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Notes: Inside this issue:

Turntablists: Vinyl manipulators Maria Chavez, Mariam Rezaei and Victoria Shen prepare to hit the road (and the decks). By Emily Pothast

patten: Artist and musician Damien Roach confronts the future via AI generated samples. By Emily Bick

Dorothy Moskowitz: The former United States Of America vocalist returns with a bold new collaborative work. By Edwin Pouncey

Mihaly Vig: The Hungarian composer, actor and musician recalls his 40 year relationship with director Bela Tarr. By Ilia Rogatchevski

Invisible Jukebox: Tatsuya Yoshida: Will the drummer/vocalist be left in Ruins by The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by James Hadfield

Unlimited Editions: Outlines

Unofficial Channels: Polar Sounds

Zoe Mc Pherson: Jungle beats and speculative futures. By Oli Warwick

Francisco Mela: 55 and free. By Daniel Spicer

Brighde Chaimbeul: Piping up. By Stewart Smith

Global Ear: Belfast. The underground thrives in Northern Ireland. By Brian Coney

The Inner Sleeve: :zoviet*france:'s Ben Ponton on The Damned's Damned Damned Damned

Epiphanies: Francisco Lopez heeds the call of the rainforest

The Wire Tapper 61: A track by track guide to this issue's free CD

Print Run: A Is For Anarchist: An ABC Book For Activists by billy woods & M Musgrove; A Licence To Rock And Pop: An Inventory Of Attitude by James Fry; Going Out: Walking, Listening, Soundmaking edited by Elena Biserna; On Minimalism: Documenting A Musical Movement edited by Kerry O'Brien & William Robin; The Names Of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, And Historiography In Dispute by Patrick Nickleson; I Feel Everything You Say, I Feel Everything You Hear edited by Jan Lankisch; Improvision: Orphic Art In The Age Of Jazz by Simon Shaw-Miller; Sound American No 29: The Roscoe Mitchell Issue edited by Nate Wooley; Time Come: Selected Prose 1975-2021 by Linton Kwesi Johnson
On Screen: Jeff Krulik, Joseph Pattisall & Joe Gross We Are Fugazi, From Washington DC; Sophie Robinson & Dunstan Bruce I Get Knocked Down

On Location: Michael Snow Memorial, Toronto, Canada; John Dikeman/Pat Thomas/John Edwards/Steve Noble, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; Saidi Kanda & Mvula Mandondo, Brighton, UK; The Ephemeron Loop, London, UK; Numero Twenty, Los Angeles, US; Tears | OV + The Howling, London, UK; Pierre Bastien & Louis Laurain, Brighton, UK; Riot Ensemble: Sonic Illusions, London, UK; The Residents, Leeds, UK; Howl, London, UK; Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey, Brooklyn, US

On Site: Anne Imhof; Christian Marclay

Soundcheck: Astroturf Noise, King Ayisoba, B Cool-Aid, Gerald Cleaver/Brandon Lopez/Hprizm, Attila Csihar, Drew Daniel & John Wiese, Deerhoof, Dry Thrust, Marc Ducret, Dunn With Rutmanis, Debby Friday, Satoko Fujii & Otomo Yoshihide, Katie Gately, Tim Hecker, hepa.Titus, James Holden, James Ilgenfritz/Sandy Ewen/Michael Foster, Jan Jelinek, King Vision Ultra, Ingrid Laubrock, James Brandon Lewis, Liturgy, Liv.e, London Brew, Lily Guarneros Maase, Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra, Moss Freed/Union Division, Natural Information Society, Bill Orcutt, patten, The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Alasdair Roberts, William Roper/Cassia Streb/Tim Feeney, Bruce Russell, Scatter, Sightless Pit, Sleaford Mods, Paul St Hilaire, Thomas Stone, Surgeon, Time Phase Trio, Time Trout, Keith & Julie Tippett: Couple In Spirit, Yves Tumor, Dan Weiss Trio, Alan Wilkinson/Steve Noble/John Edwards, Xiu Xiu, Various Tutto A Posto E Niente In Ordine, Various Utopia Or Oblivion

The Boomerang: Death, Felt, Harald Grosskopf, Francois Jeanneau, Siegfried Kessler/Gus Nemeth/Stu Martin, Maajun, The Muffins, Phauss, Phew, Andrew Poppy, Unwound, Various Blacklips Bar: Androgyns & Deviants - Industrial Romance For Bruised & Battered Angels 1992-1995

Notes: On the cover: Darius Jones: The New York based composer and saxophonist draws connections between Fluxus and US avant jazz. By John Morrison. Plus: Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith; Clarissa Connelly: The Scottish born, Denmark based multi-instrumentalist meditates on myth, memory and modernity via her singular songcraft. By Leah Kardos; Shovel Dance Collective: The London avant folk ensemble balance the trad and the weird. By Lucy Thraves; Invisible Jukebox: Ka Baird: Will the New York based artist lose their Bearings when faced by The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Ryan Meehan. Also inside this issue: The Wire Tapper 64; Arushi Jain; Kulku; Harmony Holiday; Richie Culver; Unlimited Editions Industrial Coast; Unofficial Channels The Rest; Global Ear: Dublin; The Inner Sleeve by Raji Rags; Epiphanies by Aura Satz; many pages of reviews and much more.

Notes: Includes new WIRE TAPPER CD
Inside the issue you''ll find elusive beats creator Zomby in a rare face-to-face encounter with club reporter Lisa Blanning, Dan Wilson drawing back the veil
on the occult origins of Daphne Oram''s radiophonic sound art, a guide to the labyrinthine back catalogue of alt.rock Renaissance Man Jim O''Rourke, plus
more alt.music news, reviews and previews than you can shake a stick at

Notes: Inside this issue:

Annea Lockwood: Having explored the outer reaches of sound across a multi-decade career taking in burning pianos, animals and pulsars, the New Zealand composer turns her attention to love and loss. By Louise Gray

Once Upon A Time In Maida Vale: In 1970s London, Spanish exile Miguel JM Garcia Garcia established a space where anarcho punk and industrial music would flourish. By Nick Soulsby

Svitlana Nianio: The Ukrainian vocalist and keyboard player approaches folk song with an experimental ear. By Olena Pohonchenkova

Invisible Jukebox: Gerald Cleaver: Will the US drummer and electronic composer Adjust to The Wire's mystery record selection - or end up In The Wilderness? Tested by Collin Smith

Kramer: From Bongwater and Butthole Surfers to Palace, Low and now Laraaji - the US producer, musician and Shimmy-Disc proprietor continues to produce prosthetic memories. By Emily Pothast

