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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:

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

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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: Inside this brand new issue:

Irreversible Entanglements: With a new album in the can, the US quintet discuss freedom, community and dismantling the mechanisms of oppression. By Phil Freeman

The Primer: Jazz & Poetry: A user's guide to the ongoing conversation between mighty music and vibrant verse. By David Grundy

Vanishing Twin: The London based art pop trio take a playful approach to retrofuturist psychedelia. By Claire Biddles

Invisible Jukebox: Matana Roberts: The Chicago born musician and multidisciplinary artist faces The Wire's mystery record selection. Tested by Teju Adeleye.

Unlimited Editions: Gin&Platonic

Unofficial Channels: Chocolate Monk Top Tens

Carol Robinson: Clarinet results from the Paris based musician. By Louise Gray

Tom Mudd: Getting algorithmic with the Edinburgh experimentalist. By Stewart Smith

Hearsay: Chicago improvising trio turn the tables. By Bill Meyer

Marina Herlop: Exploring otherworlds with the Catalan composer. By Milos Hroch

Global Ear: Oaxaca A mountain town's brass ensembles celebrate Mexico's Indigenous Mixe culture. By Juan San Cristobal Lizama

The Inner Sleeve: Val Wilmer on Henry Grimes's The Call

Epiphanies: Raphael Rogi?ski on Neopolitan soul

Print Run: A Book Of Noises: Notes On The Auraculous by Caspar Henderson, Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed The Music Industry by Howie Singer & Billy Rosenblatt, Neumusik: The Complete Edition by David Elliott, Happy Trails by Andrew Lauder, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better by Shain Shapiro, Voices Of Nature: How And Why Animals Communicate by Nicolas Mathevon, Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen And Experimental Sound In The Twentieth Century by Sam Dolbear & Esther Leslie

On Screen: CB Stockfleth The Elephant 6 Recording Co

On Site: Free To Improvise: The Derek Bailey Story

On Location: Time Trout + Shark Calmer, Brighton, UK; Intersection Festival, Toronto, Canada; LightSounds, London, UK; Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK; Mutek, Montreal, Canada; Mamoru Fujieda, Melbourne, Australia; Odysseus Festival, Helsinki, Finland; Punkt Festival, Kristiansand, Norway; Blacktronika: Brooklyn, New York, US; Tomorrow Comes The Harvest, London, UK; Ostrava Music Days, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Soundcheck: Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids, Actress, Anagram String Trio, Animal Collective, The Astronauts, Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila, BlankFor.ms/Jason Moran/Marcus Gilmore, Blut Aus Nord, Bolt Ruin, Vilhelm Bromander, Call Super, Datashock, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Dead Neanderthals, AC Diamond, Aaron Diehl & The Knights, Gong, Forbes Graham, The Hatch Expansion, KMRU, KMRU & Abul Mogard, Kofi Flexxx, Piotr Kurek, Lao Dan, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Mahti, Matmos, Joe McPhee/Mette Rasmussen/Dennis Tyfus, Nicole Mitchell & Alexander Hawkins, MXLX, Mary Ocher, The Pitch & Jules Reidy, Raining Spiderlings, Jules Reidy, Mariam Rezaei, Paul Rooney, Rozenhall, Saint Abdullah & Eomac, Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary, Sextile, Shela, Starving Weirdos, Marnie Stern, String Noise Sounds, Taipan Tiger Girls, Umlaut Chamber Orchestra, Virta, WaqWaq Kingdom, Larry Wish, Richard Youngs

The Boomerang: Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, The Chills, Bruce Haack, Keith Jarrett, My Cat Is An Alien, Optiki Mousiki, The Runaways, The Shadow Ring, Tricky, Seymour Wright

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 brand new issue:

The Haxan Cloak: From his bedroom in Wakefield to the City of Angels, the UK born producer, composer and musician talks darkness, light and scoring the unspeakable. By Joseph Stannard

DJ Znobia: The Angolan kuduro innovator relates the invention and evolution of the influential dance style. By April Clare Welsh

Linda Smith: The return of the Baltimore songwriter who amassed a wealth of lo-fi pop in the 1980s and 90s. By Claire Biddles

Ariel Kalma: The electronic music veteran maintains his cosmic trajectory well into his seventies. By Daniel Spicer

