Hasan Shahid reveals the secret history of Cleveland, Ohio's legendary The Black Unity Trio, whose 1969 album Al-Fatihah is set for reissue in late 2020. By Pierre Crépon

The trumpeter shares a full stream of his latest release and talks about his roles as bandleader, community music venue programmer and Sun Ra messenger

Alan Licht examines Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s legacy of transforming 1960s psychedelic culture into a subversive vehicle for social change

Pat Thomas relays how great African traditions shaped Tyner’s musical education in the face of racist music journalism and white supremacy

Trumpeter, promoter and Heart N Soul affiliate Robyn Steward highlights eight artists from London’s inclusive conscious gig scene

“There is a noise switch on the organ; when you first put it on you get a ‘Whurghssh!’”

Matthews talks to Bell about returning to solo recordings with her newfound ELKA 400, relaunching Annette Works and Berlin's community spirit

Stream the new live album by Garcia Peoples and read an interview with the taper who captured the gig for posterity

“I think the first ‘actual’ concert I attended was a piano recital. I was probably nine...I was in the first row and spent the entire concert frozen by fear of disturbing the pianist.” – Bonnet

The artist also known as Kassel Jaeger talks about the act of listening and what Radigue's music means to him

House DJ and Shoom founder Danny Rampling talks to Louise Gray about his long and deep friendship with the DJ, producer and musician Andrew Weatherall

The London DJ and producer died on 17 February. Culled from The Wire's archive, read two articles penned 20 years apart

The Gateshead DJ, composer and musical director of turntable ensemble NOISESTRA selects her top ten scratch records

In this extract, Cafe Oto founder Hamish Dunbar recalls an early email exchange with the saxophonist

The California based producer talks about films with interesting sounds

The longtime Wire contributor has penned a major study of UK progressive rock in the 1970s. Based on his own extensive research and interviews with musicians, journalists and insiders, it amounts to 608 pages long. In this extract, Barnes offers an account of an early King Crimson set that took place one sunny afternoon in 1969 at London's Hyde Park

Alan Courtis recalls an unforgettable night in Blackpool with the beaming Ceramic Hobs mastermind who died last month

Christopher DeLaurenti looks back at the work and career of the electronic music composer who died on 29 November

The Beijing based musician deploys unplugged electronic music in the struggle against bad sound systems

Writer, historian and deejay Lez Henry traces connections between poets and the dancehall, from Oku Onuora and Linton Kwesi Johnson to Nazamba and Roger Robinson

Pierre Crépon talks to author John Gray about amassing and processing the 12,000 references making up his jazz bibliographies Fire Music and Creative Improvised Music

In an essay to accompany our Excess All Areas feature in The Wire 427, Daniel Neofetou dissects the psychological and musical overload of Kanye West