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 ...

Wire writer Louise Gray, who has written extensively on Radigue, speaks for many in Radigue’s audiences as she explains, “It was Éliane who taught me how to really listen to music, its shapes and ...

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

50 Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten releases of 2025 then added up the votes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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' ...

Alan Tomlinson died on 13 February aged 76. As a tribute to the UK trombonist and improvisor we have made Mike Barnes's 2018 interview from The Wire 413 free to read in our online library.