James Gui compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Taipei’s underground rock scene in The Wire 490 ...

London noise punks with a debut EP Matter out now on Bandcamp open for Toronto noise rock trio signed to Sub Pop. This ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 484. Inside our brand new issue: Shellac: The US noise rock squad are hard as rails on long awaited new album To All Trains.

Ahead of his celebration of Max Roach, trumpeter Charles Tolliver talks to Gabriel Bristow about playing alongside the ...

The follow-up to last year’s Hour Logic saw the Brooklyn based electronic musician explore darker, more disorienting sonic territory than its Acid-bright predecessor, with increasingly waterlogged ...

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 ...

50 records of the year as voted for by The Wire's writers.

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 ...

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 – ...

After David Naegele’s departure, David Storrs had little connection with Valley Of The Sun, as replacement music director Robert Slap’s sensibilities skewed more towards the commercial, progressive ...

In the last in a series of articles on Prince, The Wire's Deputy Editor Joseph Stannard recalls five instances of Prince-related intensity When an influential artist dies, the impulse to contextualise ...