Bumper double issue.On the cover: 2024 Rewind: the Year in Underground Music, including the Top 50 Releases of the Year; the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year; Critics’ Reflections: our writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of the past 12 months.Columnists’ Charts: our specialist critics delve deep into their musical niches from noise to modern composition.

Bumper double issue . On the cover: 2024 Rewind: the Year in Underground Music , including the Top 50 Releases of the Year ; the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year ; Critics’ Reflections : our writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of the past 12 months. Columnists’ Charts : our specialist critics delve deep into their musical niches from noise to modern composition.

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Issue 481 March 2024. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 481.. Inside our brand new issue: The Haxan Cloak: From his bedroom in Wakefield to the City of Angels, the UK born producer, composer and musician talks darkness, light and scoring the unspeakable.By Joseph Stannard DJ Znobia: The Angolan kuduro innovator relates the invention and evolution of the ...

Issue 467 January 2023. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 467. Inside this issue: 2022 Rewind: the year in underground music Releases Of The Year: We asked our contributors to nominate their top ten records, CDs, downloads and streams of the year, then we added up the votes Critics’ Reflections: Wire …

Issue 491/492 January 2025. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 491/492.. Inside our new issue: 2024 Rewind: the Year in Underground Music. Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes . Critics’ Reflections: our writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of ...

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Issue 474 August 2023. 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 taking in burning pianos, animals and pulsars, the New Zealand composer turns her attention to love and loss.By Louise Gray Once Upon A Time In Maida Vale: In 1970s London ...

1. What is The Wire? The Wire is an independent print and online music magazine covering a wide range of global alternative, underground and experimental musics.The Wire celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronic music, hiphop, new jazz ...