To accompany his report on Ftarri in The Wire 499, Derek Walmsley explores a playlist of recent releases from the Japanese ...

“The reason why is the big question,” Stephen Mallinder tells Abi Bliss in The Wire 499, as he reflects on Cabaret Voltaire’s forthcoming return to the stage. “I’m not entirely sure why, and maybe ...

Stockholm’s Edition Festival teams up with a meditation centre for a series of Sunday matinee concerts by artists who have a meditation practice connected to Buddhist traditions: Kansan Zetterberg ...

Tom Welsh introduces a new recording of an unknown work by a composer who was a key member of John Cage’s pioneering US percussion group in the 1930s but whose name has since fallen out of history ...

Although I'm sure there will be a babbling brook of archival recordings to follow, Broken Homes And Gardens is the final ...

The US filmmaker has died aged 78. As a tribute, we have made the extended cover feature on Lynch that appeared in The Wire 486 free to read in our online library. The feature includes a cover ...

Dean Roberts died aged 49 on 10 August. As a tribute to the New Zealand born, Berlin based nomadic avantist, we have made Jon Dale's 2008 interview with Roberts free to read via our online magazine ...

Trumpeter, composer and scholar Jacques Coursil died on 26 June 2020 in Plombières, Belgium. He was 82. One of the few Europeans to have travelled to New York to take part in its avant garde movement ...

The Japanese paramedia artist and digital composer has died. By way of tribute, we have made Alan Licht’s 2002 interview with Tone free to read in our online library ...

The writer, theorist and Wire contributor Mark Fisher died on 13 January. He was 48. After a brief dalliance with making music in the early 1990s – a 12" Entropy In The UK was released by his group ...

Ian Rawes, the sound recordist and archivist best known for founding the London Sound Survey website, has died following a short illness. He was 56.

Drummer Sunny Murray died on 7 December 2017 in Paris. He was 81 years old and had lived in the city since the mid-1990s. Obituary by Phil Freeman Born in Idabel, Oklahoma in 1936, Murray grew up in ...