Global groove fusion from musicians from North and East Africa and Geneva whose self-titled debut album was released in 2023 ...

The 11 September edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Ornette ...

In The Wire 500, Mattie Colquhoun argues that critics who seek to distance themselves from cultural pessimism too often fail ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as those featured in ...

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers the ways in which Bobby Krlic’s psych-horror ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 486. Inside our brand new issue: David Lynch & Chrystabell: As their new album Cellophane Memories marks the culmination of 20 ...

The Wire’s Releases of the Year chart for 2024 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full ...

Below The Radar Below The Radar is an ongoing series of underground music compilations that are made available to all The Wire ’s subscribers as downloads. For more information on how to subscribe to ...

Burial Burial (Hyperdub) Scott Walker The Drift (4ad) Joanna Newsom Ys (Drag City) Carla Bozulich Evangelista (Constellation) Wolf Eyes Human Animal (Sub Pop) Ornette Coleman Sound Grammar (Sound ...

The Wire's Julian Cowley looks back at the life, work and unseen worlds of the experimental composer, who has died at the age of 75 “Music is my way of being in the world.” The words of “Blue” Gene ...

The Bug London Zoo (Ninja Tune) Philip Jeck Sand (Touch) The Hospitals Hairdryer Peace (No label) John Butcher Resonant Spaces (Confront) Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna (The Social Registry) The ...