Like Mark E Smith and The Fall, David Thomas and Pere Ubu were featured in The Wire early on in the life of the magazine, when it was still primarily concerned with jazz and improvised music. Thomas ...

In The Wire 495, Hugh Morris argues that the word jazzy denotes a cluster of cliches that neglects to engage with jazz itself ...

New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical tunings and transformed instruments. By Chal Ravens. Inside: Satch Hoyt : The one-time Burnt Sugar member’s Un-Muting project ...

In the third instalment of his rebooted Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy analyses two horror scores by Gazelle Twin – Black Cab (2024) and Nocturne (2020) – and considers how psychol ...

Following the release of a new LP by the Orchestra Of Futurist Noise Intoners, director Luciano Chessa and Sanatorium Of Sound director Gerard Lebik discuss the legacy of Italian Futurist composer Lui ...

The 27 March edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Chuquimamani-Condori & Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, Quade, Goldie, Angel Bat Dawid & Naima ...

The 3 April edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by OHYUNG, Raisa K, Nazar, Roberto Cassani & Graeme Stephen, Rainy Miller, Seven Angels, KLAUDIO ...

Cafe OTO’s Fielding Hope selects ten pieces which reflect the breadth and diversity of the venue’s lockdown label, which is being wound down after 195 releases ...