Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) present a special Wire mix ahead of the publication of Dismantling The Master’s Clock, Phillips’s forthcoming book exploring time, temporality and Black liberation

Stonecircesampler, aka Luke J Murray, curates an exclusive compilation of edits, alternative mixes and unreleased music to conjure a hauntological landscape

In The Wire 491/492, Drew Daniel recounts a dream of a strange new music style, whose subsequent online virality revealed the need to test the limits of genres

In an extract from his new book, David Katz charts the emergence of Jamaica’s sound system culture in relation to social and political transformations that underpinned the country’s fight for independence

The Portuguese experimentalist creates an exclusive mix of tracks that have been inspiring his own most recent music

Elia Brülhart compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Zurich’s underground noise scene in The Wire 491/492

The Indian tabla virtuoso died on 15 December aged 73. In December 2000 he was interviewed for the cover story of The Wire 202, discussing his work with John McLaughlin, Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell and Talvin Singh. As a tribute, we have made the article free to read in our online library

To accompany his report on Strategic Tape Reserve in The Wire 491/492, Antonio Poscic selects music from the back catalogue of the playful Cologne label

This extract from William Burns's book gives an overview of hauntological music and its preoccupation with the sound of decay, the evocation of nostalgia, and the allure of lost futures

The 12 December edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Kate Bush, The Unthanks, The High Llamas, Annette Peacock and more

The Wire’s Releases of the Year chart for 2024 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full

Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s team of staff and contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as those featured in the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year, in The Wire 491/492

This volume in The Wire’s ongoing series of subscriber-only anthologies compiles 15 tracks from albums released by Cafe OTO’s in-house label Otoroku. Featuring Pat Thomas, Maggie Nicols, Loren Connors & Alan Licht, Elaine Mitchener, Black Top, Ecka Mordecai, and more

The 5 December edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast featured tracks by Ash Ra Tempel, Circuit Des Yeux, Katharina Ernst & schne, Keiji Haino & Jun Morita, Tori Kudo and more

Listen to an exclusive mix exploring the programme at this year’s London Contemporary Music Festival

To mark Nonclassical’s 20th anniversary, the Kenyan born musician KMRU creates an exclusive mix of experimental classical and electronic music for The Wire

The 28 November edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Terry Riley, Dub Syndicate, Able Noise, Mariam Rezaei, Bill Frisell/Kit Downes/Andrew Cyrille, Colin Self, Roger Robinson, General Magic, Abadir & Nahash, Alex Ward/Dominic Lash/Mark Sanders and more

James Gui compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Taipei’s underground rock scene in The Wire 490

Watch a short film that accompanies three tracks from sound artist and musician Adrián de Alfonso’s new album Viator.

The 21 November edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Stonecirclesampler, Net Gala, Ra Kalam Bob Moses & Jerome Bryerton, Dawuna, DJ Lycox, Kay Grant/Ian McLachlan/Daniel Thompson, and more

This extract from new book Sonic Faction considers the possibilities and limitations of the audio essay as a form of sonic psychedelic experiment, prompted by three releases on Hyperdub’s Flatlines sub-label

David Grundy attends a week long event in Berlin designed to forward a global avant garde of Black music composers

Flickers From The Fen’s Mercian Sam compiles an exclusive mix of dungeon synth to accompany his interview with Louis Pattison in The Wire 490.

Ahead of his celebration of Max Roach, trumpeter Charles Tolliver talks to Gabriel Bristow about playing alongside the legendary drummer, studying at Howard University with Donny Hathaway and Stokely Carmichael, and the legacy of Strata-East Records

The 14 November edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Moin, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions, Gong Gong Gong 工工工 & Mong Tong, YATTA, Richard Dawson, and more

The great US drummer died on 12 November aged 99. In 2000, Philip Clark interviewed him, discussing some of the stellar moments in a jazz life that traversed the entire history of the music and encounters with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton and more

The annual Berlin based festival celebrates its upcoming edition with a selection of countercultural Latin sounds mixed by Brazilian drummer Iggor Cavalera and grindcore band TEST

In an extract from her new book Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music & Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings, Marisol Negrón analyses the opening scene of music documentary Our Latin Thing, drawing out its references to the history and culture of community networks in New York’s Puerto Rican communities in the 1970s

To accompany her report on Les Disques Lexi in The Wire 490, Claire Biddles selects music from the back catalogue of the Brussels 7" specialists

