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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Dali de Saint Paul is a prolific collaborator and a prominent figure in Bristol's improv scene. “I want to explore different collaborations to see how I can make dialogue with people within different ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cartoonist Hazel Newlevant discusses Wendy & Lisa’s contribution to Prince’s legacy. All images from Hazel Newlevant’s No It U Lover (2014) If you can do it all, and if you have a singular vision that ...

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

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 ...