The 20 March edition of The Wire ’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Ben Bertrand, Strategy, Sophie Agnel & Joke Lanz, Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, and mor ...

The Wire Salon returns in April with the first of three events exploring the relationship of AI and music. In advance, read ...

His latest project is The Love Pretender, the second album from Spiral Deluxe, a jazz fusion quartet with Moog player Yumiko ...

In The Wire 494, Mosi Reeves argues that, while women set the tone in mainstream rap, the underground hiphop scene lags far ...

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' ...

Steve Reich/Alarm Will Sound “The Desert Music II: Moderate” 0:05:51 ...

The 15 June edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance 104.4FM and Resonance Extra focussed on Slovenian “tiny bedroom label” Inexhaustible Editions, which over the last eight years has amassed a ...

In her memoir of the great US jazz drummer, educator and pharmacist, Val Wilmer recalls her visit to Alvin Fielder’s hometown of Meridian, Mississippi, where he introduced her to leading Civil Rights ...

As a complement to the cover story of The Wire 448, a two-part special on Van Der Graaf Generator, Edwin Pouncey surveys the surreal designs that adorned the covers of the early albums by the UK art ...

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

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 ...