Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) present a special Wire mix ahead of the publication of Dismantling The ...

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 ...

Ergot Records label head Adrian Rew finds readymade plunderphonics and corporate mind control on the gambling floor. I crossed the threshold of my first casino floor in Cleveland, Ohio, last March.

Darren Cunningham’s supple, warm, second album of ‘R&B concrète’ was equal parts pop constructivism and humid club compulsiveness. Informed as much by 1980s pop as House and Techno, his meticulous ...

Introducing this compendium of tracks tied to my feature in The Wire 385 about the church organ as a source of new sounds, here’s Fats Waller transforming the king of instruments into a faux-big band, ...

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

Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith Clarissa ...

Sarah Angliss traces the vocal-throwing art's continued persistence in the face of obsolescence, and the peculiar relationship between performers and their knee pals. On 26 January 1926 a handful of ...