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Hear a live performance by Rob Magill and Marshall Trammell
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Bass clarinettist Rob Magill and Black Spirituals drummer Marshall Trammell opened for Peter Brötzmann’s quartet in California last year
Bass clarinettist Rob Magill and Black Spirituals drummer Marshall Trammell opened for Peter Brötzmann’s quartet in California last year
Cities And Memory have set up a database for field recordings from the front lines of resistance around the world
The 72 year old American jazz guitarist and composer’s death was caused by heart failure
The 1987 album was originally released as part of the label's Made To Measure series
Preview one side of Burrowed Into The Soft Sky, the band's first instrumental record
The show features Marshall Allen and The Sun Ra Arkestra with support from Mike Huckaby and Yo La Tengo
The free jazz vocalist takes up her two day Dalston residency in December
Berlin's Pop-Kultur festival will host a Peeled Off, Overseen And Thrown Away talk to accompany an exhibition about the importance and possible demise of hype stickers
Ahead of the first Unconscious Archives festival, stream 18 tracks by artists set to perform there
Stream a selection of tracks played in Wire HQ during the making of the September 2017 issue
Reunited UK hiphop veterans head bill of annual DJ competition final
The crypto conceptual science fiction band founded by Fritz Welch and Neil Davidson reveal their slug reproduction methods to the world
In June police subjected Auróra to an 18 hour raid, forcing it to close two bars
The Lebanese painter and musician's book chronicles life during wartime in 2006
This Friday Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips present Project: Time Capsule at Park Nights 2017
Shows feature Pan Daijing, Valerio Tricoli & Werner Dafeldecker, Ellen Fullman, Charlemagne Palestine and others
Now running over six days, this year's festival pays tribute to Moondog and Julius Eastman
This is 808 State member Massey’s and Konstrukt founder Çağlar’s second live-in collaboration
Ostinato recovers tracks from tapes preserved underground during the Somali Civil War
Thirty Three Thirty Three present the debut performance of Clandestine Quartet this September with support from Senyawa
This Sunday at the London-based venue, Amplification / Annihilation: In Sonic Defiance Of Extinction will focus on ways in which music and sound can engage with ecological crisis
Yorkshire born producer will release Whispers via Matthew Herbert's Accidental label
Installed in a boathouse, his new work opens on 7 September
Ahead of her appearance at Meakusma 2017, Colombian musician Lucrecia Dalt shares an exclusive mix
Money raised by the compilation will be divided between Black Lives Matters national chapter bail fund and San Francisco’s St James Infirmary
The joint location festival will run on 17 September at Cafe Oto, and on 25 November at Xirgu Espacio Untref, Atom Sound Art Space and Cuarto Apostol
Composer and Mills College educator shares her audiovisual piece, System Test (Fire And Ice)
15 DOOM tracks to be released at the rate of one a week
The special film showing includes a Stewart Lee Q&A with the woman at the heart of England's folk revival during the 1960s and 70s
Peter King has been custom-making records from his South Island home in New Zealand for over three decades. Take a look at his home-cum-studio space. Photos by Max Doyle
The long-running project consisting of YoshimiO, Yoshida Daikiti, Motoyuki Hamamoto and Akita Goldman will release Sab Se Purani Bab in October 2017
As SoundCloud is under threat, technologist Mat Dryhurst explains the potential for a blockchain-based tokenisation system to put the platform in the control of the musicians who use it
The Budapest based producer shares a video for a track from his album Leaper
Philip Clark delves into the sounds of the Study Room and London's V&A museum to see how the recording space itself can “speak as eloquently as the musical notes”
The tracks making up Berlin Atonal: Force Majeure were mostly recorded live at the 2014, 2015 and 2016 editions of the festival, by a stellar cast of new electronic and experimental musicians and producers
The Romanian spectral composer, pianist and conductor was 55
Inspired by its status of UK City Of Culture 2017, Jez riley French and Pheobe riley Law’s series sets about putting Hull “back on the explorative sound map of Europe”
CRiSAP's Jennifer Lucy Allan and Matt Parker to host the 2018 event exploring “the materiality of air”
A month earlier, the New York opera collective’s It's All True will receive its UK premiere at London’s Cafe Oto
Bandcamp stand in solidarity with their LGBT+ users and staff, donating the day’s profits to charity. Frozen Reeds mark the occasion by releasing Eastman's Joy Boy via Bandcamp
Composer, performer and band leader Anton Lukoszevieze shares a series of graphic scores, each of which takes its title from a Lithuanian place name
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance 104.4FM. Gustave Evrard was joined by ex Wire designer Mads Brunse. The show was first broadcast on 27 July and featured music from Księżyc, OUSE, NV and more
Event series Unconscious Archives has announced its first festival in London
