wire: november 2020

The Wire Tapper 54 -- attached to the cover of every copy of the November issue will be a CD of the latest in our ongoing series of underground music anthologies, featuring 16 new and archival tracks by Qasim Naqvi, Legowelt, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Meridian Brothers, Byron The Aquarius, Thabang Tabane, Eugene Ughetti, Sophia Loizou, and more. Meanwhile, inside the issue, William Basinski talks to Dan Barrow about his new tape loop opus Lamentations and playing saxophone with Henry Grimes; Gudrun Gut and Thomas Fehlmann, the first couple of Berlin electronica, test each other's mettle in the Invisible Jukebox; Mosi Reeves meets underground hiphop heroes Homeboy Sandman, Quelle Chris and Aesop Rock; and more.