Emily Pothast

1 week ago | thewire.co.uk | Claire Biddles |Emily Pothast |Daniel Spicer |Stewart Smith

June 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 496. Inside our brand new issue: Cosey Fanni Tutti: The industrial music icon has been to Hull and back with her new album 2t2. By Claire Biddles Quinton Barnes: The Montreal rapper and producer flips the script in a new project with free musicians. By Emily Pothast David Van Tieghem: The New York percussionist who has played with everyone on the Downtown scene receives a dedicated collection of his own work.

Feb 4, 2025 | thewire.co.uk | Miloš Hroch |Peter Margasak |Julian Cowley |Emily Pothast

March 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 493. Inside our brand new issue: Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on new album PLEASE COME TO ME. By Emily Pothast Louis Laurain: The French cornettist cooks up fresh brass constructions on new album C(or)N(e)T. By Clive Bell Caxtrinho: The Brazilian guitarist maps Rio’s outer regions through his dense, cubist songwriting.

May 3, 2024 | thewire.co.uk | Emily Pothast |Stewart Smith |Peter Margasak |Claire Biddles

June 2024 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 484. Inside our brand new issue: Shellac: The US noise rock squad are hard as rails on long awaited new album To All Trains. By Emily Pothast Arnold Dreyblatt: The Berlin based composer unwinds with the rich overtones of The Orchestra Of Excited Strings.

Sep 4, 2023 | thewire.co.uk | Laina Dawes |Emily Pothast |Richard Thomas |Esi Eshun

October 2023 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 476. Inside our brand new issue: L’Rain: Taja Cheek’s fluid songforms are a kaleidoscopic and personal response to the modern world. By Laina Dawes Blevin Blectum: Blectum From Blechdom’s Bevin Kelley builds brave new worlds from mind-melding sound. By Emily PothastTrevor Mathison: The Black Audio Film Collective’s sound man rewrites the story of industrial music.

Aug 2, 2023 | thewire.co.uk | Emily Pothast

Originally trained as a classical organist, the multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer known professionally as Kramer says he didn’t learn to be a “real” musician until he studied with Karl Berger at his Creative Music Studio in upstate New York. As Kramer explained to me in our recent interview in The Wire 474, it was Berger, who passed away earlier this year, who taught him how to stop playing music and start being it.