In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black ...

The reissued early 1990s output of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns aka The Sabres Of Paradise still cuts deep, writes Ken Hollings in The Wire 498 ...

The drummer Kyasu has played in Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha among other ensembles. When he performs solo, he improvises wildly with just a snare drum. The Leeds date is a rare solo performance with a ...

Jem Finer's 1000-year composition can be heard in the main space of this Whitby art gallery relayed by a live internet transmission from its home in London's Lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf. The ...

The Wire writer Francis Gooding and magazine editor Akshi Singh are the organisers of this decolonial spin on an old favouritie with questions on global food, music and sport, colonial histories, ...

Spotify’s partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's Top 50 Releases Of The Year, as voted for by The Wire 's contributors. You can read more about the artists featured in our chart, as well as those ...

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 ...

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 498 it is the turn of ...