Issue 498 August 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 498. Inside our brand new issue: Bill Orcutt: The late blooming career of the former Harry Pussy ...

The 26 June edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show featured tracks by Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann, Swans, Błoto, Anna Nacher & Marek Styczyński, Otaco, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker and more ...

In The Wire 497, Esi Eshun reviews Mourning [A] BLKstar's eighth album, Flowers For The Living, which explores strategies for resistance ...

British trans existence in 2025 is precarious, making the intersection of underground music and queer nightlife liberatory ...

According to Austrian broadcaster Kunstradio’s manifesto, radiophonic art is “radio made by artists”. 1920s post-First World War playwrights were exploring surrealism in radio drama, and producers, ...

Ian Rawes, the sound recordist and archivist best known for founding the London Sound Survey website, has died following a short illness. He was 56. Rawes launched the London Sound Survey (LSS) in ...

The 3 July edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show featured tracks by Susu Laroche, Rufige Kru, Youth Code, The Sabres Of Paradise, Alien Boys, OSEES and more ...

Tracklist Pixel Grip “Stamina” From Stamina (Bandcamp) Fatboi Sharif & Driveway “Shapeshifting At The Audubon Ballroom” From Let Me Out (Deathbomb Arc) Flying Lotus “It's Out There” From Ash OST ...

Issue 494 April 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 494. Inside our brand new issue: Raven Chacon: The Diné/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced ...

I wrote the series of essays titled “The Secret History of Film Music” in the long gone epoch of the late 1990s for The Wire (thanks to Tony Herrington and Chris Bohn). The simple idea was to cover ...

Issue 493 March 2025 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 ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’ s team of staff and contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as ...