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

The Wire Tapper The Wire Tapper is a series of CD anthologies of new underground music compiled by Wire staff. The CDs are issued three times a year attached to the cover of copies of The Wire ...

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 ...

Issue 499 September 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 499. Inside our brand new issue: Cabaret Voltaire: The surviving members of the Sheffield ...

Jem Finer's 1000-year composition can be heard in the main space of this Whitby art gallery relayed by a live internet transmission from its home in London's Lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf. The ...

A listening post has been installed in the Lady Chapel of the 975-year old cathedral relaying a live internet transmission of Jem Finer's 1000-year composition from its home in London's Lighthouse at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spotify’s partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history, argues Derek Walmsley “We really want to soundtrack every moment of your ...

The Sabres Of Paradise Sabresonic Warp CD/DL/2xLP Haunted Dancehall Warp CD/DL/2xLP You remember the face, but you can’t quite place the name – though both seem familiar to you. Start with the former.

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 ...