Founder member of The Scratch Orchestra Carole Finer died on 20 March

“There’s still a way to preserve a space even if there are no venues,” says SHCR's Katy Roseland, whose station is primed and ready for indoor parties

Alan Licht examines Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s legacy of transforming 1960s psychedelic culture into a subversive vehicle for social change

Pat Thomas relays how great African traditions shaped Tyner’s musical education in the face of racist music journalism and white supremacy

Alan Courtis recalls an unforgettable night in Blackpool with the beaming Ceramic Hobs mastermind who died last month

Christopher DeLaurenti looks back at the work and career of the electronic music composer who died on 29 November

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

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

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

The Wire's Deputy Editor heads to Berlin to investigate the relationship between contemporary dance and avant garde composition

An automatic composing machine, capable of inventing new tunes long before the age of autonomous artificial intelligence driven devices. Or was it? By Robert Barry

Val Wilmer remembers the cloaked coffee bar performer who took a new approach to poetry reading inspired by skiffle, jazz, rock ’n’ roll and the blues

US guitarist Davey Williams died from spinal cancer on 6 April at the age of 66. Writer and friend Lee Shook recalls how their friendship expanded his musical universe

Mike Barnes recalls meeting the singer whose music made his listeners get a bit too carried away

Rob Young pays tribute to the former Talk Talk frontman

The Art Ensemble Of Chicago frontman died on 9 January. Howard Mandel recalls several encounters with the musician, and a gig cancellation that had him dodging the collective for several years

In her memoir of the great US jazz drummer, educator and pharmacist, Val Wilmer recalls her visit to Alvin Fielder’s hometown of Meridian, Mississippi, where he introduced her to leading Civil Rights activists for her project to photograph the lives of black women

On the first anniversary of Murray’s death, Pierre Crépon pays tribute to the pioneering free drummer by documenting his early years as a leader on the international scene

Reflections on how the pianist and native New Yorker's connection with Africa went from symbolic to real