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...

Tonight on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra, Misha Farrant hosts The Wire's weekly radio show, playing music by Diamanda Galás (pictured), Labake Sabbath, ST AGNIS, Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti, and many more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 by Logan White

Sonny Rollins (7 September 1930–25 May 2026) The great saxophonist has died aged 95. We have made the cover story from The Wire 18 free to read in our online library, including Richard Cook’s interview, and Stuart Nicholson’s essay on 1956's Saxophone Colossus. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...

Inside The Wire 509: Ibrahim Alfa Jnr Despite health issues and personal setbacks, the prolific techno explorer has never lost his faith in the liberating possibilities of electronic music. Read the full interview in The Wire 508 www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

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 Scott Walker, Marvin Tate, Fire-Toolz, Rosa Pistola and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

At The Wire website, read an extract from Graeme Thomson’s In Another World: The Four Seasons Of Talk Talk, which comes out today via New Modern. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, @lucythraves.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing music by Infinite Livez (pictured), Fire-Toolz, Marvin Tate, Rosa Pistola and more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 by Tom Oldham

US field recordist, DJ and composer Jake Muir transforms metal’s quieter moments into striking evocations of place, writes James Gormley in The Wire 508 www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Inside The Wire 508: Asher Gamedze The South African percussionist and bandleader explores both the possibilities of jazz rhythms and the splintered histories of diasporic players. Read the full interview inside The Wire 508 www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

As music venues across London struggle with mounting costs, sound system events are putting down roots in community centres and other ad hoc spaces, writes Derek Walmsley in The Wire 508. Read the full essay: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

Listen back to last night's episode of The Wire’s weekly radio show, which was hosted by James Gormley and featured music by Lekan Animashaun, Meiko Kaji, Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie and more. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, James Gormley will be hosting The Wire's Adventures In Sound And Music, playing new, forthcoming and reissued music by Lekan Animashaun, Onilu, Julius Eastman (pictured) and many more... Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule

To accompany his feature on French improv label Potlatch in The Wire 508, Seymour Wright compiles an annotated playlist from across the label’s 30 year history www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

At The Wire website, listen to the music we played to noise rock duo Guttersnipe during their Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 508 - featuring Sunik Kim, Sun Ra, Xasthur and more. Subscribers can read the full interview in The Wire 508, out now. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

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 508 above.

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

After taking a couple months off to finish my dissertation, I'm back on noise duty in this issue.

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Listen back to last night's episode of Adventures In Sound And Music, which was hosted by Shane Woolman and featured an exclusive guest mix by Everything Is Psychedelic, plus tracks by Troubleman, Tegh & Adel Poursamadi, Orange Car Crash and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Lovely new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is out! Inside I interviewed Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier about their fascinating practice, from spectacular object-oriented improvisation to intricate mapping of space + reviewed the Vladislav Delay Quintet record. Grab a mag online or in a shop!

Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Shane Woolman will be hosting an exclusive guest mix from Everything Is Psychedelic (pictured), plus tracks from Tegh & Adel Poursamadi, cop_porn, Sandy Chamoun and more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Rogier Boogaard

Lovely new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social! I'm especially looking forward to reading @drstewartsmith.bsky.social's Invisible Jukebox with Guttersnipe. On my end, I went long on a pair of sublime releases: Los Thuthanaka's 𝘞𝘢𝘬'𝘢 EP and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton's 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘢.

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toot toot new wire! from moi: an interview with EGG MEAT about melding music and poetry; reviews of new releases from LINTD and devin townsend; reviews of reissues from scritti politti (one of my all time fav albums) and brion gysin (not good sorry king). buy a magazine!!!!!!

