In The Wire 503/504, Lucy Thraves argues that luxury labels and conglomerates are keen to purchase some avant garde glory, but at a cost to experimental music and the ecosystem that supports it ...

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy explores how the signifiers of Black musics in Swarm are fragmented to indicate its main character’s psychosis ...

The music industry's uptake of AI complicates the boundaries between listener, artist and music in troubling new ways, argues ...

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DIY online radio stations allow humanity and personality to surface in a tide of soulless and reductive algorithmic playlists, argues Paul Rekret in The Wire 503/504 ...

The Wire ’s Releases of the Year chart for 2025 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full ...

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 ...

The 11 December edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Martin Dupont, Brandy Dalton, Lolina, Los Thuthanaka and more ...

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We’re standing in the Fleet Street offices of MayDay Rooms founded over a decade ago as “an archive, resource and safe haven for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures and their ...

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