The Wire is an independent, monthly music magazine dedicated to informed, intelligent coverage of a wide range of progressive, adventurous and non-mainstream musics.

Although The Wire is a London based publication, it serves an international readership.

The free trial issue includes The Wire's essential review of the year 2009's best music including our annual Top 50 Records of the Year. You can read Josephine Foster's Invisible Jukebox, interviews with Janek Schaefer, Monolake, Paul Rooney in Cross Platform and more.

Additionally, you can browse The Wire's essential Reviews section featuring the month's selected CDs, vinyl and downloads in Soundcheck, our pick of the month's new literature in Print Run, festival and concert reviews in On Location and more.

The trial issue also includes regular items such as The Masthead, Letters, Charts and Out There: the pick of the month's festivals, live events and clubs listings.

A digital subscription gives you access to every page of every issue of The Wire since August 2006.

Stand-alone digital subscriptions can be bought here, or from The Wire shop, price £30 for individuals.
Print subscriptions are available from The Wire shop priced from £36.
Discounted Print + Digital combined subscriptions are available from The Wire shop priced from £40.

Campus-wide institutional digital subscriptions are available by invoice, price £250, just fill in your details in the checkout or email support@exacteditions.com