Laurie Anderson has been announced as guest director at Brighton Festival 2016

Krems's Donaufestival announces names confirmed for this year’s festival

Updated version of field recording app available

Sebash and Scotty Harding of New Kingdom guest on new 7” single by Mongrels

David Bowie has died of cancer aged 69

Cecil Taylor to take up a ten day residency at the Whitney Museum, New York

Joseph Stannard offers a personal reflection on David Bowie's later career from Tin Machine to Blackstar

Emily Bick perceives the collapse of possibilities in the wake of Bowie's death

Vocal performer and composer to appear at Cafe Oto this April and feature in This Is A Voice at The Welcome Collection, London

For this edition of The Wire's show on NTS Radio, Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman play a special guest mix from the Devonshire party collective and label, Bizarre Rituals.

Canadian pianist and free jazz composer Paul Bley has died aged 83

Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire's contributors.

Listen to “A Thimbleful Of Milk” from the forthcoming album No More Lamps In The Morning by Josephine Foster

Europe's radical composer and conductor has died aged 90

Read an essay by Stewart Smith on the cosmic jazz connection of 2015, as featured in The Wire 383

The Belgium Underground app maps four decades of independent music from punk to noise

Experimental jazz vocalist Linda Sharrock announces triple album via Manchester label Golden Lab

Holly Herndon and Jennifer Walshe collaborate on project to crowdsource internet based sound and music

Watch “Platinum Ash Rose Gold” and “Hollow Blown Egg” by musician and artist Lisa Busby. Her debut release Fingers In The Gloss is out now via Bandcamp

Listen to a full stream of the new album from Nino Pedone aka Shapednoise’s Different Selves

Tokyo's boundary-free label release free 2015 round-up compilation

For this edition of The Wire's show on Resonance FM, Patrick Ward is joined by musician and Penultimate Press label boss Mark Harwood, who will be playing a selection of recent and forthcoming releases

London broadcaster’s digital signal goes live this week

New York MC Sensational starts new project with Power Vacuum label’s founder Kruton

For this edition of The Wire's show on NTS Radio, Katie Gibbons, Shane Woolman and Daisy Hyde look back at some of their favourite tracks of 2015. Featuring These Feathers Have Plumes, Thundercat, Karin Krog, Heather Leigh, Ras G, Aine O'Dwyer, and others

Stereolab co-founder Tim Gane reveals that his new collaborative project Cavern Of Anti-Matter release debut LP in February.

Swans reissue two key 1990s albums as a box set

Rewire festival in Den Haag announce first selection of artists to appear at 2016 edition

Boris have collaborated with Merzbow on a new album called Gensho

Islington Mill's Fat Out's Burrow residency programme has received funding from the Arts Council England to ensure phase two of the project

Dusk and Blackdown's Keysound release book of photography

National Jazz Archive wins Heritage Lottery Fund support for oral history and reminiscence project

Get On Down reissues Raekwon's 1995 Only Built 4 Cuban Linx cassette in its legendary lavender casing

Light In The Attic have announced the latest stage in their Lizzy Mercier Descloux series.

CTM have added a collaborative installation about vocaloid Hatsune Miku to the line-up

This January, the late Robert Ashley's novel-cum-opera makes its world premiere in New York

Watch the video for a track from Faith Coloccia's new project Māra

Subscribe to The Wire this December for a chance to win Mute’s new Irmin Schmidt box set

Listen to Emily Bick host Adventures In Sound And Music on Resonance FM. The show aired on 26 November 2015 and features tracks by Anna Homler & Steve Moshier, Ellen Fullman, This Heat, DJ Paypal, Tommy Tone and others.

A Kickstarter campaign to help fund documentary about William Parker and Hamid Drake exceeds its target

Al Fingers of One Love Books compiles Clarks In Jamaica album

December sees the launch of the new Brighton based station Resonance Extra

Watch live footage of United Bible Studies performing at Leigh Folk Festival in Leigh-on-Sea, UK.

