To accompany his report on Computer Students in The Wire 505, Louis Pattison explores a playlist of releases from the Italy based label www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

To complement their cover feature in The Wire 505, Will Brooks and Mike Manteca aka @daleknwk.bsky.social curate a special Wire mix, while @jjstannard.bsky.social shares additional quotes from his interview with the New Jersey duo www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Listen back to last night's episode of The Wire’s weekly radio show, which was hosted by @jjstannard.bsky.social and featured music by The Brides Of Funkenstein, Kavari, K Alexi, The Poor Luckies and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

The latest album from UK ensemble Hen Ogledd is a striking invocation of the mythic and mundane, writes Abi Bliss in The Wire 505 www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, @jjstannard.bsky.social will be playing a cornucopia of cacophony including tracks by Kavari, dälek, Eve Maret (pictured), Master’s Ashes, Spider Taylor, Knocked Loose and more. Tune in from 9pm GMT extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 by Claire Foth

To accompany his report on Computer Students in The Wire 505, Louis Pattison explores a playlist of releases from the Italy based label www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Inside The Wire 505: Vic Bang The Buenos Aires composer and sculptor moulds computer based, otherworldly shapes from an international palette of futuristic folk musics without leaving home Pick up a copy of the new issue: www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

The latest album from UK ensemble Hen Ogledd is a striking invocation of the mythic and mundane, writes Abi Bliss in The Wire 505 www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, which was hosted by Chris Bohn and featured music by Carlos Giffoni, Maggie Nicols, Sheng Jie & Shenggy, Seppuku Pistols and many more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, which was hosted by Chris Bohn and featured music by Carlos Giffoni, Maggie Nicols, Sheng Jie & Shenggy, Seppuku Pistols and many more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Read an extract from Everybody’s Head Is Open To Sound: Writings On Tom Wilson In the introduction to her collection of writings on Tom Wilson, Anaïs Ngbanzo gives an overview of the influential producer's life www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, Chris Bohn hosts The Wire’s weekly radio show, playing new music from the final Foetus album, Seppuku Pistols (pictured), the new trio of John Butcher, Ute Wassermann & Martin Blume and more. Tune in from 9pm GMT. extra.resonance.fm/schedule

Invisible Jukebox mix: Daniel Blumberg Listen to the music we played to Daniel Blumberg during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 505, featuring Scott Walker, Daniel Lopatin, Pamela Z, Trent Reznor and more. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

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 Read the full essay online here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

Have you got an idea for a Wire chart? We welcome charts from record shops, radio shows, DJs, venues, labels, musicians, readers, etc. All published charts receive a fee of £25. Email a top 15 to [email protected] – the more unusual the better. Examples from The Wire 505:

Office Ambience 505 Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our March 2026 issue www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Below The Radar Special Edition: SHAPE 2025 Like all releases in the Below The Radar series, this edition can be downloaded by both print and digital subscribers to The Wire. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/btr/be...

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra, which was hosted by Phil England and featured music by Hen Ogledd, Kareem Samara, Unidad Ideológica, Laurel Halo and many more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Invisible Jukebox mix: Daniel Blumberg Listen to the music we played to Daniel Blumberg during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 505, featuring Scott Walker, Daniel Lopatin, Pamela Z, Trent Reznor and more. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Phil England hosts The Wire's weekly show, playing new music from Shane Parish (pictured), Hen Ogledd, Tanya Tagaq, Proc Fiskal, Laurel Halo, Tashi Dorji, Praed and more. Tune in from 9pm GMT extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Petra Cvelbar

The Wire 505 is out now! Featuring dälek on the cover, plus an industrial hiphop primer, Vic Bang, Pascal Comelade, O Ghettaõ, Daniel Blumberg’s Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

I interviewed @daleknwk.bsky.social for the cover feature of this month’s @thewiremagazine.bsky.social with special guest appearances from Mats Gustafsson and @bugpressure.bsky.social

ding dong new wire!! i had THEE best time doing the invisible jukebox feature with my fav daniel blumberg!! i played him scott walker, david sylvian, pamela z +more and we talked about being mentored by david berman, working with improvisors, and how agnes varda influenced his songwriting

The Wire 505 is out now! Featuring dälek on the cover, plus an industrial hiphop primer, Vic Bang, Pascal Comelade, O Ghettaõ, Daniel Blumberg’s Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

The Wire 505. Out tomorrow. On newsstands from Thursday. Subscribe here: www.thewire.co.uk/subscriptions/

Looking forward to discovering some new (old) music thanks to this stack of CDs. @thewiremagazine.bsky.social Tapper 26-36. 2011 - 2024. Kindly gifted by @stevenpj.bsky.social as a by product of a clear out.

