The 30 April edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Winged Wheel, Egg Meat, Guttersnipe, Larry Wish and more

To complement his interview in The Wire 507, US bassist and composer Jair-Rohm Parker Wells creates an exclusive Wire mix

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

The story of Yoko Ono’s life and work provides a lens for examining the catalytic avant garde art movements of the mid-20th century, writes Mark Webber in The Wire 507

Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of experimental music for over 40 years; here are some examples of his visual art

In October 2025, The Arcade Orchestra formed to play a tribute concert for New Zealand musician Dean Roberts, who died in 2024

Listen to the music we played to the Can keyboardist during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 507

The 9 April edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Sunn O))), Eek-A-Mouse + Sly & Robbie, Kaloja, Shewolff and more

To accompany his article on Hive Mind The Wire 507, Daniel Spicer compiles an annotated playlist of tracks from the Brighton based label

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

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Volume 50 of The Wire’s subscriber only download compilation is a bumper edition featuring 27 tracks by ans m, E The Artist, Isabelle Duthoite, Girl Pusher, Jay Mitta, Kareem Samara, Only Now and more

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

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our May 2026 issue

The 26 March edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by HYPER GAL, Masayo Koketsu & Nava Dunkelman, ANSIEDAD1000, EXIT ELECTRONICS and more

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Daniel Lopatin's score for Uncut Gems (2019) and its context within an aesthetic of ‘bling’

To accompany his article on Drowned By Locals in The Wire 506, Miloš Hroch compiles an annotated playlist of tracks from the Jordan based label

The 19 March edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Tara Clerkin Trio, Wendy Eisenberg, Carlos Giffoni, Zeal Minus and more

To accompany his Primer on Augustus Pablo in The Wire 506, Derek Walmsley compiles a selection of the Jamaican melodica wizard's lesser known cuts

US poet Clark Coolidge speaks to Joel Lewis about the new publication of Rock Notes, originally conceived in 1966 with fellow poet Tom Clark – a collection of riffs and musings on the burgeoning rock music of the era

Jo Hutton remembers the French composer and electronic music pioneer who died in February aged 94

The 12 March edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Jessica Ekomane, Machinefabriek, OHYUNG, Eva Novoa and more

Listen to the music we played to Yellow Swans during their Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 506

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our April 2026 issue

London’s Metropolitan Police persecutes UK rap while using it for self-promotion, argues Hugh Morris in The Wire 506

The 5 March edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured an exclusive guest mix by Mary Ocher, plus tracks by Toni Geitani, Junior Delgado, BCUC and more

To accompany their interview in The Wire 505, Lisbon based DJ Firmeza, DJ Danifox and DJ N***a Fox, aka O Ghettão, curate an exclusive mix of unreleased material

The 26 February edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Carl Stone & Asuna, Butter Swamp, Still House Plants, Enno Velthuys and Éliane Radigue

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers scores by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, who creates an aesthetic of decay for a Black context

To complement their cover feature in The Wire 505, Will Brooks and Mike Manteca aka dälek curate a special Wire mix, while Joseph Stannard shares additional quotes from his interview with the New Jersey duo

The 19 February edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by The Brides Of Funkenstein, Kavari, K Alexi, The Poor Luckies and more

To accompany his report on Computer Students in The Wire 505, Louis Pattison explores a playlist of releases from the Italy based label

The latest album from UK ensemble Hen Ogledd is a striking invocation of the mythic and mundane, writes Abi Bliss in The Wire 505

The 12 February edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Carlos Giffoni, Maggie Nicols, Sheng Jie & Shenggy, Seppuku Pistols and many more

In the introduction to her collection of writings on Tom Wilson, Anaïs Ngbanzo gives an overview of the influential producer's life

Music can act on listeners in ways that Western modes of engagement and criticism overlook or erase, argues Moravian composer and vocalist Julia Úlehla in The Wire 505

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our March 2026 issue

After ten years the European SHAPE+ project has concluded. This is the final collection of new electronic and experimental music by artists associated with the project compiled and annotated by SHAPE+ for The Wire

Like all releases in the Below The Radar series, this edition can be downloaded by both print and digital subscribers to The Wire.

The 5 February edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Hen Ogledd, Kareem Samara, Unidad Ideológica, Laurel Halo and many more

Listen to the music we played to Daniel Blumberg during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 505

The 29 January edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Jawnino & SURF GANG, John T Gast, Tanat Teeradakorn, OHYUNG, Alan Vega and more

As AI use spreads further into the creative industries, platforms like Bandcamp must be bold in their efforts to sort the good faith from the bad, argues Erick Bradshaw

Watch exclusive footage of Saul Williams performing with Carlos Niño & Friends, featuring Surya Botofasina, recorded at Le Guess Who? in November 2025

In the first essay of a short series exploring Bandcamp’s ban on AI-generated music, Vicki Bennett argues that the platform’s decision rests on the belief in a stable binary between computer and human made music

The 22 January edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Jessica Williams, Yellow Swans, RP Boo, Kavari and more

To complement her interview in The Wire 503/504, Irish composer and filmmaker Hilary Woods curates an exclusive Wire mix

Philip Brophy analyses Colin Stetson’s use of the saxophone’s physical dimensions to evoke the disturbed voices and bodies of Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) and Hereditary (2018)

Leisha Thomas – aka Alpha Maid – compiles an annotated playlist that charts her work alongside and within the South London experimental scene that also includes Mica Levi and Coby Sey

