Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) present a special Wire mix ahead of the publication of Dismantling The ...
In The Wire 491/492, Drew Daniel recounts a dream of a strange new music style, whose subsequent online virality revealed the need to test the limits of genres ...
Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 486. Inside our brand new issue: David Lynch & Chrystabell: As their new album Cellophane Memories marks the culmination of 20 ...
Musician and writer David Rothenberg is currently compiling the best whale songs ever recorded, a collection of which is to be released later this year by Important Records. Here he looks at the human ...
This is another shepherd's melody from the Balkans adapted to the violin of Alexis Zoumbas. Probably the saddest 78 that I own. Recorded in New York City in 1928.
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 ...
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 ...
Early works, the emergence of the Lydian Theory, the Workshop and associated recordings discussed by Max Harrison. This article first appeared in The Wire 3 (Spring 1983). Jelly Roll Morton was the ...
Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our December 2024 issue ...
50 records of the year as voted for by The Wire's writers.