To accompany his report on Computer Students in The Wire 505, Louis Pattison explores a playlist of releases from the Italy based label ...

50 Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten releases of 2025 then added up the votes ...

The latest album from UK ensemble Hen Ogledd is a striking invocation of the mythic and mundane, writes Abi Bliss in The Wire 505 ...

Music can act on listeners in ways that Western modes of engagement and criticism overlook or erase, argues Moravian composer and vocalist Julia Úlehla in The Wire 505 ...

This is a release from a show where George Finlay Ramsay and I were guests on a CURL live show with Brother May, Coby Sey and Mica Levi. We went on to do quite a few shows in this formation over a ...

The Wire’s Releases of the Year chart for 2025 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full ...

Anna Högberg Attack “Gnistran - Hematopoesi - Emlodi” 0:15:51 ...

Exhibition and festival dedicated to the political and artistic practice of the singer, actor, lawyer and activist and his partner, the author, anthropologist and civil rights activist. 12 artists – ...

Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 502. Inside our brand new issue: On the cover: Mulatu Astatke: Deep into his latest tour, the pioneering 81 year old Ethio jazz vibraphonist is finding new ways to ...

The US drummer, pianist and composer died on 26 October aged 83. In the February 1989 issue of The Wire, he was interviewed by the magazine’s then editor Richard Cook. As a tribute, we have made that ...

Alan Tomlinson died on 13 February aged 76. As a tribute to the UK trombonist and improvisor we have made Mike Barnes's 2018 interview from The Wire 413 free to read in our online library.

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 voices in his radical ...