In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black ...

Spotify’s partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history ...

The reissued early 1990s output of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns aka The Sabres Of Paradise still cuts deep, writes Ken Hollings in The Wire 498 ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's Top 50 Releases Of The Year, as voted for by The Wire 's contributors. You can read more about the artists featured in our chart, as well as those ...

The Wire writer Francis Gooding and magazine editor Akshi Singh are the organisers of this decolonial spin on an old favouritie with questions on global food, music and sport, colonial histories, ...

A weekend of art, music and film in celebration of the recently departed The Pop Group vocalist, songwriter, producer, collaborator and agitator. Includes an exhibition of visual art by Stewart and ...

To accompany his report on Artetetra in The Wire 498, Miloš Hroch explores a playlist of recent releases from the Italian cassette label ...

Simon Coates compiles an annotated playlist to go with his report on Manila’s underground music scenes in The Wire 498 ...

Issue 498 August 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 498. Inside our brand new issue: Bill Orcutt: The late blooming career of the former Harry Pussy ...

An Anglophile New Yorker living on the south coast of England, Peter Shapiro started writing for The Wire in 1994 in issue 128; his first two pieces included a review which conflated two of his ...

Joseph Stannard presents Adventures In Sound And Music July 2025 Clockwise from top left: Susu Laroche by Laurie Lynch, Bob Vylan by Malini Vaja, K Of Arc by Xanthe Hutchinson, OSEES by JPD ...

Each month in the magazine we play an artist or group a series of tracks which they are asked to comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear. In The Wire 498 it is the turn of ...