The 26 June edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show featured tracks by Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann, Swans, Błoto, Anna Nacher & Marek Styczyński, Otaco, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker and more ...

British trans existence in 2025 is precarious, making the intersection of underground music and queer nightlife liberatory ...

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

I bought one of these in 2009 at a record store in Hong Kong - had no idea about any of its venerable history. Mine is orange. I always loved the combination of traditional and modern it represented ...

In The Wire 497, Esi Eshun reviews Mourning [A] BLKstar's eighth album, Flowers For The Living, which explores strategies for resistance ...

Issue 493 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 the cover: David Lynch & Chrystabell : As their new album Cellophane Memories marks the culmination of 20-plus years of collaboration, the director and singer unpack their dream-like songs over a ...

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 ...

Issue 482 April 2024. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 482.. Inside our brand new issue: Darius Jones: The New York based composer and saxophonist draws ...

Issue 490 December 2024. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 490.. Inside our brand new issue: A R Kane: The dreampop originators return with an archival ...

In the high grass of an empty camping ground in Niigata Prefecture – not far from Matsudai – Sawako Kato and I stood, listening. Later we climbed a hill to listen to a metal sign resonating. Sounds ...

Issue 494 April 2025. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 494.. Inside our brand new issue: Raven Chacon: The Diné/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and ...