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Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Raven Chacon: The Dine/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical works for ensembles, electronics and noise. By Esi Eshun

Ingrid Laubrock: The New York based reedist creates settings for koans and poems as part of a unique new compositional practice. By Stewart Smith

Bastard Assignments: The radical new music ensemble get lost in the woods with their satire of the English countryside. By Robert Barry

Infinity Knives: From Tom And Jerry to sociopolitics, rapper Tariq Ravelomanana keeps it unreal. By Lucy Thraves

Cleaners From Venus: Martin Newell's songcraft and wordplay across many DIY albums evidence a uniquely wired mind. By Mike Barnes

Lukas De Clerck: Brussels musician extends ancient pipe instruments into the present moment. By Antonio Poscic

Penelope Trappes: Australian artist voices griefs past and present. By Spenser Tomson

Ciaran Mackle: Sample manipulator twists folk song into cubist forms. By Daryl Worthington

Invisible Jukebox: Jeff Mills: Will Detroit techno's great conceptualist be a wizard IDing The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Chal Ravens

Unlimited Editions: Robert Ridley-Shackleton's Cardboard Club cutouts

The Inner Sleeve: Loraine James on Circa Survive's On Letting Go

Global Ear: Osaka's proto-industrialists revitalise the city's experimental music scene. By Jere Kilpinen

Epiphanies: Golem Mecanique rewinds to a treasured VHS tape of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone

Against The Grain: Mosi Reeves takes on underground hiphop's gender imbalance

Soundcheck: Laura Agnusdei, Anzu Quartet, Apparitions, Backxwash, Black Rain, Francois J Bonnett/Sarah Davachi, Brûlez Les Meubles, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, Cliche Toupee, Clipping, Chick Corea, Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Earth Ball, en creux, The Ex, Ash Fure, Geologist & DS, Gnod & White Hills, Judith Hamann, Lonnie Holley, Imperial Triumphant, Eiko Ishibashi, Kafka's Ibiki, Kuunatic, Labyrinthe Des Esprits, Brandon Lopez, Brandon Lopez & DoYeon Kim, Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor, Masma Dream World, Will Mason Quartet, Zoe Mc Pherson, more eaze & claire rousay, Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez, Bob Mould, Jerome Noetinger, Conrad Pack, Panda Bear, Pink Must, Sophia Djebel Rose, Sandwell District, Colin Self, Sissy Spacek, Aleksandra Slyz, Wadada Leo Smith & Vijay Iyer, Spiral Deluxe, Huma Utku, Wolf Eyes x Anthony Braxton, Anna Webber, Zhu Songjie, Rutger Zuydervelt, Various Aggregate: New Works For Automated Pipe Organs

The Columns: Avant Rock by Joseph Stannard; Critical Beats by Misha Farrant; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Sam Davies; Hiphop & R&B by John Morrison; Jazz & Improv by Andy Hamilton; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Cadentia Nova Danica; Tobe Hooper & Wayne Bell; Michael Gregory Jackson; Jaroslav Koran; Oksana Linde; Ted Lucas; The Saints; The Sex Pistols; Smegma; Smith & Mighty; John Tchicai; Various Disco Charge Presents More Sin: Box Of Sin 2; Various Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide To Late 20th-Century Underground Music

Print Run: 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art & Music by Jennifer Walshe; (A)tonal Adventures: A Chronicle Of Intakt Records by Patrik Landolt; Fusion! From Alice Coltrane To Moor Mother by Alex Coles; Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide To Late 20th-Century Underground Music by David Keenan; What Do You Call It: From Grassroots To The Golden Era Of UK Rap by David Kane; MC5: An Oral Biography Of Rock's Most Revolutionary Band by Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki & Ben Edmonds; Peter Brotzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution And The Politics Of Improvisation by Daniel Spicer; Brotzmann In My Focus by eiga Koritnik; Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage And The Aesthetics Of Oblivion by Giorgio Biancorosso; Dark Dungeon Music: The Unlikely Story Of Dungeon Synth by Jordan Whiteman

On Location: David Murray/Haker Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love, London, UK; Jamaaladeen Tacuma, London, UK; Unsound, Brussels, Belgium; Dedicated Play: BEAM SPLITTER x Xiu Xiu, Berlin, Germany + London, UK; Deep Time: Basquiat & Cage 8424, Edinburgh, UK; Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio, London, UK; Ben LaMar Gay, Berlin, Germany; Catalytic Sound Festival 2024, Chicago, US; Alexander Hawkins, London, UK; Roscoe Mitchell, Houston, US; MENT, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Laurie Anderson, Manchester, UK

On Site: Breaking Lines, London, UK; Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal, Los Angeles, US; Tanat Teeradakorn: National Opera Complex, London, UK

Plus: Letters, Charts, Out There

Notes: ***B-STOCK: Tear on front cover, item otherwise in perfect condition***


Inside the brand new issue:

Raven Chacon: The Dine/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical works for ensembles, electronics and noise. By Esi Eshun

Ingrid Laubrock: The New York based reedist creates settings for koans and poems as part of a unique new compositional practice. By Stewart Smith

Bastard Assignments: The radical new music ensemble get lost in the woods with their satire of the English countryside. By Robert Barry

Infinity Knives: From Tom And Jerry to sociopolitics, rapper Tariq Ravelomanana keeps it unreal. By Lucy Thraves

Cleaners From Venus: Martin Newell's songcraft and wordplay across many DIY albums evidence a uniquely wired mind. By Mike Barnes

Lukas De Clerck: Brussels musician extends ancient pipe instruments into the present moment. By Antonio Poscic

Penelope Trappes: Australian artist voices griefs past and present. By Spenser Tomson

Ciaran Mackle: Sample manipulator twists folk song into cubist forms. By Daryl Worthington

Invisible Jukebox: Jeff Mills: Will Detroit techno's great conceptualist be a wizard IDing The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Chal Ravens

Unlimited Editions: Robert Ridley-Shackleton's Cardboard Club cutouts

The Inner Sleeve: Loraine James on Circa Survive's On Letting Go

Global Ear: Osaka's proto-industrialists revitalise the city's experimental music scene. By Jere Kilpinen

Epiphanies: Golem Mecanique rewinds to a treasured VHS tape of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone

