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 ...

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black ...

The Wire writer Francis Gooding and magazine editor Akshi Singh are the organisers of this decolonial spin on an old favouritie with questions on global food, music and sport, colonial histories, ...

A weekend of art, music and film in celebration of the recently departed The Pop Group vocalist, songwriter, producer, collaborator and agitator. Includes an exhibition of visual art by Stewart and ...

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 ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's Top 50 Releases Of The Year, as voted for by The Wire 's contributors. You can read more about the artists featured in our chart, as well as those ...

Spotify’s partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history ...

To accompany his report on Artetetra in The Wire 498, Miloš Hroch explores a playlist of recent releases from the Italian cassette label ...

Noise, sound, dada and wild interplay combine when Beam Splitter – the Berlin based improvising duo of Audrey Chen (vocals) and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (trombone and electronics) – are joined by UK ...

Music and sound from the experimental underground: Giulio Erasmus And The End Of The Worm + YEXXEN + Sexy Karaoke Computer Quartet (31 July) and Beam Splitter & Phil Minton (21 October). Nottingham ...

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 498 it is the turn of ...