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

The 28 November edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Terry Riley, Dub Syndicate, Able Noise, Mariam Rezaei, Bill Frisell/Kit Downes/Andrew ...

The 21 November edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Stonecirclesampler, Net Gala, Ra Kalam Bob Moses & Jerome Bryerton, Dawuna, DJ Lycox, Kay ...

Rewind: the Year in Underground Music , including the Top 50 Releases of the Year ; the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year ; Critics’ Reflections : our writers discuss their memorable cultural ...

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

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

Read an interview with the late composer Bernard Parmegiani, by Rahma Khazam. First published in The Wire 176, October 1998. Bernard Parmegiani is not the first name that springs to mind when the talk ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 488. Inside our brand new issue: Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitsusha figurehead keeps pushing into ...

Since his early 1980s connections with the independent label Les Disques Du Crépuscule and film maker Peter Greenaway, Belgian composer Win Mertens has built considerable audiences across Europe for ...