Against The Grain: Mosi Reeves takes on underground hiphop's gender imbalance

Soundcheck: Laura Agnusdei, Anzu Quartet, Apparitions, Backxwash, Black Rain, Francois J Bonnett/Sarah Davachi, Brûlez Les Meubles, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, Cliche Toupee, Clipping, Chick Corea, Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Earth Ball, en creux, The Ex, Ash Fure, Geologist & DS, Gnod & White Hills, Judith Hamann, Lonnie Holley, Imperial Triumphant, Eiko Ishibashi, Kafka's Ibiki, Kuunatic, Labyrinthe Des Esprits, Brandon Lopez, Brandon Lopez & DoYeon Kim, Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor, Masma Dream World, Will Mason Quartet, Zoe Mc Pherson, more eaze & claire rousay, Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez, Bob Mould, Jerome Noetinger, Conrad Pack, Panda Bear, Pink Must, Sophia Djebel Rose, Sandwell District, Colin Self, Sissy Spacek, Aleksandra Slyz, Wadada Leo Smith & Vijay Iyer, Spiral Deluxe, Huma Utku, Wolf Eyes x Anthony Braxton, Anna Webber, Zhu Songjie, Rutger Zuydervelt, Various Aggregate: New Works For Automated Pipe Organs

The Columns: Avant Rock by Joseph Stannard; Critical Beats by Misha Farrant; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Sam Davies; Hiphop & R&B by John Morrison; Jazz & Improv by Andy Hamilton; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Cadentia Nova Danica; Tobe Hooper & Wayne Bell; Michael Gregory Jackson; Jaroslav Koran; Oksana Linde; Ted Lucas; The Saints; The Sex Pistols; Smegma; Smith & Mighty; John Tchicai; Various Disco Charge Presents More Sin: Box Of Sin 2; Various Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide To Late 20th-Century Underground Music

Print Run: 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art & Music by Jennifer Walshe; (A)tonal Adventures: A Chronicle Of Intakt Records by Patrik Landolt; Fusion! From Alice Coltrane To Moor Mother by Alex Coles; Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide To Late 20th-Century Underground Music by David Keenan; What Do You Call It: From Grassroots To The Golden Era Of UK Rap by David Kane; MC5: An Oral Biography Of Rock's Most Revolutionary Band by Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki & Ben Edmonds; Peter Brotzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution And The Politics Of Improvisation by Daniel Spicer; Brotzmann In My Focus by eiga Koritnik; Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage And The Aesthetics Of Oblivion by Giorgio Biancorosso; Dark Dungeon Music: The Unlikely Story Of Dungeon Synth by Jordan Whiteman

On Location: David Murray/Haker Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love, London, UK; Jamaaladeen Tacuma, London, UK; Unsound, Brussels, Belgium; Dedicated Play: BEAM SPLITTER x Xiu Xiu, Berlin, Germany + London, UK; Deep Time: Basquiat & Cage 8424, Edinburgh, UK; Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio, London, UK; Ben LaMar Gay, Berlin, Germany; Catalytic Sound Festival 2024, Chicago, US; Alexander Hawkins, London, UK; Roscoe Mitchell, Houston, US; MENT, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Laurie Anderson, Manchester, UK

On Site: Breaking Lines, London, UK; Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal, Los Angeles, US; Tanat Teeradakorn: National Opera Complex, London, UK

Plus: Letters, Charts, Out There

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

David Lynch & Chrystabell: As their new album Cellophane Memories marks the culmination of 20-plus years of collaboration, the director and singer unpack their dream-like songs over a damn fine cup of coffee. By Britt Brown

The Sound World Of David Lynch: The Wire's writers decode the strange audio messages embedded in the work of the visionary film director, with essays by Philip Brophy, Joe Muggs, Ned Raggett, Xenia Benivolski, Marc Weidenbaum, JR Moores, Lucy Thraves, Bill Meyer, Kurt Gottschalk, Emily Pothast, Claire Biddles, Ryan Meehan and Derek Walmsley, plus ONO's travis

Invisible Jukebox: Dhangsha: Will Asian Dub Foundation's founder member screw his face up at The Wire's mystery record collection? Tested by Daryl Worthington

Unlimited Editions: Gothenburg's Discreet Music label and distro reps DIY values in their international roster

The Inner Sleeve: Mabe Fratti on Pescado Rabioso's Artaud

Global Ear: Monterrey is the melting pot for cumbia sound system styles from Mexico and beyond. By Juan San Cristobal Lizama

Copper Sounds: Bristol's instrument inventors ring the changes from bells to ceramics. By Louis Pattison

Miaux: Retro synths provide a happy ending for the Belgium based musician and sountrack composer. By Leah Kardos

Theodora Laird & Caius Williams: The London improvising duo are back in the room with their site-specific jams. By Lucy Thraves

Epiphanies: Lonnie Holley goes to church and finds himself in the recording studio

The Wire Tapper 65: A track-by-track guide to this issue's free CD

Soundcheck: Ernie Althoff, A Song For You, Black Decelerant, Nathan Bowles Trio, Brique, Kim Cass, Clevelode, FIN, Alec Goldfarb, Haunted Plasma, Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Takashi Inagaki, Vijay Iyer, KMRU, Iztok Koren, Ana Kravanja, Samo Kutin, Landless, Lankum, Eve Libertine, LoSO, Ian Lynch, Drew McDowall, Joe McPhee with Ken Vandermark, Microcorps, more eaze/pardo/glass, Neil Luck, Antonina Nowacka, Oneida, Pale Spring, Tristan Perich & Ensemble, Pseudotouriste, Psychic Graveyard, Laila Sakini, Sawn Half, Scientist, Senyawa, Shark In A Bathtub, ShrapKnel, Wadada Leo Smith, Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Sote, Vince Staples, Tegh & Adel Poursamadi, JG Thirlwell, Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Tony Orrell, Thuluth, Laurie Tompkins & Max Syedtollan, Wave Generators, Weird Weather, Yokel, Patricia Wolf, Xylitol, Loula Yorke, ZULI

The Boomerang: Steve Beresford, Elaine Brown, Faust, Fingers, Jorga Mesfin, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Purl, Sparks, Noel, Martin Rev, Alan Vega, Ween

Print Run: Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines And Tomorrow's Music Today by Simon Reynolds; Rebel Girl: My Life As A Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna; Neu Klang: The Definitive History Of Krautrock by Christoph Dallach; Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis And Free Jazz, From Analog To Digital by Michael Veal; The World Got Away: A Memoir by Mikel Rouse

On Screen: Matt Stephenson & Alan Jones Burning Bridges: The Story Of Paul Burwell

On Location: Badhead Festival, Shenzhen, China; Roadburn, Tilburg, Netherlands; Elaine Mitchener, London, UK; Robert Ashley's Foreign Experiences, New York, US; Moers Festival, Moers, Germany; Long Play Festival, New York, US; Blurt, London, UK; Chicago Jazz String Summit 2024, Chicago, US; Bristol New Music, Bristol, UK; Long Play: Sam Prekop & John McEntire + Kate NV + The Soft Pink Truth, New York, US; Lanark Artefax, London, UK

On Site: brecht fragments, London, UK

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

A R Kane: The dreampop originators return with an archival retrospective, live performances - and a brand new line-up. By Simon Reynolds