Unlimited Editions: Guruguru Brain

Unofficial Channels: Radio Amnion

Coffin Prick: Moog and monotone from the Los Angeles synthesist. By Abi Bliss

Ellen Zweig: The New York based composer speaks out. By Robert Barry

Goat: Japanese rock gets polyrhythmic. By James Hadfield

Ziur: Digital to physical for the Berlin based producer. By Milos Hroch

Global Ear: Bucharest: DIY electronics vs minimal techno in the Romanian capital. By Steve Rickinson

The Inner Sleeve: Abdullah Miniawy on Fela Kuti's Fear Not For Man

Epiphanies: Sunik Kim and the human nature of Conlon Nancarrow

The Wire Tapper 62: A track-by-track guide to this issue's free CD

Print Run: Twist: An American Girl by Adele Bertei, Living Metal: Scenes Around The World edited by Bryan Bardine & Jerome Stueart, Decolonial Metal Music In Latin America by Nelson Varas-Diaz, Composing While Black: Afrodiasporic New Music Today edited by Harald Kisiedu & George E Lewis, John Wetton: An Extraordinary Life edited by Nick Shilton, The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music And Escaping Capitalism by Enrico Monacelli, Uncurating Sound: Knowledge With Voice And Hands by Salome Voegelin, Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp On RogueArt by Clifford Allen, Cosmic Scholar: The Life And Times Of Harry Smith by John Szwed

On Screen: David Cronenberg Naked Lunch; Emil Spoelder The Dream Syndicate: How Did We Find Ourselves Here?

On Location: ZEZ, Zagreb, Croatia; The Silent Eye, London, UK; Why The Mountains Are Black, Konitsa, Greece; 24-Hour Drone, New York, US; Model/Actriz, London, UK; Hawkwind + Voivod, London, UK; Blue Now, London, UK; Impressions Of John Coltrane: Nat Birchall Quintet + David Angol Quartet + Ed Jones/Dominic Lash/Mark Wastell + Alan Skidmore, London, UK; Thing In The Spring 15, Keene, US; Suzanne Ciani + Li Yilei, London, UK; Sonar, Barcelona, Spain; Sophie Agnel, London, UK

On Site: XXL Dreams, The Hague, The Netherlands; Museum Of Portable Sound, Portsmouth, UK/Online

Souncheck: Eve Aboulkheir/Lasse Marhaug, Emil Amos, Steve Beresford & Angharad Davies, Lea Bertucci & Lawrence English, Adam Bohman/Martin Hackett/Sue Lynch, Dominic Coles, Mike Cooper, John Dikeman/Pat Thomas/ John Edwards/Steve Noble, Aaron Dilloway, Aaron Dilloway & AMURTARITI, Kevin Drumm, Baxter Dury, The End, Fabio Frizzi, JB Glazer, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Mats Gustafsson & Andreas Roysum, Hackedepicciotto, I Paesani featuring Gunter 'Baby' Sommer, Illegal Crowns, Kassel Jaeger, Killer Mike, Sunik Kim, Kœnig, Ana Kravanja & Elisabeth Harnik, Ana Kravanja & Vitja Balsalorsky, Laraaji & Kramer, Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek, The Nonidentical, Oxbow, Lucie Pachova, Sally Potter, Michael Allen Z Prime, Qow, Jer Reid & Tony Bevan, Dean Rodney Jr & The Cowboys, Renata Roman/Paola Ribiero/Laura.aLL, Kristen Roos, Rrose, Sexmob, Ben Scher, JG Thirlwell/Mivos Quartet, Pat Thomas, Pat Thomas & Caroline Kraabel, Pat Thomas/Chris Sharkey/Luke Reddin-Williams, David Toop & Lawrence English, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval/Lars Petter Hagen, Ute Wassermann, Weird Beard, Semay Wu, Ziur, ZULI, Various Disruptive Frequencies

The Boomerang: Air Miami, Dorothy Ashby, Autechre & Hafler Trio, The Black Dog, Black Dog Productions, John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, Gate, High Rise, Harold Land, The Plastic People Of The Universe, Sandwell District, Saphron, Vivian Stanshall, Frank Zappa, Various Bullshit Detector Vols 1-3

Notes: Inside this issue:

Richard Pinhas: At the age of 71 the French experimental guitarist and Heldon founder is still going all the way out. By Daniel Spicer

The Primer: French underground rock: A user's guide to the subcultural eruption that belched forth the likes of Heldon, Brigitte Fontaine, Lard Free and Art Zoyd. By Keith Moline

Weyes Blood: The US vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist delivers apocalyptic visions via deceptively lush avant pop. By Emily Pothast

Invisible Jukebox: Hamid Drake: Will the US drummer get the tempo of The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Bill Meyer.

Unlimited Editions: Dadaist Tapes

Unofficial Channels: DJ M-TRAXXX

Zubin Kanga: New horizons for the composer, pianist and technologist. By Emily Bick

Suzi Analogue: Never Normal for the Miami dancefloor experimentalist. By Neil Kulkarni

Ustad Noor Bakhsh: On the trail of the benju master. By Francis Gooding

Ale Hop: The Peruvian artist negotiates new sonic territories. By Hannah Pezzack

Global Ear: Korean Demilitarised Zone united by music in no man's land. By James Gui

The Inner Sleeve: Melvin Gibbs on Ornette Coleman's Dancing In Your Head

Epiphanies: Inside and out with DJ Marcelle

Print Run: Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism And The Avant-Garde by Rebecca Binns; Extreme Music: From Silence To Noise And Everything In Between by Michael Tau; You're With Stupid: kranky, Chicago And The Reinvention Of Indie Music by Bruce Adams; Sonic Elements: Matrices, Cosmograms, & Ostinatos Of Circularity by Adam Rudolph; Improvising The Score by Gretchen L Carlson; Saxophone Colossus: The Life & Music Of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy; Holy Ghost: The Life & Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler by Richard Koloda

On Screen: Arturas Barysas Restored Short Films 1971-82; Alex Crowton & Bobby Dass This Is Sparklehorse

On Location: No Bounds 2022, Sheffield, UK; Riot Ensemble, London, UK; Gonerfest 19, Memphis, US; Malcy Duff And His Trouser Orchestra + Ecka Mordecai/Ash Reid/Fritz Welch + Rob Churm, London, UK; Meakusma, Eupen, Belgium; Other Minds Festival, San Francisco, US; Skanu Mess: 20th Anniversary, Riga, Latvia; The Hearing Experience, London, UK; FutureStops, Toronto, Canada; Terry Day & Friends: Celebrating The Archives, London, UK; Unsound, Krakow, Poland; Juliet Fraser: Wave Songs, London, UK

On Site: Hannah Catherine Jones OWED TO CHIRON (The Wounded Healer); Sonic Acts Biennial 2022

