Elia Brülhart compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Zurich’s underground noise scene in The Wire 491/492 ...

To accompany his report on Strategic Tape Reserve in The Wire 491/492, Antonio Poscic selects music from the back catalogue ...

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 ...

This volume in The Wire’s ongoing series of subscriber-only anthologies compiles 15 tracks from albums released by Cafe OTO’s in-house label Otoroku. Featuring Pat Thomas, Maggie Nicols, Loren Connors ...

Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes ...

Taipei’s underground rock scene has been evolving over the past few decades. But since around 2010, a generation of musicians exploring their own takes on psychedelia through synthesizers, warped ...

It’s a scorching afternoon in eastern San Diego county and a dozen or so sweaty volunteers are watching as a 53 foot semi-truck attempts a precarious backward pirouette, nearly taking out a chain link ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 488. Inside our brand new issue: Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitsusha figurehead keeps pushing into ...

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Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith Clarissa ...