wire: april 2015

On the cover: Holly Herndon (The US sound artist and laptop auteur spreads the faith of the liberating potential of technology); The Wire Tapper 37: The latest volume in our series of experimental and underground music compilations is given away free with every copy of the new issue. Invisible Jukebox: Lightning Bolt (Rhode Island's day-glo noise cadets cop a load of The Wire's mystery record selection); The Primer: Moondog (A user's guide to the music of the maverick composer who reconciled Baroque rounds with Native American rhythms); Brighton Noise Poets (A wave of outsider poets and musicians is threatening to breach the UK's coastal defenses with their DIY mixes of spoken word, broken noise and radical politics); Liturgy (Heavy overload); Model 500 (The future returns); John Wiese (New noise mutations); Global Ear: The Hague.