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 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 ...

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 ...

South West Improvisers Group creates spontaneous music with a cast of seasoned players from in and around Bristol including Raph Clarkson, Kay Grant, Rich Hughes, Mark Langford and Luigi Marino. Plus ...

Here you can listen to a mix of the tracks our correspondent Julian Cowley played to Alvin during the interview, which is published in full in The Wire 495. To find out what Alvin said about them, ...

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 ...

In William S Burroughs’s final diary entry, dated two days before his death in 1997, the surrealist iconoclast recalls a friend referring to him as the saddest man in the world. “How can a man who ...

The 20 February edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Tori Kudo, SBR, Cheng Daoyuan, Sophia Djebel Rose, Crystal Axis and others ...

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 ...

This volume in The Wire’s ongoing series of subscriber-only anthologies compiles 15 tracks from albums released by Cafe OTO’s in-house label Otoroku. Featuring Pat Thomas, Maggie Nicols, Loren Connors ...