Soundcheck: Abduction, Mike Baggetta/Jim Keltner/Mike Watt, Blut Aus Nord, Yao Bobby & Simon Grab, Tyondai Braxton, Burial, Cainan Dawn, Xhosa Cole, William Fowler Collins, Adrian Corker, Dale Cornish, Richie Culver, Alex Cunningham/Patrick Shiroishi/Thom Nguyen, Richard Dawson, Giovanni Di Domenico, Giovanni Di Domenico & Zugzwang, Giovanni Di Domenico & Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Kaja Draksler & Susana Santos Silva, Earth Room, Jimmy Edgar, Brunhild Ferrari & Christoph Heemann, Fire-Toolz, Forensic Trio, Carla dal Forno, Frances Pylons, Maxine Funke, Goat, Gotho, Heith, Holodec, The Howling, Ikonika, Isomonstrosity, Keith Jarrett, Molly Joyce, Kode9, Sarathy Korwar, James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Lykotonon, Magma, Moin, Hedvig Mollestad & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Bill Nace, Network Glass & Jason Crumer, Maggie Nicols, Mali Obomsawin, Oort Smog, Oxbow & Peter Brotzmann, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Theo Parrish, Pink Siifu & Real Bad Man, Ingrid Plum, Polyphia, Rabit, Say What, Secluded Bronte, Patrick Shiroishi, Susana Santos Silva & Alexandra Nilsson, Rishin Singh with Martin Sturm, Richard Skelton, Stargaze, Stonecirclesampler, Strategy, Pat Thomas, Richard Thomas, Thumbscrew, Devin Townsend

The Boomerang: The Apostles, George Burt, Cerberus Shoal, Essential Logic, Neu!, Jocelyn Pook, Charles Stepney, Thorr's Hammer, Masahiko Togashi with Don Cherry & Charlie Haden, Virgin Prunes

Notes: Inside this brand new issue:

Releases of the Year: Wire asked their contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes

Critics' Reflections: Wire's writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of the year

Columnists' Charts: Wire's specialist critics delve deep into their musical niches from noise to modern composition

Archive Releases of the Year: Wire asked their contributors to vote for their top ten archive records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes.

Engineered Phantoms: AI for the masses. By Abi Bliss

Back to the Land: Strange as folk. By Louis Pattison

Rival Camps: Crossing the streams. By Britt Brown

Weapons of Mass Distraction: Artists and Gaza. By GAIKA

Invisible Jukebox: Linton Kwesi Johnson: The veteran reggae poet faces down The Wire's mystery record selection. Tested by Gabriel Bristow

Laetitia Sadier: The Stereolab founder promotes community and healing with her new solo work. By Claire Biddles

Fred Frith: The Henry Cow co-founder returns to his groundbreaking 1974 album Guitar Solos with a reissue and a new album. By Clive Bell

Unlimited Editions: Bead Records

Unofficial Channels: Lanner Chronicle

Phil Geraldi: Road head music. By Emily Bick

HUUUM: Viennese whirl. By Ilia Rogatchevski

Lisa Ullen: Piano magic. By Peter Margasak

Thomas Ignatius: Medieval synthpop. By Leah Kardos

Global Ear: Chicago Democracy and improv in the Midwest. By Levi Dayan

The Inner Sleeve: Vince Clarke on The Human League's Travelogue

Epiphanies: Mariam Rezaei on Persian pitch-shifting

Print Run: Dancehall: The Rise Of Jamaican Dance Culture by Beth Lesser; Lost In Room: Mark Perry, Alternative TV And Related, 1977-1981 by Richard Johnson; Deep Blues 1960-1988 by Val Wilmer; Ukrainian Field Notes edited by Gianmarco Del Re; At The Vanguard Of Vinyl by Darren Mueller; Too Much Too Young: Rude Boys, Racism And The Soundtrack Of A Generation - The 2 Tone Records Story by Daniel Rachel; NOTHING IS POSSIBLE NERVOUSNESS, OR IMMORALITY DON'T WAIT TO BE HUNTED TO HIDE/ SPOILT HEALTH by TRS: The Fucking Terrible Receding Shapes, Trading As TRIPLE NEGATIVE

On Screen: Midori Takada: Japan On Film; Robert Fantinatto Subotnick Portrait Of An Electronic Music Pioneer

On Location: Recombinant Festival, San Francisco, US; Sir Richard Bishop, Edinburgh, UK; Week-End Fest, Cologne, Germany; Black Industrial | Noise Event 4: Ain Bailey, London, UK; Out.Fest, Barreiro, Portugal; Gonerfest 20, Memphis, US; Sonica Surge, Glasgow, UK; People Like Us, London, UK; Loraine James, San Francisco, US; Usurper: That's That Then, Edinburgh, UK; Easter Margins Road 2 Redline Tour with OverMyBody Taipei, Taiwan; Donaueschinger Musiktage 2023, Donaueschingen, Germany

On Site: Val Wilmer Blue Moments, Black Sounds, London, UK; Meredith Monk: Calling, Munich, Germany; Barbara Ess Archives, New York, US

Soundcheck: Aesop Rock, Agitation Free, All Men Unto Me, Alternative TV, Chino Amobi, Andre 3000, Erlend Apneseth Trio & Maja SK Ratkje, Anenon, Daniel Bachman, BEAM SPLITTER + Eivind Lonning & Espen Reinertsen, Beans, Lea Bertucci, Better Corners, Galya Bisengalieva, Black To Comm, Andy Blade & Buddies, Danny Brown, Conflux Coldwell, Amelia Cuni/Werner Durand/Uli Hohmann, CZN, Angharad Davies & Phil Julian, Eartheater, Max Eastley/Terry Day/John Butcher, Carlos Ferreira, Peter Gabriel, Gruzja, Holy Tongue, Robert Hood & Femi Kuti, Idea Fire Company, Ed Jones/Dominic Lash/Mark Wastell, KAVARI, Kid Acne, Klein, Anysia Kym & Jadasea, Dominic Lash/Rachel Musson/Phil Durrant/Steve Noble, Joelle Leandre & Rodolphe Loubatiere, George Lewis/ICE, DJ Manny, Trevor Mathison, Myra Melford's Fire & Water Quintet, MHYSA, Moin, Maggie Nicols/Matilda Rolfsson/Mark Wastell, Steve Noble, Aki Onda, Ordeal, Aruan Ortiz, Tony Oxley, Eddie Prevost/NO Moore/James O'Sullivan/Ross Lambert, Janneke van der Putten, Lucy Railton, Maja SK Ratkje & Nordic Affect, Mike Reed, Marc Richter, Raphael Rogi?ski, Patrick Shiroishi, Timelash, David Toop & Tania Caroline Chen, Universal Harmonies & Frequencies, V/Z, Alex Ward Items 6 & 7, Teresa Winter, Various C-01 Compilation, Various Flux Gourmet: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Boomerang:

Barry Bermange/Delia Derbyshire/The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Earth, Khanate, Meat Puppets, Meshuggah, Het Pandorra Ensemble, Penny Rimbaud/Mikado Koko, Rudimentary Peni, Archie Shepp, Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit, War, Frank Zappa, Various The Complete Obscure Records Collection, Various One Mile From Heaven, Various Spectra Ex Machina: A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol 2

