In The Wire 495, Hugh Morris argues that the word jazzy denotes a cluster of cliches that neglects to engage with jazz itself ...

Following the release of a new LP by the Orchestra Of Futurist Noise Intoners, director Luciano Chessa and Sanatorium Of Sound director Gerard Lebik discuss the legacy of Italian Futurist composer Lui ...

Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them ...

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 495 it is the turn of ...

The full chart: Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das SSAC42 (Infinite Machine) Rex Casswell Blood From A Stone (scatterArchive) Chuquimamani-Condori & Joshua Chuquimia Crampton Los Thuthanaka (Self-released) ...

New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical tunings and transformed instruments. By Chal Ravens. Inside: Satch Hoyt : The one-time Burnt Sugar member’s Un-Muting project ...

Volume 47 of The Wire ’s subscriber-only download series includes tracks by Larry Wish, Bianca Scout, Semay Wu, Abdullah Miniawy, Ava Mendoza & Malcom Mooney, Lulenga, and more ...

Clipping Dead Channel Sky Sub Pop CD/DL/2xLP . Black Rain Neuromancer Room40 DL/LP . Some context: William Gibson’s Neuromancer first came out in 1984, the same year that the hi ...

South West Improvisers Group creates spontaneous music with a cast of seasoned players from in and around Bristol including Raph Clarkson, Kay Grant, Rich Hughes, Mark Langford and Luigi Marino. Plus ...

Osaka is one of the beating hearts of Japanese experimental music, historically home to artists such as Masonna, Hijokaidan, Incapacitants and Boredoms, as well as the Alchemy Records label. It’s also ...