Intermodulation: A hidden history of UK electroacoustic experimentation is told via an extensive new reissue. By Julian Cowley

Cuntroaches: Berlin's experimental noise punks tap into the sounds of the sewer. By Claire Biddles

Sun Yizhou: Beijing improvisors explore the appliance of science with household objects in everyday locations. By Daryl Worthington

Invisible Jukebox: Sun Araw: Will Cameron Stallones feel the warm glow of The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Emily Pothast

Global Ear: Taiwanese capital Taipei is a hub for psychedelic travellers from across South East Asia. By James Gui

Unlimited Editions: Brussels 7" specialists Les Disques Lexi are living the single life. By Claire Biddles

The Inner Sleeve: Composer and sound artist Rojin Sharafi on Duma's Duma

Flickers From The Fen: Dungeon synth wizard conjures with the power of folklore. By Louis Pattison

Poppy H: Subterranean smartphone travelogues provide an escape from trauma. By Spenser Tomson

Manja Risti?: The vibrations and currents of the Adriatic remap the idea of Europe. By Derek Walmsley

Epiphanies: Sussan Deyhim finds a good listener in longtime collaborator Richard Horowitz

Print Run: Sonic Faction by Justin Barton, Steve Goodman, Maya B Kronic (Editors); Kill Your Masters: Run The Jewels And The World That Made Them by Jaap van der Doelen; Made In NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music & Salsa's Nuyorican Meanings by Marisol Negron; Instrument Of War: Music And The Making Of America's Soldiers by David Suisman; Look Out! Issue One by The Old Hairdressers; It's Not A Pill I Need But A Sewer To Jump In by Fritz Welch; Asparagus Piss Raindrop by Asparagus Piss Raindrop

On Location: South Bermondsey Festival 2024, London, UK; La Batie, Geneva, Switzerland; Clod Ensemble & Nu Civilisation Orchestra: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady, London, UK; Meakusma, Eupen, Belgium; Pat Thomas, London, UK; AR Kane + Roger Robinson + Jabu, Bristol, UK; Andrew Poppy, London, UK; Unsound 2024, Krakow, Poland; Pharmakon + Kollaps + Lana Del Rabies, London, UK; Another Sky 2024, London, UK; No Bounds, Sheffield & Rotherham, UK; Extended Spaces: Resonant Bodies, Berlin, Germany

On Site: Raven Chacon, Background Music, London, UK

On Screen: Jamie Ross-Hulme Hyper: The Stevie Hyper D Story

Soundcheck: Actress, Adrian de Alfonso, Altered Forms Trio, Hiro Ama, Big'n, The Body, Body Me?a, MF Clarke, Harry Cloud, crys cole, Daufodt, Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom, Ekoplekz, Fennesz, Keeley Forsyth, Limpe Fuchs & Mark Fell, Furze, God Bullies, Gong Gong Gong & Mong Tong, Hair And Space Museum, Glynn Heppenstall, Philip Jeck, Karate, Laibach, Meemo Comma, Ava Mendoza, Mauricio Moquillaza, Mordant Music, Oranssi Pazuzu, Papa M, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Red Brut, Klaus Schulze, Slomo, SO SNER, J Spaceman & John Coxon, Pat Thomas, Thumbscrew, The Unthanks, Weird Of Mouth, Simon Whetham, YATTA, Various Waho Kizani
The Columns: Avant Rock by Joseph Stannard; Critical Beats by Misha Farrant; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Leah Kardos; Global by Francis Gooding; Jazz & Improv by Bill Meyer;
Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Emily Pothast; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Dennis Bovell, John Cale, Can, cLOUDDEAD, MF DOOM, High Rise, Norman McLaren, Anthony Moore, Les Rallizes Denudes, Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi, Maj & Gunnar Sonstevold, Meredith L Young-Sowers

Notes: Inside the new issue:

2024 Rewind: the Year in Underground Music

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

Let The Rhythm Hit Em: dream attack. By Drew Daniel

Coming Around Again: feedback with a vengeance. By Daryl Worthington

All Ears: taken aurally. By Louise Gray

Soldering On: analogue logic. By Deborah Nash

Perfect Sound Forever: compact discussions. By John Brien

YATTA: the New York based artist fuses noise, pop and improv with a spiritual sensibility. By Stephanie Phillips

Music Ex Machina: the epic history of algorithmic music is surveyed at a new exhibition in Lausanne. By Robert Barry

Bridget Hayden: the Vibracathedral Orchestra member swaps free rock for folk on a stark new album. By Lucy Thraves

Invisible Jukebox: Pat Thomas: will the pianist and improvisor have a grand time with The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Seymour Wright

Global Ear: Zurich: The peripatetic noise scene resists gentrification in Switzerland's biggest city. By Elia Brulhart

Unlimited Editions: Tape label Strategic Tape Reserve prepares to fail. By Antonio Poscic

The Inner Sleeve: Pamela Z on Robert Rauschenberg's Talking Heads cover

Sakina Abdou: Ground and improvisation. By Stewart Smith

Oranssi Pazuzu: Mutant metal. By Derek Walmsley

Black Rain: Neo-Neuromancer. By Phil Freeman

Michael J Schumacher: Living space sounds. By Kurt Gottschalk

Epiphanies: Rafael Toral learns that music is the boss

In the review sections:

Soundcheck: Michaela Antalova, Adrian Myhr, Arashi & Takeo Moriyama, Tyler Bates, BEAM SPLITTER + Phil Minton, Conal Blake/Regan Bowering/Li Song, Nicolas Carcavilla, Alvin Curran, Greg Davis, Degradation x Iceman Junglist Kru, Diemajin, Beatrice Dillon, Tashi Dorji, eat-girls, Fievel Is Glauque, Niklas Fite & Gunter Christmann, Full Of Hell & Andrew Nolan, Pascal Gaigne, Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Gebru/Maya Dunietz, Fuubutsushi, The Haunting, Daniela Huerta, Hungry Ghosts, Jana Irmert, Kyosaku, Kendrick Lamar, Matilde Meireles, Abdullah Miniawy, Iker Munduate, NET GALA, Other Light Ensemble, Perila, Bogdan Raczynski, Raffertie, George Rayner-Law, Stonecirclesampler, The Residents, Mariam Rezaei, Crystabel Efemena Riley, Colin Self, Rojin Sharafi, Patrick Shiroishi, Patrick Shiroishi/Alex Reviriego/Vasco Trilla, Sulla Lingua, Titi & Ale Hop, TRAINING + Ruth Goller, Toshiya Tsunoda & Taku Unami, Tungu, Usage/Efficiency/Variance/Platform/Domain, Various Tempat Angker: Horror Movie OSTs & Sound FX From Indonesia (1971-2015)

