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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

As a tribute to the German saxophonist who has died at the age of 82, we have made David Keenan’s epic two-part 2012 interview, as well as Daniel Spicer’s Primer guide to Brötzmann’s many recordings, ...

Alan Tomlinson died on 13 February aged 76. As a tribute to the UK trombonist and improvisor we have made Mike Barnes's 2018 interview from The Wire 413 free to read in our online library.

Bill Fay (9 September 1943–22 February 2025) February 2025 Bill Fay during the recording of Time Of The Last Persecution, 1970. Photo: Jake Jackson ...

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 ...