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Khanate: The reconvened avant sludge quartet bring their fifth document of doom in the form of To Be Cruel. By Rob Turner

Beam Splitter: Audrey Chen and Henrik Munkeby Norstebo explore intimacy via electroacoustics. By Julian Cowley

Invisible Jukebox: Dali De Saint Paul: The Bristol based vocalist and improvisor faces The Wire's mystery record selection. Tested by Phil England

Agitation Free: The German rock experimentalists return with a new album. By Daniel Spicer

Unlimited Editions: bie Records

Unofficial Channels: The Roulette Tapes

Violent Magic Orchestra: The Osaka outfit unite black metal, gabber and trance. By James Hadfield

Mpho Molikeng: Rebuilding African music with the Basotho multi-instrumentalist. By David Grundy

Galya Bisengalieva: The Kazakh-British artist invokes the spirit of the atom. By Abi Bliss

Eve Stainton: Capturing the Dykegeist with the Mancunian choreographer. By Claire Biddles

Global Ear: In Berlin brutality reigns at Germany's long-running extreme metal festival. By Thomas Osman

The Inner Sleeve: Alan Courtis on Mauricio Kagel's Exotica and Los Cau's Los Cau

Epiphanies: Nkisi follows the path of Kongo tradition into unseen worlds of sound

Print Run: First Floor: Reflections On Electronic Music Culture Volume 1 by Shawn Reynaldo; Journal De Mes Sons/Diary Of My Sounds by Pierre Henry; Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music At The National Institute Of Design, India 1969-1972 edited by Paul Purgas; Transforming Moments by Richard Barrett; Gerard Grisey And Spectral Music: Composition In The Information Age by Liam Cagney; The Life And Music Of Gerard Grisey: Delirium And Form by Jeffrey Arlo Brown; Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir by Sly Stone with Ben Greenman; Kleenex/LiLiPUT by Marlene Marder

On Screen: Maureen Gosling The 9 Lives Of Barbara Dane

On Site: Din, London, UK; Johanna Billing Each Moment Presents What Happens, London, UK

On Location: Unsound, Krakow, Poland; WOS Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Another Sky Festival, London, UK; M. Festival, New York, US; AR Kane, London, UK; Seanaps Festival, Leipzig, Germany; Cadillac & Ogun 50th Anniversary Concert, London, UK; Tubby's 5-Year Anniversary, Kingston, US; ArcTanGent, Bristol, UK

Soundcheck: Abstract Concrete, Susan Alcorn/Septeto Del Sur, Amor Muere, AshTreJinkins, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Christoph de Babalon, Francois J Bonnet & Stephen O'Malley, Diego Caicedo, Maria Chavez & Sandy Ewen, Buck Curran, Sarah Davachi, Anthony Davis/Kyle Motl/Kjell Nordeson, Fielded, Flesh & The Dream, Fruit LoOops, Adele H, Poppy H, Helmet, Marina Herlop, Honeydrip, Islaja, Zubin Kanga, Ingrid Laubrock, Steve Lehman & Orchestre National De Jazz, Lucidvox, Manzanera Mackay, Charif Megarbane, Mendoza Hoff Revels, DJ Muggs & Dean Hurley, Stephen O'Malley & Anthony Pateras, Phet Phet Phet, PLF, Position Normal, Prong, Pyne, Razen, Joseph Shabason, Shackleton, Shackleton & Wac?aw Zimpel with Siddhartha Belmannu, Silver Apples & Makoto Kawabata, Sone Institute, Space Afrika & Rainy Miller, Unkle G, Vanishing Twin, Vidrio, Hilary Woods, Yokel/D Ham/Franco Franco

The Boomerang: Ash Ra Tempel, Wally Badarou, Derek Bailey & Paul Motian, Betty Davis, Deerhoof, Timothy Leary & Ash Ra Tempel, Marginal Consort, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matthew Shipp Trio, Richard Wright, La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, Various If There's Hell Below, Various No Future, No Past: Finnish Speed & Thrash Metal Explosion 1986-1992

Notes: Inside this issue:

Meredith Monk: In the wake of a career-spanning box set the multidisciplinary artist discusses a lifetime of connection and communication. By Emily Bick.

Barbara Dane: The US folk/blues/jazz musician and activist details eight decades of anticapitalist agitation in a new memoir. By Emily Pothast.

Ocen James: The Ugandan Acholi fiddler talks electronic collaborations and riotous wedding jams. By Daniel Spicer.

Invisible Jukebox: aya: Will The Wire's mystery record selection be poetry to the ears of the UK DJ, producer and vocal artist? Tested by Meg Woof.

Unlimited Editions: Fox & His Friends. By Antonio Poscic.

Unofficial Channels: The Bristol Germ. By Noel Gardner.

Mark Jenkin: The Enys Men director explores Cornwall's hidden reverse. By Spenser Tomson.

Zaliva-D: Explosive electronics from the Beijing duo. By James Gui.

Territorial Gobbing: Leeds noisenik Theo Gowans cobbles it together. By Abi Bliss.

Jacqueline Nova: Opening the Colombian composer's archive. By Louise Gray.

Global Ear: Kansai: Fantasy and future unite in southern central Japan. By Miranda Remington

The Inner Sleeve: Audrey Chen on Nakatani-Chen Duo's LIMN

Epiphanies: The Raincoats' Gina Birch on a pivotal encounter with The Slits

Print Run: Assembling A Black Counter Culture by DeForrest Brown, Jr; From Scratch: Albanian Summer Picaresque edited by Pyke-Presje; The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music And Sound On The Brooklyn Waterfront by Cisco Bradley; dublab: Future Roots Radio edited by Mark 'Frosty' McNeill & Jeremiah Chiu; No Machos Or Pop Stars: When The Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk by Gavin Butt; The Bebop Scene In London's Soho, 1945-1950 by Ray Kinsella

On Screen: Tim Mackenzie-Smith Getting It Back: The Story Of Cymande; Michelle Heighway Energy: A Documentary About Damo Suzuki

On Location: X100, Berlin, Germany; Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical, New York, US; Eartheater, Los Angeles, US; Underground Institute Festival, Berlin, Germany; Maarja Nuut + ASUNA, Tokyo, Japan; UNFURL, Sydney, Australia; OORtreders, Neerpelt, Belgium; We Jazz Festival, Helsinki, Finland; HCMF, Huddersfield, UK; Decibel New Music Ensemble, London, UK; Valentina Magaletti Residency, London, UK; Wilbury Radio, Letchworth Garden City, UK

On Site: Shinro Ohtake; The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale Of Modern Britain

