When the Nigerian saxophonist Chris Ajilo died in February he was hailed at home as a legend of Nigerian music. Here Val Wilmer fills in the details of his formative experiences in the UK’s 1950s jazz clubs and dance halls

The 3 June edition of The Wire's weekly radio show on Resonance 104.4FM featured tracks by Wadada Leo Smith & Milford Graves, Phil Minton, Nwando Ebizie, and more

As Feed Me Weird Things is released in a 25th anniversary edition, Tom Jenkinson recalls the gadgets that made it tick

The US composer recalls his pivotal meeting with the pioneering dancer and choreographer who has died aged 100

Listen to a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our June 2021 issue

Teresa Winter talks to Spenser Tomson about her new seaside themed album and presents an exclusive soggysleazysublimeseasidemix

The 27 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by QOW, Loraine James, Sweepsculp and Piezo, plus a special guest mix by Frans Æmbient, founder of Berlin based experimental label Kashual Plastik

The Irish singer-songwriter's track about exile and shifting dimensions is accompanied with visual artist Locky Morris's meditative footage of intertidal mudflats

Naxi composer and electronics improvisor shares video project exploring the invisible wounds of a mountain village near her southwest China hometown of Lijiang

As a complement to the cover story of The Wire 448, a two-part special on Van Der Graaf Generator, Edwin Pouncey surveys the surreal designs that adorned the covers of the early albums by the UK art rock outliers and their singer Peter Hammill

The trumpeter and modular synthesist duo share their latest collaboration, recorded in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg's disused water tank

Japanese producer Shigeru Ishihara aka Scotch Rolex shares work from his residency at Uganda's Nyege Nyege studios

The 20 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Chunyang Yao, Jeanne Lee, Eartheater, Mamer, Akio Suzuki, and more

Here are some of the many ways you can get hold of a copy of the current issue of the magazine, both online and IRL, direct from us or from your local magazine emporium

The Yorkshire based multidisciplinary artist will present the findings of a fictional anthropologist who came across an imagined matriarchal community as her first full length release

As Freedom To Spend reissue The Same’s 1981 album Sync Or Swim, multi-instrumentalist Robert Cox talks to Dave Mandl about his minimalist DIY recordings and his signature group Rimarimba

As the first guitar group on Warp receive a deluxe edition of their mid-1990s recordings their vocalist reflects on their work with Chal Ravens

Techno producer Dalibor Cruz brings a personal mix of raw noise and Honduran punto to Chicago’s underground

The outsider DJ from The Netherlands shares a selection of tracks from her next full length album

The 13 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Raed Yassin, Ted Milton, Lea Bertucci, Okkyung Lee, and more

Byron Coley traces the threads through Chicago label and publisher HoZac's back catalogue, selecting tracks representing the imprint's global sub-underground network

The protean Paris based filter house producer shares a bonus track from his latest Amorama project

The Johannesburg quartet share a new mix spanning doom metal from Vancouver, noise rock from New York and psych rock from Moscow plus tracks by many of their associates from the South African underground

The 6 May edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured a special guest mix by Brazilian producer and composer Lucas Santtana, plus new music by Dalibor Cruz, Scotch Rolex featuring MC Yallah, Daniele Sciolla, and more

Tom Tidnam talks to the long-lost cult Brazilian musician about the reappearance of his little-heard second album

The 29 April edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance 104.4FM featured tracks by Claire Rousay, Andy Stott, Pauline Oliveros, Nordra, and more

International Anthem share a full preview of More Energy Fields, Current, featuring contributions from Shabaka Hutchings, Laraaji, Sam Gendel, and many more

Compiled from the playlists of working at home Wire staff. A selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our May 2021 issue

Peru’s Buh Records to release a tribute album dedicated to the late Brazil based composer and instrument builder

To coincide with the People Like Us cover feature in The Wire 477, Spenser Tomson explores some of arch collagist Vicki Bennett’s most affecting mash-ups

