In his latest Secret History Of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers scores by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, who creates an aesthetic of decay for a Black context ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...