Nigh out of spite for the arbiters who would say that punk was boneheaded and “anti-intellectual,” Wire produced one of the most formidable hat-tricks in music: Pink Flag (1977), Chairs Missing (1978) and 154 (1979). Taking an art school approach to punk music and a documentary approach to punk lyrics, the three albums combine to form a dark, schizophrenic and eerily vivid diagnostic of the…
The festival landscape has undergone major upheaval in the last three years, and Covid’s long-term impact on the music industry…
