Francis Gooding, reviewer of the recently published book Keeping Time 1964–1974: The Photographs And Cape Town Jazz Recordings Of Ian Bruce Huntley, shares online resources on the South African jazz scene.
The Polish experimental musician and composer Zbigniew Karkowski died on 12 December 2013. Richard Whitelaw remembers an artist whose music could "suck the soul out of your body".
The Polish experimental musician and composer Zbigniew Karkowski died on 12 December 2013. Atau Tanaka writes an open letter to an artist of "vision and principle".
Read the introduction to Douglas Kahn's new book Earth Sound Earth Signal, on art and music's relationship to electromagnetism and natural radio.
All aboard with Clive Bell: "Musicians love trains. They sing about them, imitate their sounds, and scamper, instrument in hand, for the last departure homebound after a show."
Jazz is radical music, so why is it funded by big business? asks Dan Spicer.
Jazz is radical music, so why is it funded by big business? asks Dan Spicer.
Pastoral punk duo of Claire Titley and Christopher Tipton guide us through online resources of unofficial histories, potent topographies and resonant field recordings.
Follow Hair Police and Three Legged Race's noise man Robert Beatty as he cuts a path through the digital jungle through experimental animations and electronic scores.
Read an interview with the late composer Bernard Parmegiani, by Rahma Khazam. First published in The Wire 176, October 1998.
The Diskotopia label co-founder and British ex-pat living in Japan shares aspects of his adopted home that escape common knowledge and debunk ideas of wacky-Japan.
When funding bodies treat culture as a business enterprise, their insistence on results discriminates against music’s true value, argues Richards.
Lou Reed died 27 October, 2013. Here Mark E Smith eulogises – on being a criminally devout Velvet Underground fan. Not a 'Velvets' or 'Lou Reed' fan.
When funding bodies treat culture as a business enterprise, their insistence on results discriminates against music’s true value, argues Richards.
The Doomed Bird Of Providence's lead man Mark Kluzek relates a selection of sites dedicated to Australia's colonial past, and fodder for his dark and violent ballads. The Doomed Bird Of Providence's Blind Mouths Eat album is reviewed in The Wire 357.
Lou Reed died 27 October, 2013. Lydia Lunch pays tribute to the gender bender.
Lou Reed died 27 October, 2013. "So I fucking hated that song. I hated the record with the cool banana and I hated everything in the world but especially that record." Carla Bozulich arrives late to The Velvets.
Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Ulrich Krieger remembers his time working with Reed on Metal Machine Trio.
Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. “Whatever you do, don’t talk to Lou.” Byron Coley ignores a warning.
Lou Reed died on 27 October, 2013. Masami Akita aka Merzbow pays tribute.