Sounding Off: Live
News, events, dates, ideas, letters and live reports

A-Z Of Free
A Wire guide to the once and future music

Dead Can Dance
Dave Morrison digs up the Middle Ages tripsters

Django Bates
Will Montgomery chats to the babyfaced jazz composer

Royal Trux
Simon Reynolds marvels at the modernist bluesologists

Catalyst
Brian Morton takes issue with a new labels policies

Competition: New York, New York!
Four simple questions and you can be there

Great Lost Recordings: Hustlers Convention
Kodwo Eshun recalls the Blaxploitation masterpiece

Bootsy
Mark Sinker talks bass-ics with P-funks P-first P-footer

Genre Benders
Chuck Eddy wonders how music would work if we ordered it differently

Guitar Abuse
Geoff Nicholson looks at non-canonic ways to spank the plank

Jazz Jamaica
Ben Watson takes a Caribbean cruise with Gary Crosby and Ernest Ranglin

Seeing Things
Gina Southgate catches sound on canvas

Invisible Jukebox: Paul Weller
Philip Watson meets his match, music-wise, wardrobe-wise, otherwise

Reel To Reel
David Eimer reviews a forgotten jazz movie classic and Malcolm X on video