Listen to the music we played Gina Birch in her Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 498 Each month in the magazine we ...

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

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 10 July edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show featured tracks by Ho99o9, Giant Claw, SANAM, Ovo, Chicago Underground ...

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 ...

Ian Rawes, the sound recordist and archivist best known for founding the London Sound Survey website, has died following a short illness. He was 56.

The 3 July edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show featured tracks by Susu Laroche, Rufige Kru, Youth Code, The Sabres Of Paradise, Alien Boys, OSEES and more ...

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 ...

The Pere Ubu singer has died at the age of 71. As a tribute we have made a number of articles on him and the group free to read in the online library Like Mark E Smith and The Fall, David Thomas and ...

Issue 495 May 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 495. Inside our brand new issue: aya: New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical ...

Issue 494 April 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 494. Inside our brand new issue: Raven Chacon: The Diné/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced ...

The UK outsider singer-songwriter has died aged 81. As a tribute, we have made Rob Young’s 2005 interview in The Wire 253 free to read in our online library.