Shane Woolman delves into some of his choice releases and reissues of 2016 and emerges with a special two hour, 32-track mixtape

Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire's contributors. You can read more about the artists featured in our chart, as well as those featured in the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year, in The Wire 394.

The dirt on Einstürzende Neubauten’s new Greatest Hits LP

Eleni Ikoniadou and Lendl Barcelos talk extreme frequencies, cryptic records and sonic warfare with the audiovisual research group

Derek Walmsley hosts this Rewind 2016 special edition of The Wire's show on Resonance FM, playing a selection of tracks from the releases that didn't quite make it into the end of year chart

To mark its fifth anniversary, Folklore Tapes has made a whopping 90 minute mix for its Library Catalogue Cassette Volume 1: 2011–2016 project. Listen to it here

Soraya Lutangu aka Bonaventure has produced a new track for The Wire

The Wire's Deputy Editor spreads some seasonal cheer with a top selection of underground Xmas-themed tracks, plus new music from Jacques Brodier, Kill Alters, Joanna Brouk and more

Check out a selection of photos found in the monograph accompanying a new boxset documenting the pop culture explosion of West Africa's Upper Volta in the 1970s

The German composer brings the The Ash Ra Tempel Experience and E2–E4 to London’s The Barbican

What’s to be learnt from Pauline Oliveros’s contribution to 1960s electronic music? Frances Morgan finds as many answers as questions in Important’s 2012 box set Reverberations

The Argentinian guitarist talks about telematic improvisations and Reynols’s noisy collaboration with the late composer

The Hamburg based festival will take place this January and feature works by John Cage, Michael Maierhof, Éliane Radigue and others

The Wire's Rob Young has penned a new biography of the legendary rock outfit while London’s Barbican host The Can Project

For this week's show Meg Woof is in the studio playing music by Pauline Oliveros, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Esoterik, Lee Morgan, Archie Shepp and more

Happening just outside of Paris, the festival features Roscoe Mitchell Sextet, Wadada Leo Smith, Archie Shepp and more

David Toop and Claudia Molitor are among the featured contributors in the forthcoming book Colloquium: Sound Art–Music

The new category celebrates artists and composers’ entire careers as opposed to an individual work

The French festival of experimental music hosts its 14th edition

A series of playful postcards makes for a serious rethinking of women’s place in history

East London record label celebrates 20 years with a new compilation

The Wire writer celebrates the publication of his first novel with a party night of music, literature and poetry called Go Ahead And Drop The Bomb

BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s electronic music pioneer gets honoured with a street named after her

Ashley Paul is one of the artists so far confirmed to appear at Counterflows 2017

Artists confirmed so far in Rewire’s first line–up announcement for their 17th edition include Arca & Jesse Kanda, Jameszoo Quartet, Gaika, Sarathy Korwar, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Reckonwrong, and more

Sound artist and instrument builder has designed some T-shirts in support of Citizens UK

Listen to a recording of the Swedish producer and label boss playing live in Riga in October

Montreal based composer, improvisor and saxophonist Jason Sharp plays live at Suoni Per Il Popolo

The Wire's Shane Woolman takes the host’s chair for this week’s show on Resonance FM, spinning tracks by A Tribe Called Quest, Gate, Amnesia Scanner, Carl Stone, and more. The show took place on 24 November 2016

The American composer, accordionist and San Francisco Tape Music Center pioneer has died aged 84

Hiphop prophets from Wu-Tang Clan to Jay Electronica use Five-Percent theology to reveal New York as a site of holy revelation. By Rob Turner

Broadcasters from WFMU, Resonance FM, NTS and Radio Centraal join Derek Walmsley to talk the past, present and future of adventurous radio

Now in its 15th year, the festival is themed around John Berger’s essay Why Look At Animals?

Early computer music innovator has died aged 78

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the December issue #394

In this edition of The Wire's weekly broadcasts on Resonance FM, The Wire's Online Editor Daisy Hyde plays tracks by Duke Hugh, O$VMV$M, Josef Leimberg, Hey Colossus, Dale Cornish, and more. The show took place on 17 November 2016

December’s London Contemporary Music Festival focuses on the works of the late composer and performer

Disco historian Tim Lawrence, author of Love Saves The Day, remembers the late party purist's selection policy at parties in New York, London and Sapporo

The Borderline: Musik Für Grenzgänger show will once again be spinning tracks from our Top 50 chart

Important Records bring forward the release of the duo’s one and only live recording

Following its closure earlier this summer by London Islington Council, the club has got its license back

Ahead of his set at London’s Corsica Studios this weekend, producer and Soundman Chronicles label boss offers us an exclusive mix

Listen to the Funniest Home Videos concept album with an exclusive new track for The Wire

New book on the album art and politics of Brazil's rock explosion

CTM will take place from 27 January–5 February in Berlin

AMF have joined forces with Playfreely for a new festival Closer To The Edge

Proto-Blaxploitation classic will be accompanied by Soul Jazz DJs and talk

Music confirmed for next year's edition includes work by Julius Eastman, Jennifer Walshe, Arditti Quartet and Paal Nilssen-Love’s Extra Large Unit