Soundcheck: Chris Abrahams, ACA, Algiers, Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat, Alvarezz, The Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Nick Ashwood, Backxwash, Meg Baird, Bardo Todol & Robert Millis, Jeb Bishop/Pandelis Karayorgis/Damon Smith, Patricia Brennan, John Cale, Calsutmoran, Christina Carter, Hannibal Chew III, Climax Golden Twins, Mike Cooper, Vladislav Delay, Delivery Health, Alliyah Enyo, Angelo M Farro, Avram Fefer/Marc Ribot/Eric Revis/Chad Taylor, Jurg Frey, GAHLMM, Ben LaMar Gay, Graham/Bishop/Karayorgis/McBride/Osgood, Kay Grant & Daniel Thompson, Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi, Hammered Hulls, Manga Saint Hilare, Martin Iddon, In Weather, Mark Jenkin, Pandelis Karayorgis/Nate McBride/Luther Gray, Uri Katzenstein, Kelela, Jussi Lehtisalo, Kali Malone featuring Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton, Lionel Marchetti & Decibel, Dan McCarthy, Joe McPhee & Tomeka Reid, The Necks, Negativland, Nighte, numun, Ivo Perelman, Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Ivo Perelman & Joe Morris, Richard Pinhas & Merzbow, Pole, Pulverize The Sound, Ruhail Qaisar, Reading Music, Ishmael Reed, Tomeka Reid & Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Rebecca Saunders, Shovel Dance Collective, John Smith, Snogg, Soulside, Suss, Tamarisk, Truemendous, Alexander Tucker & Keith Collins, Eli Wallace, Drew Wesely, Wolf Eyes, Christian Wolff & String Noise, Loula Yorke

The Boomerang: Beauty Pill, Butchamana & The Big Bang Brothers Band, Chris Capers & Joe Rigby, Joe Rigby & Chris Capers, Codeine, Grupo Um, Jill Kroesen, Laraaji, The Maglory Dengluch, People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz, PG Six, The Pyramids, Rex, Jody Stecher & Krishna Bhatt, Marvin Tate's D-Settlement, White Heaven, Various The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival, Various Instant This/Instant That: NY NY 1978-1985

Notes: Inside this issue:

2022 Rewind: the year in underground music

Releases Of The Year: We asked our contributors to nominate their top ten records, CDs, downloads and streams of the year, then we added up the votes

Critics' Reflections: Wire writers discuss their cultural highs and lows for 2022

The New Vaudeville: Funny games. By Stewart Smith

Turntablists: Spin cycles. By Rob Turner

Columnists' Charts: Our specialist critics excavate all crevices of the culture for this year's most exciting music, from hiphop to modern composition

Books, Films & Events: Emily Bick surveys the year in print, cinema, audiovisual arts and live performance

Climate: Burning issues. By Phil England

Healing Sounds: Good vibrations. By Emily Pothast

Archive Releases Of The Year: Our contributors voted for their top ten archival records, CDs, downloads and streams, and we counted them all up

Invisible Jukebox: Kali Malone: Our mystery record selection pulls out all the stops for the composer and organist. Tested by Derek Walmsley

Unlimited Editions: REC-on

Unofficial Channels: Xenwiki

Heith: The Milanese producer looks to magickal traditions. By Milos Hroch

Venus Ex Machina: Cybernetics meet mythology for the researcher and composer. By Meg Woof

Kraus: New Zealand psych wizard goes for a float. By Kiran Dass

Daniel Bachman: The American Primitive guitarist chronicles climate crisis. By Louis Pattison

Global Ear: Kadikoy: The Istanbul neighbourhood is the home for metal and underground music. By Robert Rigney

The Inner Sleeve: Gaye Su Akyol on Morphine's Good

Epiphanies: Meg Baird on Sheila Kay Adams and John Cohen

Soundcheck: Christine Abdelnour & Andy Moor, Theophilus Oluwafifehami Ajayi, Amefrican Grunges, Daniel Bachman, Big Joanie, Blood Rhythms, The Brother Moves On, Christeene, Circuit Des Yeux & Claire Rousay, Alvin Curran, The Dowling Poole, FaUSt featuring Keiji Haino, Ben Frost, Satoko Fujii, Ghoe0.95st, Melvin Gibbs, Hieroglyphic Being, Ryoji Ikeda, I Know I'm An Alien, Philip Jeck, Leslie Keffer, Leslie Keffer & R Stevie Moore, Kitten Pyramid, Klein, Low Res, Roc Marciano & The Alchemist, MoE/Bruxa Maria, MoE Y Escalantes, Anthony Moore, Mthunzi Mvubu, Je'ro^me Noetinger, No Home, Rascali Klepitoire, Julia Reidy & Morten, Joh Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, Vanessa Rossetto, Claire Rousay, Claire Rousay & E Fishpool, Rubbish Music, Slumberland featuring Sainkho Namtchylak, Akai Solo, Tyshawn Sorey Trio + 1, Sourdure, Stabbing, Twinkle3 featuring David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki, Urban Eden, Marc Urselli's SteppenDoom, Venus Ex Machina, Beau Wanzer & Hieroglyphic Being, Weyes Blood, billy woods x Messiah Musik, Yungmorpheus, Various Black Metal Rainbows Various Clap. An Anatomy Of Applause Various Dark Side Of The Sacred Star Various Fragility Of Sounds, Various Imaginary Landscapes Various Paroxysm: A Benefit Compilation For Leslie Keffer, Various Xtended Vox

The Boomerang: Alterations, Celtic Frost, Deicide, The Ex, The Fall, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Joyce with Mauricio Maestro, Meredith Monk, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Les Rallizes De'nude's, Sidney Sager & The Ambrosian Singers, Topdown Dialectic, Markos Vamvakaris, Venom, Denis Wize

Print Run: Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past by Victor Szabo; Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations With Coil edited by Nick Soulsby; Junk Percussion: Notes For The Future by Roger Turner & Mari Kamada; For Zitka'la-S?a' by Raven Chacon; The Northern Silence: Journeys In Nordic Music & Culture by Andrew Mellor; Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984) by Douglas MacIntyre & Grant McPhee with Neil Cooper; Wetland Project: Explorations In Sound, Ecology And Post-Geographical Art edited by Brady Marks & Mark Timmings

On Screen: James Sharp The Jangling Man: The Martin Newell Story; Alexandra Cabral & Ian Svenonius The Lost Record

On Location: Semibreve, Braga, Portugal; Midwife, London, UK; Object Collection: Automatic Writing, NewYork, US; Cyborg Soloists, London, UK Akousma, Paris, France; Abdullah Ibrahim: EFG London Jazz Festival, London, UK; EFG London Jazz Festival: Henry Threadgill's Zooid + Anthony Braxton, London, UK; Come, London, UK; Zinc And Copper: Well Tuned Brass 2022, Berlin, Germany; Thumbscrew, London, UK

On Site: Carolee Schneemann Body Politics

Notes: Inside this issue:

