The influential grime producer Terror Danjah (real name Rodney Pryce) has died. As a tribute, we have made his Invisible ...

In The Wire 493, George Rayner-Law argues that as interest in English folk song grows once again, practitioners, critics and listeners should consider carefully the ideological currents beneath the su ...

In addition to all the above, Lunch is notable for being one of the only artists to be featured in the Invisible Jukebox twice, having previously been tested by Hopey Glass in The Wire 114 in August ...

As a global community of artists, we can learn to be more sensitive to the needs of Indigenous artists and communities, but it means adopting a willingness to move beyond escapism towards an aware and ...

Negative reviews have been sidelined in an era of commercial pressures and microscenes that celebrate themselves, but ...

“DJ Spoony, one of the original pioneers of the UK garage scene,” read the email from London’s Barbican centre, “has joined ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 493. Inside our brand new issue: Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on new album PLEASE COME ...

In The Wire 491/492, John Brien argues that the humble compact disc offers efficient delivery of pure audio that bypasses the artisan fetishism of the vinyl industry I don’t have a personal preference ...

The 16 January edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured a guest mix by Lebanese musician, producer and sound engineer Fadi Tabbal, plus music by Grup Ses & ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s team of staff and contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as ...