Listen to the music we played Gina Birch in her Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 498 Each month in the magazine we ...

Simon Coates compiles an annotated playlist to go with his report on Manila’s underground music scenes in The Wire 498 ...

An Anglophile New Yorker living on the south coast of England, Peter Shapiro started writing for The Wire in 1994 in issue 128; his first two pieces included a review which conflated two of his ...

Transdisciplinary learning experience organised by experimental choir Musarc. With workshops, talks by artists including Loré Lixenberg, satellite events in the city, and the collaborative creation of ...

Dub producer, musician and songwriter Bovell is the guest selector alongside regular host, reggae historian and DJ David Katz. The evening starts with a Q&A at 7:45pm. London Upstairs At The Ritzy, 9 ...

Louis Moholo-Moholo (10 March 1940–13 June 2025) June 2025 Louis Moholo-Moholo in The Wire 400, London, June 2017. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff & Guy Bolongaro ...

Textually hyperdense and accelerated for the televisual age, the multimedia music theatre of composer Robert Ashley has been called the future of opera, as well as the first to exploit the unique ...

SEM FIO: Sintonizando Novas Frequências (WIRELESS: Tuning Into Novas Frequências) is a short film that attempts to capture something of Rio de Janeiro’s cultural life via its annual experimental music ...

The Wire 's latest 20 track CD, free to all readers.

Chris Bohn presents Adventures In Sound And Music June 2025 Clockwise from top left: Matthew Shipp by Anna Yatskevich; Felix Kubin by Roger Deckker; AGF by Lumi Ripatti; Otaco by Miri Matsufuji ...

On first listening, the striking eighth album from seven piece Ohio collective Mourning [A] BLKstar boasts a palpable sense of its own significance. Which is not to say that it feels self-important.