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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 ...

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

The 20 February edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Tori Kudo, SBR, Cheng Daoyuan, Sophia Djebel Rose, Crystal Axis and others ...

Dennis Johnson's newly recorded piece November, which inspired La Monte Young's The Well Tuned Piano, rewrites the history of minimalism. Clive Bell talks to the elusive mathematician. Dennis Johnson ...

In William S Burroughs’s final diary entry, dated two days before his death in 1997, the surrealist iconoclast recalls a friend referring to him as the saddest man in the world. “How can a man who ...

In The Wire 493, George Rayner-Law argues that as interest in English folk song grows once again, practitioners, critics and listeners should consider carefully the ideological currents beneath the ...

Each month in the magazine we play an artist or group a series of tracks which they are asked to comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear. In The Wire 493 it is the turn of ...

Mark Fisher: Let’s talk about the film [ON/OFF: Mark Stewart – From The Pop Group To The Maffia]. How did that happen? Mark Stewart: Basically what happened was Tøni Schifer, the filmmaker, approached ...

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our March 2025 issue ...