The Columns: Avant Rock by Tony Rettman; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Spenser Tomson; Hiphop & R&B by Richard Stacey; Jazz & Improv by Daniel Spicer; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: The Apostles; Don Cherry & Okay Temiz; Clannad; Patrick Cowley; Miles Davis; Bryan Ferry; Jimi Hendrix; Catherine Christer Hennix; The High Llamas; Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10; Hypnosonics; The Jazzmen; Phil Manzanera; The Orb; Primitive Art Group; Rudimentary Peni; Throbbing Gristle; McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson; Various Electro Throwdown: Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack On Planet Earth 1982-89

Print Run: Solid Foundation: An Oral History Of Reggae by David Katz; Ultra-red: A Journal Of Militant Sound Inquiry, Vol 1 edited by Dont Rhine, David Albright & Christina Sanchez Juarez; Ghost Of An Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror And The Spectre Of Nostalgia by Williams Burns; Cardiacs: A Big Book And A Band And The Whole World Window by Aaron Tanner; Bodies Of Sound: Becoming A Feminist Ear edited by Irene Revell & Sarah Shin; Sideways Through Time: An Oral History Of Hawkwind In The 1970s: Revised & Expanded by Joe Banks; Straight Up, Without Wings, The Musical Flight Of Joe McPhee by Joe McPhee

On Location: Meredith Monk, New York, US; Mary Lattimore + Walt McClements, London, UK; Sonica 2024, Glasgow, UK; Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donaueschingen, Germany; Wooley/Vandermark/Lytton, London, UK; Out.Fest, Barreiro, Portugal; Ska?u Mess, Riga, Latvia; Artifacts Trio, London, UK; Semibreve, Braga, Portugal; The Lappetites + Ipek Odaba?i & Ignaz Schick, Berlin, Germany; Wadada Leo Smith/Raven Chacon, New York, US; Beatrice Dillon, London, UK; Ghosted, London, UK.

On Site: Terry Adkins, Disclosure, London, UK; Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea; Scott Myles, Head In A Bell, Glasgow, UK.

On Screen: Jeremy Marre Konkombe - The Nigerian Pop Music Scene.

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Tomeka Reid: The cellist, composer, improvisor and band leader goes from strength to strength across several creative projects. By Stewart Smith

KMRU: The Kenyan sound artist finds a new mode of listening on his collaboration with Kevin Martin. By Ilia Rogatchevski

Bodies In Motion: Dance and music collide in the creative worlds of Malik Nashad Sharpe, NWAKKE and Bianca Scout. By Emily Bick and Misha Farrant

Gordan: Folk songs of the Balkans plug into noise and industrial currents in this cross-continental trio. By Abi Bliss

Tongue In The Mind: DJ and conceptualist Juliana Huxtable joins forces with Jealous Orgasm and Via App to rock the club. By Claire Biddles

Invisible Jukebox: Karl Bartos: Will the ex-Kraftwerk man have more fun computing The Wire's mystery record collection? Tested by Leah Kardos

Global Ear: Serbia's capital Belgrade is a key hub of East-West musical exchange. By Robert Rigney

Unlimited Editions: Notice Recordings

Unofficial Channels: A Moon Age Daydream

The Inner Sleeve: Alison Cotton on John Cale & Terry Riley's Church Of Anthrax

Nick Dunston: Afro-surrealist anti-opera from the heart of Berlin's new music community. By Peter Margasak

Nika Son: From concrete sounds to intermediate states with the Hamburg sound artist. By Louise Gray

Henry Birdsey: Myths and mysteries in New England nurture another style of country music. By Milos Hroch

Sisso & Maiko: Making a singeli and dance in East Africa's cutting edge club music scene. By Joshua Minsoo Kim

Epiphanies: Roulette artistic director Jim Staley's Berlin army adventures prime him for the Downtown NYC scene

Soundcheck: Actress, Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin, Karl Bartos, Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das, John Cale, Coffin Prick, Coffin Pricks, Loren Connors & Chris Cochrane, Chris Corsano, Darkthrone, d'Eon, Taylor Deupree, Dirty Three, JPA Falzone, Final, Mabe Fratti, Limpe Fuchs, FUJI|||||||||||TA, Alastair Galbraith, Miha Gantar, Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes, Ghostface Killah, Goden, Liam Hockley, HYPER GAL, Iceboy Violet & Nueen, Arushi Jain, Janel & Anthony, Kaelan Mikla & Bardi Johannsson, Kronos Quartet & Friends, Lanark Artefax, The Lemon Twigs, Low Leaf, Raymond MacDonald, Rob Mazurek, Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra/Small Unit, The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis, Annelies Monsere, Michael Morley, Michael Morley & Joachim Nordwall, Multiples, David Murray Quartet, Meshell Ndegeocello, NikNak, QOA, Redd Kross, The Righteous Yeah, Sarke, Shackleton & Six Organs Of Admittance, Shellac, Squid Pisser, Star Splitter, Sumac, Sun Ra, Kavus Torabi, The Utopia Strong, Ulcerate, Upright Forms, Sam Wilkes/Craig Weinrib/ Dylan Day, Winter

The Boomerang: Bad Brains, Ernest Berk, Broadcast, Elton Dean's Unlimited Saxophone Company, Laibach, Photek, Royal Trux, Akio Suzuki, Various In The Beginning There Was Rhythm

Print Run: Rhythm In Nature: An Ecology Of Rhythm by Susie Ibarra; Streaming Music, Streaming Capital by Eric Drott; The Musician As Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde 1958-1978 by Michael Gallope; Terrible Freedom: The Life And Work Of Lucia Dlugoszewski by Amy C Beal; In The Brewing Luminous: The Life And Music Of Cecil Taylor by Philip Freeman; Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk And Fanzines In Britain, 1976-88 by Matthew Worley; A Worm's Eye View From A Bird's Beak by Raven Chacon

On Screen: Gary Hustwit Eno

On Location: Rewire, The Hague, Netherlands; Jehst + Confucius MC + Sleazy F Baby + SINDYSMAN, Manchester, UK; Variations Festival, Nantes, France; eavesdropping, London, UK; Jeff Mills, Tokyo, Japan; Charles Curtis, London, UK; Kim Gordon, New York, US; Sonic Protest, Paris, France; Jlin, London, UK; Syphen, London, UK; Sonica Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia

On Site: John Wynne, The Organ Recital, London, UK; Massimo Bartolini with Caterina Barbieri/Gavin Bryars/Kali Malone, Due Qui/To Hear, Venice, Italy; Caterina Barbieri/Gigi Masin/Courtesy Gamble/ Opium Child, The Imaginary Place, Venice, Italy

Notes: Inside our brand new issue:

Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on new album PLEASE COME TO ME. By Emily Pothast

Louis Laurain: The French cornettist cooks up fresh brass constructions on new album C(or)N(e)T. By Clive Bell

