In The Wire 501, Robin James argues that the influential cultural theory of hauntology does not account for developments in Black creative practices and music of the late 20th and early 21st centuries ...

Listen to the music we played to Lord Spikeheart during his Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 501 Each month in the magazine we play an artist or group a series of tracks which they are asked to ...

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When I first met Milford Graves for a private tutorial he asked me to play something for him and almost immediately stopped me. “Why are you playing a ride pattern on the ride, man? Play something ...

The iconic 1978 reggae film Rockers was directed by the New York based Greek screenwriter and producer Theodoros Bafaloukos and shot in Kingston, Jamaica, between 1975–78. Starring many of the scene's ...

The 29 May edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Hampus Lindwall, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Mourning [A] BLKstar, ...

Two concerts of evening raga with La Monte Young and Jung Hee Choi on voice, Jon Catler on fretless guitar, Hansford Row on fretless bass, and Naren Budhkar on tabla. The performance will take place ...