One of the core features of the experimental noise scene in Zurich is its struggle to define its existence and nature. This is because members of this local movement and subculture come from diverse ...

While many musicians have written criticism or conceptualised their work, few have operated on both sides off the theory/practice divide so extensively and provocatively as David Toop. Since the 1970s ...

It seems virtually unthinkable now to merely label Tony Conrad a film maker, but in the 1970s and 80s, with none of the music he made in the 1960s alongside La Monte Young and John Cale released, and ...

One of the few dedicated homes for experimental music left in Beijing is UFO Space, which opened in late 2020, between separate phases of extreme zero-Covid lockdown. “With the closure of many venues, ...

Darren Cunningham’s supple, warm, second album of ‘R&B concrète’ was equal parts pop constructivism and humid club compulsiveness. Informed as much by 1980s pop as House and Techno, his meticulous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 488. Inside our brand new issue: Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitsusha figurehead keeps pushing into ...

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

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

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 484. Inside our brand new issue: Shellac: The US noise rock squad are hard as rails on long awaited new album To All Trains.

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 ...