In his latest Secret History Of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers scores by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, who creates an aesthetic of decay for a Black context ...

To accompany his report on Computer Students in The Wire 505, Louis Pattison explores a playlist of releases from the Italy based label ...

50 Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten releases of 2025 then added up the votes ...

The latest album from UK ensemble Hen Ogledd is a striking invocation of the mythic and mundane, writes Abi Bliss in The Wire 505 ...

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 ...

Anna Högberg Attack “Gnistran - Hematopoesi - Emlodi” 0:15:51 ...

Exhibition and festival dedicated to the political and artistic practice of the singer, actor, lawyer and activist and his partner, the author, anthropologist and civil rights activist. 12 artists – ...

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.

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 494. Inside our brand new issue: Raven Chacon: The Diné/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical ...

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 ...