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”
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
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
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
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
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
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.
To mark the 100th birthday of saxophonist Marshall Allen on 25 May, we have made three articles featuring the Sun Ra Arkestra bandleader free to read in our online library: Allen’s Invisible Jukebox from 2004, a 2015 interview by David Keenan, and Val Wilmer’s 2014 essay on Allen's formative time in Paris during the 1940s.
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
Ahead of a full performance of her new album The Hollow at London ICA, actor and artist Keeley Forsyth talks to Ilia Rogatchevski about Pina Bausch, Béla Tarr, genderless vocals, and perceiving the world as light and shade
On 15 April, Emily Pothast interviewed Steve Albini, Bob Weston and Todd Trainer of US noise rock band Shellac for the cover story of The Wire 484. Following the sudden death of Albini on 7 May, here we publish the full transcript of that interview complete with an introduction by Emily.
30 years ago, in April 1994, Steve Albini took The Wire’s Invisible Jukebox test, offering up his unbridled opinion on tracks by Black Sabbath, John Zorn, Throbbing Gristle, The Raincoats and more. As a tribute to Steve, who died on 7 May, we have made the interview free to read in our online library.
Ahead of the release of her soundtrack for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's new film Evil Does Not Exist, Japanese musician Eiko Ishibashi talks to Ilia Rogatchevski about influential composer director partnerships and her own approaches to scoring film
Jez riley French remembers the Japanese sound sculptor, plus tributes from friends and colleagues
Irene Revell speaks with the founders of the Permanent Draft micropress about their new book Basta Now, which compiles the profiles of over 2000 women, trans and non-binary experimental musicians
The Scottish Danish musician maps out the texts, sounds and places that steered and informed the writing of her new album World Of Work
The Wire’s Caroline Whiteley speaks with the acclaimed sound artists ahead of a symposium around Aura Satz’s debut feature length film Preemptive Listening at Tate Modern
Following Shabaka Hutchings’ adoption of the shakuhachi flute, which features heavily in his new album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, Clive Bell discusses other players and significant recordings featuring the instrument