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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James Gormley presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire

1 week ago | thewire.co.uk | James Gormley

May 2025 The 29 May edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Hampus Lindwall, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Mourning [A] BLKstar, Purple Trap and more Tracklist Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme “After everything is extracted” from Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us | فقط أصوات ترتعش في أجسادنا (Bilna'es بالناقص) Hampus Lindwall “Swerve” from Brace For Impact (Ideologic Organ) Jackie-O Motherfucker “Spirits” from...
Shane Woolman presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire

2 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Shane Woolman

May 2025 The 23 May edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured an exclusive guest mix from vocalist and composer Nadah El Shazly, as well as tracks by O$VMV$M ft gnome GOD, Kin’Gongolo Kiniata, El Kontessa, Bad Sound & DJ Marfox, Miso Extra and more Tracklist O$VMV$M featuring gnome GOD “Merlin Rd 2” From Shroud Of Fear II (O$VMV$M) Riccardo La Foresta featuring Ale Hop “Prima” From ZERO,999… (OOH Sounds) Miso Extra “1013” From Queen Dem (Soul Jazz)...
Unlimited Editions: Colorfield Records

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

May 2025 To accompany his report on Colorfield Records in The Wire 496, Daniel Spicer explores a playlist co-curated with label boss Pete Min Colorfield Records is the brainchild of recording engineer and producer Pete Min, operating out of Lucy’s Meat Market, the studio he owns and runs in Northeast Los Angeles.
Emily Bick presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire

3 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Emily Bick

May 2025 The 15 May edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Marc Melià, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Nova Materia, DJ Haram, David Van Tieghem, Quinton Barnes, and many more Tracklist Marc Melià “In Simplicity We Trust” From Pièces Monophoniques (vlek) Cosey Fanni Tutti “Stound” from 2t2 (Conspiracy International) Content Provider “Endless Summer” From Endless Summer (Drowned By Locals) Nova Materia “Lo Que No Entiendes” From Current Mutations...
Invisible Jukebox mix: billy woods

3 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Mosi Reeves

May 2025 Listen to the music we played to billy woods during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 496 Each month in the magazine we play an artist or group a series of tracks which they are asked to comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear. In The Wire 496 it is the turn of rap artist and founder of Backwoodz Studioz billy woods.
Joseph Stannard presents Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire

4 weeks 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

4 weeks 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 month 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 month 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

1 month 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.