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In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black ...
The reissued early 1990s output of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns aka The Sabres Of Paradise still cuts deep, writes Ken Hollings in The Wire 498 ...
The drummer Kyasu has played in Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha among other ensembles. When he performs solo, he improvises wildly with just a snare drum. The Leeds date is a rare solo performance with a ...
Spotify’s partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history ...
Ian Rawes, the sound recordist and archivist best known for founding the London Sound Survey website, has died following a short illness. He was 56.
Damo Suzuki died on 9 February aged 74. As a tribute we have made Mike Barnes’s 2004 interview with the experimental rock vocalist free to read in our online library.
Like Mark E Smith and The Fall, David Thomas and Pere Ubu were featured in The Wire early on in the life of the magazine, when it was still primarily concerned with jazz and improvised music. Thomas ...
Louis Moholo-Moholo (10 March 1940–13 June 2025) June 2025 Louis Moholo-Moholo in The Wire 400, London, June 2017. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff & Guy Bolongaro ...
Wayne Shorter died on 2 March 2023, aged 89. Read Richard Cook’s survey of the saxophonist’s Blue Note albums from Night Dreamer to Schizophrenia in The Wire 11, January 1985 in our online library for ...
“Free jazz is a real reflection of the times and everything that’s going on [...] It puts beauty back into the world, it vibrates, I think it works on an anatomical level.” US trumpeter, composer and ...
The great US drummer died on 12 November aged 99. In 2000, Philip Clark interviewed him, discussing some of the stellar moments in a jazz life that traversed the entire history of the music and ...