Online retailer opens record shop and performance space

Agora is Christian Fennesz’s first solo release since Mahler Remixed and Bécs in 2014

The Afrofuturist flautist has been named as the William S Dietrich II Endowed Chair in Jazz Studies, taking up the post from July 2019

The London duo share a full stream of their latest psychedelic offering and answer some questions

The jazz label marks its birthday with a new record, documentary and special live events

In her memoir of the great US jazz drummer, educator and pharmacist, Val Wilmer recalls her visit to Alvin Fielder’s hometown of Meridian, Mississippi, where he introduced her to leading Civil Rights activists for her project to photograph the lives of black women

35 years after PIAB’s inception producer Adrian Sherwood releases Volume 7

The Wire's weekly adventure into new and experimental music, broadcast on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 10 January and featured tracks by Fatou Seidi Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni, Joe McPhee, Dennis Young, and more

Exclusive first listen to the producer DJ's debut LP, inspired by Bantu-Kongo cosmology

The self proclaimed 'sound scavenger' selects ten tracks from his back catalogue to best illustrate his work

In What's Missing, Is Where Love Has Gone mangles audio from Nicholas Roeg’s film and other projects by Petit

Respects have been paid to the American percussionist who worked with Sun Ra Arkestra, Muhal Richard Abrams and Kidd Jordan

The artist whose recent works have focused on war memorials and ultrasound looks to louche house parties for inspiration

The record will be their first album of new songs since 2000's Pound For Pound

Wire editor Derek Walmsley presents another show looking back on the best record labels out there right now with 90 minutes on Brazilian specialist Far Out

Writer and musician Phil Jones compiles a playlist to accompany his recent report on the Brazilian capital

Intimate weekend affair with 350 capacity

The play will be performed between 8 February and 30 March at central London theatre Donmar Warehouse

This January we'll be hosting a selection of events at the Dalston record shop. Featuring Steven Rutter, Shabaka Hutchings, The Rolling Calf trio, Nkisi and others

Inspiring La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano, November was written for solo piano in 1959

The new composition was commissioned for Creative Fusion: Composers Series at Cleveland Museum of Art

The US label’s travelling show addresses the history of recorded music

The series goes live on FM and online from Glasgow from 13–26 May

The Wire's releases of the year for 2018 were compiled from the individual votes of the magazine's staff and contributors – here are those votes in full.

Stream tracks from The Wire's top releases of the year. Full details of all our end of year charts can be found in The Wire 419

Extracts from Mark Sinker’s introduction to A Hidden Landscape Once A Week: The Unruly Curiosity Of The UK Music Press In The 1960s-80s, In The Words Of Those Who Were There

Early Bird tickets are on sale now

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition was broadcast on 13 December and featured tracks by Low, Geneva Skeen, Shabaka & The Ancestors, and more

New CD pays tribute to the late pianist

Exclusive stream of one of three new releases by the experimental musician from the Scottish Borders

“Why did this gentleman blow up our speaker, mom?” “It’s sound art, dear.”

The musician and poet sounds out the meaning of his life in art

US clarinettist and composer passed away on 2 December

The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 6 December and featured tracks from B12, Dale Cornish, Steven Julien, Nazar, and more

Her limited edition Selects/Dissects mixtape is released on 14 December

roygbiv&b documents her contribution to MoMA’s Instructions Lab exhibition

The lead vocalist of black feminist punk band Big Joanie selects 14 tracks showcasing the best of the current UK punk scene

On the first anniversary of Murray’s death, Pierre Crépon pays tribute to the pioneering free drummer by documenting his early years as a leader on the international scene

Nkisi, Derek Jarman and Cooly G are among the featured artists

The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance FM featuring tracks from The Wire contributor Steve Barker’s Chinese underground music archive, plus AGF, Gudrun Gut, Heather Leigh, Laura Ortman, and more

Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe network announces list of artists on its 2019 roster

The German underground musician shares a few thoughts and a handful of moments from her new album

Short film accompaniment to the track from 2018 album MITH

The festival takes place at venues across Val-de-Marne from 1–23 February

UK imprint Arcola share stream of forthcoming EP by the kitsch techno producer

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. Broadcast on 22 November and featuring music by Forest Drive West, Jerusalem In My Heart, Nkisi, and more

A collection of free remixes of Daft Punk, Alice Deejay, Vengaboys and Underworld are doing the rounds

