The Wire #495 May 2025 poster designThe Wire is an independent music magazine covering a wide range of global alternative, underground and experimental music. It celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronic music, hiphop, new jazz, improvised music, modern composition, traditional musics and more. Passionate, intelligent and
Now he is back in the States to face up to the past…
and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive
Hampstead in London
city and its residents were again laid bare
As the release of ChatGPT set off an official flurry of brisk developments and prognostications
Influenced by deep Marxist-Leninist convictions
Zwischen 2013 und 2021 fotografierte Bachmeier in der Ukraine
As one of today’s most prolific producers of culture
From 1975 onwards she worked in collaboration with her husband Chérif Defraoui (1932–1994)
That hears your conversations
with a constant eye on the unified whole
her father gave her a toy chimpanzee called ‘Jubilee’ which sparked her early love of animals