The world's greatest print and online music magazine. Independent since 1982. News, features, audio, video, shop and subscribe.

Issue 491/492 January 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 491/492. Inside our new issue: 2024 Rewind: the Year in Underground Music Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes Critics’ Reflections: our writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of the ...

Issue 490 December 2024 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 490. Inside our brand new issue: A R Kane: The dreampop originators return with an archival retrospective, live performances – and a brand new line-up. By Simon Reynolds Intermodulation: A hidden history of UK electroacoustic experimentation is told via an extensive new reissue. By Julian Cowley ...

Bumper double issue . On the cover: 2024 Rewind: the Year in Underground Music , including the Top 50 Releases of the Year ; the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year ; Critics’ Reflections : our writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of the past 12 months. Columnists’ Charts : our specialist critics delve deep into their musical niches from …

Issue 487 September 2024 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 487. Inside our brand new issue: The Body & Dis Fig: Sludge rock and extreme vocals create a space for solidarity and friendship in this crosscontinental collaboration. By Antonio Poscic. Pavel Richter: Tape loops and ambient meditations provided an escape from Czechoslovakia’s rock underground ...

Issue 479/480 January 2024 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 479/480. Inside our brand new issue: Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes Critics’ Reflections: Our writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of …

On the cover: David Lynch & Chrystabell : As their new album Cellophane Memories marks the culmination of 20-plus years of collaboration, the director and singer unpack their dream-like songs over a damn fine cup of coffee. By Britt Brown. Plus: The Sound World Of David Lynch : The Wire ’s writers decode the strange audio messages embedded in the work of the visionary film director, with ...

Issue 488 October 2024 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 488. Inside our brand new issue: Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitsusha figurehead keeps pushing into rock’s outer limits. By James Hadfield. The Primer: John Butcher: A user’s guide to the saxophone innovator, from groups and collaborations to solo meditations. By Seymour ...

Issue 467 January 2023 Subscribers: read this issue online Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 467 Inside this issue: 2022 Rewind: the year in underground music Releases Of The Year: We asked our contributors to nominate their top ten records, CDs, downloads and streams of the year, then we added up the votes Critics’ Reflections: Wire writers discuss their cultural highs and lows for 2022 ...

Issue 483 May 2024 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 483. Inside our brand new issue: Still House Plants: London’s post-post-punk trio use deconstructed songform to tap emotions others cannot reach. By Frances Morgan FUJI|||||||||||TA: Pulling out the stops with homemade pipe organs. By Antonio Poscic Cheer-Accident: Thymme Jones’s motley crew of ...