The Wire

The Wire is a British music magazine that takes an innovative approach, established in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood along with journalist Chrissie Murray. Originally, the magazine focused on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but in the early 1990s, it expanded its scope to include different styles of experimental music. Over the years, it has featured a diverse range of genres, such as hip hop, modern classical, free improvisation, post-rock, and various electronic music forms.

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Joseph Stannard presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire

6 days ago | thewire.co.uk | Joseph Stannard

May 2025 The 8 May edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by billy woods, Youth Code, Fatboi Sharif & Driveway, Flying Lotus, Pixel Grip, Youth Code and many more Tracklist Pixel Grip “Stamina” From Stamina (Bandcamp) Fatboi Sharif & Driveway “Shapeshifting At The Audubon Ballroom” From Let Me Out (Deathbomb Arc) Flying Lotus “It's Out There” From Ash OST (Milan) Youth Code “No Consequence” From Yours, With Malice (Sumerian) Demonologists...
“Can we think much, much weirder?”: Jennifer Walshe’s book on AI reviewed

1 week ago | thewire.co.uk | Abi Bliss

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 Layer”, an essay she delivered at Darmstadt in 2018. If the last two years have seen AI software expand from being a tool of enthusiastic nerds to mainstream ubiquity more rapidly than many anticipated – or are comfortable with – Walshe would be one of those most prepared and least surprised.
Chris Bohn presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire

1 week ago | thewire.co.uk | Chris Bohn

May 2025 The 1 May edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Nadah El Shazly, Arturas Bumsteinas, Wukir Suryadi, Li Jianhong, IZ, Noor Zehra Kazim, Der Expander Der Fortschritts and more Tracklist Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko “Zelenaia Dubrovonka” (“The Green Oak Grove”) From Hildegard (Unsound) Sundialll “Opening Chant, Sequential Ritual, Instinct Rhythm” From Hub (WV Sorcerer/Yes No Wave Music) DaYe “The Wanderer Of Renfengli”...
The Wire Issue 496

1 week ago | thewire.co.uk | Claire Biddles |Emily Pothast |Daniel Spicer |Stewart Smith

June 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 496. Inside our brand new issue: Cosey Fanni Tutti: The industrial music icon has been to Hull and back with her new album 2t2. By Claire Biddles Quinton Barnes: The Montreal rapper and producer flips the script in a new project with free musicians. By Emily Pothast David Van Tieghem: The New York percussionist who has played with everyone on the Downtown scene receives a dedicated collection of his own work.
Read an extract from Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution And The Politics Of Improvisation - The Wire

2 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Daniel Spicer

From his earliest days as a player, Brötzmann was compared to Albert Ayler. And it’s certainly true that there are many similarities between Brötzmann’s and Ayler’s sound. Both were influenced early on by Sidney Bechet, and particularly his strong, controlled vibrato. Both imbued their playing with a sense of raw, yearning – almost vulnerable – emotion.
“Untold riches await”: Strata-East reissues reviewed

2 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Daniel Spicer

Charles Tolliver’s Music Inc Live At Slugs’ Vols I & II Mack Avenue/Strata-East CD/DL/2xLP Stanley Cowell Musa: Ancestral Streams Mack Avenue/Strata-East CD/DL/LP Pharoah Sanders Izipho Zam (My Gifts) Mack Avenue/Strata-East CD/DL/LP Charlie Rouse Two Is One Mack Avenue/Strata-East CD/DL/LP Strata-East: The Legacy Begins Various Mack Avenue/Strata-East DL Strata-East Records was founded in New York in 1971 by trumpeter Charles Tolliver and pianist Stanley Cowell, drawing inspiration from...
Global Ear: Copenhagen

2 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Josh Feola

April 2025 Josh Feola compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on the Danish capital’s DIY underground in The Wire 495 A diverse group of Copenhagen artists charge the city’s cultural landscape with politically engaged, community-driven work rooted in alternative spaces like Kapelvej 44, a long-running hub for art and activism now threatened by gentrification.
Phil England presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire

2 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Phil England

April 2025 The 24 April edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Sun Ra, Ambrose Akinmusire, Stefan Niculescu, Ukandanz, Maggie Nicols & Dan Johnson, Chris Cochrane's Collapsible Shoulder Big Band, Poor Creature, and more.
Against The Grain: Hugh Morris has had enough 'jazzy'

3 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Hugh Morris

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen was too big to fail, and in many ways it didn’t. A luxury cast with considerable strength in depth excelled through 90 minutes of relentlessly bleak action. That a brand new opera felt the right length for its subject – and could have even been slightly longer – was a rarer thing still. There was even a laugh out loud moment, as tenor Allan Clayton burst through a door, Big Bird style. If only the music had been better.
Wire mix: John King - The Wire

4 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Kurt Gottschalk

Two trips charted much of the 40 years that John King has spent as a composer and performer. One was a visit to the Middle East as Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s resident composer; the other, a New England family fishing trip. Back in the 1980s, King stopped at a bait and tackle shop with his brother-in-law, when he imagined the fishing line as a violin string and started considering musical possibilities in the lures and sinkers and bobbers.