Listen to the music we played to Alvin Curran during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 495

To accompany his report on Greyfade in The Wire 495, Philip Watson explores a playlist selected by label founder Joseph Branciforte

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our May 2025 issue

Volume 47 of The Wire’s subscriber-only download series includes tracks by Larry Wish, Bianca Scout, Semay Wu, Abdullah Miniawy, Ava Mendoza & Malcom Mooney, Lulenga, and more

The 3 April edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by OHYUNG, Raisa K, Nazar, Roberto Cassani & Graeme Stephen, Rainy Miller, Seven Angels, KLAUDIO, Bengal Chemicals, Florence Sinclair and more

Watch a short film accompanying “The Second Before Slipping”, from the debut album by Zurich based duo Sopraterra

In The Wire 494, Ken Hollings reviews two albums inspired by William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer

The 27 March edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Chuquimamani-Condori & Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, Quade, Goldie, Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, Maxine Funke, aya and more

In the second instalment of his rebooted Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy analyses Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury’s scores for the Alex Garland films Civil War (2024) and Annihilation (2018)

In The Wire 494, Daniel Spicer reviews a new collection of writing and criticism by long time Wire contributor and novelist David Keenan

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

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 more

The Wire Salon returns in April with the first of three events exploring the relationship of AI and music. In advance, read Emily Bick’s 2023 interview with composer patten in which he discusses using AI-generated samples to map music’s infinite complexities

To accompany his interview in The Wire 494, London based experimental musician Ciaran Mackle compiles an exclusive Wire mix

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

The 13 March edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured a guest mix by Portuguese musician Ana Lua Caiano alongside a selection of new and recent releases by Om Unit, Nadah El Shazly, Lollise, Shit And Shine, Darkchild x SKRS INTL, and more

To accompany his report on Cardboard Club in The Wire 494, Spenser Tomson explores a playlist selected by label boss Robert Ridley-Shackleton

To celebrate 30 years of the pioneering drum ’n’ bass label, Metalheadz’s Sam Oliver, aka Friske, curates a special Wire mix

Listen to the music we played to Jeff Mills during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 494

The 6 March edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Cleaners From Venus, Marina Zispin, Kuunatic, Circuit Des Yeux, Backxwash, Nazar, and many more

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our April 2025 issue

Erik DeLuca shares a mix of sound recordings of Philadelphia’s forgotten and abandoned objects

The 27 February edition of The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Klein, Q Lazzarus, Vacuous, Dead Pioneers, Zoë Mc Pherson, Knives, and many more

Juan San Cristóbal Lizama compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Tijuana’s Static Discos label in The Wire 493

The UK outsider singer-songwriter has died aged 81. As a tribute, we have made Rob Young’s 2005 interview in The Wire 253 free to read in our online library.

Philip Brophy sets out his intentions for the return of his long running Wire column on film music

In The Wire 493, Claire Biddles reviews Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score for Luca Guadagnino’s film of William S Burroughs’s semi-autobiographical novel

Pierre Crépon explores the career of American jazz singer Ellen Christi, from her work on New York’s 1970s loft jazz scene to her recent album with bassist William Parker

The Egyptian-French composer creates an exclusive mix of music to accompany his interview with Miloš Hroch in The Wire 493

To accompany his report on Pointless Geometry in The Wire 493, Daryl Worthington selects music from the back catalogue of the eclectic Polish label

The 13 February edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Sopa Boba, Amand, Clipping, Zakir Hussain & Third Coast Percussion, Janek Schaefer, Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez, Joe Armon-Jones and many more

The influential grime producer Terror Danjah (real name Rodney Pryce) has died. As a tribute, we have made his Invisible Jukebox interview with Joe Muggs that appeared in The Wire 343 available to read for free in our online magazine library.

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our March 2025 issue

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 surface

Listen to the music we played to Lydia Lunch during her Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 493

The 6 February edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Girl Pusher, aya, Zoë Mc Pherson, Kilbourne, Sunik Kim, Tisakorean and more

Read an extract from Nicolas Collins’s Semi-Conducting – Rambles Through The Post-Cagean Thicket, in which the author describes his early experiments with feedback

The French saxophonist creates an exclusive mix of tracks that have been inspiring her recent playing, including her latest album Hammer, Roll And Leaf

David Grundy watches recently unearthed footage of saxophonist Albert Ayler in concert from 1966

The 30 January edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Circuit Des Yeux, Infinity Knives, John Wall, Annette Peacock, Lonnie Holley, Lucrecia Dalt and more

In The Wire 491/492, Stewart Smith reviews a new autobiography by the multi-instrumentalist, composer and poet

In The Wire 491/492, John Brien argues that the humble compact disc offers efficient delivery of pure audio that bypasses the artisan fetishism of the vinyl industry

The 23 January edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Mattie Barbier, Yves De Mey, Simon J Karis, Rojin Sharafi, Raed Yassin, Laura Agnusdei and more

In The Wire 491/492, Peter Margasak reviews an album of inventive new settings for the compositions of Ethiopian musician Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru

In The Wire 491/492, James Gormley argues that redrawing the line between public and private space has coined a dubious new currency in sonic self-help and healing experiences

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 & Gökalp K, Sansouni, King Jammy, and more

The US filmmaker has died aged 78. As a tribute, we have made the extended cover feature on Lynch that appeared in The Wire 486 free to read in our online library. The feature includes a cover designed by Lynch, an interview with the director and his music collaborator Chrystabell, and 12 pages of essays exploring the unique sound world created by his films.

