The latest album from UK ensemble Hen Ogledd is a striking invocation of the mythic and mundane, writes Abi Bliss in The Wire 505 ...

To accompany his report on Computer Students in The Wire 505, Louis Pattison explores a playlist of releases from the Italy based label ...

50 Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten releases of 2025 then added up the votes ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 505. Inside our brand new issue: dälek: The New Jersey hiphop duo’s new album continues an extraordinary orbit taking in ...

The 5 February edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Hen Ogledd, Kareem Samara, Unidad Ideológica, Laurel Halo and many more ...

Watch exclusive footage of Saul Williams performing with Carlos Niño & Friends, featuring Surya Botofasina, recorded at Le Guess Who? in November 2025 This concert film of Saul Williams with Carlos ...

Each month in the magazine we play an artist or group a series of tracks which they are asked to comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear. In The Wire 505 it is the turn of ...

The 29 January edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Jawnino & SURF GANG, John T Gast, Tanat Teeradakorn, OHYUNG, Alan Vega and more ...

Pizza Noise Mafia is a Brussels-based electronic duo of Matthieu Levet (Carrageenan, Carcass Identity) and Thibault Gondard (TG Gondard, Colombey) armed with just a drum machine and a synthesizer.

Music can act on listeners in ways that Western modes of engagement and criticism overlook or erase, argues Moravian composer and vocalist Julia Úlehla in The Wire 505 I’ve just given a keynote ...

funcionário is Pedro Tavares’s solo project, focussing primarily on day-to-day experiences and interactions, the power of sound as a bridge between memory and the imagination that interprets it. In ...

“We had a long conversation about the openended and continually transforming elements of folk music,” says banjo and shruti box player Jacken Elswyth, describing the preparations for Shovel Dance ...