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

First published in 1977, Val Wilmer’s As Serious As Your Life: Black Music And The Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977 will be reprinted by Serpent's Tail on 1 March

A Q&A with Elaine Mitchener about her performance piece Sweet Tooth – a visceral, overwhelming indictment of the role sugar and the slave trade played in building the British Empire

The Wire's Deputy Editor talks to the artist about freedom, fragility and his new EP Heute Will Ich Frei Sein

To celebrate the life and work of Mark E Smith, who died on 24 January 2018, we present a selection of articles on the Fall frontman and his group drawn from The Wire’s online archive

Filippo Cicciù speaks to Turkish psychedelic explorers Baba Zula, who're playing in London at the end of January

Read an extract from Matthew Collin's new book Rave On: Global Adventures In Electronic Dance Music, as reviewed by Sophia Ignatidou in the February issue of The Wire

Tony Bevan recalls his years playing – and playing around – with the late free jazz drummer

Algoraves, homemade instruments, mechanical art and horned helmets: AlgoMech celebrates unmaking and experiments with music and technology

The epic scale and contrived angles of many archival box sets threaten to distort the narrative of the music itself

“His smile said: do the unthinkable, the unpredictable. Bring the world with you to a place of peaceful coexistence that celebrates the diversity of ideas and experiences," writes a former president of the AACM

In advance of a major Hyperdub compilation Diggin' In The Carts: A Collection Of Pioneering Japanese Video Game Music, Sara Drake talks to co-compiler Nick Dwyer about a project that sets to give credit where credit's due

“Is it possible we’ve come full circle?” asks Clive Bell, as he observes more than a century of revolutions in recording technology, from Thomas Edison's tinfoil phonograph to pink vinyl in Sainsburys

“His equally radical presence is often missed. This is a mistake.”

Alto saxophonist Seymour Wright pays homage to the lessons learned from the man who helped set the pace of what was to come

Following the recent rework of the legendary Black Ark album Super Ape, David Katz speaks to Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Emch Subatomic about how 40 years on, the album holds weight with the youth of today