A Q&A with Elaine Mitchener about her performance piece Sweet Tooth – a visceral, overwhelming indictment of the role sugar and the slave trade played in building the British Empire

The Cretan producer explores a Minoan legend in her new EP, Pleasures Of The Bull

Made over the course of five years, the film documents Bishop's trip to the Egyptian capital and the formation of outfit The Invisible Hands

Being Blacker examines the life of music producer, Brixton record shop owner and key figure in South London's Jamaican community

The American singer and songwriter was 70 years old

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This broadcast took place on 15 February 2018 and featured tracks by Sandra Bell, Cindy Lee, Conga Square and more

This third edition will take place at London's St John’s Smith Square between 20–22 April

Hear the Korean multi-instrumentalist's debut album ahead of its release

The London Sinfonietta, in association with The Royal Opera, presents the new commission at London Printworks this summer

Faber and Faber announce the release date for the two-book biography penned by The Wire's Rob Young and Can's Irmin Schmidt

American duo have signed to the Mississippi label to reissue their archive and record a new album

Released in late 2017, the documentary follows the Danish “musician, hacker, renaissance man, futurist” and self-proclaimed “man for the new millennium” to ask: what exactly is the Goodiepal equation?

To accompany the release of his most recent solo album, the musician formerly known as Omni Trio has compiled a playlist of influential compositions for piano

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of our March 2018 issue

This year focuses on “developing new work within an atmosphere of collaboration”

The music was selected and remastered by the composer prior to his death last year

A new book of 1980s music and film ephemera documents the radical creativity of Hungary's 'Infernal Golden Age' in the shadow of communist rule

The book will document the radio art festival that took place in Halle (Saale) in 2016

The 1923 film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play was produced by Alla Nazimova, who also played Salomé, and directed by her partner Charles Bryant

The Santa Maria, California based label marks two decades with a 13 track “posse comp”

Tara Pattenden digs out some audio from her residency at the Brazilian festival last year

Union Chapel hosts the minimalist composer on 28 April

The new mixtape documenting the Icelandic music scene circa 1960–1980 features photos by the DJ's father Magnus Thordarson

The Wire's Deputy Editor talks to the artist about freedom, fragility and his new EP Heute Will Ich Frei Sein

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 8 February 2018 and featured tracks by Selda Bağcan, Sons Of Kemet, Nick Klein and more

UK saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings unearths a performance by one of his past ensembles

The US composer continues her experiments with alto saxophone on Metal Aether

The label shares Caterina Barbieri's “Virgo Rebellion” from the release titled Flowers From The Ashes: Contemporary Italian Electronic Music

The artist who collaborated with Liz Harris, Sarah Davachi, Jefre-Cantu Ledesma, and others died suddenly aged 53

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 1 February and featured tracks by Abyss X, JPEGMAFIA, King Knut and more

Kidjo brings her 2017 New York Carnegie Hall performance of Remain In Light to London

Matana Roberts and Kelly Jayne Jones collaboration kicks off the series

ガラ刑GALAKEI features 55 layered recordings of communication and interpretation

Volume 27 features exclusive tracks from Christoph De Babalon, Sarah Davachi, Jana Rush and more

Residency launched by North of England music project Both Sides Now

The “post punk autodidact” shares a DIY video for a track from his forthcoming album

Soundtrack to late US writer Ursula K Le Guin’s sci-fi work Always Coming Home released by Freedom To Spend

Traditional improvised songform from the Isle of Lewis cut to vinyl for Salm Vol 1

Online editor Daisy Hyde hosts The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 25 January and includes tracks by D'Arcangelo, Jing, East Man and more

Indonesian Electronic Music 1979–1992 collects previously unreleased works by artist who combines environmental and synthetic sounds

New recordings emerge of the AMM saxophonist performing with the group in 2010

Two new initiatives have been launched to widen accessibility

The South London based musician tells The Wire about his new commission for MONOM's 4DSound system

The Turkish group share an exclusive track from their forthcoming EP

A fundraising campaign has been set up to help the two groups recover

Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of the February 2018 issue

To celebrate the life and work of Mark E Smith, who died on 24 January 2018, we present a selection of articles on the Fall frontman and his group drawn from The Wire’s online archive

Sarah Peebles’ 50 minute field recording is enhanced by photography by Christie Pearson

Rising costs prompt a call for help from the New Jersey studio where the likes of Bernie Worrell and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry have recorded