More than 40 artists and associates of the soprano saxophonist contribute to a trilingual book published by Éditions Lenka Lente

The 22 April edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by GLOR1A, They Hate Change & Fire-Toolz, Anat Ben David, Rojin Sharafi, and more

Jazz historian and biographer Marc Chaloin pays tribute to the US saxophonist, who died on 6 April 2021 at the age of 87

Their new book aims to broaden and destabilise the common perception of the meaning of sound arts

The composer featured in The Wire 447 gives an exclusive experimental vocal performance from her home in Chinatown, New York

Le Guess Who? shares film of the Canadian vocalist and songwriter performing at the 2017 edition of the festival

The Bratislava based musician, field recordist and microphone designer's next record Brieždenie is inspired by dawn and dreaming

The 16 April edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance 104.4FM featured tracks by Dishpit, Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin, J Fisher, Beans, Keiji Haino, Josephine Foster and more

Sound collagist Vicki Bennett compiles a comprehensive soundtrack to her Wire cover feature, piecing together 30 years' worth of work in a new mix

Lawrence English's Room40 label launches its cassette series with previously unreleased music from the American guitarist and composer

Laurie Spiegel, Lafawndah, Lucrecia Dalt, Lyra Pramuk and others respond to the state of online music engagement with a new album lasting less than seven minutes

A new BBE reissue series sheds light on the Japanese saxophonist who in the 1970s drew connections between the country’s post-bop and free music scenes

Phil England selects tracks from the French touring agency and record label's back catalogue

The 1 April edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Marc Ribot, Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble, Kasai Allstars, Rachel Musson, and more

Alex Tucker shares a video from his new humanoid project inspired by dreams and machines

The Colombian electronic duo give us a taste of what to expect from their forthcoming second album

The 25 March edition of The Wire's weekly show featured Robert Turman, William Parker, Nappy Nina & JWords, The Fall, Maxx Mann, Michèle Bokanowski and more

Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart talks to The Wire’s Claire Biddles about the band’s new album of duets.

Ahead of her 79th birthday concert, the jazz pianist, organist, vocalist and early AACM member shares recordings of past live performances

Listen to a selection of tracks from the playlists of working from home Wire staff during the making of our April 2021 issue

The 18 March edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by MXLX, Obay Alsharani, Sananda Maitreya, Hunteress, Toshiyuki Hiraoka, Sun Ra and more

Ilia Rogatchevski speaks with historian Juliane Fürst about her new history of Soviet hippies and the counterculture of the former USSR

Ernest Bergez's new album De Mòrt Viva draws on the traditional music of the French Massif Central region

To coincide with the publication of a new book of interviews, the UK improvisor selects 13 key tracks from his back catalogue, including collaborations with Han Bennink, John Zorn, Angharad Davies and others.

To mark the release of The Boyé Multi-National Crusade For Harmony Seymour Wright provides a tour of the composer and multi-reedist’s work

As the Liverpudlian producer Andrew PM Hunt releases his fourth album as Dialect, he shares a playlist of tracks spanning his various projects, explaining what defines each one

The Swedish sculptor, synthesizer builder and electronic composer shares footage from her ongoing Drawing Music project

The 11 March edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured music by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Bunny Wailer, Dora Bleu with Marc Ribot, Nilotika Cultural Ensemble and more

The Glasgow based vocalist shares an excerpt from his latest work Lal̩itam Varn̩n̩am Asuram, soon to premiere at Counterflows festival

The 5 March edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Slikback, Mosquitoes, Mariel Roberts, Rachika Nayar, Francesca Ter-Berg and more

Percussionist Ben Hall reflects on his time under the tuition of the kaleidoscopic drummer, professor, martial artist and communicator

The South London based songwriter shares a new video for a track taken from forthcoming EP Chuckle