AMM: For 50 years, Eddie Prevost, Keith Rowe and John Tilbury have had their sights set firmly on sonic freedom, changing the landscape of music in the process. By Clive Bell. AMM mini-Primer: A user's guide to the group's recent recordings. By Seymour Wright

Angharad Davies: The hardworking violinist and improvisor finds inspiration for her time dissolving recordings and performances through interpersonal connections. By Abi Bliss

UnicaZurn: Veteran industrialists Dave Knight and Stephen Thrower pour two lifetimes of experience into their dystopian stew. By Rob Turner

Invisible Jukebox: Hannah Catherine Jones: Will the UK composer be reduced to a Foxy Moron by The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Meg Woof

Unlimited Editions: Nh?c Gay

Unofficial Channels: Tape Archives

Opal X: Harsh beauty from former Paper Dollhouse denizen. By Claire Biddles

Nexcyia: Producer Adam Dove gives it the old collage try. By Rob Turner

Teresa Winter: Sea salt memories from the Yorkshire based composer. By Louise Gray

K Of Arc: The beauty and horror of Kevin Craig's electronic fog. By Emily Pothast

Global Ear: Washington, DC: DIY still thrives in the hardcore heartland. By Jonathan Williger

The Inner Sleeve: Sarah Davachi on Genesis's Trespass

Epiphanies: Pamela Z picks up the phonemes

Print Run: New music books: Sound Within Sound by Kate Molleson; Pin-Ups 1972: Third Generation Rock 'N' Roll by Peter Stanfield; Musical Migration And Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes by Brigid Cohen; Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose; The Artistry Of Bheki Mseleku by Andrew Lilley; Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise And Fall Of SST Records by Jim Ruland; Positive Vibrations: Politics, Politricks And The Story Of Reggae by Stuart Borthwick; Zabelle Panosian: I Am Servant Of Your Voice by Ian Nagoski with Harout Arakelian & Harry Kezelian

On Screen: Anisia Uzeyman & Saul Williams Neptune Frost; Toby Amies In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50

On Location: Ivan Shopov + Vague Voices + Hiro Kone + Evitceles, Sofia, Bulgaria; Black Josh & Milkavelli W + Lee Scott + Stinkin Slumrok, Brighton, UK; Robyn Hitchcock, London, UK; Rewire 2022, The Hague, Netherlands; Bang On A Can Long Play, New York, US; Ende Tymes 12: Night One, New York, US; Joe McPhee/Decoy, London, UK; Mdou Moctar, London, UK; Tectonics, Glasgow, UK; Yemandja, Berkeley, US; Intonal, Malmo, Sweden

On Site: William Kentridge/Nhlanhla Mahlangu/Kyle Shepherd SIBYL; TEGH & BAW SINK_VESSEL

Soundcheck: 106, Anteloper, Felicia Atkinson, Avvitagalli, Caterina Barbieri, Better Corners, Billain, The Black Albumen, Black Midi, Matt Carlson, Helena Celle, Madeleine Cocolas, Rhodri Davies, Degradation, Diatom Deli, Deliluh, The Dream Syndicate, Elzhi & Georgia Anne Muldrow, Ensemble Nist-Nah, Shiva Feshareki, Final, Fire! featuring Stephen O'Malley & David Sandstrom, G36 Vs JK Flesh, Gav & Jord, Hercules & Love Affair, Heldon, Randy Holden, Holy Tongue, Cat Hope, Susie Ibarra & Tashi Dorji, Iceberg, I Like To Sleep, Jackson/Hoogland/Abrams/Avery, Michael Gregory Jackson, Glenn Jones, Kendrick Lamar, Ruaridh Law, Left Hand Cuts Off The Right & Tasos Stamou, Valentina Magaletti, The Master Musicians Of Jajouka, Merzbow/Arcane Device, Merzbow & Lawrence English, Claudia Molitor, u-Ziq, MJ Noble, Noise Against Fascism, O Yuki Conjugate, Ohyung, Origin, Osasco Dynamics, Phase, Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales, Flora Purim, Quelle Chris, George Rayner-Law & Vinegar Tom, Shit & Shine, Mark Stewart, Chloe Alexandra Thompson, Aaron Turner, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Various Taraxia

The Boomerang: Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band, Bill Bruford, Ian Carr with Nucleus Plus, Chillin Villain Empire, Lining Time, Anthony Moore, Nucleus, Tom Recchion, John Schuller, Scritti Politti, Surface Of The Earth, John Tilbury, David Toop, Ut, VALV?, Barney Wilen, Wire

Notes: Inside this issue:

Eugene S Robinson: The vocalist, author, actor and martial artist talks writing, performance and lazy journalism. By Laina Dawes.

Michael Allen Z Prime: The ecologist and bioelectrical composer unveils a new collection. By Julian Cowley; Plants on disc: Carlo Patrao's user's guide to music made with flora

O YAMA O: Cafe Oto's house band attempt to liberate the modern song. By Ilia Rogatchevski; Cafe Oto on disc: Stewart Smith surveys the most dynamic live albums from the venue

Invisible Jukebox: Nappy Nina:Will The Wire's mystery record selection leave the Brooklyn rapper in Dumb Doubt or will she prove Extra Ordinary? Tested by Olivia Bradley-Skill.

Garrett Saracho: The Los Angeles keyboardist rematerialises after years in the wilderness. By Daniel Spicer

Unlimited Editions: Trost Records

Unofficial Channels: Metal Music Theory

Lauren Bousfield: US artist pits maximalism against consumerism. By Claire Biddles

Magnus Granberg: Into the twilight zone with the Swedish composer. By Nick Storring

Me Lost Me: The Newcastle avant balladeer is game for folk. By Abi Bliss

Lary 7: Explosive junk from the New York based polymath. By Jo Hutton

Global Ear: Lviv: Tale of the Oleksandr Yurchenko tape. By Olena Pohonchenkova

The Inner Sleeve: Ale Hop on Popol Vuh's Einsjager Und Siebenjager

Epiphanies: Kyle Gann's musical world is shattered by Morton Feldman

Print Run: Yours In Beethoven: A Memoir Of My Musical Journey With Julius Eastman by Rocco Di Pietro; Bernhard Lang: Critical Guides To Contemporary Composers by Christine Dysers; Nadia Boulanger: War Years In America And Her Last Decades by James Whipple Miller; A Strange Celestial Road: My Time In The Sun Ra Arkestra by Ahmed Abdullah; Technical Manifesto For The Deviant Sound Engineer by wtRobina; The Sam Rivers Sessionography: A Work In Progress by Rick Lopez; Pull Down The Shades: Garage Fanzine 1984-86 - Tales From The New Zealand Music Underground by Richard Langston; Schwarzwaldfahrt by Peter Brotzmann & Han Bennink + David Keenan; Phill Niblock: Nothing But Working by Mathieu Copeland

