The Wire’s Joseph Stannard speaks to Baltimore based psychedelic rock duo Darsombra about their visionary music videos, recent DIY Genera-tour and forthcoming LP Dumesday Book. Plus, the duo share an exclusive full stream of the album.
The cover story of The Wire 475 contains 18 pages of essays on Don Cherry and his organic music family. In an adjunct to those essays, Harmony Holiday listens to the trumpeter’s 1971 elegy for his friend Albert Ayler.
Following his review of the Los Angeles based duo’s first album in The Wire 475, Antonio Poscic speaks to Micaela Tobin and Joshua Hill about their intense and transformative experience making Tent Music
Contributor Marc Masters selects ten of his favourite Invisible Jukebox interviews from The Wire’s back pages featuring Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Jaimie Branch, Lydia Lunch, and more. All selected articles are available to read in The Wire’s digital library with a Wire print or digital subscription.
Chris Lane’s latest version excursion through Jamaican music arrives at a botched take on a jazz standard
William Parker, Joe McPhee, Mats Gustafsson, Shoji Hano, Sven-Åke Johansson, Heather Leigh, John Corbett, Marino Pliakas, Bill Laswell and Hamid Drake share memories and impressions of the German saxophonist who died on 22 June aged 82.
HoZac Books compiles the original six issues of Richard Langston's obscure fanzine Garage into book form with new interviews and essays from New Zealand underground musicians, including this contribution by The Clean's David Kilgour
Following Kenneth Anger's death on 11 May, Ryan Meehan explores the experimental occultist film maker's life and work, including his working relationship with sound and music
Following the interview with his new band House Of All in The Wire 472, the former Fall bassist selects some of his favourite pop and rock basslines
A new anthology collects thoughts and experiences from Black music writers young and old. In this extract editor Willard Jenkins introduces Farah Jasmine Griffin, who goes on to detail her journey towards writing an unusual volume on Billie Holiday
Wire subscribers can explore this selection of past features on The Fall and Mark E Smith from The Wire's back pages in our online library
From Christian rock to reggae via soul, Chris Lane’s latest column follows the strange journey of a slept-on Jamaican classic
As vocalist Elaine Mitchener prepares to perform Peter Maxwell Davies’s explosive 1969 monodrama at London’s Wigmore Hall, David Grundy details past renditions and speaks with Mitchener about new intersectional perspectives on the piece
Deputy Editor Emily Bick speaks to Derek Jarman’s composer and longtime collaborator about a new restaging of the late film maker’s final project Blue
Ecstatic Peace Library shares a chapter from Ignacio Julià's new compendium on the US art-rock group, in which Lou Reed discusses his 2003 album The Raven
Agit-Pop Group leader and sonic rule-breaker Mark Stewart died on 21 April aged 62. Read Mark Fisher’s interview with Stewart from The Wire 293 and Adrian Sherwood’s Epiphany from The Wire 445 free in our online library
Writer and musician David Toop pays tribute to his friend and collaborator Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died on 28 March
To coincide with his interview with the former Slayer drummer in The Wire 471, Phil Freeman compiles a primer of works from Dave Lombardo's vast discography
Ryuichi Sakamoto died on 28 March aged 71. Read Clive Bell's interview with the Japanese electronic composer and producer from February 2000 for free in our online library.