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First loft jazz book set to hit the shelves in December

Ethnomusicologist Michael C Heller has written the first book-length loft jazz study “tracing its history amid a series of overlapping discourses surrounding collectivism, urban renewal, experimentalist aesthetics, underground archives, and the radical politics of self-determination”

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Adventures In Sound And Music hosted by Daisy Hyde

Adventures In Sound And Music hosted by Daisy Hyde

For this broadcast on Resonance FM, host Daisy Hyde takes to the mixing desk with a selection of tracks by artists including K-Lone & Ill Chill, Patrick Cowley & Candida Royalle, Yussef Kamaal, Les Graciés, Jay Daniel, and others. The show took place on 13 October 2016

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Major Yoko Ono reissue project

11 archive Yoko Ono albums dating back to 1968, including her and Lennon's Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, are set to be reissued by Chimera Music and Secretly Canadian

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Calling all sound artists

London-based adult education centre has put out an open call for artists to enter its Engine Room sound art competitiion

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Adventures In Sound And Music hosted by Meg Woof

Adventures In Sound And Music hosted by Meg Woof

The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance FM, this week hosted by resident selector Meg Woof. The show took place on 6 October 2016 and features tracks by Lee Morgan, Okkyung Lee, the November issue cover star Shirley Collins, I-F, and more.

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CTM 2017 Radio Lab Winners

This year's winners in CTM’s annual radio competition have been announced, as chosen by a panel including The Wire's Anne Hilde-Neset

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Sō Percussion: From Out A Darker Sea

Sō Percussion: From Out A Darker Sea

Andy Hamilton visits St Johns Church in Seaham, County Durham, to watch the New York ensemble perform a new composition commissioned to mark the town's mining history

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Adventures In Sound And Music 1 September 2016

Adventures In Sound And Music 1 September 2016

The Wire returns to London's Resonance FM with a new season of the best underground music out there. The first session comes from Meg Woof and features artists including Alvin Curran, Susumu Yokota, Human Certainty, Raymond Scott and others

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Office Ambience #391

Office Ambience #391

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of our September 2016 issue 391

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Rough Trade celebrates 40 years

London's Barbican centre to host Rough Trade’s anniversary celebrations featuring performances from musicians and artists long associated with the record shop and label

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ICR celebrates 35 years in business

The organisation formerly known as Integrated Circuit Records or Integrated Circuit Studio throws the spotlight on itself at London's Cafe Oto this September