His latest project is The Love Pretender, the second album from Spiral Deluxe, a jazz fusion quartet with Moog player Yumiko ...

Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as those featured in ...

Textually hyperdense and accelerated for the televisual age, the multimedia music theatre of composer Robert Ashley has been called the future of opera, as well as the first to exploit the unique ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 488. Inside our brand new issue: Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitsusha figurehead keeps pushing into ...

To accompany his report on Cardboard Club in The Wire 494, Spenser Tomson explores a playlist selected by label boss Robert Ridley-Shackleton ...

Darren Cunningham’s supple, warm, second album of ‘R&B concrète’ was equal parts pop constructivism and humid club compulsiveness. Informed as much by 1980s pop as House and Techno, his meticulous ...

Known for her experimental jazz guitar playing as both band leader and accompaniment, Boston born Mary Halvorson recently released her first record including vocals and lyrics. In light of this, as ...

Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith Clarissa ...

In William S Burroughs’s final diary entry, dated two days before his death in 1997, the surrealist iconoclast recalls a friend referring to him as the saddest man in the world. “How can a man who ...

The 27 February edition of The Wire ’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Klein, Q Lazzarus, ...

Current 93's David Tibet made his first mark in the 'Industrial' culture of the early 1980s even though the was skeptical of the Industrial formula equating inept noise with socially 'transgressive' ...