Like Mark E Smith and The Fall, David Thomas and Pere Ubu were featured in The Wire early on in the life of the magazine, when it was still primarily concerned with jazz and improvised music. Thomas ...

Josh Feola compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on the Danish capital’s DIY underground in The Wire 495 ...

In the third instalment of his rebooted Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy analyses two horror scores by Gazelle Twin – Black Cab (2024) and Nocturne (2020) – and considers how psychol ...

In The Wire 495, Daniel Spicer reviews five albums that form part of a Strata-East reissue programme that celebrates the rich legacy of the New York label ...

The 1 May edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Nadah El Shazly, Arturas Bumsteinas, Wukir Suryadi, Li Jianhong, IZ, Noor Zehra Kazim, Der ...

Zurich based duo Sopraterra comprises Polish composer Magda Drozd and Italian artist Nicola Genovese. Their debut album, Seven Dances To Embrace The Hollow, is a joint release by Präsens Editionen, a ...

Born in Czechoslovakia, Gruska studied at Institute of Sonology in The Hague, the Netherlands, and at Music Academy in Krakow, Poland. His ...

The 24 April edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Sun Ra, Ambrose Akinmusire, Stefan Niculescu, Ukandanz, Maggie Nicols & Dan Johnson, Chris ...