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 ...

“Free jazz is a real reflection of the times and everything that’s going on [...] It puts beauty back into the world, it vibrates, I think it works on an anatomical level.” US trumpeter, composer and ...

Miloš Hroch: You've just returned from your cottage in the woods, where OK Box was partly created. What did the escape into the wild reveal to you? Ursula Sereghy: I still go there and try to spend ...

The promoter who helped change the landscape of experimental music in the UK in the 1960s and 70s has died aged 81. Read Phil England’s article on Schonfield and his Music Now organisation, which ...

As a tribute to the jazz pianist and composer who has died aged 87 we have made three articles in our online library free to read. The first two articles comprised the cover story of the second issue ...

The Indian tabla virtuoso died on 15 December aged 73. In December 2000 he was interviewed for the cover story of The Wire 202, discussing his work with John McLaughlin, Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell ...

Sound artist Steve Roden died on 6 September aged 59. Read Christoph Cox’s interview with him in The Wire 229 and Roden’s Epiphanies essay in The Wire 196 for free in our online library.

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

The Wire's top 50 albums of 2012 as voted for by our writers, from our annual Rewind issue.

Issue 485 July 2024 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 485. Inside our brand new issue: Tomeka Reid: The cellist, composer, improvisor and band leader goes from ...

Read an interview with the late composer Bernard Parmegiani, by Rahma Khazam. First published in The Wire 176, October 1998.

Issue 491/492 January 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 491/492. Inside our new issue: 2024 Rewind: the Year in Underground Music Releases of the Year: We ...