To accompany his report on Cardboard Club in The Wire 494, Spenser Tomson explores a playlist selected by label boss Robert Ridley-Shackleton ...

His latest project is The Love Pretender, the second album from Spiral Deluxe, a jazz fusion quartet with Moog player Yumiko ...

In William S Burroughs’s final diary entry, dated two days before his death in 1997, the surrealist iconoclast recalls a friend referring to him as the saddest man in the world. “How can a man who ...

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 ...

2025 marks ten years of activity for the Łódź, Poland headquartered Pointless Geometry label. During that time it has focused on releasing music by artists from across Poland, embracing the plurality ...

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 ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 493. Inside our brand new issue: Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on new album PLEASE COME ...

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 ...

Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes ...

Taipei’s underground rock scene has been evolving over the past few decades. But since around 2010, a generation of musicians exploring their own takes on psychedelia through synthesizers, warped ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 490. Inside our brand new issue: A R Kane: The dreampop originators return with an archival retrospective, live performances – ...