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Liverpool's Bluecoat arts centre to host Captain Beefheart and Elaine Mitchener events
This November the once major transatlantic port premieres Mitchener’s Sweet Tooth
This November the once major transatlantic port premieres Mitchener’s Sweet Tooth
Hyperdub announces upcoming opera by Dean Blunt and Mika Levi
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 5 October and featured a special guest mix by avant folk musician Mike Cooper
Haley Fohr says her new album Reaching For Indigo should be listened to as a whole
Ikeda's test pattern [N°12] will be exhibited alongside Jafa's video installation Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death and Jeremy Shaw’s 20-minute sci-fi pseudo-documentary Liminals
The North American composer explores new recording methods on Body Consonance
Ableton Loop returns in November with Ben Frost set to undergo The Wire test where musicians are asked to comment on tracks with no prior knowledge of what they're about to hear
Musicians from across Europe will descend on the Rhineland city to pay their respects to the Can drummer
The UK improv pioneer co-founded AMM in the mid-1960s
The soundtrack is Deacon’s first full record devoted to modern composition. He shares the single “Redlining”
Check out the Neuzeit Tarot of Swiss painter Walter Wegmüller, as featured in The Wire 404
Festival events in Wrocław and Warsaw run until 13 October
After a four year partnership with Adelaide Festival, Unsound returns to Australia as a standalone event
Shane Woolman hosts another edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. The show took place on 28 September 2017 and featured tracks by Masma Dream World, Tomoko Sauvage, Sarah Webster Fabio and more
Launched to coincide with Black History Month, portraiture and interviews will shine a light on the new generation of operators with a special focus on female run systems
Morphine Records prepares a showcase of Indonesian music at Berghain and new record by one of the acts
A new mix from Iranian multi-disciplinary artist, Sadaf
The online station will feature shows by The Wire’s Shane Woolman, Upset The Rhythm, Touch, Ashtray Navigations and others
New solo presentation at the Bethnal Green project space uses music and film to explore the spaces between gender, sexuality and identity
Two events will take place in Rotterdam and Antwerp
Stream a selection of tracks played in Wire HQ during the making of the October 2017 issue
Following the recent rework of the legendary Black Ark album Super Ape, David Katz speaks to Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Emch Subatomic about how 40 years on, the album holds weight with the youth of today
New albums on the Australian label run by composer Lawrence English
The American synth player had only recently been released from prison
The Cairo electronic music producer and sound artist has won a commission to produce a work based on the concept of turmoil
The New York City based sound and visual artist shares a video for a track from her forthcoming debut album
The Swedish musician and composer who died on 25 September was 81 years old
Blume have released two overlooked compositions rooted in 1980s New York minimalism
Ilpo Väisänen & Dirk Dresselhaus’s eighth LP is dedicated to Mika Vainio
The Jamaican sound engineer, musician and writer responsible for building the country’s first sound systems was 99 years old
Tomaga present an hour long mix for The Wire featuring tracks by Marc Barreca, Charles Hayward, Pancrace and more
Major London retrospective also includes unheard works from Mika Vainio and Erkki Kurenniemi, as well a special Taanila performance with Charles Hayward and Jussi Lehtisalo
Deputy editor Emily Bick hosts another edition of The Wire's weekly slot on Resonance FM. This show took place on 21 September 2017 and featured tracks by Carla dal Forno, Hanetration, The Trashies and more
In the aftermath of Mexico's 7.1 magnitude earthquake last Tuesday, Umor Rex will be donating all sales money to the rescue effort
Rhodri Davies is putting on four special events in Swansea this October, one of which will have Philip Corner perform in the Welsh city for the first time since the 1960s
William Hogan and David Titlow discuss the golden age of CB radio and their new book Eyeball Cards: The Art Of British CB Radio Culture with Deputy Editor Emily Bick
The biennial celebration of traditional and contemporary Indonesian culture is coming to the UK for the first time this year
The exhibition features an interior mural by The Wire’s Savage Pencil
A book of graphic scores has been released by Inpatient Press, featuring work by Lea Bertucci, Eli Keszler, Aki Onda, Zeena Parkins and others
UK premiere for Brooklyn based Devi Mambouka's collaboration with costume designer Tove Berglund and film maker Margret Seema Takyar
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM returns. This show took place 14 September 2017 and featured tracks by Hüsker Dü, Hypnobeat, Sadaf, and more
Harry Wright, one half of Giant Swan, presents his first solo release
