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Preview Tsembla's new album
The Swedish-Finnish electronic composer's latest record is inspired by natural environments and perception
The Swedish-Finnish electronic composer's latest record is inspired by natural environments and perception
Black Access / Black Axes will be the last time Zachary James Watkins and Marshall Trammell release as Black Spirituals
One of the oldest independent jazz and blues label is taken over by Julia A Miller and Elbio Barilari
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 17 May and featured tracks by Nadine Byrne, John T Gast, Minimal Violence, Tryphème, Wilted Woman, and more
Read a previously unpublished conversation conducted for The Wire contributor’s No Wave book
Listen to a selection of tracks played at Wire HQ during the making of our June 2018 issue
The Wire contributor on the life and work of the high volume composer
The premiere of Steve Urquhart's new audio documentary exploring the life and work of BBC Radio Lancashire broadcaster and Wire contributor Steve Barker
Multimedia project poses the question “what is the connection between sound and photography?”
Richard Dawson and UK group Shopping withdraw from Berlin festival supported by Botschaft des Staates Israel
Following Saturday's raid at Bassiani and Café Gallery in Tbilisi, Georgia, SOU festival releases a statement of support
Anthony Child releases a new LP this month, and speaks to Meg Woof about techno through a psychedelic lens, unplayable records, and annoying the dance scene
US jazz musicians Jaimie Branch and Jason Nazary present a video to accompany a track from their recent release
Members of NYC's Queer Percussion Research Group collaborate in an extended minimal performance
The Footwork veteran will release I'll Tell You What! on Planet Mu on 6 July
The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance FM. This show took place on 10 May and featured tracks by Sarah Davachi, Depeche Mode, Doris Norton, Wir and more
Taking place in Krakow between 7 and 14 October, this year's new theme is Presence
Tangerine Dream, Aïsha Devi and Christoph De Babalon are among those set to perform
Rully Shabara of the experimental Javanese duo handpicks a selection of contemporary underground Indonesian music
New names added to Milan's sustainable music festival include Marco Shuttle, Caterina Barbieri and Daniele De
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This programme took place on 3 May and featured tracks by Immersion, Tsembla, Hackedepicciotto, Kate NV, and many more
A Q&A with Elaine Mitchener about her performance piece Sweet Tooth – a visceral, overwhelming indictment of the role sugar and the slave trade played in building the British Empire
The California based producer presents Vain, his new analogue electronic album inspired by deceit
“I believe that something does not diminish by doubling it and duplicating it, and I don’t believe in the art gallery ethic of the less there is of something, the more value it has,” declares the UK collagist
The audio visual artists release their interpretations of the filmmaker's personal collection
The Run The Jewels MC/producer will write an original score for the new film by Josh Trank
The South Korean, Stockholm based improvisor and composer rediscovers some outtakes from her first solo piano album
More Can news is announced, as director Michelle Heighway sets up crowdfunding campaign for new film
Charlotte Collin and Jonathan Martin’s video is revealed the day before the release of new album Anticlines
Marking the second release for 2018, this new one comes from Peder Mannerfelt
The vocalist, cornettist and composer presents Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun
Jacob Frössén directs a film about the Neu! drummer and his botched relationship with a Swedish girl in the summer of 1971
The free jazz pianist who has played with everyone from King Crimson to Trevor Watts and Peter Brötzmann is unable to work following a heart attack
This edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM includes a guest mix from Siné Buyuka of Injazero Records, featuring tracks by Daisuke Tanabe, C Diab, Eomac, and more
Emma Bennett, Laura Cannell and Hanna Tuulikki interpret bird talk for International Dawn Chorus Day
Their Japanese literature inspired LP Failed Celestial Beings is released by Empty Editions
Artists have been invited to perform at its free-to-attend Shorts series
An extract from the two-book biography penned by The Wire's Rob Young and Can's Irmin Schmidt, and published by Faber
The duo share the first single “Dun” from their forthcoming LP Closer Apart
Following the death of founder John Jack, the label will continue to trade with reissues and archival material
Plight & Premonition (1988) and Flux & Mutability (1989) come back into circulation on 22 June
After several years of playing together, the two Canadian producers release their first duo album
The 13th edition of Hamburg's two week mixed media event presents music, performances, sound installations, lectures and films
The open call celebrates 100 years since Morley’s former Director of Music Gustav Holst premiered The Planets
The South African pianist and Peruvian flautist present their new album, recorded over one day in Cape Town
Exhibition of pictures by the man who helped create PIL's public image
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition was originally broadcast on 19 April and featured tracks by Tsembla, David Grubbs, Sara Davachi, The Sperm, and more
Read the full transcript from Derek Walmsley's interview with Jeff Mills in The Wire 300, February 2009
“A mother and a son, a son and a mother. Things had to be this way and couldn’t be another.”
