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Originally Posted by selkcip
are you kidding? i'm usually unfamiliar with like 75% of what WIRE covers on a regular basis. they regularly cover 'fringe' artists. sure, usually the artists covered (or on the cover) are somewhat 'stalwarts' in their field. sy share enthusiasms for a similar spectrum of music, so they will be covered accordingly. and it's cool that WIRE doesn't airbrush all that shit (photos) up, like 99% of other music mags. it's real
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no, scott is right. i've been reading the wire for about 6 or 7 years and SY are the only group to have been on the cover more than once in all that time, murray st and SYR4 were both voted album of the year by Wire writers, i think sonic nurse was their number 2 album of 2004, the wife of the editor was involved in putting on kim gordon's 2 art show's in london last year... i expect rather ripped to be in their top 3 or 2006, even though rather ripped is a pile of utter, utter shit.
there are a handful of bands and musicians that the wire tend to get excited about even if they're doing nothing. SY, einsturzende neubauten, the fall, derek bailey, john fahey, john coltrane, john cage, keiji haino...