Wolke Verlag share an excerpt from the new English language edition of Guillaume Belhomme’s Eric Dolphy biography, originally published by Lenka Lente. In this chapter Belhomme details how an article entitled “John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy Answer the Jazz Critics” appeared in an issue of DownBeat magazine in 1962.
Catherine Christer Hennix died on 19 November 2023. As a tribute we have made Marcus Boon’s 2010 interview with the Swedish musician, artist and mathematician free to read in our online magazine library.
Contributor John Morrison selects pieces of writing from The Wire’s back pages featuring hiphop mixtapes, Can, Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore, Steinski, and more. All selected articles are available to read in The Wire’s digital library with a print or digital subscription
As a tribute to hiphop producer Mark James aka 45 King who has died aged 62 we have made Peter Shapiro’s 1997 interview with James free to read in our online library.
One of free music’s most prolific pianists on the ideas and influences behind his playing
Una MacGlone details a new project that unites improvising musicians, machine learning, and the organic world in a dynamic sonic ecosystem.
Sound artist Steve Roden died on 6 September aged 59. Read Christoph Cox’s interview with him in The Wire 229 and Roden’s Epiphanies essay in The Wire 196 for free in our online library.
Free jazz saxophonist and pianist Charles Gayle has died aged 84. We have made two interviews with the musician also known as Streets The Clown free to read in our online library, from 1994 and 2012.
Contributor Frances Morgan compiles an annotated list of some of The Wire's Once Upon A Time In... special features that tell the stories of significant and localised scenes in underground music history. All selected articles are available to read in The Wire’s digital library with a print or digital subscription.
The Wire’s Joseph Stannard speaks to Baltimore based psychedelic rock duo Darsombra about their visionary music videos, recent DIY Genera-tour and forthcoming LP Dumesday Book. Plus, the duo share an exclusive full stream of the album.
The cover story of The Wire 475 contains 18 pages of essays on Don Cherry and his organic music family. In an adjunct to those essays, Harmony Holiday listens to the trumpeter’s 1971 elegy for his friend Albert Ayler.
Following his review of the Los Angeles based duo’s first album in The Wire 475, Antonio Poscic speaks to Micaela Tobin and Joshua Hill about their intense and transformative experience making Tent Music
Contributor Marc Masters selects ten of his favourite Invisible Jukebox interviews from The Wire’s back pages featuring Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Jaimie Branch, Lydia Lunch, and more. All selected articles are available to read in The Wire’s digital library with a Wire print or digital subscription.
Chris Lane’s latest version excursion through Jamaican music arrives at a botched take on a jazz standard
William Parker, Joe McPhee, Mats Gustafsson, Shoji Hano, Sven-Åke Johansson, Heather Leigh, John Corbett, Marino Pliakas, Bill Laswell and Hamid Drake share memories and impressions of the German saxophonist who died on 22 June aged 82.
HoZac Books compiles the original six issues of Richard Langston's obscure fanzine Garage into book form with new interviews and essays from New Zealand underground musicians, including this contribution by The Clean's David Kilgour
Following Kenneth Anger's death on 11 May, Ryan Meehan explores the experimental occultist film maker's life and work, including his working relationship with sound and music
Following the interview with his new band House Of All in The Wire 472, the former Fall bassist selects some of his favourite pop and rock basslines