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Barre Phillips announces final solo album End To End
August 2018
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
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Read a previously unpublished conversation conducted for The Wire contributor’s No Wave book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
An extract from the two-book biography penned by The Wire's Rob Young and Can's Irmin Schmidt, and published by Faber
“The joy of shaping, forming and organising materials is at the heart of Taylor’s work... it is strange he should be pigeonholed as a ‘free’ player”
An excerpt from chapter six of Shirley Collins's memoir, published by Strange Attractor Press
To mark the passing of Cecil Taylor, who died on 5 April 2018 aged 89, we present a selection of articles drawn from The Wire’s online archive in which other musicians discuss the pianist and his music
The trend for classical and orchestral reinterpretations of dance music comes with strings attached
The Wire’s publisher zooms in on one bad riff as a way of entering the late pianist’s musical universe