In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers how Justin Hurwitz manipulates, distorts, multiplies and caricatures jazz traditions in his collaborations with director Dami ...

The latest project from bassist Melvin Gibbs updates the bold collage techniques of 1970s Miles Davis and Teo Macero, writes Phil Freeman in The Wire 500 ...

Collaboration between contemporary music quartet The Hermes Experiment, pianist, improvisor and composer Kit Downes, and Swedish improvising singer and composer Sofia Jernberg. The evening will ...

To accompany his report on Collapsing Drums in The Wire 500, Spenser Tomson explores a playlist of releases from the pandemic-born label ...

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 ...

Improvising trio who formed after the Women Live! concert series at the London Musicians Collective in 1982 reunite after 43 years to celebrate a handful of releases on scatterArchive in October. The ...

Improvising trio of Colin Webster (alto sax), Andrew Lisle (drums) and Dirk Serries (electric guitar) celebrate their ...

Composer and musical director David Coulter has assembled a seven-piece ensemble that includes Terry Edwards, Dave Okumu and Tom Herbert, plus guest singers including Mick Harvey and Anna Calvi, to ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 499. Inside our brand new issue: Cabaret Voltaire: The surviving members of the Sheffield industrialists, Stephen Mallinder ...

In The Wire 499, the Moreskinsound duo of musician and writer David Toop and performance artist Ania Psenitsnikova argues that categories like music and dance can limit our understanding of sound and ...