The 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 provocative, Wire fights back against the mundane and the mediocre.