Caxtrinho: The Brazilian guitarist maps Rio's outer regions through his dense, cubist songwriting. By Derek Walmsley

Able Noise: The European duo forge meticulous deconstructions of rock's conventions. By Abi Bliss

Polonius: Soundtracking the imagination. By Milos Hroch

Macie Stewart: Moving staircases. By Peter Margasak

Chris Cundy: Wild flowers. By Julian Cowley

Invisible Jukebox: Lydia Lunch: Will the no wave legend get jerked around by The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Claire Biddles

Unlimited Editions: Pointless Geometry explores every angle of the Polish underground scene. By Daryl Worthington

The Inner Sleeve: Jules Reidy on Chris Abrahams's Play Scar

Global Ear: Tijuana's Static Discos label sits at the crossroads of electronica in the Americas

Against The Grain: In a new opinion column, George Rayner-Law argues folk music has always been an act of storytelling

Epiphanies: Sachiko M experiences a creative reboot at a European festival

Soundcheck: Ambrose Akinmusire, Marshall Allen, aya, Pierre Bastien & Louis Laurain, Mari Boine, Califone, Xhosa Cole, Daimon, Richard Dawson, Dream Brigade, DSR Lines, Hugues Dufourt/Marilyn Nonken/NYU Contemporary Orchestra, David Edren, Lawrence English, Nina Garcia, General Magic, Golem Mecanique, Phillip Golub, Darin Gray/Pak Yan Lau/Steve Noble/Alan Wilkinson, Keiji Haino & Jun Morita, Keiji Haino & Natsuki Tamura, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions, Tim Hecker, Immersion & Suss, Jones Rowden, Jacob Kirkegaard, Cindy Lee, Edvard Graham Lewis, James Brandon Lewis Trio, Damon Locks, Mike Majkowski, Joe McPhee, numun, Orion Music Workshop, Maja Osojnik, Charlemagne Palestine & Seppe Gebruers, Han-earl Park/Lara Jones/Pat Thomas, Park Jiha, Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey, Rangers, Rattle, Peter Rehberg, Jules Reidy, Jules Reidy & Andrea Belfi, The Residents, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Zach Rowden & Laurentju Co?ac, Bruce Russell & Thierry Monnier via Fermata Ark, Saint Etienne, Shelter & Orion with Turner Williams Jr, Sunfear, Sun Ra Arkestra, The Third Circle, Tone Vitmn C, Alex Ward/Dominic Lash/Mark Sanders, Wardruna, Die Wilde Jagd & Metropole Orkest, Nate Wooley, Raed Yassin

The Columns: Avant Rock by Edwin Pouncey; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Steph Kretowicz; Global by Francis Gooding; Hiphop & R&B by Mosi Reeves; Jazz & Improv by Stewart Smith; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Robbie Basho; Peter Brotzmann/John Edwards/Steve Noble/Jason Adasiewicz; Marilyn Crispell; Dub Syndicate; You Ishihara; Annette Peacock; Gianfranco Reverberi; Terre Thaemlitz; Various Bonus Beats: Rare & Unreleased Finnish Electro 1990-2002

Print Run: A Year Of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores For Pauline Oliveros edited by Stephanie Loveless; I Feel Famous: Punk Diaries 1977-1981 by Angela Jaeger; Forever Changes: The Authorized Biography Of Arthur Lee & Love by John Einarson; Peter Jefferies: The Other Side Of Reason by Andrew Schmidt; RAMM:?LL:Z?? (Racing For Thunder) edited by Maxwell Wolf & Jeff Mao; Semi-Conducting: Rambles Through The Post-Cagean Thicket by Nicholas Collins; Olivier Messiaen: A Critical Biography by Robert Sholl

On Screen: Scanner: Harry Smith At 100; Eva Aridjis Fuentes Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives Of Q Lazzarus

On Location: Lord Spikeheart + bela, London, UK; DJ Haram, Leeds, UK; GIOfest XVI: International Festival Of Improvisation, Glasgow, UK; London Contemporary Music Festival 2024, London, UK; Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, UK; Han Bennink, London, UK; Le Guess Who?, Utrecht, Netherlands; Unsound New York, New York, US; Arika Episode 11, Glasgow, UK; Jazzfest Berlin 2024, Berlin, Germany; Lunchmeat Festival, Prague, Czech Republic; Another Subculture: Attempting Something, London, UK; Always, Already There: An Incubator For Afrodiasporic New Music, Berlin, Germany

On site: Mike Kelley, Ghost And Spirit, London, UK; Andrew Chalk, Dreams Unseen, Manchester, UK

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Shellac: The US noise rock survivors are hard as rails on long awaited new album To All Trains. By Emily Pothast

Arnold Dreyblatt: The Berlin based composer unwinds with the rich overtones of The Orchestra Of Excited Strings. By Peter Margasak

Dreyblatt on disc: Peter Margasak selects choice recordings from the composer's catalogue, from the early 1980s to the present day

Robyn's Rocket: Trumpeter, mentor and activist Robyn Steward nurtures an anything goes ethos at her inclusive events. By Clive Bell

Zoh Amba: The US saxophonist has forged friendships with Chris Corsano and Farida Amadou in the fire of free music. By Stewart Smith

Invisible Jukebox: Iceboy Violet: Can the Manchester MC/producer keep their cool when faced with The Wire's mystery record collection? Tested by Claire Biddles

Unlimited Editions: Ipecac. By Joseph Stannard

Unofficial Channels: MusicRepublic & Moroccan Tape Stash. By Levi Dayan

The Inner Sleeve: Kai Fagaschinski on The Jimmy Giuffre 3

Global Ear: Berlin choir A Song For You create a safe space for marginal voices in the German capital. By Caroline Whiteley

Kalia Vandever: The New York trombonist sounds the horn for political resistance. By Abi Bliss

Antti Vauhkonen: The Finnish player's universal music runs from trance to Trane. By Francis Gooding

Marion Cousin: Iberian folk song is an anticapitalist escape for the French singer. By Derek Walmsley

Normil Hawaiians: The long awaited return of the roving ranters. By Louis Pattison

Epiphanies: Tashi Wada changes his tuning with the help of Jean-Philippe Rameau

Soundcheck: 9T Antiope, AMM All-Stars, Kee Avil, Marco Baldini, Beings, bela, Olivia Block, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy/Nathan Salsburg/Tyler Trotter, British Murder Boys, Tony Conrad & Jennifer Walshe, Rhodri Davies, E, Ecovillage, Einsturzende Neubauten, Jessica Ekomane/Laurel Halo, Nomi Epstein, Myriam Gendron, Beth Gibbons, Griffure, The Handover, Ilios, Eiko Ishibashi, Jawnino, KRM & KMRU, Christina Kubisch & Trondheim Voices, Lolina, Kevin Richard Martin, Mdou Moctar, Elaine Mitchener, Paul Newland, Normil Hawaiians, Mary Ocher, Paul Paccione, Pollution Opera, Vince Pope, Tomeka Reid Quartet, Saint Abdullah & Eomac, Sandwell District, Greg Saunier, Dave Schoepke, Il Sogno Del Marinaio, Still House Plants, Tristan & Titania, Universal Cell Unlock, Fay Victor/Herbie Nichols SUNG, Jim White, Jim White & Marisa Anderson, Xasthur, Various Creiriau Y Delyn Rawn/Relics Of The Horsehair Harp, Various FUNK.BR: Sao Paulo

