This extract from William Burns's book gives an overview of hauntological music and its preoccupation with the sound of decay, the evocation of nostalgia, and the allure of lost futures

This extract from new book Sonic Faction considers the possibilities and limitations of the audio essay as a form of sonic psychedelic experiment, prompted by three releases on Hyperdub’s Flatlines sub-label

David Grundy attends a week long event in Berlin designed to forward a global avant garde of Black music composers

Ahead of his celebration of Max Roach, trumpeter Charles Tolliver talks to Gabriel Bristow about playing alongside the legendary drummer, studying at Howard University with Donny Hathaway and Stokely Carmichael, and the legacy of Strata-East Records

The great US drummer died on 12 November aged 99. In 2000, Philip Clark interviewed him, discussing some of the stellar moments in a jazz life that traversed the entire history of the music and encounters with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton and more

In an extract from her new book Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music & Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings, Marisol Negrón analyses the opening scene of music documentary Our Latin Thing, drawing out its references to the history and culture of community networks in New York’s Puerto Rican communities in the 1970s

Edwin Pouncey pays tribute to the bass player who drove The Grateful Dead’s furthest out moments to infinity and back

In San Diego, Bill Perrine celebrates the return of the American composer’s instrumentarium

The American singer, guitarist and political activist died on 20 October aged 97. As a tribute we have made Emily Pothast’s 2023 interview with Dane free to read in our online magazine library.

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts In Dr John’s Gris-Gris, David Toop follows anthropologist turned writer Zora Neale Hurston into the New Orleans of the late 1920s to sample the beliefs, tall tales and magical workings that comprise the mythopoetic substance of Dr John’s peculiar character and sound

Mark Wastell relates how he came to own one of the most famous pieces of kit in improvised music, 30 years after it disappeared

Repeater share the first two sections of Toby Manning’s ‘Top Ten’ introduction to his new book, which charts A Marxist History of Popular Music

Dean Roberts died aged 49 on 10 August. As a tribute to the New Zealand born, Berlin based nomadic avantist, we have made Jon Dale's 2008 interview with Roberts free to read via our online magazine library.

Michael Veal shares an extract from the second chapter of his new book, in which he considers “the Africanist Grid as a mode of jazz consciousness”

Irène Schweizer died on 16 July 2024 aged 83. As a tribute to the pianist and founder member of The Feminist Improvising Group we have made her 1985 interview with Graham Lock and her 2016 Epiphanies essay, co-written with Maggie Nicols and Joëlle Léandre, free to read in our online library

In a four part series of essays, published in the weeks leading up to an event presented by The Wire and avant-radio label World Service, artists Neil Luck and Max Syedtollan sketch a map of experimental radio work

As the far right looks set to gain ground in France’s elections on 7 July, Pierre Crépon looks to the reissued catalogue of pianist François Tusques’s Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra of the 1970s as an example of multicultural resistance

In a four part series of essays, published in the weeks leading up to an event presented by The Wire and avant-radio label World Service, artists Neil Luck and Max Syedtollan sketch a map of experimental radio work

In a four part series of essays, published in the weeks leading up to an event presented by The Wire and avant-radio label World Service, artists Neil Luck and Max Syedtollan sketch a map of experimental radio work