In The Wire 493, George Rayner-Law argues that as interest in English folk song grows once again, practitioners, critics and listeners should consider carefully the ideological currents beneath the su ...
In addition to all the above, Lunch is notable for being one of the only artists to be featured in the Invisible Jukebox twice, having previously been tested by Hopey Glass in The Wire 114 in August ...
As a global community of artists, we can learn to be more sensitive to the needs of Indigenous artists and communities, but it means adopting a willingness to move beyond escapism towards an aware and ...
Negative reviews have been sidelined in an era of commercial pressures and microscenes that celebrate themselves, but ...
“DJ Spoony, one of the original pioneers of the UK garage scene,” read the email from London’s Barbican centre, “has joined ...
In The Wire 491/492, Stewart Smith reviews a new autobiography by the multi-instrumentalist, composer and poet ...
The 23 January edition of The Wire ’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Mattie Barbier, Yves De Mey, Simon J Karis, Rojin Sharafi, Raed Yassin, Laura Agnusdei and ...
Geeta Dayal’s interview with Ellen Fullman in The Wire 361 was moving, as Fullman talked openly and emotionally about her relationship with her invention, her long string instrument. Tricky to set up ...
Musician and writer David Rothenberg is currently compiling the best whale songs ever recorded, a collection of which is to be released later this year by Important Records. Here he looks at the human ...
Wyatt in Deià, 1964, where he had drum lessons from Ramón Farrán at the bottom of Robert Graves’s garden. Robert left the Langton school at the start of 1962 and enrolled at the local art college. It ...
In the eyes of the West, Asia has historically been a Janus-faced entity – both the source of a Yellow Peril that threatens to take over Western civilisation and a land filled with exotic wonder.
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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