Series led by Steel Pulse’s Mykaell Riley and supported by the University of Westminster

Paul Purgas's research trip to Ahmedabad to investigate the city's early Moog composers is the subject of the new BBC Radio 3 documentary Electronic India. Ahead of its broadcast on 17 May, Frances Morgan caught up with him to hear some original recordings and discuss modernism in India, the afterlives of instruments, and the connection between the National Institute of Design, electronic music and the Indian space programme

John Morrison on how the 1980s black music scene gave Kraftwerk the club-wise edge

New digital imprint will raise funds for artists and venue

The 7 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM was dedicated to Massachusetts label Feeding Tube

Listen to the forthcoming release by Cleveland based funk, soul and hiphop collective

“The truth is that Tony could keep better time than any drum machine, but his emigration to Europe coincided with the increasing mechanisation of dance music.” Allen’s biographer and some time musical collaborator Michael Veal traces the ever evolving work of the heart-steady Afrobeat drummer

Skylark FM gives a voice to the landscape through field recordings and local history

The album was recorded live at Roulette during the Vision Festival 2019 in New York

Kassel Jaeger aka François J Bonnet and Bartolomé Sanson compile next volume in Shelter Press and GRM's Spectres

The Shimmy Disc founder takes up residency at Joyful Noise Recordings and promises five LP box set in 2021

Mabu Li selects tracks from the Shenzhen imprint's back catalogue

A Quiet Scene hopes to collect footage to match their recent release Mixing Colours

Beijing based cellist and visual artist sends through excerpts from rehearsals and live shows

The South Korean composer shares her latest full length album via Felicia Atkinson's Shelter Press imprint

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance 104.4FM. This edition took place on 30 April and featured new music by Mourning [A] BLKstar, Klein, White Boy Scream, Deena Abdelwahed and Sheng Jie

Compiled from the playlists of working-at-home Wire staff during the making of our May 2020 issue

Tony Allen talks about his and Fela Kuti’s early group Koola Lobitos, four-limbed drumming, the necessity of hi-hats to Afrobeat, his favourite jazz drummers, and how Black Panther Sandra Isidore politicised Fela. Interview by Francis Gooding, February 2016

Exclusive stream of the latest release by the doom metal duo from Osaka

Villa Arconti's sustainable festival resets its sights on 2–4 July 2021 while launching a new initiative to neutralise CO2 emissions

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This broadcast originally took place on 23 April and featured music by Anima Sound, C Diab, Jackie Lynn, Gabriel Birnbaum and more

Collaborations with Nels Cline, William Hooker, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Aki Onda and Tetuzi Akiyama number among his archival offerings

In this extract Harald covers the work of Swiss pianist and Feminist Improvising Group member Irène Schweizer, from her connections with South African exiles during the 1960s, to her involvement in women’s liberation and gay and lesbian movements

The founder of Manchester based label Youth shares a mix of new and unreleased contemporary club sounds

Listen to the US noise rock collective perform at Empty Bottle in Chicago in 2003

US industrial funk survivors share a full stream of their forthcoming release

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 16 April and featured music by Marisa Anderson & Tara Jane O’Neil, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Stef Fi, Guo Yongzhang, Einstürzende Neubauten and more

The commission series I Should Be Doing Something Else Right Now will be streamed online alongside peer-to-peer mentoring, artists-led workshops, and more

The pair collaborate on a new project exploring reduction and unlearning

“The extremity of the situation requires a radical, meaningful and creative response,” declare the Krakow based festival’s organisers

Composer, trumpeter, educator and Strata-East founder signs to Gearbox to release Connect this summer

“Hal came up in a music industry that no longer exists,” observes Alan Licht, in his tribute to the US producer

“Henry was not hired to fill the role of a bass player; he was hired to be Henry,” declares fellow bassist William Parker

Two interview features from The Wire's archives celebrate the life and work of the American bass player and poet who died on 15 April

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 9 April and featured sounds from Alison Knowles, Meredith Monk, Rakta, Susumu Yokota, and more

The erstwhile Swans vocalist and Neurosis collaborator reflects on the situations and subjects behind some of her songs

The pioneering 1960s free jazz saxophonist learnt the high cost of freedom playing for change in New York's subways and parks before his late period rediscovery by William Parker, Cooper-Moore, and others. By Pierre Crépon

“Spiritually, it’s a medicine, too, because if you play the drums with that perfection, you can bring the ancestors close to you. That’s the mystical side of drumming and how it can cure people.”