The Boomerang: Cannonball Adderley, The Amboy Dukes, Christer Bothen, Gastr Del Sol, Howlround, Yusef Lateef, Machi Oul Big Band, Septet Matchi-Oul, Cukor Bila Smer?, These Immortal Souls, Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, Various Arthur Baker Presents Breaker's Revenge: Original B-Boy And B-Girl Breakdance Classics 1970-1984, Various Someone Like Me

Print Run: Conversation Epistolaire/ Epistolary Discussion by Patrick Chamoiseau & William Parker; Let The Music Play: How R&B Fell In Love With 80s Synths by Steven Vass; The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955-1979) by Jon Savage; Truckload Of Art: The Life And Work Of Terry Allen by Brendan Greaves; Chronologies Of Creamcake Edited by Steph Kretowicz; Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life by Richard King; Be Glad For The Song Has No Ending: An Incredible String Band Compendium (Revised And Expanded Edition) edited by Adrian Whitaker

On Screen: In-Edit Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

On Location: Ceasefire Now!, Berlin, Germany; Borealis, Bergen, Norway; Fever Ray, London, UK; 20 Years Of Hyperdub, London, UK; Celebrating 90 Years: Christian Wolff, New York, US; Assembly, London, UK; MaerzMusik, Berlin, Germany; Sarah Angliss: Giant, London, UK; Women From Space, Toronto, Canada; Moor Mother, London, UK; Composer Joseph Daley At 75, New York, US; Free Movements: Equinox, London, UK

On Site: Terry Fox, All These Different Things Are Sculpture, New York, US; Andrew Pierre Hart, Bio-Data Flows And Other Rhythms - A Local Story, London, UK

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

aya: New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical tunings and transformed instruments. By Chal Ravens

Satch Hoyt: The one-time Burnt Sugar member's Un-Muting project opens museum archives of stolen instruments. By Francis Gooding

Ailie Ormston: The Glasgow composer moves away from the conservatoire to conduct the sounds of the city. By Abi Bliss

Joke Lanz: At 60 years old the Swiss improvisor still takes a punk approach to the turntable. By Daniel Spicer

Bios Contrast: Kolkata musician Nilotpal Das cooks up the concept of brahmancore. By Misha Farrant

Laura Cocks: Chamber music is the site of connection for the flautist. By Stewart Smith

MIC: Grime provides the setting for sci-fi storytelling in the hands of the London MC. By Lucy Thraves

John King: The composer playing the blues for Palestine's lost communities. By Kurt Gottschalk

Tran Duy Uc: The Vietnamese multidisciplinary artist curates the self-scape. By Daryl Worthington

Invisible Jukebox: Alvin Curran: Will the Musica Elettronica Viva member read maritime rites over The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Julian Cowley

Unlimited Editions: Meticulous design and sonics dovetail in New York new music label Greyfade. By Philip Watson

The Inner Sleeve: Seymour Wright on Anne Gillis's Lxgrin

Against The Grain: VAN magazine Editor Hugh Morris can't stand that jazzy sensation

Epiphanies: Surgeon gets all cut up by William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin

Soundcheck: Actress, Ahmed Ag Kaedy & Will Guthrie, Annie A, Peter Baumann, Lea Bertucci & Olivia Block, Biollante, Daniel Blumberg, Pierre Borel, Brutal Shift, Brutal Shift/Solar Yolk, Florence Cats, CBZK, Circuit Des Yeux, Anla Courtis Ja Lehtisalo, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Holger Czukay, Bryn Davis, Dead Pioneers, Divide And Dissolve, Dromedaries x Alexoteric, Dushume, Eska, Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, The Great Learning Orchestra, Hieroglyphic Being, History Dog, William Hooker, William Hooker with David S Ware & Alan Braufman, HxH, Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals, Chris Jonas, Fergus Jones, Kid Spatula, Kinski, Das Koolies, Ed Kuepper & Jim White, Laibach, The Steve Lehman Trio & Mark Turner, Mclusky, Me, Claudius, Roger Clark Miller, Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Nahja Mora, Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas, Neptunian Maximalism, The Orchestra Of Futurist Noise Intoners Directed by Luciano Chessa, Anthony Pateras, Lucy Railton, Lee Ranaldo & Michael Vallera, Gryphon Rue, Laila Sakini, Kim Salmon & Masami Kawaguchi, Klaus Schulze, Slow Reading Club & Charlie Usher, Ches Smith, Sumac & Moor Mother, Neil Tennant/Mark Springer/Sacconi String Quartet, Throwing Muses, Penelope Trappes, William Tyler, Use Knife, Whatever The Weather, Various Soon I'll Run Out Of Air

The Columns: Avant Rock by Antonio Poscic; Critical Beats by Joe Muggs; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Leah Kardos; Global by Francis Gooding; Hiphop & R&B by Tim Fish; Jazz & Improv by Phil Freeman; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Emily Pothast; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Paul Bley, Paul Bley Trio, Stanley Cowell, The Creation, Q Lazzarus, Kali Malone, Pentangle, Steve Reich, Charlie Rouse, Royal Trux, Pharoah Sanders, Charles Tolliver's Music Inc, Various Strata-East: The Legacy Begins

Print Run: Hating Jazz: A History Of Its Disparagement, Mockery, And Other Forms Of Abuse by Andrew S Berish; Mood Machine: The Rise Of Spotify And The Cost Of The Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly; Black Mystery School Pianists And Other Writings by Matthew Shipp; Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman; Small Town Joy: From Glam Rock To Hyperpop: How Queer Music Changed The Sound Of Scotland by Carrie Marshall; Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal edited by Erin Christoval; The Sound Of Utopia: Musicians In The Time Of Stalin by Michel Krielaars (translated by Jonathan Reeder); Dmitry Shostakovich And Music For Stalinist Cinema (1936-1953) by Joan Titus; Blank Forms 10: Alien Roots: Eliane Radigue edited by Lawrence Kumpf & Charles Curtis

On Screen: Dietmar Post Mona Mur In Conversation; Jean-Cosme Delaloye Desire: The Carl Craig Story; Marie Losier Peaches Goes Bananas

