To accompany his report on Ftarri in The Wire 499, Derek Walmsley explores a playlist of recent releases from the Japanese ...

Stockholm’s Edition Festival teams up with a meditation centre for a series of Sunday matinee concerts by artists who have a meditation practice connected to Buddhist traditions: Kansan Zetterberg ...

“The reason why is the big question,” Stephen Mallinder tells Abi Bliss in The Wire 499, as he reflects on Cabaret Voltaire’s forthcoming return to the stage. “I’m not entirely sure why, and maybe ...

Tom Welsh introduces a new recording of an unknown work by a composer who was a key member of John Cage’s pioneering US percussion group in the 1930s but whose name has since fallen out of history ...

Research driven installation by the Palestinian artist duo where pre-existing and original audiovisual materials are layered to create a poetics of resistance. Nottingham Contemporary, 27 September–11 ...

Although I'm sure there will be a babbling brook of archival recordings to follow, Broken Homes And Gardens is the final ...

Issue 499 September 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 499. Inside our brand new issue: Cabaret Voltaire: The surviving members of the Sheffield ...

In The Wire 499, the Moreskinsound duo of musician and writer David Toop and performance artist Ania Psenitsnikova argues that categories like music and dance can limit our understanding of sound and ...

"Live At Ormside Radio Edit" From Live At Ormside Crystabel Efemena Riley’s interest in patterns on skins – human and drum – started during the late 2000s when she toured Japan and Europe using drums, ...

Each month in the magazine we play an artist or group a series of tracks which they are asked to comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear. In The Wire 499 it is the turn of ...

"The Police Are Blundering In The Dark" Previously unreleased Meat Strap are a duo from South London, in which Delia Detritus plays drums, and Max K Weaver plays electric guitar. Spawned from many ...

Low guitarist and singer-songwriter follows up 2024’s White Roses, My God with a new album in collaboration with longtime friends and fellow Minnesotans, Trampled By Turtles ...