SEM FIO: Sintonizando Novas Frequências (WIRELESS: Tuning Into Novas Frequências) is a short film that attempts to capture something of Rio de Janeiro’s cultural life via its annual experimental music ...

In The Wire 497, Esi Eshun reviews Mourning [A] BLKstar's eighth album, Flowers For The Living, which explores strategies for ...

British trans existence in 2025 is precarious, making the intersection of underground music and queer nightlife liberatory ...

Listen to a recording of Wire staff member Shane Woolman ’ s closing set at this year's Stihia festival near Moynaq, ...

Louis Moholo-Moholo (10 March 1940–13 June 2025) June 2025. Louis Moholo-Moholo in The Wire 400, London, June 2017. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff & Guy Bolongaro ...

The 12 June edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Burqa Boyz, Moin, ...

Fingerpicking guitar player combining influences from American Primitive, Mississippi blues and Appalachian finger styles, with a new album Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark coming out on We Are ...

Chris Bohn hosts this edition of our weekly Thursday evening show on Resonance FM, playing new music by Anat Ben-David, Thumbscrew featuring Mary Halvorson, Stefan Jaworzyn, Keiji Haino in DJ mode, ...

The Japanese paramedia artist and digital composer has died. By way of tribute, we have made Alan Licht’s 2002 interview with Tone free to read in our online library ...

Rawes launched the London Sound Survey (LSS) in 2009 as an online platform for his field recordings of London street life, which he had started making the previous year (the first was at Petticoat ...

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 ...

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 ...