Fred Welton Warmsley III’s second album is a subdued ambient work named after Lake Tahoe

Saxophonist Denys Baptiste curates the one day event at the historical venue where the jazz giant played in 1961

The Fall frontman died aged 60 on 24 January

Filippo Cicciù speaks to Turkish psychedelic explorers Baba Zula, who're playing in London at the end of January

The trumpeter and international figurehead of South African jazz who composed “Soweto Blues” and “Bring Him Back Home” died on 23 January

Another edition of The Wire's weekly slot on Resonance FM. This show took place on 18 February and featured tracks by Lawrence Le Doux, Jonáš Gruska, Robert Wyatt and more

This February, artists and musicians respond to the work of pioneering experimental electronic music composer Daphne Oram and her drawn sound synthesiser

Founder of record label and fortnightly radio programme Alien Jams has recorded a mix exclusively for The Wire

Artist and longtime Wire associate Patrick Ward has created a new video for the London based multi-instrumentalist

High Rise II is newly mixed and mastered by founding member Nanjo Asahito

Cycles of My Being explores the realities of life as a black man in America

The Virginia based noise rock duo will release their second album with the New York label

All the profits from their fundraising night in March will go to the club

Italian Rephlex alumni are next up on the Happy Skull label with Korty EP

Sunday Feature documents the life of the longtime Wire contributor, photographer and black music historian in words and music

The Japanese translation of the late writer and polemicist’s landmark tract goes public in February

Scottish proto-hauntologist digitises entire discography starting with Coil collaboration

The annual fundraiser for London's arts and community radio station runs between 3–11 February

Listen back to another edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This programme was broadcast on 11 January and featured music by Shirley Collins, Shabaka Hutchings, Nguyen Hong Giang, and more

Read an extract from Matthew Collin's new book Rave On: Global Adventures In Electronic Dance Music, as reviewed by Sophia Ignatidou in the February issue of The Wire

Los Angeles based producer and ex airman releases Veteran

Nigerian B-movies, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Disney films number among the inspirations for her piece

Cinema anthology marks what would have been the late Can bassist’s 80th birthday

Head of Vienna based experimental label Editions Mego Peter Rehberg shares a new mix following his latest release in collaboration with Nik Colk Void

The contrabass clarinet player presents a new solo recording with an accompanying film

The Association for Electronic Music has set up the new service in association with Health Assured

Label boss Pinch announces their 100th record will come from Riko Dan

199Radio host and station manager Frederick Sugden sends through a fresh mix from London's New River Studios

The multi-instrumentalist and vocalist talks about the rare condition he has been suffering from since his full cardiac arrest some ten years ago

Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon's production runs until 15 January

The trombonist who worked with Henry Grimes, Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, and many others, died aged 82

In Death's Dream Kingdom features 25 tracks inspired by Eliot’s The Hollow Men

Los Angeles based modular synthesist teams up with US label and module manufacturers Make Noise

Heather Augustyn and Adam Reeves write about the famed Roman Catholic boarding school and its music department whose alumni include Dizzy Reece, Winston Foster aka Yellowman, and four of the Skatalites' founding members

Two days of talks, concerts and film screenings to take place this February

The line up include Catherine Christer Hennix, Christina Kubisch and Moor Mother

Listen back to a special two hour, droning and drifting edition of Adventures In Sound And Music, selected by longtime Resonance FM disc jockey Derek Walmsley. The show aired 28 December 2017

The ever expanding network of 11 artists, among them Kahn, Neek, Ishan Sound, Rider Shafique and Jasmine, deals in “shapeshifting anarchy which rears its head when no one idea can rule”

The documentary about the legendary English folk singer had its London premiere in October 2017

Milford Graves Full Mantis will premiere on 27 January; a Kickstarter campaign has also been launched to help with the costs of post-production

Cold Turkey: Giving Thanks For What? An Adventures In Sound And Music seasonal special celebrating Native American music devised by The Wire’s Chris Bohn and presented by Red Rosa on Resonance FM

“Jazz did not stop in 1950!” declares the bassist’s open letter slamming the jazz award organisers’ all-male selection of winners

Themed around the electronic composer’s concept albums, Jim Findlay's Electric Lucifer opens at New York’s The Kitchen on 9 January

Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's top 50 releases of the year, as voted for by The Wire's contributors

The Wire's weekly slot on Resonance FM, Editor-in-Chief Chris Bohn presents an end of year special. The show took place on 21 December 2017