Support independent music journalism by subscribing to The Wire. A print subscription from the UK is less than £6.85 per month - less than the price of two barista coffees. + 11 issues of the magazine p/a + 40+ years of The Wire via the digital archive + free downloads www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

Every copy of The Wire 510 comes with a free Wire Tapper 71 CD. The latest instalment features tracks by Tegh & Adel Poursamadi, FRANTX, Tyondai Braxton and more. Wire subscribers can also download the compilation here: www.thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wi... Artwork by Rita Davis

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show, which was hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social and featured music by Roy Montgomery & Martha Skye Murphy, Space Afrika, Concepción Huerta, Niblock / Hooker / Soldier / First and more www.thewire.co.uk/about/contri...

Tonight on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social will be playing new music by Roy Montgomery & Martha Skye Murphy, Space Afrika, Concepción Huerta (pictured), Mukqs, Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński, and more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Dan Crosby

Inside The Wire 510: Once Upon A Time In Tokyo The brief but wild Tokyo Rockers scene of the late 1970s created its own spin on punk and no wave, influencing legions of experimental and confrontational music in the decade to come By Stuart Munro, 📷 by Yuichi Jibiki. www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

Support independent music journalism by subscribing to The Wire. A print subscription from the UK is less than £6.85 per month - less than the price of two barista coffees. + 11 issues of the magazine p/a + 40+ years of The Wire via the digital archive + free downloads www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

Read an extract from Simon Reynolds's Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock, 1984-1994 www.thewire.co.uk/about/contri...

Office Ambience 510 Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our August 2026 issue www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

"Wind, sand and fatigue limited what was possible." From a round-the-world bicycle trip, instrument maker and field recordist Sam Underwood reflects on the ways in which his long journey and changing environment alters his practice www.thewire.co.uk/about/artist...

Here's an extract adapted from Still In A Dream at @thewiremagazine.bsky.social - the dawn of post-rock versus the rise of Britpop, with stuff on @seefeel.bsky.social, Pulp Main + @slowdiveofficial.bsky.social www.thewire.co.uk/about/contri...

Read an extract from Simon Reynolds's Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock, 1984-1994 www.thewire.co.uk/about/contri...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, James Gormley hosts The Wire's weekly radio show, playing new and forthcoming music by Lesley Mok (pictured), Marvin Tate, Nuke Watch, Negro Leo, Victoria Mingot and more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Harald Krichel

new wire!!! soo excited to see @saving-throw.bsky.social interview fire-toolz for the cover!!! from moi: reviews of releases from mukqs, m geddes gengras, zoh amba, wild up + gloria mundi. buy a magazine!

An amazing new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is out today! With @fire-toolz.bsky.social on the cover, no less! 😻Interviewed by @saving-throw.bsky.social. On my end, I had the great pleasure of talking to the master of visceral, dystopian electronic music, Franck Vigroux!

The Wire 510 is out now! Featuring Fire-Toolz on the cover, plus DeForrest Brown Jr., Franck Vigroux, Tokyo Rockers, Carlos Giffoni, Labake Sabbath, Phil Coy, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe’s Jukebox, The Wire Tapper 71, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show, which was hosted by Shane Woolman and featured a special guest mix from Irish musician and producer kronk, alongside new music by XDCVR_, Ana Lua Caiano and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Unlimited Editions: Honiunhoni To accompany his article on Honiunhoni The Wire 509, Francis Gooding compiles an annotated playlist of tracks from the Karachi based label www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, join Shane Woolman for a special guest mix from Irish musican and producer kronk (pictured), plus a sneak listen to a track from the forthcoming Wire Tapper covermount CD and much more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy analyses how the music for the John Wick franchise serves a preoccupation with stunt-based machismo thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

Global Ear: Palermo To accompany his report in The Wire 509, Alexander Samuels compiles an annotated playlist from across the last few decades of Palermo’s underground music scene www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Listen back to last night's episode of Adventures In Sound And Music, which was hosted by @saving-throw.bsky.social and featured music by Tara Clerkin Trio, Fire-Toolz, Steve Gunn, Hawkwind and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, @saving-throw.bsky.social hosts The Wire's weekly show, playing tracks from Tara Clerkin Trio (pictured), Hans Reichel, Hawkwind, Severed Heads, The Moles and many more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 by Max D'Orsogna

I’m three tracks in to this playlist, with the first cup of morning coffee, and completely enchanted by it. After chasing paper copies of the magazine ($$$), I’m grateful to be able to subscribe to the digital edition, and read up, every month, on the wonderful and strange world of music! ❤️🙏

Abdullah Ibrahim (9 October 1934–15 June 2026) The South African pianist and composer has died aged 91. By way of tribute we have made two articles free to read in our online library: Graham Lock’s 1984 interview, and Ibrahim’s own Epiphanies column from 2021. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...

