Two evenings of ad hoc combinations of improvising musicians drawn from a pool of ten – a format devised by guitarist Derek Bailey in the 1970s. Compered by Stewart Lee, the pool comprises Khabat Abas ...

Listen to a recording of Wire staff member Shane Woolman ’ s closing set at this year's Stihia festival near Moynaq, ...

The 12 June edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Burqa Boyz, Moin, ...

Simon Coates compiles an annotated playlist to go with his report on Dhaka’s underground music scenes in The Wire 497 ...

In The Wire 497 it is the turn of bassist and breakcore pioneer DJ Scotch Egg, real name Shigeru Ishihara.

Fingerpicking guitar player combining influences from American Primitive, Mississippi blues and Appalachian finger styles, with a new album Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark coming out on We Are ...

In The Wire 496, Jo Hutton argues that radiophonic art is its own highly developed and theorised artistic practice, not merely an offshoot of electroacoustic music According to Austrian broadcaster ...

The 8 May edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by billy woods, Youth Code, Fatboi Sharif & Driveway, Flying Lotus, Pixel Grip, Youth Code and ...

The full chart: Bernardo Bortolin Kerr & Dan Johnson Thou The Healing (Liquid Library) Peter Brötzmann Trio Hurricane (Old Heaven Books) Can't Stop It! Australian Post Punk 1978–82 Various (Chapter ...

Satch Hoyt: The one-time Burnt Sugar member’s Un-Muting project opens museum archives of stolen instruments. By Francis Gooding ...

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 voices in his radical ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 493. Inside our brand new issue: Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on new album PLEASE COME ...