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 ...

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 ...

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

The US filmmaker has died aged 78. As a tribute, we have made the extended cover feature on Lynch that appeared in The Wire 486 free to read in our online library. The feature includes a cover ...

Alan Tomlinson died on 13 February aged 76. As a tribute to the UK trombonist and improvisor we have made Mike Barnes's 2018 interview from The Wire 413 free to read in our online library.