The annual Berlin based festival celebrates its upcoming edition with a selection of countercultural Latin sounds mixed by ...

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

Darren Cunningham’s supple, warm, second album of ‘R&B concrète’ was equal parts pop constructivism and humid club compulsiveness. Informed as much by 1980s pop as House and Techno, his meticulous ...

The follow-up to last year’s Hour Logic saw the Brooklyn based electronic musician explore darker, more disorienting sonic territory than its Acid-bright predecessor, with increasingly waterlogged ...

When Harry Smith compiled the first three volumes of his Anthology Of American Folk Music back in 1952 he set out to cast a spell over America. "I felt social changes would result from it,"he ...

Watch a video of Aura Satz's multi-channel installation The Trembling Line, on show at John Hansard Gallery until 23 January ...

Born in Tacoma, Washington, US bassist Jair-Rohm Parker Wells grew up in Germany until he was 21, and he currently resides in Bangkok. He is the man behind the slap bass loops that you'll find in ...

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

Can we have a quick recap of how you got to the point of releasing records? Were you London born and bred? Yeah, South London born and bred. My dad's an old muso: he was a saxophonist for many a band, ...

Clipping: Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson pool their combined experience in noise, modern composition, film scoring and performance to create abrasive mutant hiphop, as demonstrated ...