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

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

As a global community of artists, we can learn to be more sensitive to the needs of Indigenous artists and communities, but it means adopting a willingness to move beyond escapism towards an aware and ...

In The Wire 491/492, John Brien argues that the humble compact disc offers efficient delivery of pure audio that bypasses the ...

The 23 January edition of The Wire ’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Mattie Barbier, Yves De Mey, Simon J Karis, Rojin Sharafi, Raed Yassin, Laura Agnusdei and ...

In The Wire 491/492, Stewart Smith reviews a new autobiography by the multi-instrumentalist, composer and poet ...

Musician and writer David Rothenberg is currently compiling the best whale songs ever recorded, a collection of which is to be released later this year by Important Records. Here he looks at the human ...

In 1998 producer Francis Falceto launched the invaluable Éthiopiques series on the French label Buda Musique, an effort that steadily introduced the music of modern Ethiopia – particularly figures ...

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