The Wire Magazine

The Wire 513 is out now! Featuring Matthew Shipp on the cover, plus interviews with Edward George, Tears|Ov, Gigi Masin, Nick Nicely, Tiiva, Bruno Silva, Liz Harris’s Invisible Jukebox, plus the history of prepared piano, and much more. Order your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

To accompany her feature in The Wire 513, Jo Hutton compiles an annotated mix of tracks that make use of prepared piano - featuring Contagious, Mira Calix & Siwan Rhys, Aphex Twin and more. thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/w…

Wire mix: Nick Nicely’s Psychedelia Top Ten To accompany his interview in The Wire 513, maverick songwriter Nick Nicely compiles a mix of his top ten psychedelia tracks thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/w…

Inside The Wire 513: Tears|Ov In a new work referencing 9/11, London’s performance art trio mix Burroughsian cut-ups with absurdist clowning to find the truth. By Ilia Rogatchevski. Photography by Amy D’Agorne Pick up your copy of the latest issue here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show, which was hosted by Chris Bohn and featured music by Joshua Burkett, Lisa Nanzaki, Wadada Leo Smith, Test Dept, Deficit & Letargy and more. thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/c…

To accompany his Global Ear feature in The Wire 513, Christiaan de Wit compiles an annotated playlist of tracks from the neighbouring Dutch cities thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/g…

Tonight on @ResonanceFM & @ResonanceEXTRA, Chris Bohn hosts The Wire's weekly show, visiting Joshua Burkett’s “Lost Cat City”, when he’s not searching out the origin of violence that has lost its source on the Source Unknown anthology; plus Wadada Leo Smith (pictured), Mona Mur, Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet, Satoko Fujii Orchestra, Radical Polish Arkestra and Vietnam’s Lý Trang, alongside archive tracks taking in Test Dept, Malaria!, Felix Kubin, and more. Tune in at 9pm GMT+1 extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Jeremy & Claire Weiss

Inside The Wire 513: Edward George In his Strangeness Of Dub and Black Atlas projects, the writer, broadcaster and historiographer decodes images, archive material and sound to make space for radical new futures. By Francis Gooding. Photography by Daisy Gaston thewire.co.uk/shop/

The surviving members of Faust’s original line-up present four perspectives on the krautrock institution’s indomitable spirit, writes Abi Bliss in The Wire 513 thewire.co.uk/in-writing/ess…

East Sussex based uncanny audiovisual event The Invisible College returns with a special Samhain edition on 30 October. In anticipation, representative Pearly Sandman presents an exclusive Samhain Mixtape of eldritch soundtracks and haunted noise. thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/t…

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly show, which was hosted by Misha Farrant and featured music by Otomo Yoshihide & Quentin Rollet, BETHLEHEM بيت لحم, Coil, Ans M and more thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/m…

Tonight on @ResonanceFM & @ResonanceEXTRA, Misha Farrant hosts The Wire's weekly show, playing tracks by Otomo Yoshihide & Quentin Rollet, Willow Swan & Ellis Berwick, Coil, Squid Pisser (pictured) and more. Tune in from 9pm GMT+1. extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 by dancefloormurder

Ludwig Göransson’s scores for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) and Tenet (2020) trade on diegetic and instrumental ambiguities that intentionally disorient audiences in time and space, writes Philip Brophy in his latest Secret History of Film Music column thewire.co.uk/in-writing/col…

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our November 2026 issue thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/o…

Read an extract from Do What You Fear Most: The History Of The Velvet Underground In this extract, taken from the chapter “No EPI, No Nico, No Andy”, Richie Unterberger explores the troubled reception of The Velvet Underground & Nico on its release in 1967. thewire.co.uk/in-writing/boo…

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show, which was hosted by Lucy Thraves and featured music by Cujo, Uche Yara, Leafcutter John, Li Song, A Tomb Full Of Stars and more thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/l…

Are you an unpublished* writer with ideas about why music, and music criticism, matter? New Voices is a competition for aspiring music critics being launched by The Wire. Click the link for more information. thewire.co.uk/in-writing/ess…

Tonight on @ResonanceFM & @ResonanceEXTRA, Lucy Thraves hosts The Wire's weekly radio show, playing new music by Uche Yara, Cujo (pictured), Century Long Journey, Li Song and many more. Tune in from 9pm GMT+1 extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Alex F Webb

Every copy of The Wire 513 comes with a free Wire Tapper 72 CD. The latest instalment in the compilation series features tracks by Noh Age, Finn Loxbo, Bow and Arrow, Century Long Journey, MADTEO featuring SENSATIONAL, La Tène, Nanaco Sato, Maurizio Ravalico/Isambard Khroustaliov, Nickolas Mohanna, Urbanfailure, Aksak Maboul, Oleg Gotskosik Quintet, The Bathroom Producers, Cornelius featuring Sean Ono Lennon, Viragezero and Yanik Soland. Wire subscribers can also download the compilation here: thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wire… Artwork by Hana Jelovšek