The Wire 436 cover star's interviewer selects a range of tracks spanning the influential producer's career so far

Haley Fohr of US band Jackie Lynn talks aliases and identity

Trumpeter, promoter and Heart N Soul affiliate Robyn Steward highlights eight artists from London’s inclusive conscious gig scene

The Gateshead DJ, composer and musical director of turntable ensemble NOISESTRA selects her top ten scratch records

The California based producer talks about films with interesting sounds

A resource of music orientated organisations that have been set up by and for people with learning disabilities

A reading list of over 20 music books intended to teach or educate, compiled by Wire staff to accompany The Great Learning special issue

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

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

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

Ex-Wire staffer Frances Morgan selects her favourite articles from just some of The Wire's themed issues

Andy Hamilton picks five articles from The Wire archive that cast some light on the art of improvisation – pieces which, he says, have helped him “develop a view of improvisation that involves an 'aesthetics of imperfection', in dynamic opposition to composition but, as Rohan de Saram comments, ‘making its own laws’.”

In the first in our series of contributors unlocking the vaults to The Wire's 400 issue archive, Brian Morton picks out some of its standout articles

On the eve of her London Barbican concert on 18 February, with more UK dates to follow, singer and folk custodian Shirley Collins selects songs of the soil that speak direct to the heart

Following the death of contributor Mark Fisher on 13 January 2017, we present a selection of his articles for the magazine from the past ten years. Introductions by Derek Walmsley

A survey of performances and recordings of improvised church singing from the Outer Hebrides

“It was life and death at times”. Following Daniel Spicer's Primer on Spontaneous Music Ensemble in The Wire 392, Trevor Watts reflects on bizarre encounters and key moments from a life of gigging

From toadfish grunts in Panama to ice fields in Greenland, check out sounds, images and notes from the recordist’s expeditions around the globe

The New York trumpeter and composer celebrates the USA’s lesser known maverick composers

Ahead of this weekend's DEEP∞MINIMALISM festival and her world premiere performance of Daphne Oram’s Still Point, Shiva Feshareki has made us a playlist of her favourite minimalist compositions