Emily Bick

Dear writers, please do not use AI to write/help write your pitches, they arrive in my inbox absolutely honking of data centre, please please just have original ideas and work them up yourself else really, what is the fucking point of being a writer? Getting so many of these at the moment.

Do apply! Even if you are lacking self-confidence! Especially if you are lacking self-confidence!

The Wire 513 is out now! Featuring Matthew Shipp on the cover, plus interviews with Edward George, Tears|Ov, Gigi Masin, Nick Nicely, Tiiva, Bruno Silva, Liz Harris’s Invisible Jukebox, plus the history of prepared piano, and much more. Order your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

I love the Snow Crash audio book I have. it has this ridiculously vibin' chapter title audio that's so perfectly early 90s cyber

UK version out next week with our sister imprint, Zer0 Books www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...

New radio show, up now on the wire website for your listening pleasure 🎶

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our October 2026 issue www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Illustration: Ella Baron/The Guardian

story of my life

The Wire 511 is out now! Featuring Space Afrika on the cover, plus Nuno Canavarro, Lucy Liyou, Jad Atoui, Rump State, Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra, Darla Quintana, Jennifer Herrema’s Invisible Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

NEW We are donating all proceeds from the release of the new Blue Tapes House Band release to support the medical bills and rehabilitation of BTHB member Eugene S. Robinson, who recently suffered a stroke that robbed him of the ability to speak, read or write.

This robotic arm constantly trying to recover an ever leaking blood-like fluid.

An exhibition of album covers from the early days of the Greensleeves record label is coming to London. Free entry 💥

And check out Yapping Portal bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

new show, up now!

My Slacker Shakespeare season at the @riocinema.bsky.social and sponsored by @fivepointsbrew - kicks off this Sunday 21 June at 2pm with @gus_van_sant My Own Private Idaho riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What...

In the company of @paulreesauthor.bsky.social's’ ‘Raised on Radio – Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola’, Travis Elborough dips into the history of Adult Orientated Rock — the sound of a confident, car-driving North America www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/rais...

a horse walks into a bar and says to the barman, "on a right angled triangle with sides x, y and z, if x and z are perpendicular which side is opposite the right angle?", and the barman says "y, the long face"

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show, which was hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social and featured music by Scott Walker, Marvin Tate, Fire-Toolz, Rosa Pistola and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

On the tube

this is one of the best, sharpest dystopian books predicting some present day horrors, and it's especially sick/brilliant for being written from the perspective of painfully vapid teens. love it so much and so glad to see it recommended here

my book is available in the UK on June 4th

That's not Bluesky advertising what the site is like. That's Bluesky trying to subliminally remind you that you could just be outside instead of posting.

Hilda cat is fiercely guarding this one, always a sign of quality

New show alert! Lots of soothing drones, rocking out and spoken word weirdness in here, plus links to what's what and where to find it all, enjoy 🎶

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

of course, OF COURSE Dawkins imagines his Claude as female...barf

Great stuff, this is as good as when someone figured out how to use google translate's text to speech feature to beatbox

My latest Elborough's Eye books column in the new issue of @idlermagazine out now www.idler.co.uk

Tonight on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, @jjstannard.bsky.social hosts The Wire's weekly radio show, delivering a deluge of delights including tracks by 808 State vs Humanoid, Kristen Gallerneaux, Sunn O))) (pictured) and more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Charles Peterson

Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

Zola! last year this dude's novels kept me sane; rec. his R-M novel cycle for rhymes with/relief from the insanity of the present moment: super detailed/historically damning, humane, treats women as real people and there are racy/trashy pulp plots to boot, something for everyone ❤️

Tonight on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, Chris Bohn hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing tracks by Albert Ayler Quintet, Black Nile, and Lucy Liyou (pictured) + a special tribute to Mania D/Malaria!’s singer/saxophonist, Bettina Koester. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule

got this ad on the guardian website for some bs AI language learning app. (there was a larger image explaining it was AI, but the proportions were wrong to upload here) fluent in italian? this isn't even fluent in english. dis-apper indeed.

The Wire 507 is out now! Featuring Sunn O))) on the cover in special Savage Pencil black and white editions, plus Delphine Dora, The Sleeves, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, Brion Gysin, Irmin Schmidt’s Invisible Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen

In Mario Kart Wii, crashing the game and activating the crash handler will eventually start playing back the contents of the Wii's RAM as sound. Since the data was never intended to be interpreted like this, it ends up sounding like experimental harsh noise music.

New episode up now - Concrete Atlantis with Travis Elborough and Stonecirclesampler uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/concrete-a...

The Wire 506 is out now! Featuring Wendy Eisenberg on the cover, plus an Augustus Pablo primer, Mariá Portugal, KAVARI, Yellow Swans' Invisible Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

this is streaming right now! 🎶

The Wire 505 is out now! Featuring dälek on the cover, plus an industrial hiphop primer, Vic Bang, Pascal Comelade, O Ghettaõ, Daniel Blumberg’s Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

The first comment on YouTube for this video is "This song sounds like it's airbrushed onto the side of a van" and there has perhaps never been a more apt assessment of a song than this youtu.be/DyhYzRRMBSU

RIP WALTER STEDING as a weird underground nyc violinist steding was always second (in my mind, anyway) to boris policeband, but that ain't hay. no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.