Invisible Jukebox Kahil El'Zabar: Will the US bandleader know What It Is! when faced with The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Howard Mandel

Unlimited Editions: Thanatosis Produktion

Unofficial Channels: The Blindboy Podcast

The Inner Sleeve: Teresa Winter on Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha

Global Ear: Santiago Underground resistance in the Chilean capital. By Juan San Cristobal Lizama

Billy Bultheel: Queer cyberaesthetics from the Belgian composer. By Edward Henderson

Lumpeks: Franco-Polish folk jazz fun. By Gabriel Bristow

Yasuhiro Morinaga: Concrete traditionalism from the Japanese sound recordist. By Clive Bell

John Pope: Geordie improv bassist gets communal. By Abi Bliss

Epiphanies: Edward Ka-Spel makes hay with Faust

Print Run: Eric Dolphy by Guillaume Belhomme; Where We Come From: Rap, Home And Hope In Modern Britain by Aniefiok Ekpoudom; Transfigured New York: Interviews With Experimental Artists And Musicians, 1980-1990 by Brooke Wentz; Tokyo Jazz Joints by Philip Arneill with James Catchpole; Hans Reichel: Daxophonie edited by Klaus Untiet & Peter Klassen; Love, Sex & War: Terry Day Lyrics by Terry Day & Blanca Regina (Editor); Split Friction by Birgit Ulher; Trad, Gras Och Stenar: A Collective History by Hakan Agnsater, Mats Eriksson Duner, Jakob Sjoholm & Jonas Stal

On Screen: Daniel Weintraub Deep Listening: The Story Of Pauline Oliveros

On Location: Jazz Rumours, London, UK; Construction Festival, Dnipro, Ukraine; En Masse, Bristol, UK; Mariam Rezaei + Angharad Davies + Atzi Muramatsu + Semay Wu, London, UK; MAVI + Armand Hammer + Fly Anakin, Manchester, UK; Tashi Dorji & Alex Zhang Hungtai, New York, US; Le Guess Who?, Utrecht, Netherlands; Jazzfest Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Other Minds, San Francisco, US; Haunted Dancehall, Dublin, Ireland; Ska?u Mess, Riga, Latvia

On Site: Lutz Bacher AYE!, London, UK; Reynols 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Don Van Vliet, Standing On One Hand, London, UK

Soundcheck: Al Karpenter, Al Karpenter & CIA Debutante, Among The Rocks And Roots, Marc Baron & Mark Vernon, The Body & Dis Fig, Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann, Allison Burik, N Chambers, George Crumb, Dez Dare, Darkspace, Divine Horsemen, Samuel Goff/Camila Nebbia/Patrick Shiroishi, Kim Gordon, Madison Greenstone, Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/ Oren Ambarchi, Mary Halvorson, Hieroglyphic Being, Mark Van Hoen, The Dave Howard Singularity, Anja Huwe, Mayssa Jallad, Jlin, Locust, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Kali Malone, Moor Mother, Dorothy Moskowitz, Naum Gabo, Ov Pain, Gruff Rhys, Laetitia Sadier, Sombat Simla, The Smile, John Surman, Valerio Tricoli, Univers Zero, Mark Vernon, Xmal Deutschland, Various Our Trip Is Short Vol 7

The Boomerang: Fred Anderson Quartet, Electric Sun, Emeralds, Bill Fay Group, Dredd Foole & The Din, FUSE, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Mark McGuire, Microstoria, Sam Morrison, Plastikman, Speedy J, Nisse Sandstr?m Group, Pauline Anna Strom, Techno Animal, Various Fantastic Voyage: New Sounds For The European Canon 1977-1981

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Don & Moki Cherry: An 18 page special surveying the globe-trotting creative achievements of Don Cherry's organic music family by The Wire's crack writing team: Frances Morgan, David Grundy, Howard Mandel, Neil Kulkarni, Francis Gooding, Magnus Nygren, Gabriel Bristow, Bill Meyer, Marcus J Moore, Pierre Crepon, Matt Krefting, Phil Freeman, Emily Pothast, Clifford Allen, Clive Bell and Jo Hutton.

