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

To accompany Jordan Ferguson's J Dilla Primer in The Wire 386, contemporaries and disciples of the revered producer and rapper select their favourite Dilla productions

To accompany his essay about radical music for church organs in The Wire 385, Philip Clark presents a user's guide to the most avant garde of organ players

The all singing, all action drummer formerly of This Heat celebrates other percussionists who take to the mic

West Coast funk boss XL Middleton gives Alexander Speetzen a guided tour of G-funk and Californian hiphop

John Foxx explains the reasoning behind his chart selection in The Wire 381

The fourth of our series of posts shining a light into the darker recesses of The Wire's online archive of back issues. Derek Walmsley recommends Edwin Pouncey's article from December 2006 on the late saxophonist Steve Mackay.

Writer Matthew Collin presents a selection of links based around his new book Pop Grenade: From Public Enemy To Pussy Riot: Dispatches From Musical Frontlines

In the third of our series of posts shining a light into the darker recesses of The Wire's back issues archive, Tony Herrington continues our online tribute to Ornette Coleman by selecting seven articles that expand on the theories and music of the late saxophonist and composer

Chris Hladowski presents a wayward selection of some musical genres, instruments and regional characteristics of Pakistan and neighbouring areas, based largely on late-night YouTube sessions, web searches and the odd foray to the library

Copenhagen's experimental online radio station The Lake points to some sources of adventurous sound emissions

Flute player and pastoral electronics producer Katie English shares online and offline sources of inspiration

Derek Walmsley picks six columns from our archives by Kodwo Eshun in which the future Turner Prize nominee forged a new style of writing about dance music and club culture

Biba Kopf guides us through some of his Round Up The Usual Suspects columns from the 1980s, in which industrial culture's most wanted were tagged and bagged

Biba Kopf and Keiko Yoshida travelled to Hokkaido for The Wire 370's Global Ear feature, reporting back on the music of northern Japan’s indigenous Ainu people

Wayne Marshall, writer of the Dutch bubbling essay in The Wire 370's Freedom Principle feature, shares online links to the hyperkinetic dancehall variant's stalwarts and their sonic collages

The guitarist and songwriter looks at solo artists in their most intimate creative moments.

Kevin Martin (aka The Bug) shares his favourite online hubs to induce modular synth bliss. His latest album Angels & Devils was reviewed in The Wire 366.

The writer of the Sarkari shorts blog (featured in The Wire 366) Alexander Keefe takes us on a trip through Indian music documentaries.