Gateshead festival to present Magma’s 50th anniversary gig and Moor Mother x LCO premiere

Pica Disk founder Lasse Marhaug selects tracks from Argentinian cult group Reynols’ new box set Minecxio Emanation 1993–2018, while band member Roberto Conlazo gives his personal insights about each recording

The Lucerne based artist shares a new mix on the eve of Oto Nove Swiss II fest at London’s Cafe Oto

Celebrants include Thurston Moore, Daniela Cascella, Phil Minton and The Wire’s Tony Herrington

The 2019 edition of the Brighton festival includes an extended six week programme

Bass, Mids, Tops includes 25 conversations with the culture’s key players, while a new monthly residency offers a safe space to get deep with ambient

The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM, 14 February 2019, hosted by Chris Bohn, with The Wire’s longtime Japanese music correspondent Alan Cummings, presenting a Japanese free jazz special to mark the publication of the English language edition of the late Teruto Soejima’s Free Jazz In Japan (Public Bath Press)

The electronic musician joins Chris Watson, Annea Lockwood, Kara-Lis Coverdale and Phill Niblock at a remote French resort

British born, US based singer and sound artist compiles a selection of her own works for The Wire

Laurie Anderson, Mica Levi and Caterina Barbieri to perform

Berlin based Australian guitarist shares a digital extra from her new LP

Cooly G's belongings were destroyed by fire in a Croydon self-storage warehouse

Roger Robinson and Kevin Martin share and discuss their new album, a meditation on loss and loneliness

Line-up features Sam Kidel, Sculpture, Sofia Jernberg and more

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of the March 2019 issue

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 7 February and featured music by Terry Allen And The Panhandle Mystery Band, Lafawndah, Maurice Louca, and more

Greh Holger is joined in first two episodes by Mike Connelly of Hair Police and William Hutson of Clipping.

The Palestinian hiphop outfit share new single “Emta Njawzak Yamma”

Norwegian Grammy Awards nominate the soundwalk companion for the Tono's Composer Award

Actress joins Max Richter, Clark and Will Gregory on Decca

Featuring tracks by Dexplicit, Ignorants, J Beatz, Proc Fiskal and JT The Goon

Counter Culture Chronicles captures a reading at the Millennium Poetry and Multimedia Performance in New York City, three years before his death

To accompany Neil Kulkarni's Fashion Records article in The Wire 421, reggae writer and historian Noel Hawks selects some key releases

The event brings Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids, Gary Bartz, Theo Parrish, Sons Of Kemet, Nubya Garcia and Kojey Radical to Cambridgeshire in August

The inaugural edition in new series features contributions from François Bayle, Drew Daniel, Brunhild Ferrari, Eliane Radigue, Chris Watson and others

The new festival brings two weeks of Anatolian jazz and roots culture to London

Mike Pendegast chronicles rave promos in Flying Over England

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 31 January and featured music from AGF, Cosey Fanni Tutti, FFT, and more

The German composer has made an online composition randomiser inspired by his Dortmund based concert series and slot machines

Palenque Records founder Lucas Silva selects some of his favourite tracks from the Afro-Colombian sound of champeta

This March Andrea Belfi & sound artist Jessica Ekomane, Demdike Stare, and Schneider TM will present interpretations of works by graphic artists

The clarinettist, composer and vocalist presents a spiritual jazz cassette made from phone recordings

The quartet release Ironside on 5 April and announce tour dates

Can singer announces new biography co-written by Paul Woods

Triple LP set documents the first ten years of the annual free music workshops in West Berlin

Special events and auction intend to raise £100,000 for the broadcaster to relocate

The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 24 January and featured new music by Linda Ayupuka, Angel Bat Dawid, Slikback, and more

Now-duo release Solitude on Valentine's Day on Cosmo Rhythmatic

London composer, sound artist and DJ extends her sonic autobiography with a new mix

His new Star Searchers release beats Hollywood to it in a speculative take on the long awaited Avatar 2 film

The US noise musician collates a selection of tracks from her numerous projects

Her Ngbaduma series will explore the psycho-acoustic properties of rhythm

The Art Ensemble Of Chicago frontman died on 9 January. Howard Mandel recalls several encounters with the musician, and a gig cancellation that had him dodging the collective for several years

The ex-Pavement guitarist shares new track from his forthcoming electronic album

Translated by Kentaro Goi as わが人生の幽霊たち:うつ病、憑在論、失われた未来, it’s published by P-Vine/Ele-king Books

Japanese archive specialists digitalise Die Tödliche Doris’s early records

Stream a selection of tracks we listened to during the making of our February 2019 issue

After reuniting under their modified name three years ago, This Heat’s two surviving members will play their final show together in South London

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 17 January and featured an exclusive mix by producer Michul Kuun aka NAH

Their unusual duo was brought together by the Trestle label’s ongoing project focusing on ad hoc improvising set-ups

The Argentinian cult group are the subject of a new 52 track overview called Minecxio Emanation 1993–2018

Founded by former members of the New River studio’s now defunct 199 Radio, the new station will operate out of a venue called The Cause

The Wire’s February cover star met the UK saxophonist for a special one-off at James Magee’s monumental artwork The Hill

Copenhagen's Loke Rahbek shares three pop-leaning tracks from his forthcoming release

Online retailer opens record shop and performance space

Listen to an unearthed live recording of the Crass vocalist's jazz accompanied reading

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

New CD pays tribute to the late pianist

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

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