In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black ...

The drummer Kyasu has played in Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha among other ensembles. When he performs solo, he improvises wildly with just a snare drum. The Leeds date is a rare solo performance with a ...

Jem Finer's 1000-year composition can be heard in the main space of this Whitby art gallery relayed by a live internet transmission from its home in London's Lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf. The ...

A listening post has been installed in the Lady Chapel of the 975-year old cathedral relaying a live internet transmission of Jem Finer's 1000-year composition from its home in London's Lighthouse at ...

The reissued early 1990s output of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns aka The Sabres Of Paradise still cuts deep, writes Ken Hollings in The Wire 498 ...

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 ...

An Anglophile New Yorker living on the south coast of England, Peter Shapiro started writing for The Wire in 1994 in issue 128; his first two pieces included a review which conflated two of his ...

The 17 July edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured an exclusive guest mix from Anvar Kalandarov, musician and founder of Uzbek label Maqom Soul, as well ...

Spotify’s partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history, argues Derek Walmsley “We really want to soundtrack every moment of your ...

Former Raincoats bassist and vocalist continues her solo avant-pop-punk resurgence with Trouble (Third Man Records). Birch took the Invisible Jukebox test in The Wire 498 August issue ...

Each month in the magazine we play an artist or group a series of tracks which they are asked to comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear. In The Wire 498 it is the turn of ...