In The Wire 491/492, Drew Daniel recounts a dream of a strange new music style, whose subsequent online virality revealed the need to test the limits of genres ...

"A dizzying wealth of details of a peripatetic life in art." Daniel Spicer reports back from the first major museum retrospective of Chilean artist, writer, director and counter cultural magus ...

Moor Mother's Homegirls & Handgrenades Mix 0:23:51 ...

Since his early 1980s connections with the independent label Les Disques Du Crépuscule and film maker Peter Greenaway, Belgian composer Win Mertens has built considerable audiences across Europe for ...

Introducing this compendium of tracks tied to my feature in The Wire 385 about the church organ as a source of new sounds, here’s Fats Waller transforming the king of instruments into a faux-big band, ...

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 ...

This is another shepherd's melody from the Balkans adapted to the violin of Alexis Zoumbas. Probably the saddest 78 that I own. Recorded in New York City in 1928.

Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith Clarissa ...

Stream two tracks from Aleksi Perälä's forthcoming release using the Perälä and Grant Wilson-Claridge's custom musical scale, the Colundi Sequence. Perälä and Wilson-Claridge's creation is covered by ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s team of staff and contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as ...

As steady as a metronome, the bassline is what makes the whole song make sense. And Tina Weymouth’s ability to lock in with Chris Franz highlights the advantages of having a family-based rhythm ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 490. Inside our brand new issue: A R Kane: The dreampop originators return with an archival retrospective, live performances – ...