WIRE, ISSUE 328, JUNE 2011

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Reviews Index
Soundcheck
This month's selected CDs, vinyl and downloads, including Grouper, William Bennett's Cut Hands and Dalglish. Plus avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, hiphop, jazz & Improv, modern composition, outer limits, unusual formats and reissues
The Inner Sleeve
Will Holder on a Yale Symphony Orchestra poster
Print Run
New music books: Simon Reynolds's Retromania, a sound reader, Marcello Carlin's blogposts, a Grime photo album and more
On Screen
Films & DVDs: Minimalism, Japanese Noise and Brian Eno documentaries on DVD
On Site
Exhibitions, installations, etc: Bernhard Leitner in Vienna
On Location
Festival and concert reviews: Belbury Youth Club, Numina Lente, Wet Sounds, Wiley, Stockhausen's Sonntag Aus Licht and more
Collateral Damage
Chris Cutler presents the artist's case against indiscriminate filesharing
Global Ear
Hong Kong
Andy Hamilton & James Steintrager find expats and locals fighting musical complacency in the 'Asian World City'
Cross Platform
Caroline Bergvall
The London text-sound artist's Middling English explores linguistic slippage. By Will Montgomery
Matana Roberts
The saxophonist traverses American history by communing with her black ancestors. By Phil Freeman
DVA
Joe Muggs meets DJ/producer Scratcha/Soule Power, fritzing the edges of London's pirate scene
Invisible Jukebox
Demdike Stare
Hexing the Mancunian electronic duo with The Wire's mystery record selection. Tested by Joseph Stannard
Sea shanties
Clive Bell dons his sou'wester and gets press-ganged into investigating the unlikely resurgence of nautical folk songs in Britain
Retromania
Simon Reynolds reflects on how the digital revolution has led to a tail-chasing obsession with the past, and a climate of excess, in the music of our time
Battles
The poster boys for the ATP generation tell Daniel Spicer about life after Tyondai Braxton, the Prog-pop equation, and working with Gary Numan
Epiphanies
Paul Hegarty traces an ecstatic continuum between two My Bloody Valentine gigs 18 years apart