On Screen: In-Edit International Music Documentary Film Festival

On Location: Ende Tymes, New York, US; Voice Actor, London, UK; John Wiese + Steve Beresford + Tears | Ov London, UK; Large Unit 10 Year Anniversary, Oslo, Norway; The Theatre Of Eternal Music, New York, US; Moor Mother, London, UK; Intonal Festival, Malmo, Sweden; Puppet + 6501, Shenzhen, China; Presences Electronique, Paris, France; Sonica, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Marina Herlop + Aga Ujima, London, UK; Helen + Samara Lubelski, New York, US

On Site: FM Einheit & Vinzenz Schwab: High On The Wind Luckenwalde, Germany; Shezad Dawood: Night In The Garden Of Love Brussels, Belgium

Soundcheck: Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood, Anohni & The Johnsons, Athos, Boris & Uniform, Bulbils, The Cat & Bells Club, Cloud Circuit, Shirley Collins, Laurence Crane, Creep Show, Ivan Cunningham's Freedom Pie, Amy Cutler, Decisive Pink, Dinner Party, Divide & Dissolve, Maxine Funke, Andrey Guryanov, PJ Harvey, Hawkwind, House Of All, Hunteress, Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke, Philip Jeck & Chris Watson, Khanate, Killah Priest, Kool Keith, Kukangendai, Piotr Kurek, Graham Lambkin, Lankum, Lauten Der Seele, Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void, Brandon Lopez, Mong Tong, James Moore, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Jim O'Rourke, O YAMA O, Rain Parade, Nicol Eltzroth Rosendorf, deVon Russell Gray/Nathan Hanson/Davu Seru, Sanam, Shapednoise, Soft Machine, Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Dwight Trible, Gregg Turner Group, UCC Harlo, Ben Vida with Yarn/Wire & Nina Dante, Wolf Eyes, Peter Zummo, Various Echolocation: Resonate From Here

The Boomerang: AR Kane, Derek Bailey, Charlie Morrow & Friends, Ian Carr with Nucleus, Ornette Coleman, Corum, Charles Curtis/Alan Licht/ Dean Roberts, Rick Deitrick, The Fucking Champs, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Charlie Morrow/Sten Hanson/Carles Santos, Nana/Nelson Angelo/Novelli, Nucleus, Arthur Russell, Alan Skidmore, Nana Vasconcelos, Various Cease & Resist: Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk in The UK 1979-86, Various Holy Church Of The Ecstatic Soul: Gospel, Funk & Soul At The Crossroads 1971-83, Various We're An American Band: A Journey Through The USA Hard Rock Scene 1967-1973

Notes: On the cover: Phew: The Japanese punk survivor and intrepid vocalist/composer continues to build an impressive catalogue of collaborations, solo projects and band work in a career now spanning over 40 years. By Emily Pothast. Japanese punk primer: A round-up of notable outliers of Japanese punk and post-punk. By Alan Cummings

The Primer: Pauline Oliveros: A Deep Listening dive into the recordings (and cisterns) of the composer and accordionist who pioneered radical new ways of listening and living. By Louise Gray. Ione: The writer, playwright and director, and creative/life partner of Pauline Oliveros, continues their work to connect communities and listeners. By Vanessa Ague

Invisible Jukebox: Ava Mendoza: Will The Wire's mystery record selection shred the nerves of the virtuoso guitarist? Tested by George Grella

The Dream Syndicate: Since their 2012 reunion, the US psych trailblazers have let their freak flag fly across a run of trippy releases including new album Ultraviolet Battle Hymns & True Confessions. By Joseph Stannard

Unlimited Editions: Radio Art Zone

Unofficial Channels: Riddimguide

Black Glass Ensemble: Environmentalist chamber group follow the data. By Phil England

Deborah Walker & Silvia Tarozzi: Finest worksongs for the Italian cello and viola duo. By Peter Margasak

Julmud: The Palestinian producer and rapper collages industrial sounds from across the Middle East. By Milos Hroch

Floris Vanhoof: Transforming sound and vision is fair game for the Belgian artist and instrument builder. By Claire Biddles

Global Ear: Moscow: The invasion of Ukraine has pushed the Russian counterculture into retreat. By Arthur Kuzmin

The Inner Sleeve: billy woods on Bigg Jus's Black Mamba Serums v2.0

Epiphanies: Gary Lucas is enchanted by Third Ear Band's trancelike medievalism

Print Run: New music books: People Funny Boy: The Genius Of Lee 'Scratch' Perry by David Katz; Black Heart Fades Blue Vols 1-3 by Jerry A Lang; Free Music Production, FMP: The Living Music edited by Markus Muller; A-Z Record Shop Bags: 1940s To 1990s by Jonny Trunk; Sonic Urbanism: Listening To Non-Human Life edited by &beyond collective for Theatrum Mundi

On Screen: New films and DVDs: Eric Baudelaire When There Is No More Music To Write, And Other Roman Stories; Oeke Hoogendijk Licht

On Location: Recent live events and streams: Sonic Protest, Paris, France; Kontraklang: The Liz, Nugy n + Transitory, Berlin, Germany; MSCTT_ Studio x Carl Stone's Tokyo, mscty.space; Prolaps + Sarah Squirm + Dreamcrusher + Reagan Holiday + Quija, New York, US; Ragini Festival, New York, US 77 PAF Spring Olomouc, Czech Republic; Dorit Chrysler Vs Claudius, New York, US; Park Jiha, London, UK; Counterflows, Glasgow, UK; Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway; Big Ears, Knoxville, US; Bill Frisell, London, UK; MaerzMusik, Berlin, Germany

On Site: Recent art shows: Lifes; A/B Smith ICU; Sanja Matkovic Stolen Childhoods

Soundcheck: 700 Bliss, Acid Mothers Reynols, Zoh Amba, Zoh Amba featuring William Parker & Francisco Mela, Oren Ambarchi, Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/ Andreas Werliin, Kate Birch, Bob Vylan, Kjetil D Brandsdal & Thore Warland, Cave In, Eric Copeland, Dopplereffekt, Elementals' Orrery, Flaccid Mojo, Gaika, India Gailey, Gothenburg Sound Workshop, Mary Halvorson, Heroes Are Gang Leaders, Jaeho Hwang, Instruments Of Happiness, JARR, Zola Jesus, Kemper Norton, Kenosist, Klara Livet, KMRU, KMRU & Aho Ssan, Travis Laplante, Lay Llamas, Lettera 22, Mai Mai Mai, Matmos, My Cat Is An Alien, Nodosus, Pauline Oliveros & Reynols, Panstarrs, Pusha T, Steve Reich, Reynols, Louie Rice & Luciano Maggiore, John Scofield, Brandon Seabrook/Cooper-Moore/Gerald Cleaver, Sam Shalabi, Ches Smith, Dean Spunt & John Wiese, Carl Stone, Havadine Stone, Sudden Infant, Tarkamt, Martin Taxt, Test Card, Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer, Treasury Of Puppies, Ron Trent presents WARM, Tropa Macaca, Louie Vega, Cheb Wahida, Wardruna, Hildegard Westerkamp, Whatever The Weather, Wild Terrier Orchestra, Yokubari, Various The Assurance Compilation

