I wrote the series of essays titled “The Secret History of Film Music” in the long gone epoch of the late 1990s for The Wire ...

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All systems open might be the rallying cry of artists the world over, but Mark Fell argues the case for technological limitation as a trigger for creativity. Back in the early 1980s, the synth pop ...

Read Ian Rawes of the London Sound Survey sound map website's top picks of web links. Rawes and the London Sound Survey are featured in The Wire 341 in an article by Nathan Budzinski. British Library ...

In The Wire 365 Torturing Nurse founder Cao Junjun (aka Junky) tells Josh Feola how the inspiration for his long running Shanghai group came in 2004, when he first encountered Japanese noise stalwarts ...

Jazz is radical music, so why is it funded by big business? asks Dan Spicer in The Wire 359. I was lucky. My decision to try and find out about jazz in my late teens coincided almost exactly with the ...

To mark the recent reissue of FM3’s Buddha Machine, Steve Barker tells the story of its origins, a tale which takes in Chinese temples and a Hong Kong branch of McDonald’s, a Beijing foot massage ...

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 ...

The 27 February edition of The Wire ’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Klein, Q Lazzarus, ...

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

"Some recordists are like hoarders, bringing home whatever they find outside with little discrimination as to what's worth preserving and what’s not." Derek Walmsley sorts through The Wire's post bag ...