The 24-hour video installation will be screened at the London gallery from 12 September 2018 – 27 January 2019
The film will document the New Zealand group's story through its ever changing line-up and founder Martin Phillipps’s battle with depression and addiction
Sound artist Kepla and music writer DeForrest Brown Jr collaborate on a record originally commissioned by Electronic Voice Phenomena
Following its second edition, the Romanian experimental music festival asks for retrospective financial help as they call for donations to fund their third edition
After many years of sharing a stage, the guitarist and violinist present their first release together
Black Zone Myth Chant presents a mix for The Wire featuring tracks by Ø, Wolf Eyes, Sun Ra and more
Negative reviews have been sidelined in an era of commercial pressures and microscenes that celebrate themselves, but criticism is sometimes the only way to reflect the full complexity of music. By Britt Brown
The next edition of The Wire Salon will feature David Keenan, Helm, Ian Rawes, and Elaine Mitchener
RVNG Intl compile hallucinatory synthesizer works composed by the Bay Area musician between 1982–1988
The series on Westbound Records features remixes by Underground Resistance, Moodymann, Amp Fiddler, Marcellus Pittman, Ectomorph and others
Annual Glaswegian FM and online broadcast Radiophrenia makes an open call for radio works, with its deadline coming up on 24 September
Following the release of a cassette album on Oliver and Laurie Pitt's label Akashic Records, the Glasgow based duo Vernon & Burns share a 16 minute sound piece
Taking place in the city of Utrecht this November, new additions to the line-up include Dälek, Steven Warwick, and the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers performing the Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
Ghostnotes is hiphop photographer B+'s mid-career retrospective, featuring over 200 images of hiphop artists and those that influenced them. Check out a selection of images from the book
Clive Bell takes a look the unlikely musical partnership found in birdsong contests across the globe
An open call has been announced for new music made at a really slow tempo
Hear the Spanish sound artist and producer's first full length record via Swedish label iDEAL
A free exhibition kicks off next month looking at sound since the invention of the phonograph in 1877
Following its open call for submission last year, Under My Thumb: The Songs That Hate Women And The Women Who Love Them will be published by Repeater next month
With its central theme being turmoil, Berlin's CTM festival takes place from 26 January–4 February 2018
Bassist and co-founder of legendary German rock group Can has died
Laurel Halo and Chino Amobi contribute tracks to Praxis Houston
The Egyptian American performer, pioneer and composer created one of the first known works of tape music
The Portuguese festival’s 14th edition features Pere Ubu, Lolina, Bookworms, Dj Nigga Fox, and more
This recording of the NY minimalist's 1973 piece was made during the 2016 London Contemporary Music Festival; Apartment House will reprise the performance in September at Krakow's Sacrum Profanum
Father daughter noise duo have completed another collection of tracks written in their family car
The one night festival brings together Rabih Beaini, Elysia Crampton, John Butcher, Thomas Lehn & Matthew Shipp, and more
The 77 year old photographer trailers the release of Musik with a dramatic first single
The event examines the historical and social conditions that led to the formation of the Studio Eksperymentalne Polskiego Radia
The Japanese duo's North American tour in October includes a special New York date with the New Zealand born composer
Luca Lozano, Saoirse, Rian Treanor, DJ Lag + Nan Kole and Morphology more join Jeff Mills, Stingray and many more at the three day event in October
Dark Entries and Serendip Lab have teamed up to publish a collection of Hypnobeat tracks recorded between 1984–86
His new book of 150 jazz portraits bypasses easy listening for the likes of King Oliver, Radu Malfatti, Otomo Yoshihide and Martin Küchen
NON Worldwide founder Nkisi joined Daisy Hyde and Shane Woolman for a Wire show on NTS
Solange Knowles Ferguson opens her interactive dossier Seventy States related to the London Tate exhibition Soul Of A Nation: Art In The Age Of Black Power
The experimental folk trio’s new album is released by Glitterbeat sublabel tak:til
The Leeds based October event will pay special attention to the act of listening
The Wire contributor Clive Bell, Sylvia Hallett and Keiko Kitamura to perform a live score for Teinosuke Kinugasa’s A Page Of Madness
The London based grassroots initiative set up in 2016 to get more women into music production aims to expand with a new workshop planned for Manchester
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 show features Marshall Allen and The Sun Ra Arkestra with support from Mike Huckaby and Yo La Tengo
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 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