The Wire Magazine - Jan 503/Feb 504: 2025 Rewind double issue - MAG

2025 Rewind: the Year in Underground Music, including the Top 50 New Releases of the Year, the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year, our critics’s cultural reflections, our columnists’ genre charts and analyses, and essays on low music & high fashion, DIY radio, alternative futures, new hybrids, underground portals, and slow drones for fast times. Plus: features on Tristan Perich, Anna Högberg, Hilary Woods, Carrier, Hypomanic Daydream, Erwan Keravec, Melvin Gibbs on Makaya McCraven, and Mark Wastell on Derek Bailey’s Company. In the regular sections: Invisible Jukebox: Ikonika, Global Ear: underground resistance in Chicago, Unlimited Editions: Warm Winters Ltd, The Inner Sleeve: Tony Herrington on Here & Now/Alternative TV, Against The Grain: anarcho-punk lives, Epiphanies: Cosey Fanni Tutti on a life in art. In the review sections: Juana Molina, Jean-Paul Guionnet, Tiger Milk, The Bottle Tapes, KIK, Ann Kroeber & Alan Splet, Daisy Rickman, Robert Fripp, the women of P-funk, Unsound, Cabaret Voltaire, and much more