London’s Organ Reframed festival will feature newly commissioned works by Tim Hecker, Phill Niblock, Mira Calix, Emily Hall and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Listen to photographer, author and black music historian Val Wilmer in conversation with Tony Herrington at London's Cafe Oto on July 2017
Stream a selection of tracks played in Wire HQ during the making of the August 2017 issue
Rare 1995 VHS film about the Finnish label will be streamed online for the first time
The Lima based label and research platform shares a long list of tracks from past, new and future releases
Laraaji, Gavin Bryars and others to act as “intense, artistic catalysts” for new ideas at a 750m high residency school next year
Directed by Reto Caduff and Conny's son Stephan Plank, the documentary looks at the heritage of the producer and sound engineer behind 1970s krautrock, 1980s neue deutsche welle, and much more
Iranian producer and DJ Kasra Vaseghi selects tracks for a cinematic mix
Core member of the post-punk outfit unexpectedly passed away in Brussels on 17 July
Held in a cemetery in Sheffield, this first edition featured Nandini Muthuswamy, Oren Ambarchi, Clare Salaman and others. The Wire editor checks out the event's all-night performance schedule
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM, this time following a downtempo theme. The show was first broadcast on 20 July and featured music from Bark Psychosis, Ben Vince, DSR Lines, Popol Vuh, Pan Sonic and more
In February 2010, Japanese percussionist Ikuro Takahashi performed at Akebono Art and Community Centre in Sapporo, capital city of Japan’s northernmost main island Hokkaido. Film maker Mikio Saito was there to capture it
Film London and The Wapping Project announce shortlist for prize awarding female creative technicians
Ilse Kayn and Jim O’Rourke discuss A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound
What does it sound like when two black holes collide? Stefan Helmreich tunes in to how scientists listen to such cosmic cataclysms
Little Doorways To Paths Not Yet Taken is a bite-sized insight into the US composer's studio work and processes
For his Wire 400 special, deputy editor Joseph Stannard delved deep into the first edition of the magazine he bought, issue 127. The show was first broadcast on 29 June and includes tracks by Goldie, Massive Attack, Stereolab and more
The veteran producer and engineer (New Kingdom, Gravediggaz, Wu-Tang Clan) presents an exclusive mix featuring Public Enemy, Ornette Coleman, Rammellzee and more
Never before reissued on CD, Real Gone Music will release 1969's Ornette At 12 and 1972's Crisis
The Wire Presents series continues this August with Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids at London’s The Old Queens Head. We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway
Swedish film maker Kasper Collin's acclaimed documentary about the star-crossed relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common law wife Helen is screened in London this week.
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM, featuring 90 minutes of all new discs hitting The Wire office from the likes of Jon Collin, Maya Dunietz, Jürg Frey, Eva-Maria Houben, and more. The show was first broadcast on 13 July
Following a series of reissues, Laraaji prepares two sets of new music for the All Saints label
The Irish composer and conceptual artist conjures up a cassette of lost avant garde music as part of her Aisteach project
Unsound’s London Barbican dislocation includes The Caretaker, Liz Harris and Felicità in its line-up
Artists this year include This Is Not This Heat, Simon Crabb and others
The London trio release their second full length record
Recorded in Berlin, the Turkish drummer shares footage of extracts from hours of improvised davul playing
EMMA shares a 45 minute mix of her own productions on the day of her latest release
Filmed in India and Nepal, the experimental documentary Kalinga Utkal follows Picco's journeys to the heart of the subcontinent’s Buddhist and Hindu cities
V/Vm and Boomkat pay tribute to a rarely celebrated strand of Manchester's rave folklore
The Art Of Sound: A Visual History For Audiophiles documents the evolution from acoustic to digital recording during the last 160 years
The newly formed group featuring Charles Hayward played a trigger happy set at Salford’s Islington Mill in April 2017
The 19th edition of CTM will run from 26 January–4 February 2018. It’s already open to submissions for its fifth Radio Lab Call
The festival has announced its line-up and the addition of three new stages in the city of Eupen
The Finnish band share a recording of their live set at their hometown Pori’s Jungle Jane
The duo have teamed up with the artist platform Metal on the new project that works with young adults aged 13–19
New Zealand's DIY singer-songwriter looks back at his 30 year career in Time Flowing Backwards
Film maker Robert Mugge's 1986 documentary about the legendary jazz saxophonist will be released on Blu-ray and DVD
In 1968 Oliveira became the sole Latin American contributor to Source: Music Of The Avant Garde
Ben Graham’s Scatological Alchemy: A Gnostic Biography Of The Butthole Surfers is in its final stages – now funds are needed for editing, type setting and more
Having notched up more than 100 releases, the US based label will mark their anniversary with two specials featuring Drew McDowall and guests
The last in our Wire 400 series on Resonance FM. Chris Bohn presents The Ones That Got Away, focusing on underheard or undervalued music that slipped through the net.