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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Louis Moholo-Moholo (10 March 1940–13 June 2025) June 2025 Louis Moholo-Moholo in The Wire 400, London, June 2017. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff & Guy Bolongaro ...

The Japanese paramedia artist and digital composer has died. By way of tribute, we have made Alan Licht’s 2002 interview with Tone free to read in our online library ...

Ian Rawes, the sound recordist and archivist best known for founding the London Sound Survey website, has died following a short illness. He was 56.

Like Mark E Smith and The Fall, David Thomas and Pere Ubu were featured in The Wire early on in the life of the magazine, when it was still primarily concerned with jazz and improvised music. Thomas ...

The Pere Ubu singer has died at the age of 71. As a tribute we have made a number of articles on him and the group free to read in the online library Like Mark E Smith and The Fall, David Thomas and ...