wire: april 2019

The Wire Tapper 49 -- attached to the cover of every copy of the April issue will be a CD of the latest in our ongoing series of underground music anthologies, featuring 20 new tracks by Efdemin, Ricardo Donoso, Paper Dollhouse, Qasim Naqvi, Milena Glowacka, Anthony Laguerre, and more. Meanwhile, on the cover of the issue: The Great Learning -- a special extended feature on the educators, institutions, schools, and scenes that underpin music in the 21st century. From the great teachers of US free music to bandleading tyrants Captain Beefheart and James Brown, from traditional oral music cultures to the current explosion in hands-on music workshops, from mystic mentor GI Gurdjieff to the school of hard knocks in the New Zealand underground rock scene, this multi-essay feature will include contributions from critics, musicians, and practitioners chronicling the lessons learned by musician of all stripes.