In The Wire 491/492, Drew Daniel recounts a dream of a strange new music style, whose subsequent online virality revealed the need to test the limits of genres ...

Most sound art directs its focus outward, endeavouring to create an environment which explores the sonic qualities and cultural or aesthetic resonances of an object or musical instrument, an event or ...

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 ...

Listen to the entire audio of Phil Freeman's interview with Bill Dixon including material which never made it into the printed piece. The interview is divided into individual Question and Answer ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 486. Inside our brand new issue: David Lynch & Chrystabell: As their new album Cellophane Memories marks the culmination of 20 ...

50 records of the year as voted for by The Wire's writers.

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

In The Wire 365 Torturing Nurse founder Cao Junjun (aka Junky) tells Josh Feola how the inspiration for his long running Shanghai group came in 2004, when he first encountered Japanese noise stalwarts ...

From a humble start in 2010 as a mail order distro specialising in Chinese metal, WV Sorcerer Productions has grown into an esoteric and prolific label with more than 70 releases to date. A pair of ...

Inspired by Sun Ra, Chicago based House experimentalist, noise maker and Afro-Futurist, Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal Moss has released an ever expanding cosmos of music since the 1990s. Operating ...

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 ...

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