This month: alienated from her computer, baffled by download culture, Amanda Brown laments the rise of the faceless uploader and the attendant decline of the DIY underground. I have no bond with my ...

In The Wire 491/492, John Brien argues that the humble compact disc offers efficient delivery of pure audio that bypasses the ...

Too many records, maybe, but the best restored those ideas of simplicity that have never gone out of date, the Apache beat, Dingerbeat or whatever, that survives all these years, continues, never ...

In The Wire 491/492, Stewart Smith reviews a new autobiography by the multi-instrumentalist, composer and poet ...

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 ...

Textually hyperdense and accelerated for the televisual age, the multimedia music theatre of composer Robert Ashley has been called the future of opera, as well as the first to exploit the unique ...

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 486. Inside our brand new issue: David Lynch & Chrystabell: As their new album Cellophane Memories marks the culmination of 20 ...

When Harry Smith compiled the first three volumes of his Anthology Of American Folk Music back in 1952 he set out to cast a spell over America. "I felt social changes would result from it,"he ...

Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith Clarissa ...

From a humble start in 2010 as a mail order distro specialising in Chinese metal, WV Sorcerer Productions has grown into an esoteric and prolific label with more than 70 releases to date. A pair of ...

50 records of the year as voted for by The Wire's writers.