The Wire #502 Dec. 2025 books this magazine reimagines listening as

this magazine reimagines listening as a form of attention – at once a method

Textiles are global commodities

the ways in which they have influenced one another

Singapore is a place that some have termed as ‘China-lite’ because of its authoritarian streak

The Wire #502 Dec. 2025 books this magazine reimagines listening asThe 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