Earth activist choir visit from the US "to arouse your revolutionary spirit. If you’re troubled by consumer hypnosis, ...

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To accompany his report on Reading Group in The Wire 489, David Grundy selects music from the back catalogue of the New York avant garde imprint ...

The 10 October edition of The Wire’s weekly show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Maral, FOUDRE!, Pat Thomas, White Boy Scream, Able Noise and more ...

To mark the recent reissue of FM3’s Buddha Machine, Steve Barker tells the story of its origins, a tale which takes in Chinese temples and a Hong Kong branch of McDonald’s, a Beijing foot massage ...

Some Derek Bailey anecdotes from the 1970s: Driving across London to make a solo recording at my house and unloading his gear to discover that he'd brought one amplifier, two speakers, three pedals ...

“I think being human is the most punk thing you can be,” says Bristol based performer and Cardboard Club label founder Robert Ridley-Shackleton, speaking to The Wire's Stewart Smith in issue 436. As ...

Philip Freeman shares an excerpt from his new biography of Cecil Taylor, which takes the reader from the pianist and composer's birth in 1929 to his death in 2018 and beyond ...

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 ...

Radio offers a unique space for experimental narrative; here, voice, music and sound can coalesce in dreamlike, fabulist assemblages. Radio fabulism, or fiction-making, boasts a venerable pedigree: ...