In The Wire 491/492, James Gui reviews three releases that take inspiration from the world of Asian horror – with mixed results

In The Wire 491/492, Louise Gray recalls developing a new relationship to sound while bed-bound in hospital following an accident

Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) present a special Wire mix ahead of the publication of Dismantling The Master’s Clock, Phillips’s forthcoming book exploring time, temporality and Black liberation

Stonecircesampler, aka Luke J Murray, curates an exclusive compilation of edits, alternative mixes and unreleased music to conjure a hauntological landscape

In The Wire 491/492, Drew Daniel recounts a dream of a strange new music style, whose subsequent online virality revealed the need to test the limits of genres

In an extract from his new book, David Katz charts the emergence of Jamaica’s sound system culture in relation to social and political transformations that underpinned the country’s fight for independence

The Portuguese experimentalist creates an exclusive mix of tracks that have been inspiring his own most recent music

Elia Brülhart compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Zurich’s underground noise scene in The Wire 491/492

The Indian tabla virtuoso died on 15 December aged 73. In December 2000 he was interviewed for the cover story of The Wire 202, discussing his work with John McLaughlin, Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell and Talvin Singh. As a tribute, we have made the article free to read in our online library.

To accompany his report on Strategic Tape Reserve in The Wire 491/492, Antonio Poscic selects music from the back catalogue of the playful Cologne label

This extract from William Burns's book gives an overview of hauntological music and its preoccupation with the sound of decay, the evocation of nostalgia, and the allure of lost futures

The 12 December edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Kate Bush, The Unthanks, The High Llamas, Annette Peacock and more

The Wire’s Releases of the Year chart for 2024 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full

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 those featured in the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year, in The Wire 491/492

This volume in The Wire’s ongoing series of subscriber-only anthologies compiles 15 tracks from albums released by Cafe OTO’s in-house label Otoroku. Featuring Pat Thomas, Maggie Nicols, Loren Connors & Alan Licht, Elaine Mitchener, Black Top, Ecka Mordecai, and more

The 5 December edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast featured tracks by Ash Ra Tempel, Circuit Des Yeux, Katharina Ernst & schne, Keiji Haino & Jun Morita, Tori Kudo and more

Listen to an exclusive mix exploring the programme at this year’s London Contemporary Music Festival

To mark Nonclassical’s 20th anniversary, the Kenyan born musician KMRU creates an exclusive mix of experimental classical and electronic music for The Wire

The 28 November edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Terry Riley, Dub Syndicate, Able Noise, Mariam Rezaei, Bill Frisell/Kit Downes/Andrew Cyrille, Colin Self, Roger Robinson, General Magic, Abadir & Nahash, Alex Ward/Dominic Lash/Mark Sanders and more

James Gui compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Taipei’s underground rock scene in The Wire 490

Watch a short film that accompanies three tracks from sound artist and musician Adrián de Alfonso’s new album Viator.

The 21 November edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Stonecirclesampler, Net Gala, Ra Kalam Bob Moses & Jerome Bryerton, Dawuna, DJ Lycox, Kay Grant/Ian McLachlan/Daniel Thompson, and more

This extract from new book Sonic Faction considers the possibilities and limitations of the audio essay as a form of sonic psychedelic experiment, prompted by three releases on Hyperdub’s Flatlines sub-label

David Grundy attends a week long event in Berlin designed to forward a global avant garde of Black music composers

Flickers From The Fen’s Mercian Sam compiles an exclusive mix of dungeon synth to accompany his interview with Louis Pattison in The Wire 490.

Ahead of his celebration of Max Roach, trumpeter Charles Tolliver talks to Gabriel Bristow about playing alongside the legendary drummer, studying at Howard University with Donny Hathaway and Stokely Carmichael, and the legacy of Strata-East Records

The 14 November edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Moin, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions, Gong Gong Gong 工工工 & Mong Tong, YATTA, Richard Dawson, and more

The great US drummer died on 12 November aged 99. In 2000, Philip Clark interviewed him, discussing some of the stellar moments in a jazz life that traversed the entire history of the music and encounters with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton and more

The annual Berlin based festival celebrates its upcoming edition with a selection of countercultural Latin sounds mixed by Brazilian drummer Iggor Cavalera and grindcore band TEST

In an extract from her new book Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music & Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings, Marisol Negrón analyses the opening scene of music documentary Our Latin Thing, drawing out its references to the history and culture of community networks in New York’s Puerto Rican communities in the 1970s

To accompany her report on Les Disques Lexi in The Wire 490, Claire Biddles selects music from the back catalogue of the Brussels 7" specialists

Volume 46 of The Wire’s subscriber only download compilation includes tracks by Brannten Schnüre, HYPER GAL, SISSY MISFIT, Isaiah Hull & Jaso, Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das, Gordan, and more

The 7 November edition of The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra was a repeat of the 10 October edition, and featured tracks by Maral, FOUDRE!, Pat Thomas, White Boy Scream, Able Noise and more

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our December 2024 issue

Edwin Pouncey pays tribute to the bass player who drove The Grateful Dead’s furthest out moments to infinity and back

The 31 October edition of The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured a special guest mix for Halloween by Diamanda Galás, plus tracks by Nomade Orquestra, The Bug, Agile Experiments and more

In San Diego, Bill Perrine celebrates the return of the American composer’s instrumentarium

The 24 October edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by John Carpenter & Alan Howard, Furze, YATTA, Patrick Cowley, Maral, The Night Monitor, David Dunn and more

Stream a selection of tracks from some of the releases we listened to during the making of our November 2024 issue.

The American singer, guitarist and political activist died on 20 October aged 97. As a tribute we have made Emily Pothast’s 2023 interview with Dane free to read in our online magazine library.

The 17 October edition of The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by AR Kane, Alan Lamb, Oranssi Pazuzu, The Standing Stones featuring Alasdair Roberts, Red Brut, and more