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The 6 March edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Cleaners From Venus, Marina Zispin, Kuunatic, Circuit Des Yeux, Backxwash, Nazar, and many m ...

I wrote the series of essays titled “The Secret History of Film Music” in the long gone epoch of the late 1990s for The Wire ...

And where’s the harm? Surely uploading is just an extension of sharing with friends, an effective and commercially subversive way to promulgate the music you like? But friends are strangers now; a ...

Gil Scott-Heron, with and without his longtime partner Brian Jackson, has long refused to fit into anyone's market plan for a soul-jazz singer. Nathan West and Mark Sinker discuss his recorded legacy.

Juan San Cristóbal Lizama compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Tijuana’s Static Discos label in The Wire ...

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.

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 474. Inside our brand new issue: Annea Lockwood: Having explored the outer reaches of sound across a multi-decade career ...

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

Read an extended version of Will Montgomery's Cross Platform article on Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda, master of the art of field recording. For 15 years, the Yokohama based artist Toshiya ...

Lee Patterson has provided The Wire with three exclusive recordings for your listening pleasure. They are: Pond Weed (Hornwort), Dam Head Lodge, Prestwich, July 2005. Raw (unprocessed) recording made ...