Volume 46 of The Wire’s subscriber only download compilation includes tracks by Brannten Schnüre, HYPER GAL, SISSY MISFIT, Isaiah Hull & Jaso, Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das, Gordan, and more

The 7 November edition of The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra was a repeat of the 10 October edition, and featured tracks by Maral, FOUDRE!, Pat Thomas, White Boy Scream, Able Noise and more

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our December 2024 issue

Edwin Pouncey pays tribute to the bass player who drove The Grateful Dead’s furthest out moments to infinity and back

The 31 October edition of The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured a special guest mix for Halloween by Diamanda Galás, plus tracks by Nomade Orquestra, The Bug, Agile Experiments and more

In San Diego, Bill Perrine celebrates the return of the American composer’s instrumentarium

The 24 October edition of The Wire’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by John Carpenter & Alan Howard, Furze, YATTA, Patrick Cowley, Maral, The Night Monitor, David Dunn and more

Stream a selection of tracks from some of the releases we listened to during the making of our November 2024 issue.

The American singer, guitarist and political activist died on 20 October aged 97. As a tribute we have made Emily Pothast’s 2023 interview with Dane free to read in our online magazine library.

The 17 October edition of The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by AR Kane, Alan Lamb, Oranssi Pazuzu, The Standing Stones featuring Alasdair Roberts, Red Brut, and more

Working from exile in Poland, the Belarusian musician, poet and broadcaster keeps his home country’s avant garde flame alive. Take an exclusive first listen to his latest concert recorded with the five-strong piano ensemble Fantastic Swimmers

To accompany his report on Reading Group in The Wire 489, David Grundy selects music from the back catalogue of the New York avant garde imprint

The latest Wire Tapper CD, free to all readers with The Wire 489 November 2024 issue

Compiled and annotated by SHAPE+ for The Wire. Like all releases in the Below The Radar series, this edition can be downloaded by both print and digital subscribers to The Wire

Watch a 16 minute concept film of tracks from Joy In Fear, the 2023 album by Japanese rockers goat (jp)

The 3 October edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured a special guest mix by Bristol based improvising guitarist and promoter Matthew Grigg – including music by The Dead C, Gentle Fire, and more – plus tracks by Lisa Schonberg, Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall, and others

The Bristol trio premiere a reflective track from their forthcoming album A Soft And Gatherable Star

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts In Dr John’s Gris-Gris, David Toop follows anthropologist turned writer Zora Neale Hurston into the New Orleans of the late 1920s to sample the beliefs, tall tales and magical workings that comprise the mythopoetic substance of Dr John’s peculiar character and sound

The 26 September edition of The Wire’s weekly show featured tracks by Diamanda Galás, Suzi Analogue, Sarah Davachi, Sote, JPEGMAFIA, and more

To accompany his report on the aims and activity of Nashazphone in The Wire 488, Louis Pattison compiles a playlist of standout tracks from the Cairo label’s back catalogue

The 19 September edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Bedouin Ascent, Maral, Prangers, Byard Lancaster, José Mauro, Loren Connors & Alan Licht, and more

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our October 2024 issue

Chris Bohn presents the first show back after the summer break at Resonance 104.4FM and Resonance Extra. The 12 September edition of The Wire's weekly broadcast featured tracks by Raphael Rogiński, Seppuku Pistols, The Ex, otay:onii, and more

Daryl Worthington presents an annotated playlist to accompany his report on Barcelona’s DIY improv scene

Repeater share the first two sections of Toby Manning’s ‘Top Ten’ introduction to his new book, which charts A Marxist History of Popular Music

Mark Wastell relates how he came to own one of the most famous pieces of kit in improvised music, 30 years after it disappeared

Producer and composer Andrew PM Hunt charts the music that encouraged the wide-ranging approaches found on his latest album as Dialect

Dean Roberts died aged 49 on 10 August. As a tribute to the New Zealand born, Berlin based nomadic avantist, we have made Jon Dale's 2008 interview with Roberts free to read via our online magazine library.

