Read an unpublished interview with the late US saxophonist and synth player Marzette Watts, conducted at his home in New York City on 3 July 1974.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
Directed by Posy Dixon, the three-act documentary tells the story of the musician who, over 30 years since the release of Keyboard Fantasies, embarks on his first global tour.
The Berlin label recirculates five key techno records. Meanwhile Jeff Mills launches fifth edition of his NTS series Outer Space
Label founder Cooper Bowman has also announced the latest edition of Australia's two-city Obsidian festival
Elaine Mitchener presents a UK BBC documentary about the life and music of the US composer, with contributions from Anton Lukoszevieze of Apartment House, Mary Jane Leach, Jace Clayton and George E Lewis
New Zealander Noel Meek teams up with Astral Spirits, after putting End Of The Alphabet on hiatus
This year’s theme was inspired by philosopher Donna Haraway
Listen to two new tracks from longrunning rock duo Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty
A “perfect jumping off point into this ocean of ordinary yet completely extraordinary music”, says compiler David Hollander
Free exhibition explores the work of major figures including Benjamin Zephaniah, Steel Pulse, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Sir Lloyd Coxsone and Don Letts
After losing its battle with developers, the underground music venue needs a new home by January 2019
Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews release 12" We Can’t Be That Far From The Beginning
Christian Marclay is composer-in-residence at this year’s festival, which runs from 16–25 November
Special listener’s choice episode on the skiffle scene hosted by Derek Walmsley, chosen by listener (and Derek’s brother) Graham Walmsley, in return for his auction winning contribution to Resonance FM’s 2017 fundraiser. Featuring a contribution from Billy Bragg, author of Roots, Radicals And Rockers: How Skiffle Changed The World (Faber & Faber, 2017). This edition was first broadcast on 18 October 2018.
The Virginia producer talks about his debut physical format release Black Helicopters
Clarion Call will project the voices of multiple singers at Spill Festival
“Throughout the 80 year span of his life Kosugi followed an independently minded course with luminous clarity of intent”
The Paris born, New England raised, Chicago based jazz drummer shares a full stream of his forthcoming double LP
Reflections on how the pianist and native New Yorker's connection with Africa went from symbolic to real
Stream 50 tracks compiled by Paul Gilroy that chart the development of black music in Britain over the last 70 years, from calypso to grime
The groundbreaking producer and Soul Assassins founder talks to The Wire's Deputy Editor Joseph Stannard about Cypress Hill, collaboration and changing while remaining the same
After a string of collaborations, guitarist Tashi Dorji is releasing a new solo album
The Japanese violinist, avant garde composer and Fluxus member died on 12 October aged 80
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 11 October and featured Michele Mercure, Brugmansia in Excelsis, Moulay Ahmed ElHassani, and more
Spread over a month, the programme focuses on electronic music and digital culture
Ahead of the release of her new album İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir, Shane Woolman catches up with the Turkish musician to talk about Nirvana and Zeki Müren, LGBT issues in Turkey, psych revival and consistent dreaming
Lizzie Borden's Born In Flames to be screened followed by a Q&A hosted by Nina Power
The release is out on Room40 this November
Ode To The Future wins Lovie Award while Good Grief, Charlie Brown! and Beyond The Deepening Shadow: The Tower Remembers will open this autumn
The new release brings the performance work Fake Synthetic Music to record
Listen to a selection of tracks we played at Wire HQ during the making of our November issue
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 4 October and featured Buffy Sainte-Marie, Umeko Ando, Lao Dan, Konstrukt & Keiji Haino, and more
2019 UK dates include Birmingham, Manchester, London and Glasgow
“There’s a responsibility being squarely placed on the shoulders of artists in these troubled and dark times”, says poet and King Midas Sound's Roger Robinson
Screenings will also take place at the fifth edition of Doc ’n' Roll music documentary festival
Arrington de Dionyso dedicates the release “to the healing and recovery of all those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi”
Inspiration comes from forms of animism and the persistence of resistance in Mexico
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 27 September and featured tracks by Bonaventure, East Man, Ipek Gorgun, Glass Knot, and more
The duo have made three videos to explain the thoughts and processes behind their new modular instrument
Frederikke Hoffmeier releases a preview of her forthcoming album and addresses its themes and motivations
Writer Phil England compiles tracks to accompany his article about Victor Schonfield and Music Now, featured in The Wire 416
The previously unheard concert recording from 1973 will be released this winter
Four days of concerts, workshops, talks and installations in Knoxville
Called Terminal, his record questions preconceived notions about what it means to be an Egyptian living in Cairo
This is the first time the research lab has composed a feature length soundtrack
The Philadelphia based musician Camae Ayewa is curating a stage at this year's edition of the Utrecht festival
Daqa'iq Tudaiq is the Montréal-Beirut audiovisual duo’s third full length release
The Algerian singer died on 12 September aged 59
Happening between 9–21 October, its special ‘festival in festival’ programme focuses on improvisation and free jazz
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 20 September and featured tracks by White Boy Scream, Armand Hammer, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Nordra, and more
The event will feature a panel discussion moderated by Emily Bick
London based Japanese performance duo O YAMA O release their debut album
For the release, Bristol veteran labels Tectonic and Punch Drunk team up in a one-off collaboration
Artists at December event include Shiva Feshareki and Anna Meredith
K-Punk includes published and unfinished pieces on music, pop culture, politics and mental health
The producers of on-going documentary series about progressive rock ask for help funding its new addition, Romantic Warriors 4: Krautrock (Part 1)
Listen to a selection of tracks played in the office during the making of The Wire 416
Russian underground chronicler Artemy Troitsky talks to Ilia Rogatchevski about Leto, Kirill Serebrennikov's new film documenting the 1980s Soviet rock scene
The Seattle based musician and artist releases her second solo album via SIGE
Gazelle Twin shares her forthcoming album Pastoral, which examines the fear and loathing behind the lace curtains of Olde England: “I felt like I was bristling with dread, like things were closing in on us all. I suddenly felt very aware of the violence and injustice that lay behind almost everything I deemed nice.’’
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 13 September and featured tracks by Agnarkea, Blod, Ecco2k, Guttersnipe, Lotic, Maxine Funke, and more
The US musician combines cello and voice on Runt Vigor