{"id":974315,"date":"2020-01-08T10:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=935089"},"modified":"2020-01-08T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T17:03:42","slug":"hear-wires-new-wavey-song-primed-and-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-wires-new-wavey-song-primed-and-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Wire\u2019s New-Wavey Song \u2018Primed and Ready\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wire-new-song.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>With gyrating new wave synths and sheets of heavy guitar, the pioneering post-punk group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/wire\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wire\" data-tag=\"wire\">Wire<\/a> parse what the future could hold on \u201cPrimed and Ready,\u201d a song off their upcoming record <em>Mind Hive<\/em>. The LP is due out January 24th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you scoping the future? Are you scouting the trail?\u201d guitarist-singer Colin Newman sings amid grinding riffs. The song is short but not so sweet as Newman later asks, \u201cAre you hiding your tail? Are you facing extinction?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lyric\/text for this song could be read as a series of questions, set in 2017,\u201d the band\u2019s bassist and vocalist, Graham Lewis, said in a statement. \u201cWho could have known the answers would be, in no particular order \u2026 Liverpool FC, me, Boris the Spider, 67, Lieutenant Colonel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Primed and Ready\u2019 was the easiest song to write on the album, written in less time than it takes to play it,\u201d Newman said. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing remotely \u2018clever\u2019 about the chord sequence and structure, and there\u2019s only three chords: two in the verse and one in the chorus. As in all things Wire, \u2018less is more.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group previously released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wire-new-song-cactused-902189\/\">the song \u201cCactused\u201d<\/a> from the album, and included it with a video that featured footage from an upcoming documentary on the band. The film, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wire-film.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">People in a Film<\/a><\/em>, will come out later this year. The band says it \u201caims to express the very essence of the band \u2014 the personalities, their music, their worldview, their history and their future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group will mount a short U.S. tour to support the new album in the spring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Wire Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 3 \u2013 Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line<br \/>March 4 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ Metro<br \/>March 6 \u2013 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge<br \/>March 7 \u2013 Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse<br \/>March 9 \u2013&nbsp; Washington, DC @ Union Stage<br \/>March 10 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts<br \/>March 11 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg<br \/>March 12 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg<br \/>March 13 \u2013 Boston, MA @ Sinclair<br \/>March 14 \u2013 Ottawa, ON @ Bronson Centre<br \/>March 16 \u2013 Toronto, ON @ Great Hall<br \/>March 17 \u2013 Austin, TX @ SXSW<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wire-new-song-primed-and-ready-935089\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With gyrating new wave synths and sheets of heavy guitar, the pioneering post-punk group Wire parse what the future could hold on \u201cPrimed and Ready,\u201d a song off their upcoming record Mind Hive. The LP is due out January 24th. \u201cAre you scoping the future? Are you scouting the trail?\u201d guitarist-singer Colin Newman sings amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 13:21:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}