Writer, historian and deejay Lez Henry traces connections between poets and the dancehall, from Oku Onuora and Linton Kwesi Johnson to Nazamba and Roger Robinson

The Formerly Heatsick Warwick shares track “Open Fire Hydrant”

First four releases include Viridian, Vicky Smith, Bkv Industrial and Copper Coims

Trilogie De La Mort, Adnos I–III, Chry-ptus and Vice-Versa, etc... performed throughout November

Film makers URSSS shot their sound and body festival film in August

Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, Beth B’s Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over finally hits the big screen in New York City

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 3 October and featured music by Clipping, Giant Swan, Rob Mazurek, Pat Thomas, and others

Next year's festival takes place between 26–29 March in Knoxville, Tennessee

Harrow's arts space sends plea for help following news of imminent closure

London's online radio station set to support six musicians or bands looking to enhance their prospects

A new publication Inflamed Invisible released next month

Known as God Son and Rhythm Master, Brown worked with Prince Buster, Gregory Isaacs and King Tubby

Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs Of Paradise was recorded at London's Total Refreshment Centre and live at Cafe Oto

Ahead of her performance at Madrid's LEV Festival, the US producer and composer shares a new mix of her own archive material

The influential jazz vocalist is releasing a recent live recording dedicated to Cecil Taylor

UK video project IMPATV share their footage of Sauvage's recent electro-aquatic performance

The Wire contributor Josh Feola compiles 11 tracks to accompany his recent report on the underground music happenings of Hong Kong

The three noise improvisors reform to record an album with “no limitations, no concepts... just listening and playing”

The jazz collective share a full stream of their latest release Euganea

Enragés Fou Noix is a 35 track CD and download with all proceeds going to the
Mental Health Resistance Network

The sound artist and DJ presents two new electronic works in London

A selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our October 2019 issue

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 26 September and featured music by Negativland, JPEGMAFIA, Prison Religion, Mutant Joe, Warcrab, and more

In other radio news Jennifer Lucy Allan becomes a regular presenter on BBC’s Late Junction

Bird Dogs Of Paradise documents the Chicagoan trumpeter's time in London

The former Art Ensemble Of Chicago saxophonist’s anthology was originally published by the group’s self-publishing arm in 1977

Kode9, Cooly G, Lady Lykez and Nazar to play at Hyperdub's birthday party

New compilation collates music inspired by Reynols and minimalism

The duo’s latest collaborative release is a live recording dedicated to the late free jazz pioneer Sunny Murray

Sharing over four hours of music, the UK improvising saxophonist and composer talks us through significant audio moments in his ongoing career

This edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM took place on 19 September and included a guest mix from Glasgow based reggae collective Mungo's Hi Fi

The city-wide Sheffield event plays out at venues including Kelham Island Museum, Heeley Swimming Pool and Hope Works

Lanquidity Records release music from lost tapes discovered in a basement in Kalisz

2020 will be Dawson's sixth solo album. Watch the video for “Jogging”

Bit-Phalanx’s all day festival takes up residency at London Notting Hill St John’s Church

Her audio work reveals hidden histories of French and French-Caribbean prisoners incarcerated there

Freshly announced is a premiere of Patrick Higgins & Nicolas Jaar's project AEAEA and the new concert series Hidden Musics highlighting global traditions

Artists featured include Chevel, Rrose, Lucy and others

Oliver Coates’s celebration of minimal music returns to London in November

Opera North has commissioned her to write new music for Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent film classic

Her self-released runs of vinyl and cassette coincide with US and European tour dates

The US poet was active in New York City’s free jazz scene

Eli Keszler, Rashad Becker and Ellen Arkbro are among the chosen

ECM co-founder, producer and advocate of the German free music scene died on 6 September

Wire contributor Josh Feola and artist Krish Raghav share Hang On The Box chapter from their work-in-progress illustrated history spanning 20 years of Chinese alternative culture

13 unreleased tracks and his journal compiled on new album Mechanical Fantasy Box

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM resumes after a summer break. This broadcast took place on 12 September and featured tracks by FM Einheit, Hey String, Vavabond, Senyawa’s Wukir Suryadi, A Tribe Called Red, and more

Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin’s duo serve up a slice of “smacked out dub and heavily tranquillised hiphop”

Dani Gal & Ghazi Barakat and duo NUM are the winners of the CTM 2020 Radio Lab Call for Works

Choreographed by Jade Hackett, the performance will feature 14-piece jazz ensemble with London Symphony Orchestra, Makaya McCraven and Junius Paul

The US cult musician and comic book writer was 58 years old

Pierre Crépon talks to author John Gray about amassing and processing the 12,000 references making up his jazz bibliographies Fire Music and Creative Improvised Music

Four releases include his 2007 Blank Tapes debut album

hcmf// includes open call for young curators with its line-up announcement

OUT.RA's research project documenting experimental and underground music in pre-1989 Eastern Europe takes to the road this autumn

James Ferraro and Mr Mitch among those added to the line-up

Teklife co-founder returns with Da Life EP

The four month long festival brings together electronic composition and traditional mountain music

The Croatian born French composer and conductor was 94 years old

Hokkaido Tobiu Art Festival hosts special event Art With/out Small Children with Li Jianhong, Wei Wei and Yao Chunyang

Ahead of her forthcoming London appearances, the Buchla pioneer shares a new Ciani mix selected from four decades of music

An audio accompaniment to our latest themed issue exploring music's love affair with excess, overload, lavishness and volume

Tenderbooks and Bad Taste Press publish second book of review poems

Jandek, The Rolling Calf, Magma and Eleh will perform at this year's event

The week-long Rio event confirms appearances by Lawrence English and Oren Ambarchi, plus Enrico Malatesta performing Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean – Occam XXVI

“You know when you feel like you’ve just been figuring things out? I’ve been doing that – figuring things out in front of everyone,” confesses Klein

The two prolific percussionists collaborate on Sulla Pelle

Selected works will be exhibited at South London venue Iklectik in October

Rare collectables out again on vinyl with bonus live tracks

Mastered from the original analogue tapes, it’s released on 27 September

The music industry network for women celebrates five years with a female first global gathering in Portugal

As used on their recent album Life Metal!

In an essay to accompany our Excess All Areas feature in The Wire 427, Daniel Neofetou dissects the psychological and musical overload of Kanye West

On 1 September a day of listening launches a month-long run of sound walks

Bristol’s Knowle West boy shares his story in new book

Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin’s duo collaborate with Moor Mother on new album

Apartment House’s Anton Lukoszevieze sets the scene for a rediscovered Mingus composition that the ensemble will perform with Elaine Mitchener at September’s Totally Thames Festival

Ambarchi’s label marks the occasion by sharing the video for the track “In The Past Only Geniuses Were Capable Of Staging The Perfect Crime (Also Known As A Revolution) Today Anybody Can Accomplish Their Aims With The Push Of The Button Part 2”

No Home Record is released by Matador on 11 October

“Two bangin’ XWORM concerts in London town…” promises the cassette tape label

Listen to a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our September 2019 issue

John Pietaro catches up with Ronnie Burrage to discuss his musical influences, St Louis's Black Artists Group, community outreach work and his most recent album Dance Of The Great Spirit

Stones: Dreams includes one piece performed by Philip Corner