Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Ambarchi remembers Reed, from a near encounter on NYC's subway to telling the rock god to keep on fucking playing.

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Can's Irmin Schmidt on the sudden awakening brought on by The VU

Lou Reed died 27 October, 2013. Zeitkratzer's Reinhold Friedl remembers Reed, and performing Metal Machine Music

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Einstürzende Neubauten's Alexander Hacke on Reed's ultimate misanthropy, and the hidden Evil in his noise.

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Musician Alex Neilson on how 1978's Take No Prisoners intensified and counter acted his prejudices about Reed

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. David Keenan remembers him.

Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. The Dead C's Bruce Russell on horrifying all solid citizens

The journalist and author of the recently published book Facing The Other Way: The Story Of 4AD, networks the label's visual aesthetic.

Comic artist and musician Malcy Duff's portal takes us on a journey through places that have inspired him and affected his work, from magic tricks to a Wisconsin mustard museum.

Since producing seminal albums by The Ramones, Suicide and Blondie, Craig Leon has had an active career in the music biz – from TV work and country recordings to his 1981 New Age synthesizer album for the Takoma label. He talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about his early stints in the studio and the vagaries of the archival reissue market.

The novelist and writer of The Wire 357's Epiphanies article talks Italian social commentary, fascism, the many worlds of Chus Martinez, and where partying and politics meet.

Clive Bell takes a look at the Tweets, the column inches, the bitching and the I’m-above-all-this-nonsense that music competitions attract.

Who gives a toot about the flute anymore? A panegyric by Clive Bell on the once potent pipes of Pan, and some green shoots of hope for this currently degraded wind instrument.

Philip Clark visits the Proms and witnesses a clash between New Music and the fancy-dress patriotism of populist classical music culture.

The musician and author curates a primer for The Portal, ahead of her talk on the history of video art at September’s edition of The Wire Salon.

The Chicago Underground musician and visual artist shares online glimpses of his research in preparation for a new audiovisual opera titled (The Book of Sound (Android Love Cry)

The visual artist currently exhibiting at Camden Arts Centre shares her current reading and viewing habits, and how Daffy Duck can be an antidote to austere minimalism.

The Hamburg based DJ and musician shares her favourite links to tales and projects on the seen and the unseen, spectograms and unheard sounds.

Clive Bell on the continuing appeal of the music box, from inventive Polish packaging, high street trinkets and grown up toys like the German Polyphon.