The Krakow based festival's new compilation features music and field recordings that document artists' experiences of the pandemic. Hear new works by DeForrest Brown, Jr & James Hoff and Hildur Guðnadóttir & Sam Slater

The 25 February 2021 edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Ylia, Fatou Seidi Ghali, U Roy and more, plus a special guest mix from US electronic composer Carl Stone

Listen to a selection of tracks from the playlists of working from home Wire staff during the making of our March 2021 issue

To accompany his feature on the Maine based label in The Wire 445, Louis Pattison chooses standout tracks from the imprint's discography

The Wire 445 featured Kampala based producer DJ shares a new mix, offering a “glimpse of chaos”

The reggae historian and Blood & Fire label boss recalls joyous nights in the dance alongside the foundation deejay, who died this month

As the festival of international music films goes online again from 19–21 February, Ben Verghese reviews some highlights

The 18 February edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Alan Braufman, Matthew E White & Lonnie Holley, Alpha Maid, Microcorps, Witch, and more

“sieve ppts_(clusters)” was generated using the New Pulsar Generator (nuPG)

London imprint Otoroku shares an exclusive excerpt from a 2019 performance by Black Top, featuring Hamid Drake, Elaine Mitchener, William Parker, Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas

Hear an excerpt from the two improvisors' 2015 set at London's Cafe Oto

The 11 February edition of The Wire's weekly show featured tracks by Maggie Nicols, Authentically Plastic, Pamela Z, Mica Levi, Geraldine Monk & Martin Archer, ZULI, and more

The vocalist, improvisor and global sound collagist remembered by his occasional musical collaborator Dennis Tyfus

The US vocalist and composer aims to find magic within limitations with a DIY video for their latest single

To accompany his label profile in The Wire 444, Brian Morton selects tracks from the archival imprint's back catalogue

The Ramallah based producer shares a new mix featuring many unreleased tracks and explains the ideas behind his latest album كَامِل مَنْقوص Kamil Manqus

Compiled from the playlists of working at home Wire staff during the making of our February 2021 issue

Fellow improvising guitarist Ross Lambert recalls his first encounter with the late Mopomoso mastermind and contemplates his style and approach

CANVAS co-founders Olan Monk and Lugh O’Neill share a new mix and speak to The Wire's Claire Biddles about the origins of the label and the joy and curiosity of working on compilations

Tony Rettman talks to the Savage Republic, Scenic and Independent Project Records founder about 40 years of West Coast underground music, monotonal guitars and his Grammy nominated letterpress printed artwork

The 28 January edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM featured tracks by Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Don Cherry’s New Researches featuring Naná Vasconcelos, Elliott Sharp, Giant Swan, and more

Mabu Li selects tracks from the Chinese dombra and bass playing multi-instrumentalist's expansive discography

The 21 January edition of The Wire's weekly show featured tracks by Patricia Brennan, In Place, Nkisi, Mika Vainio, and more

Julian Cowley talks to the surviving members of the pioneering avant garde ensemble, instrument builders and improvisors who between 1968–75 were equally at home performing Christian Wolff, premiering Karlheinz Stockhausen compositions, eating ice cream with John Cage or realising their own works anywhere in the world, be it at Glastonbury, London’s Sadler’s Wells or an arts festival in Shiraz, Iran

The multi-instrumentalist and composer opens up a new world of microtonality with a pair of online compositional tools, and a season of concerts, talks and DIY sessions at CTM from 26 January

The Copenhagen based vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist speaks to Abi Bliss about time, place and pre-Christian landscapes

Hands In The Dark announce the final album by experimental duo Tomaga after the passing of band member Tom Relleen

Jasper Verhulst from the Amsterdam based sextet Altın Gün compiles a mix of Turkish music

Artist Gerard Herman sets Antwerp based producer Hiele's track “Brain” to a video montage of buzzing wildlife

The activist doom duo share an annotated playlist of new music featuring Try The Pie, Weedrat, With War, and more