Following his report on Manchester and Stockport's experimental electronic label YOUTH in The Wire 487, Derek Walmsley picks standout tracks from the platform's back catalogue

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our September 2024 issue

Michael Veal shares an extract from the second chapter of his new book, in which he considers “the Africanist Grid as a mode of jazz consciousness”

In his Global Ear feature in The Wire 486, Juan San Cristóbal Lizama explores cumbia rebajada – a musical subgenre derived from Colombian and Mexican cumbia that emerged in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. Here, he gathers a playlist of both pivotal and recent examples, some chosen by key players within the genre

The 25 July edition of The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured a special guest mix by DJ and producer Liliane Chlela, plus El Khat, Fire-Toolz, Metrist, and more

The Sarajevo born, Antwerp based musician compiles a travel mix inspired by driving between the two cities

To accompany his report on the aims and activity of Discreet Music in The Wire 486, Louis Pattison compiles a playlist of standout tracks from the Gothenburg label's catalogue

The 18 July edition of The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Tegh & Adel Poursamadi, Osees, Dame Area, The Incidental Crack, and more

Irène Schweizer died on 16 July 2024 aged 83. As a tribute to the pianist and founder member of The Feminist Improvising Group we have made her 1985 interview with Graham Lock and her 2016 Epiphanies essay, co-written with Maggie Nicols and Joëlle Léandre, free to read in our online library

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our August 2024 issue

The 11 July edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Dhangsha, Chrystabell & David Lynch, Laurie Anderson, Copper Sounds, and more

In a four part series of essays, published in the weeks leading up to an event presented by The Wire and avant-radio label World Service, artists Neil Luck and Max Syedtollan sketch a map of experimental radio work

As the far right looks set to gain ground in France’s elections on 7 July, Pierre Crépon looks to the reissued catalogue of pianist François Tusques’s Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra of the 1970s as an example of multicultural resistance

The 4 July edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Jussi Lehtisalo, Elaine Brown, ShrapKnel & Controller 7, HYPER GAL, Wave Generators, and more

The London based sound and movement artist reworks a mix of original tracks and loops from a new perspective, adding reflective vocals and saxophone lines

Watch a scene from the Finnish filmmaker and visual artist Mika Taanila's new film Failed Emptiness, featuring a score by composer Nika Son

In a four part series of essays, published in the weeks leading up to an event presented by The Wire and avant-radio label World Service, artists Neil Luck and Max Syedtollan sketch a map of experimental radio work

The 27 June edition of The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Nkisi, CHBB, Black Lives, Wolfgang Seidel, Soft Machine, Keiji Haino, Arooj Aftab, and more

To accompany his cover interview feature with cellist, improvisor and composer Tomeka Reid in The Wire 485, Stewart Smith selects standout tracks from her many musical projects

To mark The Wire’s cover interview feature with cellist and Chicago Jazz String Summit founder Tomeka Reid, Pierre Crépon compiles a playlist of music featuring the cello as a free jazz instrument

The 20 June edition of The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Meridian Brothers, Shark In A Bathtub, Beth Gibbons, Meshell Ndegeocello, Ergo Phizmiz & Depresstival, and more

Stream a selection of tracks we listened to during the making of our July 2024 issue

In a four part series of essays, published in the weeks leading up to an event presented by The Wire and avant-radio label World Service, artists Neil Luck and Max Syedtollan sketch a map of experimental radio work

Philip Freeman shares an excerpt from his new biography of Cecil Taylor, which takes the reader from the pianist and composer's birth in 1929 to his death in 2018 and beyond

The 13 June edition of The Wire's weekly show featured tracks by NWAKKE, Emma DJ, Chuquimamani-Condori, Eye Measure, Lanark Artefax, Nkisi, and more

The French composers and folk song hunters share footage of an intimate performance of an Iberian traditional song

To accompany his report on the aims and activity of Notice Recordings in The Wire 485, Derek Walmsley compiles a playlist of standout tracks from the experimental cassette label's back catalogue

A new compendium reflects on the activity of the German post-club platform and interdisciplinary art hub Creamcake, combining images from its archives with written accounts and new essays

Members of the Berlin based soulful vocal ensemble share a playlist of some of the songs that inspired their community choral project

The 6 June edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Tomeka Reid Quartet, Gordan, Tongue In The Mind, Marta Forsberg, Tadleeh, Olivia Block, and more

Volume 45 of The Wire's subscriber only download compilation includes tracks by HUUUM, Prangers, Theodora Laird & Caius Williams, Xylitol, Sote, 1127, and more

To accompany his essay on the experimental potential of tuning in The Wire 484, Los Angeles based composer Tashi Wada creates a mix demonstrating different approaches to its wide-ranging forms and principles

Brendan Greaves shares an excerpt from his new authorised biography of US musician and visual artist Terry Allen. Chapter 16 recalls Allen’s one-off appearance on the TV show Shindig! on 4 August 1965, two years after Allen and his partner Jo Harvey married and made the move from Lubbock, Texas to Los Angeles.

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our June 2024 issue