The 15 January edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Christina Kubisch, Klein, Magda Drozd and many more

In The Wire 503/504, Seymour Wright appraises the hardcore saxophony of French musician Jean-Luc Guionnet

In an extract from his new book, co-authored with Kennedy Block, Josh MacPhee outlines the role of workers' songs and the making of records in supporting labour movements in the US

To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan

To accompany his report on Warm Winters Ltd in The Wire 503/504, Antonio Poscic explores a playlist of releases from the Bratislava based label

Far beyond novelty or experiment, 2025 was the year that crossover projects rejected genre labels for endless sonic possibilities, writes Stewart Smith in The Wire 503/504

In The Wire 503/504, Xenia Benivolski writes that as the speed of events and information flows increases, drone based slowness offers another mode of perception

Traditional instruments, folk cultures and mythic ideas of futurity offer slip roads exiting AI’s highway to a hollow future, argues Daryl Worthington in The Wire 503/504

London’s extensive railway infrastructure is both a refuge for DIY nightlife and under threat from gentrification, writes Deborah Nash in The Wire 503/504

In The Wire 503/504, Lucy Thraves argues that luxury labels and conglomerates are keen to purchase some avant garde glory, but at a cost to experimental music and the ecosystem that supports it

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy explores how the signifiers of Black musics in Swarm are fragmented to indicate its main character’s psychosis

The music industry's uptake of AI complicates the boundaries between listener, artist and music in troubling new ways, argues DeForrest Brown, Jr

From the mainstream to the margins, bands were once again in decline in 2025, writes Antonio Poscic

DIY online radio stations allow humanity and personality to surface in a tide of soulless and reductive algorithmic playlists, argues Paul Rekret in The Wire 503/504

The 18 December edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music from The Wire's Top 50 Releases of the Year, including Natural Information Society, DJ Haram and Valentina Magaletti & YPY

The Wire’s Releases of the Year chart for 2025 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full

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 those featured in the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year, in The Wire 503/504

The 11 December edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Martin Dupont, Brandy Dalton, Lolina, Los Thuthanaka and more

Seth Wheeler curates a playlist of tracks connected to the anarcho-punk archive in London’s MayDay Rooms

Listen to the music we played to Ikonika during their Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 503/4

Volume 49 of The Wire’s subscriber only download compilation includes tracks by Hilary Woods, Lo Egin, Nika Ticciati & Beth Veasey, S280F, Deer Park, Yuhan Su, otta & Powerplant and more

The London based MayDay Rooms’ anarcho-punk archive is a valuable resource for radical cultures and politics today, writes Seth Wheeler in The Wire 503/4

The 4 December edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Rupert Hine, NOWHERE2RUN, Shudder To Think, Deliluh, Qasu and more

The 27 November edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra included music by Ipek Gorgun, Leslie Keffer, Anna Schnabel, Laibach, Hamid Drake & Pat Thomas and more

To accompany her report on glint music in The Wire 502, Misha Farrant explores a playlist of releases from the enigmatic South London label

Abi Bliss reviews a new project that draws on the sound archive of BBC Radiophonic Workshop co-founder and electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram in The Wire 502

Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October

The 20 November edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra included music by Mulatu Astatke, Anna Högberg Attack, Test Dept, Alexander Hawkins & Taylor Ho Bynum and more

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy analyses the musicalisation of purgatory in Japanese sci-fi series Alice In Borderland

In an extract from his new book, Mike Adcock explores the aural properties of stone and introduces some notable figures in the development of lithophones

The 13 November edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra included music by Malibu, Godflesh, Zuli, Širom, Hilary Woods and more

Translation Loss Records and Pro Sound Effects share an exclusive early stream of Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet’s I Thought I Heard A Stranger

Listen to the music we played to Test Dept during their Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 502

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our December 2025 issue

In The Wire 502, Holly Dicker argues that in a post-pandemic age dominated by social media and celebrity, the physical engagement and countercultural spirit of rave is under imminent threat

The 6 November edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra included music by Ivor Cutler, Teoniki Rożynek, TAAHLIAH, Kalia Vandever, Marianne Faithfull, and more

Juan San Cristóbal Lizama speaks to the Colombian duo Chúpame El Dedo to compile a playlist of music from Bogotá’s lively cumbia scene

The 30 October edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra included seasonal film scores by Popol Vuh, Tangerine Dream, Ennio Morricone, Fabio Frizzi and many more

The US drummer, pianist and composer died on 26 October aged 83. In the February 1989 issue of The Wire, he was interviewed by the magazine’s then editor Richard Cook. As a tribute, we have made that article free to read in our online library

Nyahh Records’ label runner Willie Stewart compiles a playlist to accompany new boxset The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection Of Radical, Experimental & Irrelevant Music From 1970s San Diego, a companion to Bill Perrine’s book of the same name

The 23 October edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra included a special guest mix by Cairo-based DJ, producer and multidisciplinary artist El Kontessa, plus tracks by Alien Trackers, Sanaa Moussa and more

Pierre Crépon selects tracks from the catalogue of US saxophonist Sonny Simmons, with input from Marc Chaloin, co-author of new autobiography Better Do It Now Before You Die Later

To accompany their interview in The Wire 501, Bristol duo Kinlaw & Franco Franco curates an exclusive Wire mix of celestial musings, cyber-noir, and trappist beats