In his latest Secret History Of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers the sound of masculine sensitivity through the ...

In October 2025, The Arcade Orchestra formed to play a tribute concert for New Zealand musician Dean Roberts, who died in ...

Osaka is one of the beating hearts of Japanese experimental music, historically home to artists such as Masonna, Hijokaidan, Incapacitants and Boredoms, as well as the Alchemy Records label. It’s also ...

Sharing an equal affinity for guitar noise and sound system/bass culture, London production duo Deaf Squad are made up of RZR (formerly known as Dr Colossus) and Memari Man, previously of Kings Of The ...

Watch a scene from the Finnish filmmaker and visual artist Mika Taanila's new film Failed Emptiness, featuring a score by composer Nika Son Taking inspiration from musique concrète as well as the ...

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 “‘Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St ...

Satch Hoyt: The one-time Burnt Sugar member’s Un-Muting project opens museum archives of stolen instruments. By Francis Gooding ...

Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith Clarissa ...

The 2 April edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by badbluebirdz, Lao Dan Chicago Quartet, Albert Ayler Quintet, Bettina Koster and more ...

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Since 2017, Brighton based label Hive Mind has released a diverse selection of sounds from the global underground. Founded and singlehandedly curated by Marc Teare, it presents music and sound art ...

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 507 it is the turn of ...