Every copy of The Wire 506 comes with a free Wire Tapper 70 CD. Wire subscribers can also download the compilation from The Wire website. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wi...
Artwork by Katja Mater (From The Wheels).
Every copy of The Wire 506 comes with a free Wire Tapper 70 CD. Wire subscribers can also download the compilation from The Wire website. www.thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wi...
Artwork by Katja Mater (From The Wheels).
Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, Shane Woolman hosts a special guest mix from artist and musician Mary Ocher (pictured), plus tracks by BCUC, Taymour x Bareetlblad, Los Sara Fontan, Laurel Halo and more.
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📷 Kasia Sekula
To accompany their interview in The Wire 505, Lisbon based DJ Firmeza, DJ Danifox and DJ N***a Fox - aka O Ghettão - curate an exclusive mix of unreleased material
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Here’s a little something we rustled up for you. Enjoy!
This issue I contributed the Avant Rock column featuring releases from Gylt, Dry Socket, Commitment, Super Pattern, Squeeze, Powerplant, Juliana Hatfield and Knocked Loose.
The Wire 506 is out now!
Featuring Wendy Eisenberg on the cover, plus an Augustus Pablo primer, Mariá Portugal, KAVARI, Yellow Swans' Invisible Jukebox, and much more.
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The Wire 506.
Out tomorrow. On newsstands from Thursday.
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Listen back to last night's episode of Adventures In Sound And Music, which was hosted by @saving-throw.bsky.social and featured music by Still House Plants, Éliane Radigue, Enno Velthuys and many more.
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Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, @saving-throw.bsky.social hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing tracks by Carl Stone & Asuna, Bonner Kramer/Thurston Moore, Éliane Radigue (pictured) and many more.
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📷 by Henry Roy
"Lowe’s score to Yance Ford’s documentary Power (2024) gravitates not towards depressing states, but to realms where despair is about to overwhelm hope"
In his latest Secret History Of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers scores by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
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To accompany his report on Computer Students in The Wire 505, Louis Pattison explores a playlist of releases from the Italy based label
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...
To complement their cover feature in The Wire 505, Will Brooks and Mike Manteca aka @daleknwk.bsky.social curate a special Wire mix, while @jjstannard.bsky.social shares additional quotes from his interview with the New Jersey duo
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Listen back to last night's episode of The Wire’s weekly radio show, which was hosted by @jjstannard.bsky.social and featured music by The Brides Of Funkenstein, Kavari, K Alexi, The Poor Luckies and more
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The latest album from UK ensemble Hen Ogledd is a striking invocation of the mythic and mundane, writes Abi Bliss in The Wire 505
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Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, @jjstannard.bsky.social will be playing a cornucopia of cacophony including tracks by Kavari, dälek, Eve Maret (pictured), Master’s Ashes, Spider Taylor, Knocked Loose and more.
Tune in from 9pm GMT extra.resonance.fm/schedule
📷 by Claire Foth
To accompany his report on Computer Students in The Wire 505, Louis Pattison explores a playlist of releases from the Italy based label
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...
Inside The Wire 505: Vic Bang
The Buenos Aires composer and sculptor moulds computer based, otherworldly shapes from an international palette of futuristic folk musics without leaving home
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The latest album from UK ensemble Hen Ogledd is a striking invocation of the mythic and mundane, writes Abi Bliss in The Wire 505
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, which was hosted by Chris Bohn and featured music by Carlos Giffoni, Maggie Nicols, Sheng Jie & Shenggy, Seppuku Pistols and many more
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...
Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, which was hosted by Chris Bohn and featured music by Carlos Giffoni, Maggie Nicols, Sheng Jie & Shenggy, Seppuku Pistols and many more
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...
Read an extract from Everybody’s Head Is Open To Sound: Writings On Tom Wilson
In the introduction to her collection of writings on Tom Wilson, Anaïs Ngbanzo gives an overview of the influential producer's life
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📷 by Lewis Khan
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Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social and Resonance Extra, Chris Bohn hosts The Wire’s weekly radio show, playing new music from the final Foetus album, Seppuku Pistols (pictured), the new trio of John Butcher, Ute Wassermann & Martin Blume and more.
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Invisible Jukebox mix: Daniel Blumberg
Listen to the music we played to Daniel Blumberg during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 505, featuring Scott Walker, Daniel Lopatin, Pamela Z, Trent Reznor and more.
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Music can act on listeners in ways that Western modes of engagement and criticism overlook or erase, argues Moravian composer and vocalist Julia Úlehla, in The Wire 505
Read the full essay online here:
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...
Have you got an idea for a Wire chart? We welcome charts from record shops, radio shows, DJs, venues, labels, musicians, readers, etc.
All published charts receive a fee of £25. Email a top 15 to charts@thewire.co.uk – the more unusual the better.
Examples from The Wire 505:
Office Ambience 505
Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our March 2026 issue
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Below The Radar Special Edition: SHAPE 2025
Like all releases in the Below The Radar series, this edition can be downloaded by both print and digital subscribers to The Wire.
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Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra, which was hosted by Phil England and featured music by Hen Ogledd, Kareem Samara, Unidad Ideológica, Laurel Halo and many more
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...
Invisible Jukebox mix: Daniel Blumberg
Listen to the music we played to Daniel Blumberg during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 505, featuring Scott Walker, Daniel Lopatin, Pamela Z, Trent Reznor and more.
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...
Tonight on @resonancefm.bsky.social & Resonance Extra, Phil England hosts The Wire's weekly show, playing new music from Shane Parish (pictured), Hen Ogledd, Tanya Tagaq, Proc Fiskal, Laurel Halo, Tashi Dorji, Praed and more.
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📷 Petra Cvelbar