The Boomerang: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, Don Cherry, Halicon, Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra, Jerry Hunt, Jim O'Rourke & Mats Gustafsson, Plankton Wat, Yasuaki Shimizu, Sparks, Sun Ra Arkestra, Masayuki Takayanagi, Vox Populi!, Various Irida Records: Hybrid Musics From Texas And Beyond 1979-1986

Notes: Inside this brand new issue:

Totally Wire-d: A 20 page special unpicking everything you wanted to know about Mark E Smith and The Fall by the totally Wire-d writers' squad: Claire Biddles, Graham Duff, Esi Eshun, Louise Gray, Michael Fenton, Jo Hutton, Leah Kardos, Stewart Lee, Craig Leon, Eugene S Robinson, Bruce Russell, Dave Segal, Richard Thomas, Spenser Tomson, Brian Turner and Kek-W

House Of All: Tessa Norton talks to the new band formed by ex-Fall members about life after Mark E Smith

Invisible Jukebox: No Home: Will The Wire's mystery record
selection raise Fucking Hell for the London DIY artist? Tested by Meg Woof

Nondi_: Pennsylvanian footworker reports from Flood City. By Neil Kulkarni

Kristen Roos: Vancouver synthesist embraces limitations. By Robert Barry

Natalia Beylis: Kyiv born sound artist makes water magic. By Brian Coney

Andy Akiho: Sculpted sounds from the US composer. By Kurt Gottschalk

Unlimited Editions: Edition Telemark. By Peter Margasak
Unofficial Channels: The Deep Ark. By Michaelangelo Matos

Global Ear: Oakland: Anti-gentrification in the East Bay. By Collin Smith

The Inner Sleeve: DJ Scotch Egg on Faust's You Know Faust

Epiphanies: Adele Bertei heeds the siren call of Patti Smith

Print Run: ESG's Come Away With ESG by Cheri Percy; Alien Territory: Radical, Experimental & Irrelevant Music In 1970s San Diego by Bill Perrine; Come My Fanatics: A Journey Into The World Of Electric Wizard by Dan Franklin; Season Of The Witch: The Book Of Goth by Cathi Unsworth; Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscopes And Rainbows by Vivian Ardley with John Coles & Dave Gelly; Empire Roller Disco: Photographs By Patrick D Pagnano by Sara Rosen & Patrick D Pagnano; The Future Of Rock And Roll: 97X WOXY And The Fight For True Independence by Robin James; Ain't But A Few Of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story by Willard Jenkins (Editor)

On Screen: Jordan Albertsen Boom: A Film About The Sonics; Christina Batte WNYU: The World's Best Radio Station In The World

On Location: Bergamo Jazz Festival, Bergamo, Italy; aya x MFO, London, UK; Borealis, Bergen, Norway; Big Ears, Knoxville, US; Birds Of Paradise, Utrecht, Netherlands; Counterflows, Glasgow, UK; Claire Rousay, London, UK; The Philadelphia Orchestra, New York, US; Moin, London, UK; Fred Moten/Brandon Lopes/Gerald Cleaver, London, UK; Sixth Edition: Festival For Other Music, Stockholm, Sweden; Tremor, Sao Miguel, Portugal; Object Collection: HOUSECONCERT + Neil Luck & Mimi Doulton, London, UK; Sonic Protest, Paris, France; Rewire, The Hague, Netherlands

On Site: Season

Soundcheck: Nancy Andrews & Linda Smith, Martyna Basta, Andrea Belfi, DJ Brittle, Gerald Cleaver, Cold Comfort, Paul B Cutler, Mark Dresser, Paul Dunmall Ensemble, Fire! Orchestra, Fourth World Magazine III, Godflesh, Goodiepal & Bananskolen, Gunnar Gunnsteinsson, Heleen Van Haegenborgh, Alexander Hawkins Trio, IzangoMa, Rickie Lee Jones, Zubin Kanga, Marie Kruttli, Lucy Liyou, Dave Lombardo, Mandy, Indiana, Donny McCaslin, Metallica, Me:You, Modern Cosmology, MV & EE, Old Saw, Joaquin Orellana, Aruan Ortiz Trio, Massimo Pupillo/Malcolm McDowell/Gabriele Tinti, Taiko Saito, Marta Salogni & Tom Relleen, Brandon Seabrook, Skull Practitioners, Wadada Leo Smith & Orange Wave Electric, Sparks, Specime, Temps, Henry Threadgill Ensemble, Alan Wilkinson/Alex Ward/Jem Doulton, Venamoris, VHS Head, Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch, Wobbly, billy woods & Kenny Segal, MC Yallah, Yetsuby, Various Music Perspective Vol 1

The Boomerang: Enhet For Fri Musik, Milford Graves with Arthur Doyle & Hugh Glover, Anna Homler & Richard Sanderson, Juju, Roland Kayn, Angus MacLise, Toshimaru Nakamura, Julien Ottavi, Joel Stern, Suicide, Lewis Taylor, Uboa, Alan Vega, Various Suburban Annihilation: The California Hardcore Explosion From The City To The Beach 1978-1983

Notes: On the cover: The Necks - For the last 25 years, the Australian trio have created a radical new open form for musical improvisation with hour-long performances that touch upon motorik rock, minimalist composition, drone and more. They talk to Daniel Spicer about their new album Travel.

Inside the issue...

Sirom - The Slovenian group reactivate archaic folk musics to create a new cosmic vision of Balkan sound through their longform performances. By Milo Hroch.

Marc Hollander - From fourth world 1980s art pop to creating a new hub for global music via the Crammed Discs label to a brand new album with Aksak Maboul, this Belgian polymath has created multiple visions of a better music world. By Julian Cowley

Invisible Jukebox: James Brandon Lewis - New York's hottest free and spiritual jazz reedsman takes Wire's mystery music test to celebrate his new album Eye Of I.

Global Ear - Giannis Kotsonis on the thriving experimental tape music scene in Athens; Unlimited Editions - Kehinde Alonge on essential East Coast jazz imprint 577 Records Unofficial Channels

Inner Sleeve - Mark Wastell on The Specials

Epiphanies - Pat Gubler aka PG Six is mesmerized by the possibilities contained in a single note of a piano

Plus full page interviews with Avalanche Kaito, Debby Friday, Gamut Inc, and El Khat. With this March issue Wire will be making a few changes to the magazine, including shapeshifting its format to A4, and introducing a new logo and design layout courtesy of new art director Guillaume Chuard