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 ...

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

Most sound art directs its focus outward, endeavouring to create an environment which explores the sonic qualities and cultural or aesthetic resonances of an object or musical instrument, an event or ...

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

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

The Wire's Rob Young presents a lecture on Scott Walker, from his first release as Scott Engel at age 14, to his present day experiments in sound. Off The Page 2012 - Rob Young on Scott Walker 1:12:35 ...

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 ...

Too many records, maybe, but the best restored those ideas of simplicity that have never gone out of date, the Apache beat, Dingerbeat or whatever, that survives all these years, continues, never ...

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 ...