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

The creative scope of French pianist Sophie Agnel is demonstrated across two remarkable albums, writes Stewart Smith in The Wire 501

The 16 October edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Danz CM, Pray-Pax, Joanne Robertson, Akiko Yano, Alpha Maid and more

Listen to the music we played to Lord Spikeheart during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 501

In The Wire 501, Robin James argues that the influential cultural theory of hauntology does not account for developments in Black creative practices and music of the late 20th and early 21st centuries

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

The 9 October edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Black Eyes, Eric Wetherell, GORZ, Andy Blade, Masma Dream World, and more

Felix Kubin compiles an annotated playlist of tracks from the nonconformist German label ZickZack, in honour of its founder Alfred Hilsberg who died in August

A new Foley based production at London's Royal Court Theatre invites us into the sound-making world of animals, writes Giles Bailey

Six Finger Satellite frontman and synth player J Ryan talks to Joseph Stannard about the making of the Rhode Island group’s newly reissued 1995 Severe Exposure album

The 2 October edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Klein, Raphael Rogiński & Ružičnjak Tajni, Iva Bittová, The Good Ones and more

In an extract from a new collection of writings and interviews by James Tenney – edited by Robert Wannamaker, Lauren Pratt and Tashi Wada – Douglas Kahn interviews the US Fluxus composer and theorist in 1999 about his influences and works

The Necks share a track from their forthcoming album Disquiet

The 25 September edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Anthony Moore, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Olan Monk, People Of The Wind and more

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers how Justin Hurwitz manipulates, distorts, multiplies and caricatures jazz traditions in his collaborations with director Damien Chazelle

To accompany his report on Collapsing Drums in The Wire 500, Spenser Tomson explores a playlist of releases from the pandemic-born label

The latest project from bassist Melvin Gibbs updates the bold collage techniques of 1970s Miles Davis and Teo Macero, writes Phil Freeman in The Wire 500

The 18 September edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Katokye, weed420, BBBBBBB, otta, No Disc, and many more

In an extract from his new book, Ian Thompson charts the development of Red Noise, a collection of anarchist and communist musicians brought together during the Paris protests of May 68

To accompany their interview in The Wire 500, Berlin based US composer Weston Olencki curates an exclusive Wire mix of music by their close collaborators

The 11 September edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Ornette Coleman Trio, Weston Olencki, feeo, Valentina Magaletti & YPY and many more

Listen to the music we played to Lea Bertucci during her Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 500

In The Wire 500, Mattie Colquhoun argues that critics who seek to distance themselves from cultural pessimism too often fail to deal with the unresolved impasse at the heart of 21st century pop culture

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

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers the ways in which Bobby Krlic’s psych-horror scores trap the audience in Ari Aster’s protagonists’ terror

In The Wire 499, Byron Coley reviews the final studio album by the late US troubadour Michael Hurley

To accompany his report on Ftarri in The Wire 499, Derek Walmsley explores a playlist of recent releases from the Japanese improv label

Beirut based avant rock group SANAM curate a special mix of music to accompany their interview in The Wire 499

Watch exclusive footage of Cabaret Voltaire preparing for their forthcoming performances in October and November

To complement his interview with Chris Burn in The Wire 499, Seymour Wright discusses tracks from across the musician’s varied career

Seth Wheeler and Jamila Squire compile an annotated playlist to accompany their report on Bologna’s experimental music centre in The Wire 499

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

In The Wire 499, the Moreskinsound duo of musician and writer David Toop and performance artist Ania Psenitsnikova argues that categories like music and dance limit our understanding of sound and movement

Listen to the music we played to DJ Haram during her Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 499

Volume 48 of The Wire's subscriber only download compilation includes tracks by Crystabel Efemena Riley, Meat Strap, Labake Sabbath, Violeta Garcia & Hora Lunga, Nahja Mora, Annie Bloch & Emily Wittbrodt, Master Of Inane Conversation and more

In an extract from his new book, Daniel Martin Feige outlines the basic principles and skills involved in improvisation

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black aspiration in Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) and Us (2020).

The 24 July edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show featured new and forthcoming music from Object Collection, Larum, Ziúr, Endlings + VNM, and more