New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical tunings and transformed instruments. By Chal Ravens.

50 records of the year as voted for by The Wire's writers.

Known for her experimental jazz guitar playing as both band leader and accompaniment, Boston born Mary Halvorson recently released her first record including vocals and lyrics. In light of this, as ...

Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith Clarissa ...

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 ...

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 new album PLEASE COME ...

All systems open might be the rallying cry of artists the world over, but Mark Fell argues the case for technological limitation as a trigger for creativity. Back in the early 1980s, the synth pop ...

Read an interview with the late composer Bernard Parmegiani, by Rahma Khazam. First published in The Wire 176, October 1998. Bernard Parmegiani is not the first name that springs to mind when the talk ...

Current 93's David Tibet made his first mark in the 'Industrial' culture of the early 1980s even though the was skeptical of the Industrial formula equating inept noise with socially 'transgressive' ...

One of the few dedicated homes for experimental music left in Beijing is UFO Space, which opened in late 2020, between separate phases of extreme zero-Covid lockdown. “With the closure of many venues, ...

Exploring every time, you know? Was it clear from the start that Fela had a different vision? No, at first he was like everyone. He would try to sing things for the people, like singing love songs, or ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 488. Inside our brand new issue: Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitsusha figurehead keeps pushing into ...