Stream some of the sounds that were played in The Wire office when we were putting together our January 2014 issue. Tracks by Astor, Captain Beefheart, Music For Shut-Ins, Księżyc, Stefan Jaworzyn and others

Stream tracks by artists released on the Sub Jam label, selected and annotated by the label's founder, artist and writer Yan Jun.

Listen to a selection of unreleased excerpts from Laraaji's voluminous back catalogue.

Listen to a compilation of tracks by artists released on the Diskotopia label, featured in The Wire 358.

Stream the entirety of C Spencer Yeh, Okkyung Lee and Lasse Marhaug's Wake Up Awesome album.

Listen to a selection of tracks from the albums that we listened to during the production of The Wire 358 December issue.

Listen to a composition by composer and percussionist David Van Tieghem, taken from his collaborative album, Fits & Starts.

Listen to two clips of writer Stewart Home reading extracts of his poetry and prose.

Stream two tracks from The Doomed Bird Of Providence's Blind Mouths Eatalbum, reviewed in The Wire 357.

On the eve of his Metal Machine Trio tour in October 2009, The Velvet Underground veteran took a walk on the wild side of The Wire's Invisible Jukebox, tested by Alan Licht.

Listen to Hieroglyphic Being's Seer Of Cosmic Visions album, of original jams and reworkings of previously released tracks, exclusive to The Wire.

Listen to a composition by musician and sound ecologist David Dunn, exclusive to The Wire. Dunn is featured in an article by Phil England in The Wire 357.

Listen to a selection of old and new punta and punta-pop tracks from Dangriga, Belize. Compiled by Louise Morris, writer of a Global Ear article in The Wire 357, on the music and circle dance of the Garifuna people.

Stream a playlist of the tracks used to test tenor sax jazz legend Archie Shepp, in The Wire 357.

Stream a selection of tracks played in The Wire offices during the production of our November 2013 issue.

Stream a track from the Finnish garage trio's new album, featured in The Wire 356.

Listen to an exclusive stream of Matana Roberts's new album Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile. Roberts is on the cover of The Wire 356, interviewed by Daniel Spicer.

Listen to two tracks by Frederikke Hoffmeier and Danish duo Damien Dubrovnik, on Copenhagen's Posh Isolation label.

Stream two exclusive excerpts from Karren, a new work by Chicago based composer and sound artist, Olivia Block. Karren is reviewed in The Wire 356 by Bill Meyer.

Stream two exclusive Shangaan electro tracks. Polymath and Shangaan electro pioneer Richard Mthetwa aka Nozinja is featured in The Wire 356's Invisible Jukebox, tested by Dave Stelfox.