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 ...

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

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 ...

Issue 498 August 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 498. Inside our brand new issue: Bill Orcutt: The late blooming career of the former Harry Pussy ...

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.

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 ...

Issue 495 May 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 495. Inside our brand new issue: aya: New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical ...

Issue 494 April 2025 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 ...

I wrote the series of essays titled “The Secret History of Film Music” in the long gone epoch of the late 1990s for The Wire (thanks to Tony Herrington and Chris Bohn). The simple idea was to cover ...