Jere Kilpinen compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Osaka’s experimental noise scene in The Wire 494 ...

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

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

The 16 January edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured a guest mix by Lebanese musician, producer and sound engineer Fadi Tabbal, plus music by Grup Ses & ...

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In The Wire 493, George Rayner-Law argues that as interest in English folk song grows once again, practitioners, critics and listeners should consider carefully the ideological currents beneath the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the eyes of the West, Asia has historically been a Janus-faced entity – both the source of a Yellow Peril that threatens to take over Western civilisation and a land filled with exotic wonder.

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

Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes ...