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 ...

David Grundy attends a week long event in Berlin designed to forward a global avant garde of Black music composers ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as those featured in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the few dedicated homes for experimental music left in Beijing is UFO Space, which opened in late 2020, between separate phases of extreme zero-Covid lockdown. “With the closure of many venues, ...

The Wire’s releases of the year for 2022 were compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full ...