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Wire is a band that has achieved a kind of cachet or mystique with a moniker prone to be dropped into conversation about relevant music at all your most tomorrow-leaning parties.

Toronto's The Two Koreas have drawn a lot of comparisons to The Fall, so it was personally fortuitous that they were chosen to open for British veterans Wire at Lee's. I've only seen The Fall once a ' on the ...

NEWMAN, LEWIS & GREY: "That full-on rock thing from the early part of this decade, I'm not feeling that anymore at all.

Wire begin their first North American tour in over five years in Montreal, Sunday October 5th and spend two weeks in Canada and the USA.

WIRE PLAY LEE'S PALACE TUESDAY, OCT 7 WITH THE TWO KOREAS . $22.50 FROM TICKETMASTER, ROTATE THIS, SOUNDSCAPES.

He is top dog. From my listen to this, it seems like this record does not have many of the immediate in your face exploders that filled "Friend Opportunity" like "The Perfect Me," "+81," etc.

"Are you Ottawans?" Colin Newman asks as he contemplates his band Wire's first visit to our fair city -- a visit for which some locals have been waiting for more than 30 years.

The upcoming edition of MIDEM will once again stage the MIDEM Talent initiative, designed to present to industry professionals and the wider public around 20 groups and artists from all over the world with ...

If Wire had been more easily understood, the British band probably wouldn't have been so influential for so many fringe artists.

The name Bebo Norman is no stranger to singer/songwriter circles, though after a lengthy career on Essential Records, he makes an official studio debut on BEC Recordings with a self-titled release.

Warner Bros. Records in partnership with Doghouse is pleased to announce the signing of electro-pop singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist LIGHTS to its roster and will release a CD of the Toronto-based ...

" Future Calling, " the title of the debut single by Naples, Florida based alt pop rock powerhouse Phoenix Block , continues to prove joyfully prophetic.

In March 2006 something momentous happened, at least in the collective consciousness of Generation Y. That month, a new show launched about a young girl who leads a secret double life as a famous pop-rock star.

For music fans, fall is exciting for two reasons: The concert scene moves back indoors to clubs, theaters and arenas - where the sound and surroundings are always preferable to those at outdoor sheds and big ...

U.K. postpunk band Wire always seemed to view their contemporaries in the 1970s music scene with an air of disdain, and while all around we are now treated to the unedifying spectacle of old heroes re-forming ...

Human Highway Moody Motorcycle Secret City Collaborations can be liberating, offering artists the opportunity to explore a more whimsical side of their muse.

MILEY CYRUS, "Breakout" Robert Hazard's about to get a lot richer. That's thanks to Miley Cyrus, the Disney tween money-printing princess who, on her second album under her own name, has recorded the ...

Reviewed by Sean O'Neal July 29th, 2008 "One Of Us" by Wire Calling anything a "return to form" by Wire would be ignoring that the band has no form - its career has been dedicated to reinvention, moving from ...

It's a shame that the era of homemade mixtapes is already behind us. "Post Flag" would have gone down well with the budding compilers of this world, sweating over their cassette decks as they searched for a ...

SANDY KASTEL: It's No Joke: Las Vegas Based Recording Artist's Live Performance Video "Slow Burn" is the Latest MySpace Sensation LOS ANGELES - Over the past few months, thousands of people have been surfing ...