In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black ...

Spotify’s partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history ...

The reissued early 1990s output of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns aka The Sabres Of Paradise still cuts deep, writes Ken Hollings in The Wire 498 ...

The drummer Kyasu has played in Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha among other ensembles. When he performs solo, he improvises wildly with just a snare drum. The Leeds date is a rare solo performance with a ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's Top 50 Releases Of The Year, as voted for by The Wire 's contributors. You can read more about the artists featured in our chart, as well as those ...

The Wire writer Francis Gooding and magazine editor Akshi Singh are the organisers of this decolonial spin on an old favouritie with questions on global food, music and sport, colonial histories, ...

A weekend of art, music and film in celebration of the recently departed The Pop Group vocalist, songwriter, producer, collaborator and agitator. Includes an exhibition of visual art by Stewart and ...

Simon Coates compiles an annotated playlist to go with his report on Manila’s underground music scenes in The Wire 498 ...

An Anglophile New Yorker living on the south coast of England, Peter Shapiro started writing for The Wire in 1994 in issue 128; his first two pieces included a review which conflated two of his ...

The 17 July edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured an exclusive guest mix from Anvar Kalandarov, musician and founder of Uzbek label Maqom Soul, as well ...

Each month in the magazine we play an artist or group a series of tracks which they are asked to comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear. In The Wire 498 it is the turn of ...