightful.
Jerkin’ it to John Wyndham. Call it Kraken one off.
What up kids, I’m looksmogging over here! Um… skididdle toilet? Say less! Sigma and so forth.
Another favorite part of Pulp Fiction was Pete Hegseth getting shot on a toilet by Bruce Willis.
Muggs is one of the nicest musicians I’ve ever interviewed. A generous spirit.
I'm sharing my 14 years of inexpertise, including the perils of oversharing in print, at a writers workshop in Hastings on 9th May - tickets here: share.google/uKi6gKIbgoFI...
MUNDAE MUNDAE MUNDAE
STEVENS STEVENS STEVENS
GALLNER GALLNER GALLNER
Decent metal lyricist too 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
