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

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