To accompany his report on Cardboard Club in The Wire 494, Spenser Tomson explores a playlist selected by label boss Robert Ridley-Shackleton ...

His latest project is The Love Pretender, the second album from Spiral Deluxe, a jazz fusion quartet with Moog player Yumiko ...

In an extract from her new book Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music & Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings, Marisol Negrón analyses the opening scene of music documentary Our Latin Thing, drawing out ...

The 6 March edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Cleaners From Venus, Marina Zispin, Kuunatic, Circuit Des Yeux, Backxwash, Nazar, and many ...

The 27 February edition of The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Klein, Q Lazzarus, Vacuous, Dead Pioneers, Zoë Mc Pherson, Knives, and many more ...

I wrote the series of essays titled “The Secret History of Film Music” in the long gone epoch of the late 1990s for The Wire ...

Juan San Cristóbal Lizama compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Tijuana’s Static Discos label in The Wire ...

Darren Cunningham’s supple, warm, second album of ‘R&B concrète’ was equal parts pop constructivism and humid club compulsiveness. Informed as much by 1980s pop as House and Techno, his meticulous ...

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 ...