In The Wire 491/492, Stewart Smith reviews a new autobiography by the multi-instrumentalist, composer and poet ...

All systems open might be the rallying cry of artists the world over, but Mark Fell argues the case for technological limitation as a trigger for creativity. Back in the early 1980s, the synth pop ...

In The Wire 491/492, John Brien argues that the humble compact disc offers efficient delivery of pure audio that bypasses the ...

Brian Morton pays tribute to Ornette Coleman, who died on 11 June in New York of a heart attack aged 85. (Stream a playlist based on Brian's piece here.) His “Judas!” moment also happened in England.

Bulk giveaways of music online make it impossible for listeners to make any sense of an artist’s work, argues James Kirby For avid readers of this column, there can be no doubt that musical ...

The 16 January edition of The Wire ’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured a guest mix by Lebanese ...

In The Wire 491/492, James Gormley argues that redrawing the line between public and private space has coined a dubious new ...

Geeta Dayal’s interview with Ellen Fullman in The Wire 361 was moving, as Fullman talked openly and emotionally about her relationship with her invention, her long string instrument. Tricky to set up ...

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

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 ...

Ergot Records label head Adrian Rew finds readymade plunderphonics and corporate mind control on the gambling floor. I crossed the threshold of my first casino floor in Cleveland, Ohio, last March.

Clipping: Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson pool their combined experience in noise, modern composition, film scoring and performance to create abrasive mutant hiphop, as demonstrated ...