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Lonnie Holley shares new video “I Woke Up In A Fucked-Up America”
His new album MITH is out on 21 September via Jagjaguwar
His new album MITH is out on 21 September via Jagjaguwar
“Our little west country thing” says Farmer Glitch, will feature live music and experimental art
First new music release for Takada in almost twenty years is a cross generational audio visual work
Planned with a “thread of mysticism and spiritual energy”, this year's bill features Aïsha Devi, Neil Charles & Elaine Mitchener, Caterina Barbieri, AGF Poem Producer and Lafawndah
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 5 July and featured tracks by Pariah, Carl Stone, Miss Red, and more
The elusive Manchester based producer resurfaces with two vinyl releases of tracks from the archive
15th edition of Barreiro's International Exploratory Music Festival will take place this October
The Osaka witch doom duo premiere a 16 minute video featuring two tracks from their new album Under The Strawberry Moon 2.0
Max Harris and Derick Almena sentenced following the fire that killed 36 people during a gig at the Oakland warehouse
The new work was directed by musician Rick Farin aka Eaves
The imprint is dedicated to young writers with future plans for school competitions and paid internships
Trojan staffer Laurence Cane–Honeysett presents a book documenting key musicians, studio engineers, and producers
This show, originally broadcast on 28 June, is a special edition dedicated to the music of French/Swiss label three:four records, with sounds from Razen, La Tène, Amahita, João Lobo and Norberto Lobo
2018 line-up includes Alpha 606, Beatrice Dillon, Giant Swan, Klara Lewis, Jay Glass Dubs, Lanark Artefax and Robin Fox
Matt ‘The Alchemist’ Colton took the original full-length unedited premasters and cut the lacquers using Alchemy studio's half-speed method
The festival takes over the Belgian city of Eupen for three days in September
“Nuriddin’s musicality, lucidity and crackling charismatic vitality as a poetic messenger accounts for why his best work can still throttle our synapses”
Crab Suite is out now via the newly revived Warp subsidiary
Preview their long-distance collaboration forthcoming on Hands In The Dark
Ren Schofield shares a new mix to celebrate fourth album as Container
Hosono House, Paraiso and Cochin Moon are among the forthcoming Hosono LPs to be reissued on deluxe vinyl
Participating artists include Laurie Anderson, Bill Laswell, Mark Fell, Andrea Belfi, Joëlle Léandre and Klein
To mark the World Cup, London's internet station hosts a knock out DJ competition featuring 16 countries
New Finnish label and bi-weekly radio show
The artist also known as Dirty Beaches shares and explains his new album
The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance FM. This show took place on 21 June and featured tracks by Heldon, Rex Ilusivii, Waak Waak Djungi, and more
Ignis will be released on Cosmo Rhythmatic on 29 June
The Greek field recordist shares a track from a project in the pipeline
Hear the Oakland duo's final release in full
Taking place on 17 November at London Barbican, the event will feature new commission Windrush Suite by Jason Yarde
New audio and sound book with essay by David Cunningham
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance 104.4FM. This edition was broadcast on 14 June and featured tracks by Spooky, Al Dobson Jnr, Zuli, and more
An exclusive stream of the newly remastered version of the US saxophonist's 1975 free jazz LP
Archie Shepp Meets Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio’s Conversations and Bitter Funeral Beer Band With Don Cherry & K Sridhar’s Live In Frankfurt 82 are released on vinyl for the first time
A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to fund his intersex sci fi love story Neptune Frost
Across The Meridian is out on 20 July, followed two days later by a London show
From 21–25 June the online platform will broadcast live from a salt mine in the Bacău county
A new mix exploring deranged and obnoxious forms of hardcore music and its influences
Art Zoyd announce director and composer Gérard Hourbette died on 4 May aged 64
The Wire’s longtime US jazz correspondent visits the studio of engineer Rudy Van Gelder to check out three previously unheard Coltrane compositions
The Swiss sound installation artist recently opened his latest show in South Korea
The New York based project unveils a new visual exclusively via The Wire
The Bristol based composer and vocalist’s new EP will be released by Yves Tumor's Grooming label
