In San Diego, Bill Perrine celebrates the return of the American composer’s instrumentarium ...

To accompany her report on Les Disques Lexi in The Wire 490, Claire Biddles selects music from the back catalogue of the Brussels 7" specialists ...

Hauntological music pioneer Drew Mulholland writes about his recent compositions: "As a composer and psychogeographer my field is to interpret the environment and the moods, behaviours and memories it ...

TK: I wrote this over an instrumental written by James. A misty loop with rummaging sounds that reminded me of the theme to [the 1969 TV adaptation of Alan Garner's children's novel] The Owl Service.

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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 ...

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Ergot Records label head Adrian Rew finds readymade plunderphonics and corporate mind control on the gambling floor. I crossed the threshold of my first casino floor in Cleveland, Ohio, last March.

Wyatt in Deià, 1964, where he had drum lessons from Ramón Farrán at the bottom of Robert Graves’s garden. Robert left the Langton school at the start of 1962 and enrolled at the local art college. It ...

“To me, G-funk feels like home,” says XL Middleton. “Those melodic chords, the whistles and heavy synth bass lines – it feels like the West Coast. The music reflects the lifestyle and laidback pace ...

It seems virtually unthinkable now to merely label Tony Conrad a film maker, but in the 1970s and 80s, with none of the music he made in the 1960s alongside La Monte Young and John Cale released, and ...

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 ...