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 2 April and featured tracks by Ian William Craig, Yao Bobby & Simon Grab, Jon Hassell & Farafina, and more

“Embrace crisis. Lean into chaos for the fruit of acceptance”, states the Octavia E Butler inspired album EarthSeed, released on 26 June via FPE Records

Haley Fohr of US band Jackie Lynn talks aliases and identity

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Founder member of The Scratch Orchestra Carole Finer died on 20 March

“There’s still a way to preserve a space even if there are no venues,” says SHCR's Katy Roseland, whose station is primed and ready for indoor parties

Listen to tracks from the back catalogue of the Indian label representing metal bands from across the globe

The South African duo share a live version of an exclusive track

The Brooklyn based quartet share an exclusive full preview of Oh Yeah?

The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM. This show took place on 26 March and featured music by African Head Charge, Autechre, Diamanda Galás, Cucina Povera, and more

Artist Last Yearz Interesting Negro (Jamila Johnson-Small) asks how to engage with contemporary dance's aesthetic system via their unresolved project BASICTENSION

Music photographer and writer Michael Schmelling compiles a playlist to accompany his column in The Wire’s April issue

Drummer and improvisor died on 15 March

The Estonian composer who invented a new musical language is honoured in the twelfth edition of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Hasan Shahid reveals the secret history of Cleveland, Ohio's legendary The Black Unity Trio, whose 1969 album Al-Fatihah is set for reissue in late 2020. By Pierre Crépon

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 19 March and featured tracks by Acolytes, Marks, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Weird Weather, and more

Amid the Covid-19 crisis lists of online music tutors, gig streams and seminars are being compiled across the industry

The London based trio's recent album launch captured in full

Steve Barker's radio programme takes a break from the airwaves for the first time in 36 years

AGF launches “new space for political sound work and political listening”

The trumpeter shares a full stream of his latest release and talks about his roles as bandleader, community music venue programmer and Sun Ra messenger

This video interview in the Bucharest home of spectralist composer Iancu Dumitrescu aims to shine new light on how avant garde music functioned in Romania before the revolution in 1989

Alan Licht examines Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s legacy of transforming 1960s psychedelic culture into a subversive vehicle for social change

In the midst of the coronavirus crises, The Wire’s publisher Tony Herrington hails the response of the global experimental music community

Pat Thomas relays how great African traditions shaped Tyner’s musical education in the face of racist music journalism and white supremacy

Trumpeter, promoter and Heart N Soul affiliate Robyn Rocket shares eight artists from the London's inclusive conscious gig scene

This week's show on Resonance FM includes music by dumama & kechou, Ratgrave, Thundercat, Space Ghost, Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela and others. It first aired on 12 March 2020

Listen to a selection of tracks we listened to during the making of our April 2020 issue

Exclusive first listen to the free jazz collective's second full length release

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This broadcast took place on 5 March and featured tracks by Blacks' Myths, Pulled By Magnets, Vladislav Delay, and more

Foursome regroup to release their first album in almost 20 years

UK DIY trio compile songs by artists that have inspired their surreal sound, featuring Anthony Braxton, The Residents, Primus, Ashley Paul, and more

The composer performed inside the bridge during a scheduled lift

The Berlin based producer shares an example of what you might hear during her minimal electronic live sets

This edition of The Wire's weekly broadcast on Resonance FM took place 27 February and features a guest mix by Los Angeles based artist Maral

“There is a noise switch on the organ; when you first put it on you get a ‘Whurghssh!’”

Matthews talks to Bell about returning to solo recordings with her newfound ELKA 400, relaunching Annette Works and Berlin's community spirit

New collaboration unites the contemporary music scene of Bogotá and London's Theon Cross, Nubya Garcia and Steam Down

Stream the new live album by Garcia Peoples and read an interview with the taper who captured the gig for posterity

“I think the first ‘actual’ concert I attended was a piano recital. I was probably nine...I was in the first row and spent the entire concert frozen by fear of disturbing the pianist.” – Bonnet

The artist also known as Kassel Jaeger talks about the act of listening and what Radigue's music means to him

Hear tracks by artists featured in The Wire's recent report on a new wave of experimentation coming from contemporary drummers

Jasmine Guffond and DJ Soeur Veillance select and discuss 13 tracks about surveillance

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our March 2020 issue

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition celebrates the daunting heavyweight Bandcamp catalogue of electroacoustician Kevin Drumm

In support of his Global Ear report in The Wire 433, Tom Faber compiles a playlist of tracks from the current underground music scene happening in Mozambique's capital