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In this extract, taken from the chapter "Mystical Warriors", Laurie Osborne aka Appleblim and Sam Shackleton recall the development of their influential Skull Disco label Appleblim: Shackleton's a unique character. He's extremely well read and speaks at least five languages - but he's also hilarious, one of the funniest people I've ever met. When you get someone's humour and realise that they're…
Chicago poet and performer Marvin Tate presents vivid vignettes of magic and loss on his elusive new album, writes Mosi Reeves in The Wire 511 Marvin Tate Controlled Burn Amalgam DL/LP Marvin Tate is a linchpin of Chicago's creative arts scene, emerging as a slam poet in the early 1990s and subsequently participating in an array of musical and literary endeavours, from jazz funk ensembles like…
Listen to the music we played to Jennifer Herrema during her Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 511 Each month in the magazine we play an artist or group a series of tracks which they are asked to comment on - with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear. In The Wire 511 it is the turn of Royal Trux co-founder Jennifer Herrema. Here you can listen to a mix of the tracks our…
Volume 51 of The Wire 's subscriber only download compilation includes tracks by Willow Swan & Ellis Berwick, Jemima, ST AGNIS, DJ GAWAD & Pierre Pepe, Trigger Object, Ureuk & The Gypsies, and more Take out a print or digital subscription to The Wire to stream and download every edition of Below The Radar
Collective listening events respond to a cultural need, but are at risk of co-option by wellness and lifestyle marketeers, argues Derek Walmsley in The Wire 511 "You're in the right place!" smiles the man in the smart shirt and trousers at the velvet rope line. Inside a modest door on a touristy street in London's Soho is a cocktail bar, work space, podcast studio, plus a private cinema which…
Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our September 2026 issue The full chart: A Tomb Full Of Stars 1: When The Reflection Passes ( Varia ) Bruno Berle Sem Fronteiras ( Far Out ) Cities Aviv Even Colder Spring ( Black Truffle ) King Ayisoba Pure Confusion ( Bandcamp ) J r me Noetinger & Les Pers cutions De Strasbourg Instantan s D t rior s ( Cronica )…
In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy analyses Jonny Greenwood's score for Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another (2025) It's hard to put your finger on how Jonny Greenwood's commissioned score operates in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another (2025). Not because the music is vague, indistinct or haphazard, but because it's so deeply embedded in the…
A new showcase for uncanny film and music opens on 16 August at Electric Palace Cinema , Hastings. Organised by The Wire 's Joseph Stannard, The Invisible College - the "legacy sequel" to Stannard's previous project The Outer Church - will host screenings of weird/occult/supernatural cinema along with live sets from experimental musicians. The first edition will feature a screening of Wire…
To complement his interview in The Wire 510, writer, composer and theorist DeForrest Brown, Jr. aka Speaker Music creates an exclusive Wire mix DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a theorist, historian and producer, whose intellectual preoccupations - redrawing and remapping undersung Black cybernetic analyses - inform his creative output as Speaker Music. The following mix he describes as "opening of the…
Discipleship, as practised at Terry Riley's Kirana East, turns the Western paradigm of individual creativity on its head, argues Ryan Meehan The train had taken me some three hours out of Tokyo to Kobuchizawa, a hamlet in Japan's Southern Alps - a first taste of countryside quiet beyond the reach of the megacities. My contact meets me at the station: Hiromitsu Hirata, who will serve as my…
