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 ...

The 26 June edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show featured tracks by Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann, Swans, Błoto, Anna Nacher & Marek Styczyński, Otaco, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker and more ...

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

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

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 ...

January 2014 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 ...

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. Rawes launched the London Sound Survey (LSS) in ...

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 ...

13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art & Music Jennifer Walshe Fundacja Tone Pbk 52pp “I’m both sublimely excited and blackly horrified about what is coming,” wrote Jennifer Walshe in “Ghosts Of The Hidden ...

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 ...