On Location: Jules Reidy + Nina Garcia + Adam Soper, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Hekla + Dave Welder, London, UK; Sachiko M & Annette Krebs + Chris Pitsiokos & Axel Dorner, Berlin, Germany; Mamboat, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Come Back, London, UK; Borealis, Bergen, Norway; Ghais Guevara, London, UK; Sonics 25, Hastings, UK; 160 Unity: RP Boo + DJ Spinn + Kode9 + Big Dope P, London, UK; Experiments in Opera, New York, US; CTM, Berlin, Germany

On Site: Joy Boy, A Tribute To Julius Eastman, Aalst, Belgium; Leigh Bowery!, London, UK; Outlaws: Fashion Renegades Of 80s London, London, UK

Notes: Inside this brand new issue:

Marshall Allen: The Arkestra's legendary guiding light celebrates his century with his very first solo album. By John Morrison

Once Upon A Time In Vilnius: The journey of avant rock trailblazers IVTKYGYG embodies the tensions and creative fire of a reborn Lithuania. By Ilia Rogatchevski

Water Damage: Don't mess with Austin, Texas's shapeshifting drone rock network. By Milos Hroch

Frank Chickens: Kazuko Hohki's ninja warriors celebrate four decades of iconoclastic performance. By Claire Biddles

Invisible Jukebox: Pharmakon: Will The Wire's mystery record collection prove a Bestial Burden for Margaret Chardiet? Tested by James Gormley

Global Ear: The Bolderaja venue reaches back to Riga's underground past. By Daryl Worthington

Unlimited Editions: Avant garde language games with the Reading Group label. By David Grundy

The Inner Sleeve: Eleni Poulou on The Electric Family: Mariopaint - The 12 Inch

Seo: Bedroom beats from Lagos. By Joe Muggs

Callahan & Witscher: Experimental music colleagues burst into song. By Daniel Neofetou

Kamilya Jubran: The Palestinian oudist shifts scales and pitches to keep up the resistance. By Jo Hutton

Epiphanies: Working in Bob Moog's studio inspired David Borden to develop new capabilities for synthesizers

The Wire Tapper 66: A track-by-track guide to this issue's free CD

Print Run: Sonic Faction by Justin Barton, Steve Goodman & Maya B Kronic (Editors); 1967: How I Got There And Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock; The Shell Is A Cell by Daniel O'Sullivan; Music From Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes From Mythical Beings, Hidden Worlds, And Other Curious Sources by Doug Skinner; Future Jaw-Clap: The Primitive Art Group And Braille Collective Story by Daniel Beban; American Drummers 1959-1988 by Val Wilmer

On Location: AN(8)X Festival, Berlin, Germany; Seefeel, London, UK; Nkisi, London, UK; Blow Out 2024, Oslo, Norway; CS + Kreme, London, UK; Rally, London, UK; Nourished By Time + Thredd, London, UK; Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force, London, UK; Einsturzende Neubauten, London, UK; Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK; thingNY, Brooklyn, US

On Site: Community Of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists In The US, 1960s-1970s, Philadelphia, US

On Screen: Ergo Phizmiz The Madonna Of Bedminster

Soundcheck: Felicia Atkinson, BARK!, Blood Incantation, Tim Bowness, The Bug, BuNuel, Carducci Bros, Butcher/Davies/Edwards/Sanders/Thomas, John Butcher/Angharad Davies/Mark Sanders/Pat Thomas, Corsano Balza Watt Trio, Li Daiguo & Liang YiYuan, Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal, Kai Fagaschinski & Yan Jun, FaithNYC, Fictional Souvenirs, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Harvestman, Hawksmoor, HLM38, Immersion, Kassel Jaeger, Darius Jones, Alma Laprida, LEWISPYBEY, LL Cool J, MC5, Dan Melchior, Moin, Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co, The Necks, MJ O'Neill, Opeth, People Like Us, Pharmakon, Rakim, Jules Reidy, Robyn Rocket & People You May Of Heard Of, Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey, Sarine, Sculpture, Shovel Dance Collective, Shunt Resistor & The L-13 Light Industrial Orchestra, SOPHIE, Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Standing Stones featuring Alasdair Roberts, Stick In The Wheel, Storm Corrosion, Yasmin Williams, Various Alley Of The Sun, Various Redline Impact

The Columns: Avant Rock by Noel Gardner, Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker, Electronics by Sam Davies, Hiphop & R&B by Tim Fish, Jazz & Improv by Andy Hamilton, Modern Composition by Julian Cowley, Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings, Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: William Basinski, Bedouin Ascent, Michele Bokanowski, Sandy Bull, Dorothy Carter, Ron Geesin, Alan Lamb, Chico Mello & Helinho Brandao, Vincent Price, Lee Underwood

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitsusha figurehead keeps pushing into rock's outer limits. By James Hadfield.

The Primer: John Butcher: A user's guide to the saxophone innovator, from groups and collaborations to solo meditations. By Seymour Wright

Seppuku Pistols: Danko Iida's anarchic performance troupe brings together the legacy of punk with Japanese pre-history. By Biba Kopf

Shamica Ruddock: Dub echoes and sonic fictions evoke postcolonial and diasporic experience in the work of the London artist. By Esi Eshun

Invisible Jukebox: Wolfgang Voigt: Will the Kompakt founder prove a Total success with The Wire's mystery selection? Tested by Derek Walmsley

Global Ear:The psychedelic jams of Buzz'Ayaz unite the divided city of Nicosia. By Robert Rigney

Unlimited Editions: Nashazphone connects the global noise underground with North African sounds. By Louis Pattison

The Inner Sleeve: Celine Gillain on Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man

Jabu: Bristol's bass explorers reach dreampop nirvana. By Louis Pattison

Gregory TS Walker: A forgetten suite for planetariums is a celestial trip. By Claire Biddles

Viktar Siamaska: Improvisation and the airwaves provide solidarity for this Belarusian exile. By Ilia Rogatchevski

Epiphanies: Mark Webber has his mind expanded by Spacemen 3

Print Run: The Chronicles Of DOOM: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast by SH Fernando Jr; Designed For Success: Better Living And Self-Improvement With Midcentury Instructional Records by Janet Borgerson & Jonathan Schroeder; Pressure Drop: Reggae In The Seventies by John Masouri; A Record Could Be Your Whole World by Bruce Russell & Luke Wood (Editors); Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts In Dr John's Gris-Gris by David Toop; Jazz Revolutionary: The Life And Music Of Eric Dolphy by Jonathon Grasse; I Wouldn't Say It If It Wasn't True by Steve Wynn

