Stream two tracks from Aleksi Perälä's forthcoming release using the Perälä and Grant Wilson-Claridge's custom musical scale, the Colundi Sequence. Perälä and Wilson-Claridge's creation is covered by ...

To accompany his report on Strategic Tape Reserve in The Wire 491/492, Antonio Poscic selects music from the back catalogue ...

Introducing this compendium of tracks tied to my feature in The Wire 385 about the church organ as a source of new sounds, here’s Fats Waller transforming the king of instruments into a faux-big band, ...

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 ...

Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 474. Inside our brand new issue: Annea Lockwood: Having explored the outer reaches of sound across a multi-decade career ...

This is another shepherd's melody from the Balkans adapted to the violin of Alexis Zoumbas. Probably the saddest 78 that I own. Recorded in New York City in 1928.

Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s team of staff and contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as ...

Cartoonist Hazel Newlevant discusses Wendy & Lisa’s contribution to Prince’s legacy. All images from Hazel Newlevant’s No It U Lover (2014) If you can do it all, and if you have a singular vision that ...

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

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 ...