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

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 ...

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 ...

Noise, sound, dada and wild interplay combine when Beam Splitter – the Berlin based improvising duo of Audrey Chen (vocals) and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (trombone and electronics) – are joined by UK ...

Evening organised by Arts For Art (the people behind Vision Festival) including a roundtable discussion between artists who curate spaces around NYC to find ways to support the community – with ...

Daylong festival organised by the legendary jazz club featuring Theon Cross, Jazz Jamaica, Cosmic Fusion, Tomorrow’s Warriors Youth Ensemble, and more. London Ronnie Scott’s, 2 August, 11am–5pm, free.

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 ...

Chris Bohn presents Adventures In Sound And Music June 2025 Clockwise from top left: Matthew Shipp by Anna Yatskevich; Felix Kubin by Roger Deckker; AGF by Lumi Ripatti; Otaco by Miri Matsufuji ...