His current label 4AD announced the news on 25 March

This edition of The Wire's weekly slot on Resonance FM spends 90 minutes in the company of deep digging Lithuanian jazz institution NoBusiness. Hear music and archive discoveries from Barre Phillips, Bobby Naughton, Marion Brown, Choi Sun Bae, Bobby Bradford, and more

The free jazz vocalist explains the motivations and messages behind their forthcoming release From Untruth

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of The Wire 422

Also announced this week is a new album proper from the group’s longstanding members Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan

Composer Iain Chambers has lined up three new releases this spring

Artists confirmed include crys cole, Pan Daijing and Sally Ann Mcintyre

Over the course of three international festivals, musicians, performers, researchers and theorists examine the health effects of new ways of hearing

Back in June 2018, the Derby based vibraphonist set the date for his final gig as 23 March 2019

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This broadcast took place on 7 March and featured music by Carl Stone, Snarky Puppy, Unnatural Ways, and more

Documenting Lou Reed’s life as a musician, composer, poet and tai chi student

The East London venue will host four day Brötzmann special in September

Josh Feola reports on the underground music happenings of Hangzhou in eastern China

Leyland James Kirby closes the door on The Caretaker with stage six of Everywhere At The End Of Time

A reading list of over 20 music books intended to teach or educate, compiled by Wire staff to accompany The Great Learning special issue

Author of The Black Atlantic wins the Norwegian prize for being “one of the most challenging and inventive figures in contemporary scholarship”

Pierre Crépon and Richard J Koloda speak to the bass player and poet who worked with Albert Ayler and Black Unity Trio, among others

Planning: is released by Maple Death on 22 March

“A more than satisfied portcullis is finally being lowered after almost 20 years,” says Ian Hicks

Jazz and Late Junction scaled back and “classical music programme designed for late night listening” introduced

The release of Matmos's new plastic-sourced album, featuring the sounds of Styrofoam coolers and silicone gel breast implants, is celebrated with this new exclusive mix

Exhibition series in Wrocław looks at the ways sound is perceived

Led by Anton Lukoszevieze, this new ensemble performance is out now on Another Timbre

The 1991 piano piece Petra was performed by Marianne Schroeder and Stefan Tcherepnin in 2017

New album due for release in summer 2019

In April BMG reissue five 1970s albums as separate CDs and LP box set

The fifth edition dedicates ten days to questions of history and historiography

This year’s festival themes address Instrumental Shifts and Staging Sound

Unit Structures conference taking place at Brooklyn College between 24 & 26 October

“So Much Better/Fever Dream” is out on 19 April on Kallista

Full Upon Her Burning Lips is released on 24 May by Sargent House

Purge is released by Geng's PTP imprint

“We are on the edge!” declares Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother, one of the project’s 15 new recruits

Another edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This broadcast took place on 28 February and featured music by Joe McPhee, Morton Feldman, Mark Hollis, Martina Lussi, and more

DIY singeli sounds from Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Ahead of his performances at Big Ears Festival, the US electronics composer discusses process and his love of radio with The Wire’s Deputy Editor

De Nor is set to host gigs this summer with Eiko Ishibashi & Joe Talia, Richard Youngs, Helm and many more

Anthology Of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol 2: The Canon is released in May on RVNG Intl

Rob Young pays tribute to the former Talk Talk frontman

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 21 February and featured music by Bambounou, Bass Clef, King Midas Sound, and more

The Manchester based composer and musician shares some exclusive excerpts of past studio recordings and performances

Wire contributor Courtney Yusuf selects his favourite tracks from the current Palestinian hiphop scene

Ilia Rogatchevski catches up with the Polish quartet’s front man to discuss Gdansk’s tumultuous history, the films of Werner Herzog and the importance of boredom to the creative process

Bowerbird and Blank Forms take a holistic approach to the music and thoughts of US composer and psychoacoustic investigator

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, the label shares one of its tracks “Hyenas Of Harar” by Shudan

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 digitise the German punk pranksters’ 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