In The Wire 491/492, Louise Gray recalls developing a new relationship to sound while bed-bound in hospital following an accident ...

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 ...

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

This volume in The Wire’s ongoing series of subscriber-only anthologies compiles 15 tracks from albums released by Cafe OTO’s in-house label Otoroku. Featuring Pat Thomas, Maggie Nicols, Loren Connors ...

Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes ...

The full chart: Chino Amobi Eroica ()Tyler Bates Hysteria! Original Series Soundtrack ()Dennis Bovell Sufferer Sounds ()Lao Dan/Greg Kelley/Glynis Lomon Balloon Flower ()Katharina Ernst & Schne ...

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