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 ...

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 ...

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

South West Improvisers Group creates spontaneous music with a cast of seasoned players from in and around Bristol including ...

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 ...

Osaka is one of the beating hearts of Japanese experimental music, historically home to artists such as Masonna, Hijokaidan, Incapacitants and Boredoms, as well as the Alchemy Records label. It’s also ...

Here you can listen to a mix of the tracks our correspondent Julian Cowley played to Alvin during the interview, which is published in full in The Wire 495. To find out what Alvin said about them, ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 494. Inside our brand new issue: Raven Chacon: The Diné/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 493. Inside our brand new issue: Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on new album PLEASE COME ...

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 ...