86 top-10′s submitted, 486 unique releases submitted resulting in a top 448 releases of 2011; yeah, the call for year-lists seems to be quite a success. It’s not a big surprise the magnificent Let England Shake-album by PJ Harvey ended up on number one in the We Are Incubate year-list 2011, followed by The War [...]
The top 486 releases of 2011 according to You
December 6, 2011
[Watch]: Rotary Signal Emitter – Side A
January 12, 2011
Sculpture is the London based duo of musician Dan Hayhurst and animator Reuben Sutherland. Rotary Signal Emitter LP is featured in an article by Matthew Ingram in The Wire 322, and is out on Dekorder. (via @HarryPrenger)
Colin Newman (Wire, Githead) – Not To
April 18, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr9GL3vLY8Y] Colin Newman‘s music video for the song “Not To” from the album of the same name from 1982. Newman performed at ZXZW 2008 with his band Wire.
33 1/3 on Wire's Pink Flag
March 18, 2009
Pink Flag is one of the classic albums. Wire expanded the boundaries of rock music. REM, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, The Cure and Blur have cited Wire as a major influence. The art school foursome has the talent to change and evolve. Of course they’ve also played at ZXZW. Lucky us. In the brilliant 33 [...]
Pitchfork reviews new Wire album
July 10, 2008
Rating: 7.5 Wire will play ZXZW 2008.
Vince on Wire
July 3, 2008
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2MFVu67UQ] Vince of ZXZW is pleased to announce that ZXZW has added the English band WIRE to the line-up! Says Vince: “the very first song I played with my very first and very bad band was Strange by WIRE, I’m honored to have them on the festival!”.
Wire added
July 3, 2008
[youtube= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SpKDHy2KVw] Hell yeah! We’re very pround to annouce that post punk pioneers and all time heroes Wire will play at our festival. Need we say more?
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June 19, 2013
We are currently preparing for our upcoming festival in Septembe and volunteers are a big part of these preparations. Without them (you!) Incubate wouldn’t exist. Do you want to experience Incubate 2013 and help us making it another unforgettable edition? We give you the opportunity to pick whatever shift you want from the list on [...]

