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Read a previously unpublished conversation conducted for The Wire contributor’s No Wave book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

The DIY culture archivist talks about preserving artistic integrity, his home archive and extensive online database Tape-Mag

Cecil Taylor died at his New York home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on 5 April 2018. He was 89

In his 400 page book of interviews, Rettman traces a history of Washington DC's scene and its spread throughout the US

In light of the forthcoming DVD release of the cult film Liquid Sky, Rob Young delves into The Wire archives to unearth a different history of electronica

Following a special show in London last month, Shane Woolman speaks to the Turkish artist, activist and label boss

“Check out the mad skills/Top secret technique, too hard for you to peep it and keep it”
— Ghostface Killah featuring Cappadonna & Raekwon