Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) present a special Wire mix ahead of the publication of Dismantling The ...

In The Wire 491/492, Drew Daniel recounts a dream of a strange new music style, whose subsequent online virality revealed the need to test the limits of genres ...

Stream two tracks from Aleksi Perälä's forthcoming release using the Perälä and Grant Wilson-Claridge's custom musical scale, the Colundi Sequence. Perälä and Wilson-Claridge's creation is covered by ...

Current 93's David Tibet made his first mark in the 'Industrial' culture of the early 1980s even though the was skeptical of the Industrial formula equating inept noise with socially 'transgressive' ...

This is another shepherd's melody from the Balkans adapted to the violin of Alexis Zoumbas. Probably the saddest 78 that I own. Recorded in New York City in 1928.

The follow-up to last year’s Hour Logic saw the Brooklyn based electronic musician explore darker, more disorienting sonic territory than its Acid-bright predecessor, with increasingly waterlogged ...

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

50 records of the year as voted for by The Wire's writers.

It seems virtually unthinkable now to merely label Tony Conrad a film maker, but in the 1970s and 80s, with none of the music he made in the 1960s alongside La Monte Young and John Cale released, and ...

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