In a new book written before his death in 2021, bassist Ubadah McConner recounts the evolution and history of his home based educational, cultural and music centre in Pontiac, Michigan, which held all night Friday sessions of music and conversation for over 30 years

The UK based Australian garage punk artist shares a track from the next Ulysses Trash single

To accompany his interview with Emily Bick in The Wire 464, the samplist and composer compiles a playlist spanning his long career, including some rarities from the far-reaching corners of his hard drive

Polish-American laptop folklorist Derek Piotr shares an exclusive reimagining of a track from his latest album The Devil Knows How

To accompany her article on Berlin based platform Faitiche in The Wire 464, Leah Kardos selects tracks that demonstrate the diversity and playfulness of the label's back catalogue

The 15 September edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance Fm and Resonance Extra featured new music by patten, RA Washington & Jah Nada, Lucrecia Dalt, Trevor Mathison, and more

The veteran Finnish DIY musician has died aged 71. Read Matthew Wuethrich's 2007 interview with the artist via our digital archive.

The UK pianist introduces his favourite mid-90s tunes to coincide with the reissue of his 1997 dancefloor album New Jazz Jungle: Remembering

Robert Barry selects some of his favourite titles from the catalogue of the adventurous German music book publisher

To mark the release of experimental label Marionette's 20th edition, its founder Ali Safi shares a mix of past and future releases including exclusive previews of tracks by Roxane Métayer, Delphine Dora and MinaeMinae

Belgrade based Walkman alchemist Vladimir Lenhart and vocalist Tijana Stanković share footage of an intimate live session

“Free jazz is a real reflection of the times and everything that’s going on [...] It puts beauty back into the world, it vibrates, I think it works on an anatomical level.” US trumpeter, composer and bandleader Jaimie Branch has died aged 39. Read her Invisible Jukebox interview from 2019 in our online archive.

Stream tracks from releases we listened to while making our September 2022 issue

Colleagues of Abdul Wadud share memories of the late cellist during his formative years in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1960s. By Pierre Crépon

As the globe-trotting free music label Leo Records plans an anniversary celebration its debonair founder hosts Clive Bell in a rare soiree

Interdisciplinary performer eddy kwon shares music from a collaborative performance with cellist and composer Lester St Louis

Tom Welsh introduces a new recording of an unknown work by a composer who was a key member of John Cage’s pioneering US percussion group in the 1930s but whose name has since fallen out of history

The Ojibwe vocalist shares an exclusive recording from a recent pow wow

The US minimalist post-punk composer selects tracks that have influenced her own work and ways of listening

The 28 July edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured a special guest selection by Laurie Anderson, plus tracks by Tegh & Adel Poursamadi, Al-Qasar, Ian Carr with Nucleus, and more

The Suffolk based multi-instrumentalist provides a career-spanning playlist of solo and collaborative works

Stream a selection of tracks we listened to during the making of our August 2022 issue

The 21 July edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Lucrecia Dalt, Big Joanie, Nwando Ebizie, June Chikuma, Madalyn Merkey, Emily Abdy and more

Stream a playlist of tracks by artists involved in The Wire's 40th birthday celebrations in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol, Brighton and online from Chicago

In a coda to the AMM feature in The Wire 461, pianist John Tilbury tells Clive Bell a personal story of the much-admired musical grandfather he never met

The 14 July edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by SB The Moor, Emeka Ogboh, Tanya Tagaq, Duet Emmo, Niton, and more

A moody funk instrumental by The Meters echoes through reggae in versions by Coxsone Dodd, Lee Perry and Harry Johnson, discovers Chris Lane in his latest column

The 7 July edition of our Resonance FM show continues the 40th birthday celebrations with 20 tracks from 20 of the most prolific labels from the first 20 years of the magazine, including Chico Freeman, Sun Ra, Bill Dixon, Autechre, Julie Tippetts & Maggie Nicols, and more

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our July 2022 issue

To accompany his article on the Vietnamese rave collective in The Wire 461, James Gui selects tracks from the scene

The Mourning [A] BLKstar vocalist shares a video from their forthcoming debut solo album Soothsayer

The 30 June edition of The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks from artists involved with The Wire 40 @ The Cube events in Bristol, including People Like Us, Scratch Orchestra and Saul Williams, plus new releases by Marisa Anderson, Ellen Arkbro, Kyle Kidd, Lucrecia Dalt, and more

Industrial instrument inventor, sculptor and film maker K Of Arc shares an exclusive unreleased audiovisual work

The Peruvian artist and musician compiles some of the music that has inspired an upcoming live performance with cajón player Laura Robles

The 23 June edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Elucid, Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker, Coby Sey, Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart, Carlos Niño & Thandi Ntuli, and more

Former Scratch Orchestra member Stefan Szczelkun discusses the potential for mass music making contained in Cornelius Cardew’s Nature Study Notes and the Scratch Music book

The London based producer and installation artist pieces together an exclusive mix of tracks by ambient affiliates, inspired by Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

The 16 June edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Blectum From Blechdom, Natalie Beridze, Lila Bazooka, Laura Ortman, Savage Republic and more

To mark The Wire's AMM cover story in issue 461, directors of the documentary exploring co-founding member Keith Rowe's relationship with sound through the guitar have made the film free to watch

Next stop on Chris Lane’s tour of the extraordinary versions of Jamaican popular music detours via UK TV police show Echo Four-Two

The 9 June edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Pinkcourtesyphone, Claudia Molitor, Aaron Turner, Afrorack, Lucy Liyou and more

Xenia Benivolski speaks to the Navajo noise musician, composer and sound artist about his most recent projects and winning the Pulitzer Prize For Music

