Philip Brophy analyses Colin Stetson’s use of the saxophone’s physical dimensions to evoke the disturbed voices and bodies of Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) and Hereditary (2018) ...

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Leisha Thomas – aka Alpha Maid – compiles an annotated playlist that charts her work alongside and within the South London experimental scene that also includes Mica Levi and Coby Sey ...

The 15 January edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Christina Kubisch, Klein, Magda Drozd and many more ...

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 ...

For several years, the supposed death of the band has been cropping up in state-of-the-nation style music discourse. The obvious culprit? Financial hurdles of the sort that even successful bands can ...

To make sense of ongoing tech revolutions, a new generation of musicians is making music that metabolises electronic processes through analogue forms, argues Ryan Meehan The progressive music scene ...

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The US filmmaker has died aged 78. As a tribute, we have made the extended cover feature on Lynch that appeared in The Wire 486 free to read in our online library. The feature includes a cover ...

The writer, theorist and Wire contributor Mark Fisher died on 13 January. He was 48.

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 ...

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