Simon Coates compiles an annotated playlist to go with his report on Manila’s underground music scenes in The Wire 498 ...

Textually hyperdense and accelerated for the televisual age, the multimedia music theatre of composer Robert Ashley has been called the future of opera, as well as the first to exploit the unique ...

The Wire 's latest 20 track CD, free to all readers.

An Anglophile New Yorker living on the south coast of England, Peter Shapiro started writing for The Wire in 1994 in issue 128; his first two pieces included a review which conflated two of his ...

Transdisciplinary learning experience organised by experimental choir Musarc. With workshops, talks by artists including Loré Lixenberg, satellite events in the city, and the collaborative creation of ...

Dub producer, musician and songwriter Bovell is the guest selector alongside regular host, reggae historian and DJ David Katz. The evening starts with a Q&A at 7:45pm. London Upstairs At The Ritzy, 9 ...

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The 26 June edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show featured tracks by Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann, Swans, Błoto, Anna ...

The 10 July edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show featured tracks by Ho99o9, Giant Claw, SANAM, Ovo, Chicago Underground ...

The 3 July edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show featured tracks by Susu Laroche, Rufige Kru, Youth Code, The Sabres Of Paradise, Alien Boys, OSEES and more ...

As a tribute to the German saxophonist who has died at the age of 82, we have made David Keenan’s epic two-part 2012 interview, as well as Daniel Spicer’s Primer guide to Brötzmann’s many recordings, ...