The series will take place at King's Place in January

Iggy Pop's early band The Iguanas and James Williamson’s Coba Seas get the reissue treatment

The Polish engineer and electronic composer was 83 years old

Action Time Vision features “the ones with a disquieting look about them”, says Lucy Bourton at It's Nice That

East European art group AutopsiA bring it on home to the city of punk with their first London exhibition

Legendary New York disco party host and DJ has died aged 72

Get a first hit of the New York based composer’s Last Signs Of Speed

This week The Wire's show on Resonance FM was hosted by Deputy Editor Emily Bick. She played tracks by Laurie Anderson, Odwalla88, Olivia Louvel, Pegasus Warning, Mikael Tariverdiev and others. The show took place on 10 November 2016

It's that time again. Mutek call for artists from Quebec and Canada to submit their project proposals

London's internet radio station to stream live from its Los Angeles studio every Thursday and Friday

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

A new documentary celebrating Norwegian dance culture will hit the screens in spring 2017

Electronic music researcher Ian Helliwell has compiled previously unreleased Malcolm Pointon works, with proceeds going to charity

The North London venue launches a concert programme dedicated to key albums in the history of jazz

The Texan producer presents a freewheeling collage featuring Pharoah Sanders, Broadcast, Colleen and more

Sheffield's political raver has curated a site-specific intervention-cum-festival happening in February 2017

Stream the Lithuanian producer's second official collection Ecologies II: Ecosystems Of Excess, out on 11 November via Knives

This week's show on London's arts radio station Resonance FM was hosted by The Wire Editor Derek Walmsley, and took place on 3 November

The Wire's literary festival is set to return this January with appearances from Maia Urstad, Rob Young, Tyler Hubby’s docu-film and more

Basil Kirchin, COUM Transmissions and Peter Cusack just some of the artists in the limelight for UK City Of Culture next year

Exclusive stream of the London-based trio's polyrhythm-heavy debut album

This edition of The Wire's show on Resonance FM sees DJ and Wire staffer Gustave Evrard make his hosting debut

Following a 17 year hiatus the duo release their new EP Shadow Boat on Tresor

30 minute improvisation with Syd Barrett included on new box set The Early Years 1965–1972

Exclusive: be the first to hear Howlround’s epic contribution to Front & Follow’s The Blow Vol 2

#savefabric digital compilation ratchets up protests against the London club's recent closure. Listen to an exclusive playlist of tracks from the release, featuring Untold, Fis, Abul Mogard, Akkord and Vatican Shadow & Telefon Tel Avivv

A series of live-coding dance parties takes place across the UK and Germany in November

Items from Frank and Gail Zappa’s Laurel Canyon home go up for grabs in November

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the November issue #393

Kickstarter has been set up for a photography book documenting the locations of 42 reggae record covers taken in London between 1967 and 1987

Following this summer’s first edition, the Romanian festival seeks public help to go annual

Safe As Milk will launch in April 2017, with first acts announced including Shirley Collins, Omar Souleyman, The Residents, This Is Not This Heat, OOIOO and more

Recordings from the free jazz, noise and improv label's archive now available on MP3 and FLAC

LAFMS BOX BOX documents all The Los Angeles Free Music Society’s 2012 performances at The Box gallery

El-P and Killer Mike unleash "Talk To Me" from their hotly anticipated third album, due in 2017

Graphic Works 1959–2016 features more than 45 years of Brötzmann’s record cover and poster art

At a public talk in November The Wire contributor David Toop will discuss the UK’s first major sound art exhibition he organised at London’s Hayward Gallery

Avant garde pop band Slapp Happy will perform for the first time in 16 years at Cologne’s Week-End festival

The Wire’s show on Resonance FM featuring exclusive live recordings from legendary Japanese vocalist Phew’s London debut concert at IKLECTIK, and more. The show took place on 20 October 2016

The first edition of a new concert and film series in West Wales will feature Aura Satz, The Swansea Laptop Orchestra, Wire contributor Clive Bell, and more

The kickstarter set up to reprint Daphne Oram’s An Individual Note Of Music, Sound And Electronics reached its target with cash to spare

Sacred Bones and Dais to produce a documentary about the occultist group founded by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge in 1981

We Want Sounds will release Feeling Good: Funk, Soul & Deep Jazz Gems: The Supreme Sound Of Producer Bob Shad in November

The Heat star drops off to the electronic sounds of Daniel Lopatin

Ethnomusicologist Michael C Heller has written the first book-length loft jazz study “tracing its history amid a series of overlapping discourses surrounding collectivism, urban renewal, experimentalist aesthetics, underground archives, and the radical politics of self-determination”

Polish electronic music producer and Björk remixer reissues his recordings on Aphex's Rephlex label via Bandcamp

Photographer Derek Henderson gives us a look at the film he made during his photoshoot with Roy Montgomery for The Wire 393