The influential grime producer Terror Danjah (real name Rodney Pryce) has died. As a tribute, we have made his Invisible ...

“DJ Spoony, one of the original pioneers of the UK garage scene,” read the email from London’s Barbican centre, “has joined ...

In addition to all the above, Lunch is notable for being one of the only artists to be featured in the Invisible Jukebox twice, having previously been tested by Hopey Glass in The Wire 114 in August ...

In The Wire 493, George Rayner-Law argues that as interest in English folk song grows once again, practitioners, critics and listeners should consider carefully the ideological currents beneath the su ...

Negative reviews have been sidelined in an era of commercial pressures and microscenes that celebrate themselves, but ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 493. Inside our brand new issue: Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on new album PLEASE COME ...

As a global community of artists, we can learn to be more sensitive to the needs of Indigenous artists and communities, but it means adopting a willingness to move beyond escapism towards an aware and ...

The 16 January edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured a guest mix by Lebanese musician, producer and sound engineer Fadi Tabbal, plus music by Grup Ses & ...

In the eyes of the West, Asia has historically been a Janus-faced entity – both the source of a Yellow Peril that threatens to take over Western civilisation and a land filled with exotic wonder.

In 1998 producer Francis Falceto launched the invaluable Éthiopiques series on the French label Buda Musique, an effort that steadily introduced the music of modern Ethiopia – particularly figures ...