The Wire 508 is out now! Featuring Seefeel on the cover, plus Ibrahim Alfa Jnr, Asher Gamedze, Magic Tuber Stringband, Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier, Guttersnipe's Jukebox, KINACT, Egg Meat, Paul Pinto and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

Listen back to last Thursday's episode of Adventures In Sound And Music, hosted by @saving-throw.bsky.social and featuring tracks by Winged Wheel, Egg Meat, Guttersnipe, Larry Wish and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

To complement his interview in The Wire 507, US bassist and composer Jair-Rohm Parker Wells creates an exclusive Wire mix www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

The story of Yoko Ono’s life and work provides a lens for examining the catalytic avant garde art movements of the mid-20th century, writes Mark Webber in The Wire 507 www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Philip Brophy considers the sound of masculine sensitivity through the scores of Bryce Dessner Films discussed: C’mon C’mon (2021), We Live In Time (2024), Bardo, A False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (2022), Train Dreams (2025), and more. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

The story of Yoko Ono’s life and work provides a lens for examining the catalytic avant garde art movements of the mid-20th century, writes Mark Webber in The Wire 507 www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Inside The Wire 507: Brion Gysin The Beat-adjacent conceptualist's collaborator Ramuntcho Matta discusses Gysin's immense impact on literature, music, cut-ups and collages, as revealed in a Paris exhibition By Daniel Spicer www.thewire.co.uk/issues/507

Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of experimental music for over 40 years; here are some examples of his visual art. www.thewire.co.uk/galleries/ga...

In October 2025, The Arcade Orchestra formed to play a tribute concert for New Zealand musician Dean Roberts, who died in 2024. This is the recording of that performance. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Inside The Wire 507: Delphine Dora Often singing in an invented language, the French composer channels poetry, spiritual writings and folk traditions in a search for a deeper experience of inner life www.thewire.co.uk/issues/507

Invisible Jukebox mix: Irmin Schmidt Listen to the music we played to the Can keyboardist during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 507 - featuring The Fall, James Brown, Mica Levi, Aphex Twin and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

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 Sunn O))), Eek-A-Mouse + Sly & Robbie, Kaloja, Shewolff and more. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

Sun shining, coffee and @thewiremagazine.bsky.social. So much music to check out from Invisible Jukebox as ever.

To accompany his article on Hive Mind The Wire 507, Daniel Spicer compiles an annotated playlist of tracks from the Brighton based label www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Inside The Wire 507: The Sleeves "In that world [of improvising] it can be so exciting, but there can be a little bit of a fear around repeating anything ... It's so nice to sit on something, especially if you lock in with someone..." Read the full article in The Wire 507. www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

Against The Grain: London’s last jukeboxes The few remaining jukeboxes in London’s pubs and bars salvage a mode of music consumption from the junkyards of history, argues Deborah Nash in The Wire 507. Read the article in full here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

A highlight of every month - who wouldn't want to read Irmin Schmidt's Invisible Jukebox in the latest issue, or Sunn O))) on Rothko and landscape? Other mags are full of lists and archive reprints but The Wire is always fresh and forward looking. And subscribers can access their amazing archive...

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An annual message from The Wire Publishing an independent music magazine is tougher than ever. We need your continuing support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Tonight on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, @jjstannard.bsky.social hosts The Wire's weekly radio show, delivering a deluge of delights including tracks by 808 State vs Humanoid, Kristen Gallerneaux, Sunn O))) (pictured) and more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Charles Peterson

We’re celebrating 50 editions of Below The Radar, our regular subscriber only compilation of experimental underground music. Volume 50 is a bumper edition, featuring tracks by by Blood of Aza, Ponyclub Tartiflette, Female Wizard, Tanat Teeradakorn, and many more. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/btr/

Below The Radar 50! Print & digital subscribers of The Wire can now stream and download the latest bumper edition of Below The Radar - our regular subscriber compilation of underground music, featuring 27 tracks, by ans m, E The Artist, and many more. 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 Chris Bohn and featured tracks by badbluebirdz, Lao Dan Chicago Quartet, Albert Ayler Quintet, Bettina Koster and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

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

Tonight on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, Chris Bohn hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing tracks by Albert Ayler Quintet, Black Nile, and Lucy Liyou (pictured) + a special tribute to Mania D/Malaria!’s singer/saxophonist, Bettina Koester. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule