London record shop BM Soho (formerly Black Market Records) has closed after 27 years of service. Only a few days after its owners had announced new opening hours, the store had been emptied of stock ...

Two newly reissued albums showcase the seismic psychedelia of George Clinton’s Funkadelic at its rawest and most disruptive, ...

Voice and sound theorist Zeynep Bulut talks to Xenia Benivolski about her latest book, which delves into the friction between ...

The Wire’s Releases of the Year chart for 2024 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full ...

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 ...

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Gordon Chapman-Fox creates industrial ambient electronics investigating the modernist utopian aesthetics with new LP release Industrial Growth.

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 505. Inside our brand new issue: dälek: The New Jersey hiphop duo’s new album continues an extraordinary orbit taking in ...

From the 1970s through to the early 90s, Palermo was one of the bloodiest places in southern Europe, as a war between its mafia and the ultra-violent Corleonesi faction cost more than a thousand lives ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 507. In our brand new issue: Special Savage Pencil cover available in black or white editions. Sunn O))): The robed pair get ...

When I moved to London for work in the late summer of 1975, just after that year’s Notting Hill carnival, the streets of North Kensington were still ablaze with the sounds of reggae and dub; it was ...

Musicians from the KNM campus and KNM ensemble playing James Tenney’s minimalistic Swell Pieces in a walk-in sound installation set up. Active participation from the audience is possible with guidance ...