After celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2017, Wire will release reissues of their first three studio albums: 1977’s Pink Flag, 1978’s Chairs Missing, and 1979’s 154. Each…
8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: April 29, 2016Label: PinkflagWarmth is not a word typically associated with Wire, a band so committed to emotional distance…
Colin Newman, lead singer of punk pioneers Wire, and Malka Spigel, of formative Israeli experimentalists Minimal Compact, are back with their ongoing collaboration Immersion. The group's latest…
This weekend, the post-punk greats in Wire are putting on the latest installment of their DRILL Festival in Chicago. As announced on the fest's website,…
Shape-shifting art-punks Wire have no desire to be just any one thing. Best known for their wildly different first three albums, released between 1977 and…
Wire are streaming their upcoming 14th album, the self-titled Wire, two weeks before its release date. The new album is a follow-up to the influential London…
"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…
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…
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."
