Roger Shepherd, head of the New Zealand label, looks back at its history in a new book

The Scottish doom-hop duo present a beastly mix exclusively for The Wire

“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

Dark Entries give us an exclusive listen to archive recordings by Patrick Cowley and Candida Royalle

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the October issue

The Wire's Shane Woolman takes to the air on Resonance FM. The playlist features tracks by Kiki Hitomi, Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force, Adrian Younge, and others, as well as a special mix by Grouphums. The show took place 29 September 2016

Organiser Chico Dub tells The Wire what to expect from this year’s festival happening in Rio

Strut issue new Sun Ra box set Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection and team up with Nigerian producer Odion Iruoje and African music record collector Temi Kogbe in the launch of new label Odion Livingstone

The South London producer offers up an exclusive haunting mix of gospel and R&B for The Wire

Emily Bick takes to the mic for The Wire's radio show on London's community station Resonance FM. Artists featured include Strobes, Felix Kubin Und Das Mineralorchester, Peggy Gou, Thomas Brinkmann, and many more. The show took place on 22 September 2016.

Stream side A from The Owl And The Pussycat, the latest LP from Cameron Stallones’s label

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

Clive Bell unties some new historical knots binding centuries-old Celtic chants, Mediterranean piping, and more

Ruth Bayer documents key players of the English post-punk underground in Skipping To Armageddon: Photographs Of Current 93 & Friends

DJ Spank-Spank aka Earl Smith is one of the three pioneers responsible for the legendary “Acid Tracks”

Total Inertia and Tor festivals set to take place in Leeds and Todmorden

This year's winners in CTM’s annual radio competition have been announced, as chosen by a panel including The Wire's Anne Hilde-Neset

Monotype Records have given us a sneak listen to three tracks from the label’s forthcoming release Carp's Head

Syeus Mottel's shots of the electro rock duo in action on a rooftop and elsewhere in New York

Barcelona's MIRA festival focuses on the intersection between electronic music and live visuals

Following last year's rough cut screenings, Jef Merten unveils the final cut of his docu-film

Phew to perform at Iklectik in October

Electronic instrument designer and Buchla Series inventor dies aged 79

The Wire's Editor-in-Chief hosts Adventures In Sound And Music on Resonance FM. Featuring music by Marewrew, Kucharczyk, Moor Mother, the Sapporo-Munich underground, and others

Wire contributor David Keenan announces debut novel This Is Memorial Device to be published in 2017

Following My Name Is Albert Ayler, Kasper Collin has directed a new film about the death of trumpeter Lee Morgan.

The Sheffield based photographer who documented the London underground dance scene for the likes of Rinse FM, FWD and The Wire had been awaiting a liver transplant

Intrinsic takes place in London on 18 September

Darkthrone founder delivers his "most important communication with the world so far" in exclusive mix

The duo’s new album will be released this month by Hands In The Dark

Halle's decennial radio festival runs throughout October

Kim Gordon’s new single is inspired by her return to Los Angeles

Documentary about the large inflatable art space, soundtracked by AMM and Phil Minton, gets its first London screening

Derek Walmsley is in the Resonance FM studios with David Toop, talking improviation and his new book Into The Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation And The Dream of Freedom: Before 1970

After 16 years apart, Qbert, Shortkut and D-Styles reform to release the Invisibl Skratch Piklz's debut album

English folk singer will release Lodestar on Domino this November

Andy Hamilton visits St Johns Church in Seaham, County Durham, to watch the New York ensemble perform a new composition commissioned to mark the town's mining history

Black Dog have given us a look at some of the photos inside their new publication Rave: Rave And Its Influence On Art And Culture edited by Nav Haq

The Wire returns to London's Resonance FM with a new season of the best underground music out there. The first session comes from Meg Woof and features artists including Alvin Curran, Susumu Yokota, Human Certainty, Raymond Scott and others

Listen to a playlist of tracks selected by Italian label Die Schachtel, featured in The Wire 391

The Mauritanian musician and wedding singer, subject of a feature by Clive Bell in The Wire 391, is set to release her second album this September on Glitterbeat

Coming up this Thursday, David Toop joins The Wire Editor Derek Walmsley on Resonance 104.4FM

The New Zealand guitarist breaks a decade-long silence with his four LP box set RMHQ, released by Grapefruit. You can listen to some RMHQ tracks here

The two co-founders of veteran German dance institution Kompakt are set to release major projects this autumn

The soul music collective follow their tenth anniversary with a series of events in Berlin and Paris in November

