Wire
Wire emerged out of the British punk explosion but, from the outset, maintained a distance from that scene and resisted easy categorization. While punk rapidly became a caricature of itself, Wire's musical identity -- focused on experimentation and process -- was constantly metamorphosing. Their first three albums alone attest to a startling evolution as the band repeatedly reinvented itself between 1977 and 1979. That capacity for self-reinvention, coupled with a willingness to stop recording indefinitely when ideas weren't forthcoming, has been crucial to Wire's ...[more]
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This is a 9" x 27" poster for the October 17 Wire show at the First Avenue Main Room. It is hand-signed and numbered in an edition of 134. Designed by Daniel Luedtke.
Poster $29.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Includes a bonus 12-inch featuring all four tracks from the Read and Burn 03 EP. In the five years since the May 2003 release of their last full-length album, Send, Wire has expounded, reviewed, contracted, lain dormant, recovered, expanded, and shed an old skin and grown a new one. Wire is not the same as it was before-- but then Wire is never the same as it was before. Object 47 (the 47th object in their discography) is nonetheless only Wire's eleventh studio album. It is the s [ read more ]
LP+12" $16.99
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In the five years since the May 2003 release of their last full-length album, Send, Wire has expounded, reviewed, contracted, lain dormant, recovered, expanded, and shed an old skin and grown a new one. Wire is not the same as it was before-- but then Wire is never the same as it was before. Object 47 (the 47th object in their discography) is nonetheless only Wire's eleventh studio album. It is the second product of an arc of work that began in 2006 and has so far yielded the rather well-recei [ read more ]
CD $17.99
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Read & Burn 03 is the first Wire release featuring entirely new material since 2003's Send. This 26-minute mini-album signals the stage-by-stage re-activation of the legendary and influential band as a recording and live entity. Read & Burn is the R&D series representing the state of Wire's art right now. Wire continues to evolve and offers here the fresh fruits of its latest development. It should be noted that tracks from Read & Burn 03 will not be included on the next album-- [ read more ]
CD $10.99
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VINYL FORMAT. 180 GRAM VINYL! REISSUE. Originally released on Harvest in 1977, Pink Flag is perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk. Exhibiting severe art school damage, Wire careens at breakneck speed through 21 songs in 36 minutes to create an album that has influenced bands for nearly thirty years. Original artwork. 180 gram audiophile vinyl.
LP $18.99
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VINYL FORMAT. 180 GRAM VINYL! REISSUE. With its Eno-esque synth textures, Chairs Missing has been often cited as the evolutionary link between punk and post-punk. In general, the lyrics are darker than those on Pink Flag, even morbid at times; images of cold, drowning, pain, and suicide haunt the record, and the title itself is a reference to mental instability. Originally released in 1978 and now available for the first time on 180 gram audiophile vinyl. Original artwork.
LP $17.99
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VINYL FORMAT. 180 GRAM VINYL! REISSUE. If Chairs Missing is the transition album from punk to post-punk, 154 is definitely of the latter genre. Synth moves to the forefront on this 1979 third album from Wire along with melodies that help humanize the electronic textures. Named for the number of gigs the band had played to that point, 154 shows how far this band had come in three years over three albums. Original artwork. First time on 180 gram audiophile vinyl.
LP $18.99
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Very few deliberate live recordings of Wire exist from the '70s. Board recordings and bootlegs aside, only three full live sets were put to tape in the early years with any aim other than archival use. The first, Live At The Roxy, was recorded over two consecutive nights at London's Roxy Club in early April, 1977. The CBGB set was captured at the New York club's auxiliary theater in '78 for a radio broadcast. These recordings were released only once before, on the limited WIRE: 1977-1979 boxse [ read more ]
2xCD $13.99
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Honed to a fine performance edge from their live European forays early in 2004, Wire present their fierce, high-velocity set based around their successful album Send, their first album in over a decade, which marked a return to their trademark gimlet, shivved, short sharp shocked writing style. Filmed by visual artist Tom Gidley in forensic detail, this document shows the band's complete visceral set at The Triptych Festival in Glasgow, April 30, 2004. Also included only on the DVD is a [ read more ]
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A complete, digitally cloned and audio remastered release of UK art punk giants WIRE's legendary one-hour studio concert on Germany's RockPalast television show. Performed and broadcast live on Feburary 14th, 1979, the band delivers twenty songs from their Chairs Missing and 154 era. Includes a never-screened interview from the same period. CD includes the audio version of the performance. Although 15th generation VHS copies of the screened parts of this performance have been making the rounds for m [ read more ]
CD+DVD $20.99
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VINYL FORMAT. In typically oblique fashion, the vinyl version of Send is very nearly a different record. Famed in the past for taking the stage with completely revised arrangements of their recorded songs, WIRE have extended that principle to Send/PF456 Redux, and present a limited edition vinyl release conceived in the spirit of the polar opposite of the now traditional "DJ Friendly Triple Album" concept. All songs from the CD release of Send and both Read & Burn EPs have been truncated, edited, and reduce [ read more ]
LP $27.99
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The number of groups surviving punk's first blast still able to ply their trade with heads aloft and consciences clear can be counted on the fingers of one hand, with three digits to spare. Wire is one of them. "Send" is their first full length album of new music in over a decade, and contains eleven examples of their most caustic and brutally compelling output in twice that time. "Send" contains four completely unheard new pieces, four taken from the mail-order-only "Read & Burn 02," and three from "Read & [ read more ]
CD $14.99
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