David Grundy attends a week long event in Berlin designed to forward a global avant garde of Black music composers ...

Ahead of his celebration of Max Roach, trumpeter Charles Tolliver talks to Gabriel Bristow about playing alongside the ...

Read an interview with the late composer Bernard Parmegiani, by Rahma Khazam. First published in The Wire 176, October 1998. Bernard Parmegiani is not the first name that springs to mind when the talk ...

US musician and composer Catherine Lamb studied at the California Institute of Arts between 2004–06 under Michael Pisaro and the late James Tenney. Though she is only in her early thirties, she has ...

The Wire App is produced by our friends at Exact Editions and allows our subscribers to read our digital edition and complete online library of back issues on their smartphone and tablet. It is ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as those featured in ...

Read Ian Rawes of the London Sound Survey sound map website's top picks of web links. Rawes and the London Sound Survey are featured in The Wire 341 in an article by Nathan Budzinski. British Library ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 488. Inside our brand new issue: Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitsusha figurehead keeps pushing into ...

Cartoonist Hazel Newlevant discusses Wendy & Lisa’s contribution to Prince’s legacy. All images from Hazel Newlevant’s No It U Lover (2014) If you can do it all, and if you have a singular vision that ...

Darren Cunningham’s supple, warm, second album of ‘R&B concrète’ was equal parts pop constructivism and humid club compulsiveness. Informed as much by 1980s pop as House and Techno, his meticulous ...

Clipping: Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson pool their combined experience in noise, modern composition, film scoring and performance to create abrasive mutant hiphop, as demonstrated ...

To accompany her report on Les Disques Lexi in The Wire 490, Claire Biddles selects music from the back catalogue of the ...