Listen back to last Thursday's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show, which was hosted by @jjstannard.bsky.social and featured tracks by Neptune, Boards Of Canada, Luke Haines and more. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Listen to the music we played to Richard Dawson during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 509 - featuring Rhodri Davies, Angeline Morrison, Quinie, Roxy Music and more. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

In the second part of a tribute to Steve Barrow, Steve Barker selects ten tracks from the catalogue of Blood & Fire, the reggae reissue label helmed by Barrow and underwritten by Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall and Elliot Rashman www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

I wrote about the unsung heroes of UK Queercore for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social including Liz Naylor + her label #Catcall, bands Sister George + Mouthfull + more!, drawing on research from my new book QUEERCORE out this week from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social ✊ www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Nice little shout out to @thewiremagazine.bsky.social being a lifeline in prison. #IbrahimAlfaJr www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Support independent music journalism by subscribing to The Wire. A print subscription is less than £6.50 per month, which is less than the price of two barista coffees. + 11 issues of the magazine p/a + 40+ years of The Wire via the digital archive + free downloads www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

James Blood Ulmer (8 February 1940–3 June 2026) The US jazz, blues, rock and funk guitarist has died aged 86. As a tribute we have made Steve Holtje’s May 1998 interview and profile from The Wire 171 free to read in our online archive. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...

In an essay accompanying the publication of her new book Queercore, Audrey Golden traces the unsung history of the genre in the UK www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Steve Barrow (29 September 1945–30 May 2026) Steve Barker gives a personal appreciation of the reggae historian and label runner who has died aged 80. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

In this edited extract of a conversation recorded at London's ICA on 25 March 2026, writer and art historian Nicolas Ballet talks to Cabaret Voltaire's Stephen Mallinder about sound, image and subversion www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/i...

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show, which was hosted by Chris Bohn and featured music by Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński, Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins, Mamer and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our July 2026 issue www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Chris Bohn hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (pictured) + Hilary Jeffery’s tribute to Keith Tippett featuring Julie Tippetts, & more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Ian Nicholson

New, awesome-packed edition of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is out. Inside I had the joy of interviewing Tomáš Šenkyřík about local field recording and the magic of tiny events, and reviewed Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke and Richard Youngs live. Support indie journalism and grab a copy if you can!

Some very cool stuff in the brand new Wire, including a great window onto the weirdo music scene over on Vancouver Island in Emily Pothast’s EarthBall feature, and I reviewed this and that including an amazing effectively new Margareth Kammerer album

my book “How Black Music Took Over The World” drops in the U.K. in 2 days, on June 4th There’s an extended review of it in the latest edition of The Wire Magazine

new wire!!! i tested richard dawson for this issue's invisible jukebox! feat. stories about emailing mike patton, the velvet underground going to the tip, getting life advice from big finnish men + more! i also review releases from shane embury, lolina + neon crabs, a goth comp + a queercore book!

Had the pleasure of speaking with the brilliant DoYeon Kim about her stunning new album Wellspring and the cosmology of the gagayeum for the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

The new issue has just dropped. It has a two-page profile of Tomáš Šenkyřík by @darylworthington.bsky.social, among other stuff. I spoke to Aldana Duoraan & Tomáš Niesner about their album Plot, which captures their unlikely combination of fingerpicked guitar and mouth harp with open horizons.

The Wire 509 is out now! Featuring EarthBall on the cover, plus DoYeon Kim, Onilu, Jocy de Oliveira, Tomáš Šenkyřík, Eoobe, Aldana Duoraan & Tomáš Niesner, Richard Dawson’s Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

In his latest Secret History Of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers how music elucidates Japan's post-war outlook in Tomoyuki Takimoto's Netflix series Straight To Hell www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

The short term answer right now is...support @thewiremagazine.bsky.social. www.paypal.com/donate?hoste...

Anton Lukoszevieze fills in the Lithuanian-American artist’s musical forms and compositional strategies: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Listen back to last night's episode of The Wire's Adventures In Sound And Music, which was hosted by Misha Farrant and featured music by Diamanda Galás, Labake Sabbath, ST AGNIS, Aho Ssan and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Anton Lukoszevieze fills in the Lithuanian-American artist’s musical forms and compositional strategies: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

In an extract from his new biography of the British jazz pianist, Martin Phillips reflects on Tippett's early forays into a solo career: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...