Wire
Red Barked Tree

There’s a peculiar emphasis in the press release that accompanies Wire’s new album: This record was written and recorded “with no guests”. Is this def...

I don’t put too much credence to the notion that a band should stop putting out music after their prime to avoid tarnishing their legacy. Most of the ...

The veteran British art-punk band’s 12th album is one of their strongest latter-day recordings, which finds them continuing to take their chilly, cere...

In the late 70s Wire delivered a trifecta of classic post-punk, minimalist and arty albums - Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154 - then called it a day....

There will always be something tantalizing about the three-piece band that sparked a million basement musicians to play more feverishly. Responsible f...

“Fuck off out of my face! You take up too much space!” snarls Wire’s Colin Newman on ‘Please Take’, the opening cut from the band’s 12th studio album....

This is going to look gimmicky, so apologies in advance. But I reckon it’s at least a bit worthwhile… An interesting way of approaching Red Barked Tre...

Outside of open hostilities, there’s something to be said for taking a hiatus instead of outright breaking up forever. Post-punk founders Wire have co...

Despite fear-mongering from the messageboard Taliban, and some irate letter-writing from pearl-clutching oldies, Red Barked Tree is a Wire album, thro...

For the most part, the bands that came from the punk explosion of the 70s fell into one of three categories as the decades passed. The most common was...