New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical tunings and transformed instruments. By Chal Ravens.

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 ...

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) ...

The 3 April edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by OHYUNG, Raisa K, ...

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 ...

Author Pat Thomas selects and annotates spreads from his new book built from the archive of American poet and writer Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg wasn’t actually into “Material Wealth” – he lived ...