Josh Feola compiles a selection of tracks to accompany his article featured in The Wire 413
Another instalment of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This broadcast took place on 7 June and featured tracks by Sophia Loizou, They Hate Change, Eartheater, and more
The Minnesota based trio share a triptych video from their forthcoming LP
The Brazilian guitarist shares a video from his new album released by Brighton label Hive Mind
Listen to a selection of tracks played in The Wire HQ during the making of our July 2018 issue
The Edinburgh based post grime producer shares a brand new mix featuring RP Boo, Caustic Window, DJ Rashad, and many of his own productions
The Dutch tape musician shares a video for a track from her self-titled album
Ahead of a forthcoming UK appearance, the Japanese composer and saxophonist shares a recording of a recent live performance with his wind ensemble
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition was broadcast on 31 May and featured music by Tori Kudo, Tulegur, Der Technokrat, Beilkhan Haliakbar, and more
The book was featured in the recent documentary Here To Be Heard: The Story Of The Slits
US poet, musician, political revolutionary and grandfather of rap died on 4 June aged 73
A carnival of poetry, music and lyrics from the London based arts organisation Poet In The City
Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) asks listeners to “let your inner ears scan up and down the sonic spectrum”
Marketed as a “Netflix for the underground”, the free streaming site will explore performance, identity, youth culture and anti-establishment
Artist Charles-André Coderre has made a video for Mondkopf and Charbel Haber's new record
The audio-visual artist discusses package holidays, Cream CDs, the hardcore continuum, the tragedies of youth and how to say farewell to unfinished business with The Wire Online Editor Daisy Hyde
New film on London’s fertile jazz scene streaming on YouTube from 6pm on 30 May
The Swedish artist premieres a filmed performance to accompany her forthcoming solo album
Win tickets, records and more with new fundraising series that kicks off with flies+flies and Harmergeddon
Event continues its partnership with Sage Gateshead adding Irreversible Entanglements, Lucy Railton, Craig Leon and others to the bill
An extract from award winning author's book about the relationship between pop music and science fiction, Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, And The Decade Sci-Fi Exploded
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition was broadcast on 24 May and featured tracks by Alex Zhang Hungtai, goat (jp), La Bombe, and more
Wire contributor Pierre Crépon compiles tracks to accompany his article about Gérard Terronès's Futura Records and the French jazz scene during the 1960s, 70s and 80s
33-33 host a month long programme put together by the Japanese composer, pianist and electronic producer
Festival line-up includes Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Anoushka Shankar, Ebo Taylor, Sons Of Kemet, Beverly Glenn-Copeland and a special collaboration between Saul Williams & King Britt
The former Miles Davis electric band guitarist and onetime Madonna producer was 65 years old
Medicaid Fraud Dogg was released on 22 May as digital-only
The Swedish-Finnish electronic composer's latest record is inspired by natural environments and perception
Black Access / Black Axes will be the last time Zachary James Watkins and Marshall Trammell release as Black Spirituals
One of the oldest independent jazz and blues label is taken over by Julia A Miller and Elbio Barilari
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 17 May and featured tracks by Nadine Byrne, John T Gast, Minimal Violence, Tryphème, Wilted Woman, and more
Read a previously unpublished conversation conducted for The Wire contributor’s No Wave book
Listen to a selection of tracks played at Wire HQ during the making of our June 2018 issue
The Wire contributor on the life and work of the high volume composer
The premiere of Steve Urquhart's new audio documentary exploring the life and work of BBC Radio Lancashire broadcaster and Wire contributor Steve Barker
Multimedia project poses the question “what is the connection between sound and photography?”
Richard Dawson and UK group Shopping withdraw from Berlin festival supported by Botschaft des Staates Israel
Following Saturday's raid at Bassiani and Café Gallery in Tbilisi, Georgia, SOU festival releases a statement of support
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