Ahead of its forthcoming reissue, The Wire exclusively streams the trio's 1970s free improvisation record in full
Ranging from a “South American parrot talking and screeching” to “1966 FA Cup Final whistle and boos”, The BBC has made 16,016 samples available for personal use
“The joy of shaping, forming and organising materials is at the heart of Taylor’s work... it is strange he should be pigeonholed as a ‘free’ player”
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition was originally broadcast 12 April and featured tracks by lojii, Dr Octagon, Odd Nosdam, Kill Alters and more
Headlining York Mediale 2018 is cyberfeminist research organisation Deep Lab alongside choreographer Whitley and producer Dillon's collaborative project Strange Stranger
The longform field recordings were originally made by Irv Teibel for his Environments series
An excerpt from chapter six of Shirley Collins's memoir, published by Strange Attractor Press
The 500 page biography by Brian Olewnick will be published by powerHouse
The Finnish musician digs out some unreleased celestial and classical inspired sounds
The Japanese vocalist shares an unreleased track remixed by composer Hiroyuki Nagashima
On 10 May, Collins will read from All In The Downs and speak to The Wire's Frances Morgan
Italian festival features Mark Fell, Filippo Cecconi, Hannah Sawtell and others
Pxssy Palace and Mixed Spices call out the London radio station for organisational racism and silencing sexual harassment allegations
To mark the passing of Cecil Taylor, who died on 5 April 2018 aged 89, we present a selection of articles drawn from The Wire’s online archive in which other musicians discuss the pianist and his music
Running from 30 May–2 June, it features Lee Gamble, Abul Mogard and DJ Katapila
Online resource addresses the issue of freedom of expression in music in pre-1989 Eastern Europe
The trend for classical and orchestral reinterpretations of dance music comes with strings attached
The Wire’s publisher zooms in on one bad riff as a way of entering the late pianist’s musical universe
Cecil Taylor + Pauline Oliveros: Solo. Duo. Poetry documents their performances at the centre's opening ten years ago
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition was originally broadcast on 5 April and featured tracks by lojii, Ben LaMar Gay, Nkisi, Jidenna, and more
Mika Vainio, The Grid and Hieroglyphic Being are the project’s first featured artists
Check out a selection of images documenting Alex Bartsch's extensive search for sleeve art locations
Autechre will stagger-release eight hours’ worth of new music throughout April in advance of the physical box coming out in summer
Label boss and producer Lucy selects tracks by current electronic musicians from Italy
The US producer and vocalist shares a video from her Shadow World album
Berlin based drummer Arik Hayut presents new solo album of ritualistic beats and drone
The sequel to Rome collective Crudo Volta's Woza Taxi film, about the rise of South African gqom, is now ready for release
Listen to a selection of tracks played at Wire HQ during the making of our May 2018 issue
The DIY culture archivist talks about preserving artistic integrity, his home archive and extensive online database Tape-Mag
Cecil Taylor died at his New York home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on 5 April 2018. He was 89
The US pianist, poet, bandleader and free music trailblazer was 89 years old
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 29 March and featured tracks from Jan Jelinek, Leyden Jars, Wilted Woman and more
The secret black label techno outfit have given us an exclusive preview of their forthcoming release
Dedicated to the works of John Zorn, this year's edition will kick off on 27 July in Lisbon
The Tunisian producer shares the first video from his debut album
Linder Sterling, Mike Kelley and Moki Cherry works on display at Nottingham Contemporary
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. Originally broadcast live on 22 March 2018, this edition featured tracks by Nubya Garcia, Milford Graves, Discwoman and more
The avant guitarist selects the songs which inspired her new band Code Girl
Trailblazer Leroy Anderson, who set up the first black radio station in Europe, died aged 63 on 14 March
This time round, the prolific collaborator strikes out alone as XOR Gate
The announcement comes following the news of the Record Store Day 7” singles box set
Following his collaboration with Yussef Dayes as Yussef Kamaal, Henry Wu goes solo as Kamaal Williams on The Return
Two concerts and a workshop pay tribute to the deep listening pioneer
In his 400 page book of interviews, Rettman traces a history of Washington DC's scene and its spread throughout the US
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 15 March and featured a few archive releases from women who hate the capitalist system, plus more
The US musician who played on Cecil Taylor's debut album was 82 years old