In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black aspiration in Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) and Us (2020).

The Wire writer Francis Gooding and magazine editor Akshi Singh are the organisers of this decolonial spin on an old favouritie with questions on global food, music and sport, colonial histories, ...

A weekend of art, music and film in celebration of the recently departed The Pop Group vocalist, songwriter, producer, collaborator and agitator. Includes an exhibition of visual art by Stewart and ...

The reissued early 1990s output of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns aka The Sabres Of Paradise still cuts deep, writes Ken Hollings in The Wire 498 ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's Top 50 Releases Of The Year, as voted for by The Wire 's contributors. You can read more about the artists featured in our chart, as well as those ...

Spotify’s partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history ...

To accompany his report on Artetetra in The Wire 498, Miloš Hroch explores a playlist of recent releases from the Italian cassette label ...

Noise, sound, dada and wild interplay combine when Beam Splitter – the Berlin based improvising duo of Audrey Chen (vocals) and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (trombone and electronics) – are joined by UK ...

Listen to the music we played Gina Birch in her Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 498 Each month in the magazine we ...

Daylong festival organised by the legendary jazz club featuring Theon Cross, Jazz Jamaica, Cosmic Fusion, Tomorrow’s Warriors Youth Ensemble, and more. London Ronnie Scott’s, 2 August, 11am–5pm, free.

Simon Coates compiles an annotated playlist to go with his report on Manila’s underground music scenes in The Wire 498 ...