On Screen: Dimitri Coats Free LSD; Ryusuke Hamaguchi GIFT

On Location: Cherche Encore, London, UK; Chuquimamani-Condori + Sunik Kim, London, UK; Mdou Moctar & Lia Kohl, Chicago, US; LCMF, Nice, France; Jandek, Rosendale, US; Supernormal, Oxfordshire, UK; Dark Energy, London, UK; Shame Fest, Vancouver, Canada; Desertfest London, London, UK; Jazz Em Agosto, Lisbon, Portugal; Heroines Of Sound, Berlin, Germany

On Site: blurt, London, UK; Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom & Harun Morrison Dono, London, UK

Soundcheck: The Brainchild, Acid Mothers Reynols, Alaska & Steel Tipped Dove, Actress & Simon J Karis, Timothy Archambault, Nelson Bandela, Basic, Chat Pile, Chrystabell & David Lynch, Gerald Cleaver, Lukas De Clerck, Copper Sounds, Sarah Davachi, DNA? AND? + NU Unruh + Reynols, Karl D'Silva, Wendy Eisenberg, Elucid, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten (Exit) Knarr, Bill Frisell/Andrew Cyrille/ Kit Downes, Zac Gvi & Clive Bell, The Hard Quartet, Hannah Holland, Jabu, JPEGMAFIA, Klein, Knife Liibrary, Lia Kohl, Klara Lewis, Robin Mackay, Mercury Rev, Miaux, Midwife, MXLX, Meshell Ndegeocello, Nexcyia, Daniel O'Sullivan, Ivo Perelman, Ivo Perelman/Iva Bittova/Michael Bisio, Ivo Perelman & gabby fluke-mogul, Ivo Perelman & Ingrid Laubrock, Ivo Perelman/Aruan Ortiz/Ramon Lopez, Ivo Perelman & Tom Rainey, Ivo Perelman/Fay Victor/Joe Morris/Ramon Lopez, Ivo Perelman & Nate Wooley, Nicola Ratti, Tim Reaper & Kloke, Reynols, Ed Schrader's Music Beat, Alan Sparhawk, Sun Araw, DJ Trace & HLZ, Tristwch Y Fenywod, Xiu Xiu, Yellow Swans

The Columns: Avant Rock by Edwin Pouncey; Critical Beats by Yewande Adeniran; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Steph Kretowicz; Global by Francis Gooding; Jazz & Improv by Phil Freeman; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Emily Pothast; Size Matters by Byron Coley

Boomerang: Aphex Twin, Broadcast, Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz, Hella, Ken Ishii, Byard Lancaster, Zden?k Liska, Wayne Shorter, Throbbing Gristle, Susumu Yokota, Frank Zappa

Notes: Inside this issue:

The Body & Dis Fig: Sludge rock and extreme vocals create a space for solidarity and friendship in this cross-continental collaboration. By Antonio Poscic.

Pavel Richter: Tape loops and ambient meditations provided an escape from Czechoslovakia's rock underground. By Milos Hroch

Steve Beresford: UK free improvisation's great survivor reflects on half a century of upending expectations around a clutch of new releases. By Daniel Spicer

Farida Amadou: The electric bassist turns the instrument upside down in search of new sounds. By Stewart Smith

Dialect: Paganism meets hedonism in Andrew PM Hunt's blueprint for a pastoral future. By Abi Bliss

Invisible Jukebox: Melt-Banana: Will the Japanese duo pull a fast one on The Wire's mystery record collection? Tested by James Hadfield

petals: The open remit of free jazz provides the platform for poetic utopias for the Ugandan polymath. By David Grundy

Erica Dawn Lyle: Punk psychogeography and guitar jams interrogate Florida's capitalist excesses. By Xenia Benivolski

Howard Thomas: The horror film fan and Slum Village associate explores the darker side of techno. By Derek Walmsley

Epiphanies: Roy Claire Potter finds the world in a David Foster Wallace story's use of apostrophes

Print Run: Mixing Pop And Politics: A Marxist History Of Popular Music by Toby Manning; Euphoric Recall: A Half Century As A Music Fan, Producer, DJ, Record Executive And Tastemaker by Peter Jesperson; In One Ear: Cocteau Twins, Ivor Raymonde And Me by Simon Raymonde; The Black Chord by David Corio & Vivien Goldman; The Radio Phonics Laboratory: Telecommunications, Speech Synthesis And The Birth Of Electronic Music by Justin Patrick Moore; Library Of Aethers: Selected Lyrics by Alasdair Roberts; The Cupboard Under The Stars by John Balance, Claus Laufenberg (Editor); Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis by Paul Rekret

On Screen: Andrew Reich Born Innocent: The Red Kross Story

On Location: HTRK, London, UK; Tenendo Per Mano Il Futuro, London, UK; Oscillation: Materia Forma, Brussels, Belgium; Sound Within Sound, London, UK; Festival Causa/Efeito, Lisbon, Portugal; Gnaoua & World Music Festival, Essaouira, Morocco; Anthony Moore, London, UK; New Opera Days Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic; Open Ear, Sherkin Island, Ireland; Papermaking Music, London, UK; Motvind Festival, Rollag, Norway

On Site: Lonnie Holley All Rendered Truth, London, UK; Gary Stewart A Ripple In Time, London, UK

Soundcheck: Jessica Ackerley, Laurie Anderson, Bantu, Derek Baron & Luke Martin, Belong, Bloodmist, Patricia Brennan, Laura Cannell, Oliver Coates, Loren Connors & David Grubbs, Jeremiah Cymerman, Rhodri Davies, Dhangsha, Mark Dresser, Elkhorn, Endon, Estle, Floorplan, Gnod, Danny Paul Grody Duo, Sarah Hennies, Holy Tongue meets Shackleton, Human Impact, Eiko Ishibashi/Jim O'Rourke/Giovanni Di Domenico, The Jesus Lizard, Tobias Klein/Frank Rosaly/Marta Warelis, Jussi Lehtisalo, Alan Licht, Erica Dawn Lyle, Meridian Brothers, Jeff Mills, Monolake, Mourning [A] BLKstar, Drew Mulholland & Garden Gate, NicoNote, Frederic D Oberland/Gregory Dargent/Tony Elieh/Wassim Halal, OKSE, Stephen Pastel & Gavin Thomson, Powers/Rolin Duo, Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra, Raphael Rogi?ski, Akira Sakata/Jim O'Rourke/Mette Rasmussen/Chris Corsano

The Columns: Avant Rock by Emily Bick; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Spenser Tomson; Hiphop & R&B by Mosi Reeves; Jazz & Improv by Stewart Smith; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Aerial M, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Joel Chadabe, Diamanda Galas, Keiji Haino, Bobby Hutcherson, Joan Of Arc, Harold Land, Mark Lanegan, Daniel Lentz, MTDM, Tony Oxley Quintet, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Various The Devil Rides In: Spellbinding Satanic Magick & The Rockult 1966-1974, Various Miami Sound 2 - More Funk & Soul From Miami, Florida 1967-1974