Strange Attractor and MIT Press publish a collection of personal documents from The Wire's underground cartoonist Savage Pencil

Brian Miller celebrates 20 years of his West Coast label with an exclusive mix of hard-to-find tracks spanning the eras

Event series repping the scenes of Eastern and Central Europe features collaboration between Christoph de Babalon and WIDT

Over three shows, the German radio show will broadcast a countdown of our Top 50 releases of 2018

Live In Paris to be released on French label Unlistenable Records

The new book collects 13 years of Jazzwise columns and will be published by Eleusinian Press

Noise maker Masami Akita aka Merzbow releases an hour long live recording

This year the event features a special project to restage three compositions of Filipino composer Jose Maceda

The label ensures fans it “will be worth the wait”

“It's time to raise the black flag, throw the horns, and take our scene back!” declare the extreme music event organisers

The record is a rare example of electronic music released in Romania during the Ceaușescu era

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance 104.4FM. This broadcast took place on 15 November and featured tracks by Dave Birchall, Eiko Ishibashi, Makaya McCraven, and more

The Taiwanese producer shares a new mix to coincide with her latest release

Christopher C King's survey of some of Europe's oldest folk music now available on Bandcamp

32 exclusive tracks make it on to Jack Adams's sixth major project in six years

“The more radical alternative to the radical alternative” now broadcasting on DAB in London, Bristol, Cambridge and Norwich

Expanding on his Epiphanies column in The Wire 418, US musician and researcher Robert Millis compiles a playlist of essential classical records found on trips to the Indian subcontinent

A musical and philosophical reflection on the multiple layers of time premieres in February

Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson will perform with long time collaborator Tos Nieuwenhuizen and selected guests, marking two new albums

This month, Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman are in the NTS studios talking to Robin Buckley aka rkss, whose recent release DJ Tools is constructed solely from samples from the pack EDM Kicks Vol 1

25 minute documentary follows key members of Palestinian techno and hiphop collectives

Four days of “myriad radical and exploratory music” taking place in April

Drift Code is released on 1 February 2019

Line-up includes Low, Jlin & Company Wayne McGregor, Tim Hecker and Yves Tumor

Jazzman reissue Lansdowne recording sessions after 20 year licensing struggle

Stream the Tunisian DJ and producer's latest record, released by French imprint InFiné

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition was first broadcast on 8 November and featured tracks by Planningtorock, Bubble, Rangers, Upper Wilds, and more

The Istanbul based sound artist has recorded a collage mix for The Wire

The vinyl version of the Houndstooth project released next month includes new bonus track

Stream a selection of tracks played at Wire HQ during the making of our December 2018 issue

The Polish festival’s Australian offshoot runs from 14–16 December

Read an unpublished interview with the late US saxophonist and synth player Marzette Watts, conducted at his home in New York City on 3 July 1974. Transcribed, edited and introduced by Pierre Crépon

“We knew it was the right time to open a real brick and mortar shop, if even only for a 3 month period,” says Warp affiliate Bleep.com

Edition Festival marks its return to the Swedish capital with the release of a 2016 live recording by Ellen Fullman & Okkyung Lee

The Southend-on-Sea based group release Way Through Vulnerability after an 18 month recording process

The website will be offline by the end of the month, and calls for help preserving its pages

The 2019 edition will take place between 23 January–3 February

The Wire’s veteran dub correspondent discusses an extraordinary life in music and drops some tunes

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 1 November and featured eerie leaning tracks by the likes of Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda, Coil, Maria w Horn, and more

Œuvres Électroniques is released by Ina-GRM ‎today

The three day event takes over Control Club this November

Back in September the founder member announced he was unwell

Listen back to The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. For this edition Shane Woolman was joined by Horus Records founders Ben Bell and Will Dorey to play some tracks from the label's discography

Pennsylvania based experimental composer releases an anthology of self-produced archive tracks

Ahead of his performance at Schiev festival in Brussels, Hungarian musician Gosheven shares a new slow-paced mix

Japanese dub punks G36’s forthcoming EP to be released by his Pressure imprint

NON Worldwide co-founder’s album is based on the writings of Dr Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau

Hear an exclusive audio sample of Joan La Barbara’s piece for Modularias, the evening of modular synth song cycles dreamed up by New York’s composer run opera company Experiments in Opera