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The Wire 514 is out now!
Stewart Lee meets Salford rock collective Gnod; plus The New Blockaders, Phil Durrant, Mali Obomsawin, Jay Mitta, Sarah Davachi’s Invisible Jukebox, 40 pages of reviews and much more.
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Listen to the music we played to Sarah Davachi during her Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 514, featuring The Velvet Underground, Ellen Arkbro, Herbie Hancock and more
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Tonight on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, tune in for a repeat of the Diamanda Galás Halloween Special originally aired in 2024.
Host Shane Woolman also played tracks by Nomade Orquestra, Agile Experiments and more.
Tune in from 9pm GMT extra.resonance.fm/schedule
📷 by Austin Young
Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our December 2026 issue
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Reviewed new albums by more eaze, marina herlop, and loren connors for the wire 514 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
The Wire 514 is out now!
Stewart Lee meets Salford rock collective Gnod; plus The New Blockaders, Phil Durrant, Mali Obomsawin, Jay Mitta, Sarah Davachi’s Invisible Jukebox, 40 pages of reviews and much more.
Order your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
Juan Atkins (12 September 1962–31 October 2026)
The Detroit techno producer has died aged 64. In July 1997 Mike Shallcross interviewed Atkins for the cover story of The Wire 161. We have now made that article free to read in the magazine’s online library.
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Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show, which was hosted by Joseph Stannard and featured music by John Carpenter & Alan Howarth, Allen Ravenstine, Carmen Villain, Leila Bordreuil and more
thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/j…
Tonight on @ResonanceFM and @ResonanceEXTRA, Joseph Stannard hosts The Wire's weekly radio show, playing tracks by Earthslayer, The Golden Corpse Of Midas, Allen Ravenstine (pictured), Ak'chamel and more.
Tune in from 9pm GMT extra.resonance.fm/schedule
📷 by Ann Ravenstine
To accompany her feature in The Wire 513, Jo Hutton compiles an annotated mix of tracks that make use of prepared piano - featuring Contagious, Mira Calix & Siwan Rhys, Aphex Twin and more.
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Wire mix: Nick Nicely’s Psychedelia Top Ten
To accompany his interview in The Wire 513, maverick songwriter Nick Nicely compiles a mix of his top ten psychedelia tracks
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Inside The Wire 513: Tears|Ov
In a new work referencing 9/11, London’s performance art trio mix Burroughsian cut-ups with absurdist clowning to find the truth.
By Ilia Rogatchevski. Photography by Amy D’Agorne
Pick up your copy of the latest issue here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire's weekly radio show, which was hosted by Chris Bohn and featured music by Joshua Burkett, Lisa Nanzaki, Wadada Leo Smith, Test Dept, Deficit & Letargy and more.
thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/c…
To accompany his Global Ear feature in The Wire 513, Christiaan de Wit compiles an annotated playlist of tracks from the neighbouring Dutch cities
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Tonight on @ResonanceFM & @ResonanceEXTRA, Chris Bohn hosts The Wire's weekly show, visiting Joshua Burkett’s “Lost Cat City”, when he’s not searching out the origin of violence that has lost its source on the Source Unknown anthology; plus Wadada Leo Smith (pictured), Mona Mur, Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet, Satoko Fujii Orchestra, Radical Polish Arkestra and Vietnam’s Lý Trang, alongside archive tracks taking in Test Dept, Malaria!, Felix Kubin, and more.
Tune in at 9pm GMT+1 extra.resonance.fm/schedule
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Inside The Wire 513: Edward George
In his Strangeness Of Dub and Black Atlas projects, the writer, broadcaster and historiographer decodes images, archive material and sound to make space for radical new futures.
By Francis Gooding. Photography by Daisy Gaston
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Are you an unpublished* writer with ideas about why music, and music criticism, matter?
New Voices is a competition for aspiring music critics being launched by The Wire. Click the link for more information.
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The surviving members of Faust’s original line-up present four perspectives on the krautrock institution’s indomitable spirit, writes Abi Bliss in The Wire 513
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East Sussex based uncanny audiovisual event The Invisible College returns with a special Samhain edition on 30 October.
In anticipation, representative Pearly Sandman presents an exclusive Samhain Mixtape of eldritch soundtracks and haunted noise.
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