Listen to a selection of tracks by the Peruvian percussionist and composer Manongo Mújica, compiled by Buh Records founder Luis Alvarado

Ian Shirley talks about bringing his comprehensive 1990s biography of the cryptic oddballs up to date in a new edition

Founders of Butterz label release Grime 2015 compilation

Watch a video of the Soviet soundtrack composer perform on the piano

Listen to two tracks from Anna Homler and Steve Moshier’s forthcoming Breadwoman & Other Tales, released in February 2016

Glasgow's Counterflows Festival has announced its first wave of acts for the 2016 edition

This December Cosmic Flush exhibition will celebrate the life and works of Rammellzee

West Coast funk boss XL Middleton gives Alexander Speetzen a guided tour of G-funk and Californian hiphop

Boooook collects new essays chronicling the work of the poet and perfomer

Earle Brown's rarely performed Calder Piece had its UK premiere at Tate Modern as part of the Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture exhibition

John Cale is set to release an entire reworking of his 1982 album Music For A New Society

The two founding members of Tokyo film collective [+] Makino Takashi and Rei Hayama screen work at London’s Close-Up Cinema

Adventures In Sound And Music on Resonance 104.4FM, hosted by Chris Bohn. Featuring John Wall & Alex Rodgers, Shallazurutaralli, Blurt, Hijokaidan x Yoshihide Otomo, Sax Ruins, and more.

Campaign to raise funds for a book and CD about noise in South East Asia

Take a look at some of the photographs on display at the AMM archive exhibition taking place as part of this year's edition of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Light In The Attic are reissuing This Heat’s three original records

The Bug aka Kevin Martin has turned his attention to the “Sleng Teng” riddim for the second release on Swedish instrument manufacturer Elektron’s record label offshoot, Elektron Grammofon.

The rapper, poet, activist and actor Saul Williams is set to release a new album on Fader

Listen to the new release from the producer and Idle Hands affiliate Shanti Celeste

Luke Fowler and Mark Fell: Computers And Cooperative Music-Making at Whitechapel Gallery, London, until 7 February 2016

An Electric Storm: Daphne, Delia And The BBC Radiophonic Workshop covers the group from its inception in 1958 through its 1990s dissolution up to its modern reincarnation under the guidance of Matthew Herbert

The Baltimore based duo announce new album Ultimate Care II

This December Yoshimio and Ikue Mori will perform their Twindrums project at Roulette in Brooklyn, New York

Guitar innovator and algorithmic artist dies in the Netherlands

Listen to a selection of tracks that were played in The Wire HQ during the making of our December issue #382

Bloc festival in Minehead announces first wave of acts for their 2016 edition

Listen to some exclusive live recordings from the free-flowing folk outfit United Bible Studies

Listen to Wire cover star Annette Peacock help reinterpret “Hey Diddle Diddle”, and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (featuring Satomi Matsuzaki)” on Bill Wells & Friends’ new album Nursery Rhymes

CTM 2016 have announced the first wave of acts on their line up

The flamboyant New Orleans vocalist, composer, producer and keyboard player Allen Toussaint has died aged 77

La Monte Young, George Lewis, John Zorn and a special AMM programme featured at Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival this November

Chris Clark has scored a new six part series The Last Panthers

An anthology of adventurous new music from Europe compiled for The Wire by the SHAPE Platform.

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New Jon Rafman and Oneohtrix Point Never videos for Zabludowicz Collection exhibition

Bizarre Rituals release trailer for Brain Rays & Stoogie Houzer’s Enter The Fug mixtape

John Foxx explains the reasoning behind his chart selection in The Wire 381

Screening of 9 Futures music documentary film about the ECAS network. Produced by Theo Cook and The Wire contributor Nathan Budzinski

Chicago's five-piece outfit Tortoise release first album in seven years

The Wire's Off The Page festival returns to Oslo in January 2016

Madeira’s artist collaboration project is calling for participants

Listen to four tracks from the remix companion to Laura Cannell’s Beneath Swooping Talons

Leaving Records reissue cassettes

Noise and politics 'zine Datacide compile publication consisting of first ten issues

Glasgow's jazz and improv festival returns with its eighth edition

Listen to a mix by Cherise Gary aka UNiiQU3, who’ll be participating in Bok Bok's takeover of the club series Clock Strikes 13

Carlito Rodriguez and Malcolm Spellman to write a biopic about Sugar Hill Records founder Sylvia Robinson

An Indiegogo campaign started to fund a documentary about Pauline Oliveros