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Hear Wire's Rose-Tinted Romance Tribute 'Love Bends'

March 8, 2013 – Wire are set to release their 13th album on March 26 via their own Pinkflag label, but Change Becomes Us isn't your standard late-career entry for a gang of post-punk giants.Work on the 13-song set really began back in 1979 — the same fertile-but-fraught period that resulted in their enduring classic 154. When the London band broke up a year later, the blueprints of several songs-in-the-making were left behind. …
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Wire Geek Out With Turgid Trekkie-Punk 'Doubles & Trebles' From March Album

January 18, 2013 – "Resistance is futile," Colin Newman barks on "Doubles & Trebles," the first song released from Wire's upcoming album Change Becomes Us. It wouldn't be fair to charge the British punk innovators, whose 1977 debut Pink Flag remains a singularly spartan classic, with biting a cliché used by the Borg on Star Trek: The Next Generation in the '90s, though. …
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First Spin: Hear Wire's Live 'Drill'

January 9, 2012 – Last year, Wire toured four continents in a run of dates more extensive and ambitious than anything the reunited British punk prophets had previously attempted in their 30-so years as a band. (All in support of their latest, the wondrous, still essential Red Barked Tree.) On February 7, they'll release The Black Session - Paris, 10 May 2011, a former tour-exclusive recording (available during their U.K. …
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FREE ALBUM! SPIN's Soundtrack for Coachella

April 11, 2011 – The annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will be going off in the California desert April 15-17, but even if you're not attending you can discover the festival's 25 Must-Hear Artists list -- click here to check it out! Better yet, we're offering a bonus gift: a free downloadable album of songs by 10 of those can't-miss bands! …
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New Video: Spoon's Britt Daniel Covers Wire

January 27, 2009 – There's no shortage of covers today on SPIN.com, with ScarJo's take on Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" and TV on the Radio's rendition of Bowie's "Heroes." But this one is a bit more impromptu: video of Spoon's Britt Daniel singing Wire's riotous 1977 punk tune "1 2 X U" live in New York City. The footage was captured at a release party for SPIN contributor Brian Rafferty's new book, Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World …
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Available Today: July 15, 2008

July 15, 2008 – Here's a rundown of what's available online and in record stores this week. …
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Wire

July 11, 2008 – What? Rock critics and musicians alike -- Michael Stipe, Robert Smith, and Robert Pollard just to name a few -- have heralded Wire as founding fathers of the U.K. post-punk scene in the late '70s, having shaped a new and influential form of atmospheric art-house music. And with the release of Object 47 on July 15, the band's original members show how well they've aged and how far they've come since their '77 debut. …
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