The Pitch: The Berlin improvising collective connect the sonic with the social. By Peter Margasak

Invisible Jukebox: GAIKA: Will The Wire's mystery record selection reduce the London polymath to "Eternal Tears"? Tested by Ciaran Thapar;

Feng Jiangzhou: Experimental rock gets down and dirty in the hands of the Beijing noise veteran. By Anla Li.
Unlimited Editions: Pakapi Records
Unofficial Channels: Ethio-Pain
Aho Ssan: Networking with the Paris based producer. By Antonio Poscic

Powerplant: UK-Ukraine synth punks touch grass. By Spenser Tomson

Janneke van der Putten: Strange overtones from the Dutch vocalist. By Abi Bliss

Global Ear: Sao Paulo: Tape against tradition in the Brazilian metropolis. By Romulo Moraes
The Inner Sleeve:Suzanne Ciani on Glenn Gould/Johann Sebastian Bach's The Goldberg Variations
Epiphanies: John Butcher goes deeper underground

Print Run: Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures Of Early Blues Music by Darryl W Bullock; Stampfel On Weber And The Complete Boston Broadsides 1964-1967 by Peter Stampfel; Conrad Schnitzler: Manchmal Art Es In Musik Aus (Sometimes It Turns Into Music) edited by Gregor Jansen; Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit And The Pandemic by Bill Shoemaker; Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story Of Motor City Music by Joe Molloy; Party Lines: Dance Music And The Making Of Modern Britain by Ed Gillett; Radio Art Zone edited by Sarah Washington

On Screen: Amanda Kim Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV; Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz A Bright Nowhere: Journeying Into Improvisation

On Location: Doon Kanda, London, UK; Heroines Of Sound Festival, Berlin, Germany; Nkisi, London, UK; Disruptive Frequencies, London, UK; Edith Steyer, Berlin, Germany; DJ Sprinkles + Bezier, New York, US; Tomorrow Festival, Shenzhen, China; Ground Music Festival, Brusati, Italy; King Ayisoba + Ayuuna Sale + ZEA, Berlin, Germany; Experiments In Opera: Anthony Braxton Theater Improvisations, New York, US; Causa Efeito: O Novo Jazz Na Nova, Lisbon, Portugal

On Site: Brian Eno & Jir?i? Pr?i?hoda: Nave; Nwando Ebizie: Extreme Unction Vol 2
Soundcheck: DJ 0.000001, Abyss X, Jason Adasiewicz, Aphex Twin, Titi Bakorta, Baldruin, Natasha Barrett, Han Bennink & Terrie Ex, Big Freedia, Blevin Blectum, John Butcher, John Butcher/Dominic Lash/Emil Karlsen, John Butcher/Pat Thomas/ Dominic Lash/Steve Noble, Broken Chip, Kate Carr, The Chap, Ben Chasny & Rick Tomlinson, Coffin Prick, Coral Sea, Alan Courtis & David Grubbs, Darsombra, Angel Bat Dawid, Arnold Dreyblatt, Nick Dunston, DJ Finale, GAIKA, Gerard Grisey/Anders Tveit/NyNorsk Messingkvintett, Laurel Halo, Joshua Hill & Micaela Tobin, Iceboy Violet, Irreversible Entanglements, Mick Jenkins, DJ K, King Kashmere & Alecs DeLarge, Kong, Mary Jane Leach, Ruth Mascelli, Merzbow/Smegma, Million Square, Minaru, MonoLogue & Matt Atkins, MSSV, Normal Nada The Krakmaxter, Nakibembe Embaire Group, Pauline Oliveros, Pauline Oliveros/IONE/Christopher Willes/Public Recordings, Kassa Overall. Pelicanman, Ava Rasti, Seven)Suns, Six Organs Of Admittance, SLW cc Watt, Smegma/Merzbow, DJ Smiley Bobby, Soft-Bodied Humans, Stinking Lizaveta, Ken Vandermark & Hamid Drake, Winkhaus with Steve Beresford, DJ Znobia, Various ?, Various Gespensterland, Various The NID Tapes: Electronic Music From India 1969-1972, Various Red Hot & Ra: Nuclear War, Various Red Hot & Ra: Nuclear War Remixes, Various Smalltown Supersound Remix Anthology 2002-2022 Vol 1-4

