"My task is to wake people up from the 19th century." The Japanese paramedia artist and digital composer Yasunao Tone has died. By way of tribute, we have made Alan Licht’s 2002 interview with Tone free to read in our online library: thewire.co.uk/in-writing/the…

At The Wire website, read an extract from 'Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age From The Human League To Pulp'. In this extract, Jamie Taylor remembers his first visit Ken Patten’s studio, home to early iterations of The Human League, Heaven 17 & more.

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra, hosted by Emily Bick and featuring music by Marc Melià, Cosey Fanni Tutti, DJ Haram, David Van Tieghem, Quinton Barnes, and many more. thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/e…

The Wire spotted in the Tate Modern. Find out where you can pick up the latest issue here: thewire.co.uk/about/stockists

To accompany his report on Colorfield Records in The Wire 496, Daniel Spicer explores a playlist co-curated with label boss Pete Min thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/u…

Check out the full review of Fatboi Sharif & Driveby 'Let Me Out' from the most recent issue of the WIRE!!! and be sure to pick up a copy of the vinyl today! shop.deathbombarc.com/collections/fr…

Inside The Wire 496: Amina Claudine Myers After channelling the Great American Songbook in clubs and honing the cutting edge of Chicago’s avant garde, the keyboardist is composing some of the most ambitious works of Black creative music. thewire.co.uk/shop/

“A sage with the presence of a rock star”: Barbara Held remembers Yasunao Tone thewire.co.uk/in-writing/ess…

Tonight, join Shane Woolman on The Wire’s radio show, broadcast on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, for an exclusive guest mix from Nadah El Shazly (pictured) + new music by El Kontessa, Miso Extra & more. Tune in from 9pm GMT+1. extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 by kafrawy

Contributors to The Wire Magazine are passionate and influential - renowned music journalist @SimonRetromania being one of them To read an excerpt from his influential series of essays ‘The Wire 300: Simon Reynolds on the Hardcore Continuum’, click: exacted.me/TheWire300

Listen back to last night's Adventures In Sound And Music, broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra, hosted by Shane Woolman and featuring an exclusive guest mix from vocalist and composer Nadah El Shazly thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/s…

An urgent message from The Wire magazine Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support thewire.co.uk/in-writing/ess…

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In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy analyses the musical rendering of emotional and cultural deception in Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s scores for Smile (2022) and season one of The White Lotus (2021) thewire.co.uk/in-writing/col…

Tonight on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, James Gormley presents Adventures In Sound And Music, playing new music by Mourning [A] BLKstar (pictured), Al Karpenter, Purple Trap, Coil, Hampus Lindwall & more. Tune in from 9pm GMT+1 extra.resonance.fm/schedule Photo by Da’Shaunae

Wire mix: Quinton Barnes To accompany his interview in The Wire 496, Montreal vocalist and producer Quinton Barnes creates a special mix of his own music alongside tracks by Aby Ngana Diop, Miles Davis, Alice Coltrane, RP Boo, and others thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/w…

"A smiley face often has little to do with emotion making and everything to do with emotional masking. It is also the face of the service industries: greeting, welcoming, assuaging, seducing customers."

Listen back to last night's episode of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra hosted by James Gormley and featuring tracks by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Hampus Lindwall, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Mourning [A] BLKstar & more thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air/j…