Californian composer‘s 1970s and 80s recordings to be released for first time

The psychedelic rock Space Whisperer has died aged 83

The New York audiovisual duo have done an exclusive mix

Engineer of hundreds of recordings for Blue Note and other labels passes away at 91

Check out a selection of unpublished artworks featured in the Hair Police member’s first monograph

London Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen co-present the first major virtual reality initiative from a UK symphony orchestra at the Southbank Centre in September

#RaveForShaun events to help raise money for the photographer awaiting a liver transplant

“There is nothing left but the Future?” is the theme of 3hd Festival’s second edition, announce Berlin based organisers Creamcake

The latest artists are announced for Unsound's Dislocation edition this October, as individual tickets go on sale

Designer Optigram is set to publish the second volume of his future-orientated arts magazine

Stream Moor Mother’s Homegirls & Handgrenades mix exclusively via The Wire

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of our September 2016 issue 391

The Next Station presents recordings and reinterpretations of sounds taken from stations across the Tube

Swiss label presents improvisors from across Europe over 12 days of sets

Toulouse drone outfit release an album of recordings made on the Church of Notre-Dame de la Dalbade's Puget organ

Harrison’s work is Other Minds’ “guiding spirit”, declares the San Francisco based festival

The online zine run by US composer Nate Wooley makes every issue available

Following last year's relaunch at London's Cafe Oto, Cut & Splice 2017 will take up residency in Manchester

London's Barbican centre to host Rough Trade’s anniversary celebrations featuring performances from musicians and artists long associated with the record shop and label

No-fee lending online archive and screening room opening in Rotterdam

Faber to publish an autobiography of the COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle member

For their first ever collaboration, the duo are co-writing The Trinity Anthem to help pay the costs of a long running community music venue in Bristol

Stefhan Caddick and Farm Hand's Noctule creates an environment incorporating the sounds of cavers, bats and echoes in a Welsh cave. The Wire's Deputy Editor Emily Bick talks to them in advance of their appearance at the Green Man Festival

The organisation formerly known as Integrated Circuit Records or Integrated Circuit Studio throws the spotlight on itself at London's Cafe Oto this September

Radionics Radio uses cosmic tones for mental therapy inspired by 20th century pseudoscience

The record label’s new publishing venture promises to deliver “kitschy, high quality coffee table books”

The East Sussex festival really goes underground with its site specific events in tunnels, chambers and boltholes

The Hair Police member known for his airbrushed psychedelia publishes his first monograph

Stream the new album by slurtronic folk artist Kemper Norton

Hypnopazūzu release their new album Create Christ, Sailor Boy later this month, followed by their debut performance in October

Hosted by Emily Bick on Resonance FM. Featuring tracks by Paper Dollhouse, Fis, AGF, DJ Marfox, Ola Bilinska, and others

Listen to a selection of previously unreleased tracks from South Island’s reclusive bedroom producer

New website and zine talking music, culture, politics and activism

This September, the Belgium record label and club series hosts its first ever festival

Your Heart Out blogger and music writer Kevin Pearce completes “a dub history of late 20th century pop culture” with his new publication A Cracked Jewel Case

The next transcontinental exchange in Thirty Three Thirty Three’s international events series is London: Cairo

This November, the Utrecht festival will feature stages curated by Wilco and Julia Holter, among others

2016 edition of Brazier Park’s Supernormal festival to launch a series of new projects

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

Six of the guitarist’s out of print discs set for release in new editions

New York label Alrealon Musique offered up this track for The Wire’s Below The Radar special compilation series. Watch TheUse’s exclusive video here

The famed US producer, manager, poet and lyricist has died

Live performance video by the multi-instrumentalist and software engineer

Chocolate Monk’s celebration of experimental sound and art reaches its seventh edition

Mark Wastell joins Derek Walmsley in the Resonance FM studio to discuss a life in improv and 20 years of his label Confront Recordings

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of our August 2016 issue #390

Maggie Nicols, Irène Schweizer and Joëlle Léandre reconvene as a trio – for the last time?

Edwin Pouncey recalls a walk in Manhattan with the Suicide vocalist

Phil England speaks to soundscape ecologist and author Bernie Krause about the relationship between humans and natural soundscapes at the opening of a new exhibition in Paris inspired by his work.

Electronic musician Grietzer uses latest video technology on “Closer” clip

Ahead of this year's Low End Theory festival in Los Angeles, party starter Kutmah presents an exclusive beat-heavy mix