Listen back to last night's edition of Adventures In Sound And Music, which was hosted by Misha Farrant and featured music by Jawnino & SURF GANG, John T Gast, Tanat Teeradakorn, OHYUNG, Alan Vega and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

As AI use spreads further into the creative industries, platforms like Bandcamp must be bold in their efforts to sort the good faith from the bad, argues Erick Bradshaw www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Misha Farrant hosts Adventures In Sound & Music, playing tracks by Only Now, Shadow Wizard Money Gang, John T Gast, L, Tanat Teeradakorn, Peter Brötzmann (pictured) and more. Tune in from 9pm GMT extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Zira Koritnik

At The Wire website, watch exclusive footage of Saul Williams performing with Carlos Niño & Friends, featuring Surya Botofasina, recorded at Le Guess Who? in October 2025 www.thewire.co.uk/video/premie...

In the first essay of a short series exploring Bandcamp’s ban on AI-generated music, multidisciplinary artist Vicki Bennett argues that the platform’s decision rests on the belief in a stable binary between computer and human made music www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

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 Jessica Williams, Yellow Swans, RP Boo, Kavari and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Wire mix: Hilary Woods To complement her interview in The Wire 503/504, Irish composer and filmmaker Hilary Woods curates an exclusive Wire mix, featuring Dean Hurley, Sibylle Baier, The Caretaker, and more. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

This evening on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social plays music by Dälek, Kavari (pictured), Yellow Swans, Jessica Williams, RP Boo, Caius Williams and Tara Cunningham, and many more. Tune in from 9pm GMT extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 by Spit Turner

Colin Stetson: Hot Breath and Dark Tones Philip Brophy analyses Colin Stetson’s use of the saxophone’s physical dimensions to evoke the disturbed voices and bodies of Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) and Hereditary (2018) www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

A subscription to The Wire costs less than £6.50 per month, and delivers 40 pages of reviews, plus features, essays and columns, straight to your door, every month. Find out more: www.thewire.co.uk/subscriptions/

Wire playlist: Alpha Maid Leisha Thomas – aka Alpha Maid – compiles an annotated playlist that charts her work alongside and within the South London scene that also includes Mica Levi and Coby Sey www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Inside The Wire 503/504: Company That was the name guitarist Derek Bailey gave to the annual festival he organised in London between 1977-1994. This is the inside story of what happened when the guitarist revived Company for events in Marseille, London and New York. www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

My mind remains blown by the fact that David Lynch designed a cover for us. Wish he was still here.

Listen back to last night's episode of The Wire's Adventures In Sound And Music, hosted by James Gormley and featuring tracks by Klein, Nina Garcia, Scanner and many more. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Adventures In Sound And Music returns to the airwaves this evening on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra. James Gormley plays new and forthcoming music by Split Apex, Nina Garcia (pictured), Christina Kubisch and more. Tune in from 9pm GMT extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Philippe Servent

“One of the great living saxophonists” In The Wire 503/504, Seymour Wright appraises the hardcore saxophony of French musician Jean-Luc Guionnet Read the review in full: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Inside The Wire 503/504: Anna Högberg An exciting future for her group Attack was shelved when caring responsibilities and psychological burnout took hold. Now the Swedish saxophonist is setting out for new horizons with her epic composition Ensamseglaren www.thewire.co.uk/issues/503/504

"If producing a record is a tactic, and winning a strike is the goal, then what is the strategy?" Read an extract from Strike While the Needle Is Hot: A Discography of Workers' Revolt www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...

It gives us great pleasure to reveal the full artist line-up for Counterflows Festival, 9-12th April 2026 in Glasgow ❤️ The final allocation of festival passes are now on sale www.counterflows.com

To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

To accompany his report on Warm Winters Ltd in The Wire 503/504, @alteranthony.bsky.social explores a playlist of releases from the Bratislava based label www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Far beyond novelty or experiment, 2025 was the year that crossover projects rejected genre labels for endless sonic possibilities, writes Stewart Smith in The Wire 503/504. Read the full article here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

In The Wire 503/504, Xenia Benivolski writes that as the speed of events and information flows increases, drone based slowness offers another mode of perception Read the full essay here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Traditional instruments, folk cultures and mythic ideas of futurity offer slip roads exiting AI’s highway to a hollow future, argues @darylworthington.bsky.social in The Wire 503/504 Read the full essay online: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...