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“The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era.” (Forced Exposure)

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The Wire 509 is out now!

Featuring EarthBall on the cover, plus DoYeon Kim, Onilu, Jocy de Oliveira, Tomáš Šenkyřík, Eoobe, Aldana Duoraan & Tomáš Niesner, Richard Dawson’s Jukebox, and much more.

Pick up your copy here: https://t.co/LMTlMEA5Wu

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In this edited extract of a conversation recorded at London's ICA on 25 March 2026, writer and art historian Nicolas Ballet talks to Cabaret Voltaire's Stephen Mallinder about sound, image and subversion

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Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show, which was hosted by Chris Bohn and featured music by Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński, Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins, Mamer and more

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Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our July 2026 issue

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Tonight on @ResonanceFM and @ResonanceEXTRA, Chris Bohn hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (pictured) to mark the 95 year old saxophonist’s passing, plus Hilary Jeffery’s tribute to Keith Tippett featuring Julie Tippetts, and various collaborations including Tuvan throat singer Sainkho Namtchylak and composer Mirco Magnani, gogoj aka Sheng Jie & Deng Boyu, Dope Purple & Makoto Kawabata, and… Die Toten Hosen & Blixa Bargeld!

Tune in from 9pm BST https://t.co/iQBMsh7FJw

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In his latest Secret History Of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers how music elucidates Japan's post-war outlook in Tomoyuki Takimoto's Netflix series Straight To Hell

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Listen back to last night's episode of The Wire's Adventures In Sound And Music, which was hosted by Misha Farrant and featured music by Diamanda Galás, Labake Sabbath, ST AGNIS, Aho Ssan and more

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George Mačiunas’s lesser known scores

Anton Lukoszevieze fills in the Lithuanian-American artist’s musical forms and compositional strategies:

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In an extract from his new biography of the British jazz pianist, Martin Phillips reflects on Tippett's early forays into a solo career

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Tonight on @ResonanceFM and @ResonanceEXTRA, Misha Farrant hosts The Wire's weekly radio show, playing music by Diamanda Galás (pictured), Labake Sabbath, ST AGNIS, Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti, and many more.

Tune in from 9pm BST https://t.co/654ff3ozjk

📷 by Logan White

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Sonny Rollins (7 September 1930–25 May 2026)

The great saxophonist has died aged 95. As a tribute, we have made the cover story from The Wire 18 free to read in our online library for one month, including Richard Cook’s interview, and Stuart Nicholson’s essay on the 1956 album Saxophone Colossus.

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At The Wire website, read an extract from Graeme Thomson’s In Another World: The Four Seasons Of Talk Talk, which comes out today via New Modern.

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Tonight on @ResonanceFM and @ResonanceEXTRA, Lucy Thraves hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing music by Infinite Livez (pictured), Fire-Toolz, Marvin Tate, Rosa Pistola and more.

Tune in from 9pm BST https://t.co/654ff3ozjk

📷 by Tom Oldham

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US field recordist, DJ and composer Jake Muir transforms metal’s quieter moments into striking evocations of place, writes James Gormley in The Wire 508

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Inside The Wire 508: Asher Gamedze

The South African percussionist and bandleader explores both the possibilities of jazz rhythms and the splintered histories of diasporic players.

Read the full interview inside The Wire 508 https://t.co/tlgCmFxMXe

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As music venues across London struggle with mounting costs, sound system events are putting down roots in community centres and other ad hoc spaces, writes Derek Walmsley in The Wire 508.

Read the full essay: https://t.co/nSX315fkr7

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Tonight on @ResonanceFM & @ResonanceEXTRA, James Gormley will be hosting The Wire's Adventures In Sound And Music, playing new, forthcoming and reissued music by Lekan Animashaun, Onilu, Julius Eastman (pictured) and many more...

Tune in from 9pm BST https://t.co/654ff3ozjk

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To accompany his feature on French improv label Potlatch in The Wire 508, Seymour Wright compiles an annotated playlist from across the label’s 30 year history

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Have you got an idea for a Wire chart? We welcome charts from record shops, radio shows, DJs, venues, labels, musicians, readers, etc.

All published charts receive a fee of £25. Email a top 15 to [email protected] – the more unusual the better.

Examples from The Wire 508 above.