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

Earlier this year Strange Attractor published a retrospective scrapbook documenting the life and works of The Wire contributor and resident artist Edwin Pouncey aka Savage Pencil. Read part of an interview featured within its pages

Ken Hollings maps the late Italian composer’s use of power chords and psychedelic rock tropes to crack open his crime and horror soundtracks

Byron Coley chronicles the life of prolific East Coast guitarist, lap steel player and chess freak Marc Orleans, of Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Spore and many more

Multidisciplinary artist Charles Martin Simon is the subject of a new book by research fellow Zully Adler. As Charlie Nothing, Simon was responsible for one of the rare non-guitar records released by John Fahey’s Takoma label; he was also the inventor of the steel-stringed American automobile scrap metal instrument, the dingulator.

The harpist and bandmate pays tribute to a musician who always set the bar high

The Wire publisher asks: What is wrong with this industry? Why is it such a monoculture? What is wrong with the white people who run it, work in it, report on it, study in it?

Julian Cowley on the life of the UK bassist and composer who died on 28 June

As lockdown begins to ease and protests over the killing of George Floyd fill the sonic landscape, Alan Licht examines the value of New York Public Library's anthology of nostalgic field recordings

The Wire contributor, musician and Decolonise Fest co-founder asks white readers: “Does the diversity of your record collection reflect the diversity of your real social life or approach to the world?”

John Morrison traces the new world routes mapped by the Philadelphia musician, promoter and Star’s End presenter

Elaine Mitchener's music theatre work Sweet Tooth, a powerful engagement with the brutalities of slavery, its links to the British empire and the sugar industry, and its contemporary echoes, has been made available to stream online. Here Mitchener compiles an extensive resource of relevant reading materials

The Wire 436 cover star's interviewer selects a range of tracks spanning the influential producer's career so far