The 2 June edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured a guest mix from Austin based experimental outfit Shit And Shine, plus tracks by Deena Abdelwahed & Basile3, DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess, Ferry Djimmy, Cheri Knight, and more

The krautrock veterans perform “Psalter”, “Just A Second” and “Jennifer” at last year's edition of the festival in Utrecht

A new compilation released by Buh Records presents various DIY techno groups and projects that emerged in Lima in the mid-1980s

Stream a selection of tracks we listened to during the making of our June 2022 issue

The 26 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Model Home, Anna Butterss, Editirix, Carl Stone, Madalyn Merkey, and more

The contemporary classical and improvising duo premiere a track from their forthcoming album which reinterprets traditional songs of Italian working class women

Tom Welsh enjoys a rare audience with the sacred sound yogi who introduced La Monte Young to Indian vocal music and brought the first recordings of Pandit Pran Nath to America

The Belgian artist and instrument builder gives a multi-angle view of his latest work featuring a piano and antenna

Environmentalist chamber group founder Michael Begg shares some of his latest experiments in sound

The 19 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra included tracks by billy woods, Gav & Jord, Valentina Magaletti, Quelle Chris, Marcia Bassett, Helena Celle, and more

The avant rap duo share a full stream of their upcoming release featuring a collaboration with Wire 460 cover star Phew

As Paris based label Souffle Continu reissues two 1970s François Tusques solo albums, writer Pierre Crépon compiles a playlist spanning the pianist and composer’s career, from French free jazz’s early days to now

The 12 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured sounds coming out of Siberia and Moscow, with 90 minutes of music from the eclectic Klammklang label

To accompany his article on Neil Scrivin’s Blackpool based retrofuturist label in The Wire 459, Nathan Evans selects standout tracks from the imprint's back catalogue

The 5 May edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Shiva Feshareki, Avalance Kaito, Širom, Daniel Villarreal, Ensemble Nist-Nah, and more

In the next stop in his journey through reggae music’s extraordinary versions, Chris Lane checks in with Curtis Mayfield’s game-changing vocal group The Impressions

Percussionist Paul Abbott, pianist Pat Thomas and saxophonist Seymour Wright share a 70 minute set recorded in tribute to Cecil Taylor ahead of its release on Edition Gamut

The violist, improvisor and composer shares her response to a track from Davies's album Telyn Rawn

Stream a selection of tracks we listened to during the making of our May 2022 issue

Ahead of a two day residency at London’s Cafe Oto, Julius Eastman Project shares footage of their debut performance from October 2021

The Wire 458 cover artist returns as Final for a new vinyl release on Alter

The 28 April edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Reynols, 700 BLISS featuring Muqata’a, billy woods, Clarissa Connelly, Mick Harris, Quantum Foam, and more

Read Phil Freeman's 2018 interview with the prolific German synthesist and member of Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel and Cosmic Jokers, who died 26 April

Hear the full recording of a live session by UK text and performance artist Roy Claire Potter and Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha, soon to be released by Cafe Oto's Takuroku label

Gothenburg’s Blod shares three new tracks from his forthcoming church music inspired album Pilgrimssånger

The Argentinian psych travellers share an exclusive new video filmed during their recent Wire cover shoot

The 21 April edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Okkyung Lee, FEN, Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer, Keiji Haino, Liang Yiyuan, Tori Kudo, and more

Volume 39 includes tracks by Merlin Nova, OddChordSpace, Oksana Linde, Julmud, SPEW, Marcela Lucatelli, Joanne Robertson, Robyn Rocket and more

In the second of his journeys through reggae’s extraordinary versions, Chris Lane goes to the Far East with Don Drummond and Judy Garland

The 14 April edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Tashi Dorji & Marshall Trammell, Loraine James, LL OU J, Safa, Gaël Segalen, and more

Artist and filmmaker Frank Heath intensifies the tension building music of US percussionist Ches Smith with a video montage assembled from archival footage on the subject of home security

Slovenian folk trio share an exclusive preview of their latest album which explores parallel realities and imagined inner worlds

The 7 April edition of The Wire's weekly show included tracks by Annette Peacock, Eric Copeland, YĪN YĪN, Tuli Kupferberg and more

Composer Laurie Tompkins shares a video for a track from his forthcoming collaborative album, featuring Still House Plants vocalist Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach

Sound and multimedia artist Magda Stawarska-Beavan discusses her collaborative soundtrack work with Lubaina Himid as part of Himid's London Tate Modern exhibition. By Emily Bick.

Matt Valentine shares an unheard alternate take of a track from the latest Wet Tuna album, Warping All By Yourself

The 31 March edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance FM features tracks by Charles Stepney, Food Poison Center, Gavilán Rayna Russom, Cheri Knight, and more

Nomadic keyboard player, improvisor and composer Thollem shares footage from his current tour with video artist ACVilla

“There is movement in everything, even in those things that appear to be still.” Read The Wire 340's Epiphanies column written by DJ, composer and sound artist Mira Calix, who died on 26 March

In the first of a new column charting the journey of popular songs through generations of Jamaican music, Chris Lane of Dub Organiser and Fashion Records follows the story of a mysterious instrumental by The Supersonics

The 24 March edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Robert Hood, Simona Zamboli, Sudden Infant, Suicide, 250, and more

To mark the release of Swiss label Hallow Ground's concept compilation Epiphanies, label founder Remo Seeland presents a new mix of meditative music from the imprint, featuring Valentina Magaletti, Dedekind Cut, Kali Malone and more

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our April 2022 issue

Todmorden based sound artist, improvisor and events organiser shares a recording from a past performance with French folk musician Parrenin