To accompany her report on Les Disques Lexi in The Wire 490, Claire Biddles selects music from the back catalogue of the Brussels 7" specialists ...

In San Diego, Bill Perrine celebrates the return of the American composer’s instrumentarium ...

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 ...

The former Skater’s soundtrack to a life of online entertainment, consumerism, iPads and instant communication was the first album he had put together on a computer, and its piercing preset sounds ...

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 ...

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In her memoir of the great US jazz drummer, educator and pharmacist, Val Wilmer recalls her visit to Alvin Fielder’s hometown of Meridian, Mississippi, where he introduced her to leading Civil Rights ...

Ergot Records label head Adrian Rew finds readymade plunderphonics and corporate mind control on the gambling floor. I crossed the threshold of my first casino floor in Cleveland, Ohio, last March.

The 24 October edition of The Wire ’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by John Carpenter ...

Born in Oxford in the early 1960s, London based composer Laurence Crane is closely associated with British ensemble Apartment House, with who he's releasing a two disc set of minimalist chamber works ...

Two UK dates as part of a European tour for the prog-jazz fusion duo comprising flautist Mauricio Velasierra and vocalist and guitarist Heidi Heidelberg, whose latest, self-titled album was released ...