Reflections on how the pianist and native New Yorker's connection with Africa went from symbolic to real

“Throughout the 80 year span of his life Kosugi followed an independently minded course with luminous clarity of intent”

The groundbreaking producer and Soul Assassins founder talks to The Wire's Deputy Editor Joseph Stannard about Cypress Hill, collaboration and changing while remaining the same

Ahead of the release of her new album İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir, Shane Woolman catches up with the Turkish musician to talk about Nirvana and Zeki Müren, LGBT issues in Turkey, psych revival and consistent dreaming

Gazelle Twin shares her forthcoming album Pastoral, which examines the fear and loathing behind the lace curtains of Olde England: “I felt like I was bristling with dread, like things were closing in on us all. I suddenly felt very aware of the violence and injustice that lay behind almost everything I deemed nice.’’

Russian underground chronicler Artemy Troitsky talks to Ilia Rogatchevski about Leto, Kirill Serebrennikov's new film documenting the 1980s Soviet rock scene

To mark its release, fellow bass player and writer Clayton Thomas discusses the lasting legacy of Phillips’s 50 year old debut solo LP Journal Violone

Ahead of the release of his seventh solo album Don't Look Away the experimental vocalist, songwriter and artist speaks to The Wire Deputy Editor Joseph Stannard

The lone producer discusses horror films, the hurricane season and hopeful futures

Ahead of two new films In Fabric and The Field Guide To Evil, the UK director and screenwriter speaks to Lara C Cory about working with Stereolab's Tim Gane, and the role of music and sound in his films

Pierre Crépon recalls the life and work of the New York based jazz trumpeter who appeared on John Coltrane’s Ascension and performed alongside Rashied Ali, Pharoah Sanders, Giuseppi Logan, Paul Bley and others

“I think it’s safe to say, I have an obsession with decay. It’s always been about things breaking down or simply fizzling out.” The Wire contributor Jim Haynes shares his interview with the Main man who specialised in sculpting drumless space

“Nuriddin’s musicality, lucidity and crackling charismatic vitality as a poetic messenger accounts for why his best work can still throttle our synapses”

The Wire’s longtime US jazz correspondent visits the studio of engineer Rudy Van Gelder to check out three previously unheard Coltrane compositions

The audio-visual artist discusses package holidays, Cream CDs, the hardcore continuum, the tragedies of youth and how to say farewell to unfinished business with The Wire Online Editor Daisy Hyde

An extract from award winning author's book about the relationship between pop music and science fiction, Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, And The Decade Sci-Fi Exploded

The Wire contributor on the life and work of the high volume composer

Read a previously unpublished conversation conducted for The Wire contributor’s No Wave book

Anthony Child releases a new LP this month, and speaks to Meg Woof about techno through a psychedelic lens, unplayable records, and annoying the dance scene

“I believe that something does not diminish by doubling it and duplicating it, and I don’t believe in the art gallery ethic of the less there is of something, the more value it has,” declares the UK collagist