In San Diego, Bill Perrine celebrates the return of the American composer’s instrumentarium ...

Watch a video of Aura Satz's multi-channel installation The Trembling Line, on show at John Hansard Gallery until 23 January ...

Born in Tacoma, Washington, US bassist Jair-Rohm Parker Wells grew up in Germany until he was 21, and he currently resides in Bangkok. He is the man behind the slap bass loops that you'll find in ...

David Colohan and James Rider formed free-flowing folk-drone-jazz-noise outfit United Bible Studies in 2000 while studying at the University of Dublin. Since then the group have worked with a shifting ...

As a complement to the cover story of The Wire 448, a two-part special on Van Der Graaf Generator, Edwin Pouncey surveys the surreal designs that adorned the covers of the early albums by the UK art ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can we have a quick recap of how you got to the point of releasing records? Were you London born and bred? Yeah, South London born and bred. My dad's an old muso: he was a saxophonist for many a band, ...

Clipping: Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson pool their combined experience in noise, modern composition, film scoring and performance to create abrasive mutant hiphop, as demonstrated ...

Cartoonist Hazel Newlevant discusses Wendy & Lisa’s contribution to Prince’s legacy. All images from Hazel Newlevant’s No It U Lover (2014) If you can do it all, and if you have a singular vision that ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 474. Inside our brand new issue: Annea Lockwood: Having explored the outer reaches of sound across a multi-decade career ...

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 ...