As Phil Minton celebrates his 80th birthday, Phil England talks to the totemic vocal improvisor about voice and the body, strange gigs over the course of 50 years on stage, and making music like Jackson Pollock

Japanese-Korean kosmische trio celebrate their reunion in Japan in defiance of historical political tensions adding to the pandemic restrictions that kept them apart for seven months. By Clive Bell

The London based singer songwriter shares an album of interpretations of his recent single “On&On” and answers questions with one of its featured acts – experimental duo O YAMA O

Julian Cowley pays tribute to the Romanian avant garde composer

The Manchester and Berlin based electronic duo premiere Untitled (To Describe You), a new film created with film maker Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh, at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Veteran spinner and host Raj Chaudhuri remembers the many DJ booths where he has taken to the airwaves

“Drop out” Japanese punk group are about to drop their debut record – 20 years after they formed. By Biba Kopf

Jo Hutton talks to Caroline Catz about her Radiophonic Workshop pioneer biopic, and collaborating with Cosey Fanni Tutti

The former Blue Öyster Cult drummer and solo artist talks to Edwin Pouncey about the esoteric origins of his long awaited new solo album

Drew McDowall speaks to Chloé Lula about new solo album Agalma and the reissue of Coil’s 1999 opus Musick To Play In The Dark

The Chicago drummer remembers his Die Like A Dog bandmate and close collaborator

The artist and scientist tells Emily Pothast about creating a sonic oasis in the city

Roy Ayers and Fela Kuti each explored Pan-Africanism and diasporic solidarity their own way before their meeting in 1979, which represented a crystallisation of ideas. By John Morrison

The late producer's biographer Noel Hawks writes an appreciation

As the albums of anarcho punk legends Crass receive a new reissue, their visual mastermind talks to artist and Wire contributor Savage Pencil aka Edwin Pouncey

Amar Ediriwira speaks to New York based artist Eartheater about her new album Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin

The Wire’s Japanese flute specialist finds himself improvising on the soundtracks to two video game blockbusters

The founding member of AMM explores the radical potential of jazz and free improvisation in a new polemical memoir, Uncommon Music For The Common Man

Avatars of the underground, figureheads of the free festival scene and heralds of punk, Hawkwind were a one-band revolution in the 1970s. This is an edited extract from Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground – Radical Escapism In The Age Of Paranoia by Joe Banks, published by Strange Attractor Press

In 1971 Cecil Taylor joined the University of Wisconsin to lecture on Black music history and lead its student jazz ensemble. Budding photographer and student Paul Ruppa shares his photos and memories of Taylor at work and play in Wisconsin and New York