In his latest Secret History Of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers the sound of masculine sensitivity through the ...

Satch Hoyt: The one-time Burnt Sugar member’s Un-Muting project opens museum archives of stolen instruments. By Francis Gooding ...

The few remaining jukeboxes in London’s pubs and bars salvage a mode of music consumption from the junkyards of history, argues Deborah Nash in The Wire 507 “‘Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St ...

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 ...

The 2 April edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by badbluebirdz, Lao Dan Chicago Quartet, Albert Ayler Quintet, Bettina Koster and more ...

The former Skater’s soundtrack to a life of online entertainment, consumerism, iPads and instant communication was the first album he had put together on a computer, and its piercing preset sounds ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 505. Inside our brand new issue: dälek: The New Jersey hiphop duo’s new album continues an extraordinary orbit taking in ...

Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 502. Inside our brand new issue: On the cover: Mulatu Astatke: Deep into his latest tour, the pioneering 81 year old Ethio jazz vibraphonist is finding new ways to ...

The US drummer, pianist and composer died on 26 October aged 83. In the February 1989 issue of The Wire, he was interviewed by the magazine’s then editor Richard Cook. As a tribute, we have made that ...

Alan Tomlinson died on 13 February aged 76. As a tribute to the UK trombonist and improvisor we have made Mike Barnes's 2018 interview from The Wire 413 free to read in our online library.

A new Foley based production at London's Royal Court Theatre invites us into the sound-making world of animals, writes Giles Bailey The only performers on stage for the 60 minutes or so of Katie ...

In October, Australian jazz trio The Necks will release their 20th full length album, Disquiet. Ahead of its release, The Wire presents an exclusive stream of one of the four tracks from the album, ...