In The Wire 494, Daniel Spicer reviews a new collection of writing and criticism by long time Wire contributor and novelist David Keenan

The Wire Salon returns in April with the first of three events exploring the relationship of AI and music. In advance, read Emily Bick’s 2023 interview with composer patten in which he discusses using AI-generated samples to map music’s infinite complexities

In The Wire 494, Mosi Reeves argues that, while women set the tone in mainstream rap, the underground hiphop scene lags far behind

The UK outsider singer-songwriter has died aged 81. As a tribute, we have made Rob Young’s 2005 interview in The Wire 253 free to read in our online library.

Philip Brophy sets out his intentions for the return of his long running Wire column on film music

In The Wire 493, Claire Biddles reviews Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score for Luca Guadagnino’s film of William S Burroughs’s semi-autobiographical novel

The influential grime producer Terror Danjah (real name Rodney Pryce) has died. As a tribute, we have made his Invisible Jukebox interview with Joe Muggs that appeared in The Wire 343 available to read for free in our online magazine library.

In The Wire 493, George Rayner-Law argues that as interest in English folk song grows once again, practitioners, critics and listeners should consider carefully the ideological currents beneath the surface

Read an extract from Nicolas Collins’s Semi-Conducting – Rambles Through The Post-Cagean Thicket, in which the author describes his early experiments with feedback

The US pedal steel guitarist passed away suddenly in January. As a tribute, we have made Peter Margasak’s 2020 interview in The Wire 442 free to read in our online magazine library.

In The Wire 491/492, Stewart Smith reviews a new autobiography by the multi-instrumentalist, composer and poet

In The Wire 491/492, John Brien argues that the humble compact disc offers efficient delivery of pure audio that bypasses the artisan fetishism of the vinyl industry

In The Wire 491/492, Peter Margasak reviews an album of inventive new settings for the compositions of Ethiopian musician Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru

In The Wire 491/492, James Gormley argues that redrawing the line between public and private space has coined a dubious new currency in sonic self-help and healing experiences

The US filmmaker has died aged 78. As a tribute, we have made the extended cover feature on Lynch that appeared in The Wire 486 free to read in our online library. The feature includes a cover designed by Lynch, an interview with the director and his music collaborator Chrystabell, and 12 pages of essays exploring the unique sound world created by his films.

In The Wire 491/492, James Gui reviews three releases that take inspiration from the world of Asian horror – with mixed results

In The Wire 491/492, Louise Gray recalls developing a new relationship to sound while bed-bound in hospital following an accident

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

In an extract from his new book, David Katz charts the emergence of Jamaica’s sound system culture in relation to social and political transformations that underpinned the country’s fight for independence