Black Wire Records

Black Wire Records is an artist and volunteer run, not-for-profit record shop, record label and all-ages performance space.

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Black Wire Records is an artist and volunteer run, not-for-profit record shop, record label and all-ages performance space.

219 Parramatta Rd
Annandale, NSW 2038

Phone: 9560 2280
External URL: Black Wire Records
Opening Hours:
Wed-Sat 12pm-7pm, Sun 12pm-5pm

Sydney’s Beloved Black Wire Records Set To Close

The inclusive, endlessly supportive DIY venue is calling it a day. Black Wire Records, a longtime home for Australian and international alternative, punk, lo-fi and...

Newcastle Post-Punks Suburban Haze Announce Black Wire Records Show

Suburban Haze will play Sydney’s Black Wire Records as part of their national tour in early November. Novocastrian band Surburban Haze, who are known for...

Angela Garrick explains how the city’s Live/Work program helped her focus on art

Having the space to work and live on my own gave me time to think and plan and conjure up many ideas for music and artworks

Four members of Smith Street Band, Wil Wagner second from right, sit on the footpath in front of a mural painted on a corrugated metal fence

The Untold Story Of The Smith Street Band: Wil Wagner’s Journey Through Depression To Triumph

It’s around 5pm on a Saturday afternoon. The University of Wollongong, usually a bustling metropolis unto itself, is mostly a ghost town today – partly...

Five Things with Piers Twomey from Grün

1.Growing Up Growing up, my older sister had piano lessons and got mildly into it, whereas it took me years to formalise my love of...

Sydney’s Lockout Laws Are Three Years Old, But Where Have They Got Us?

February 24, 2017 marks the three-year anniversary of Sydney’s controversial lockout laws. In that time, Sydney has seen venues close, the streets empty and protest...

Five Tihings with Aidan Roe from Paper Thin

1.Growing Up My earliest musical memory would be Christmas carols playing on Christmas morning, which I guess is just a nice memory. I also remember...

Diploid Announce Sydney Shows

Diploid will take their new EPIs God Up Therealong the East Coast, including a couple of Sydney shows this November. Dubbing their blend of blackened...

Five Things with Rachel Maria Cox

1.Growing Up My mum was a big influence growing up. When I was a kid she used to sing and play guitar, and I’d sing...

Rachel Maria Cox Announces EP Launch and East Coast Tour

Rachel Maria Cox is set to launch a sophomore EP I Just Have Al Lt Of Feelings, hitting stages up and down the east coastwith...

Bofolk Ballico Announces 2016 Sydney Show

Bofolk Ballico is set to return to Sydney on a special lineup of acts at Black Wire Records. Black Wire will host an event called...

Speed Date with Nothing Rhymes With David

1.Your Profile Autistic southpaw folk singer into pop songs, wrestling and long-forgotten pop culture references seeks fellow hopeless types of all genders, orientations and races...

Nothing Rhymes With David To Launch New Album In Sydney

An artist who has been noted for his bold authenticity and unapologetic lyrics, David James Young has been through the woods and back musically, and...

Camp Cope

Spend enough time interviewing musicians and you’ll find yourself at risk of falling into a rut. You start asking the same questions, getting the same...

Sydney’s New Inner City Festival, Sad By Sad West, Announces 2016 Lineup

Soon to be gracing Sydney’s Inner West will be the 2016Sad By Sad West festival, bringing together a range of mediums based on their emotional...

Camp Cope Announce National Tour

Camp Cope are gearing up to release their self-titled debut album and have announced a run of national dates to launch it, this May. The...

Jeff Rosenstock

For the better part of his adult life, Jeff Rosenstock raged against the machine as part of the biggest little DIY punk band on the...

Jonathan Boulet

For a restless soul like Sydney noisemaker Jonathan Boulet, the only constant is change. In the last five years – a good chunk of which...

Fear Like Us And Hoodlum Shouts Announce Sydney Show

Melbourne folk-punk four-piece Fear Like Usare teaming up with Canberra’s Hoodlum Shouts at a Black Wire Records in-store for their Late Summer Tour. Both bands...

The Hotelier

It’s nearing two years since The Hotelier released their second LP,Home, Like Noplace Is There. While it wasn’t the Massachusetts act’s first showing, it was...