The Boomerang: Da Slyme, Dawson, The Dream Syndicate, Mark Fell & Will Guthrie, Lee/Hampel/Waisvisz/Gosseye/Johansson, Max Roach, David Shea, Various Magnetizdat DDR: Magnetbanduntergrund Ost 1979-1990/East German Tape Underground 1979-1990, Various Playing For The Man At The Door: Field Recordings From The Collection Of Mack McCormick, 1958-1971, Various Richard Sen Presents Dream The Dream: UK Techno, House & Breakbeat 1990-1994, Various SSR Records: In Retrospect

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

L'Rain: Taja Cheek's fluid songforms are a kaleidoscopic and personal response to the modern world. By Laina Dawes

Blevin Blectum: Blectum From Blechdom's Bevin Kelley builds brave new worlds from mind-melding sound. By Emily Pothast

Trevor Mathison: The Black Audio Film Collective's sound man rewrites the story of industrial music. By Esi Eshun

Invisible Jukebox: Paul Rooney: Will the Liverpool artist "Stay Polite" in the face of The Wire's mystery music selection? Tested by Richard Thomas

Unlimited Editions: Red Hook Records

Unofficial Channels: DaMetalMessiah

Piotr Kurek: Folk legends feed this Polish composer's imagination. By Milos Hroch

Al Karpenter: Bilbao group spread their noise punk tentacles around the global underground. By James Gormley.

Kate Gentile: Drummer-composer's shape-shifting adventures in metal and cosmic prog. By Stewart Smith.

Minaru: Transatlantic trio share their dreams via surrealistic improvised songs. By Robert Barry.

Global Ear: Beijing: Impromptu spaces provide platforms to a new generation of musicians. By Josh Feola

The Inner Sleeve: People Like Us on Marc & The Mambas' Untitled

Epiphanies: Alvin Curran on Ella Fitzgerald

Print Run: Becoming Noise Music: Style, Aesthetics, History by Stephen Graham; High Bias: The Distorted History Of The Cassette Tape by Marc Masters; Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore; Maps And Legends: The Story Of REM by John Hunter; Listen: On Music, Sounds And Us by Michel Faber; The Dark Tree: Jazz And The Community Arts In Los Angeles by Steven L Isoardi; This Must Be The Place: Music, Community And Vanished Spaces In New York City by Jesse Rifkin

On Screen: Maria Fusco & Margaret Salmon History Of The Present; Clyde Petersen Even Hell Has Its Heroes

On Location: Motvind, Oslo, Norway; Ross Hoyt/Leila Abdul-Rauf/Ryan Honaker/Ed Lloyd + Cecyl Ruehlen + Michael P Dawson + San Kazakgascar, San Francisco, US; Klangraum 2023 Week One, Dusseldorf, Germany; Etran De L'Air, London, UK; Sanatorium Of Sound, Sokolowsko, Poland; Joe McPhee + Decoy, London, UK; A L'Arme! Festival Vol X+I, Berlin, Germany; dj lostboi +Heaven's Night, London, UK; Jazz Em Agosto, Porto, Portugal

On Site: Wolf Biermann: A Poet And Songwriter In Germany, Berlin, Germany

Soundcheck: Abadir, Deena Abdelwahed, Jessica Ackerley/Kevin Cheli/Gahlord DeWald, Jessica Ackerley/Yuma Uesaka/Colin Hinton, Aho Ssan, Siavash Amini, Anti-God Hand, Armand Hammer, Baker Ja Lehtisalo, Bile Sister, Brainiac 5, Jaimie Branch, Peter Broderick & Ensemble 0, Carl 666 Gustaf, Suzanne Ciani & Jonathan Fitoussi, Richie Culver, Giovanni Di Domenico, Dreamcrusher, Lee Gamble, Gunn Truscinski Nace, Loraine James, Darius Jones, Chris Korda, Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo, James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Alvin Lucier, MAW, Elizabeth Moen, MrDougDoug, Oneohtrix Point Never, Paavoharju, Eliane Radigue, Eliane Radigue/Charles Curtis, Eliane Radigue/Ensemble Dedalus/Ryoko Akama, Matana Roberts, Setting, Matthew Shipp, Sparklehorse, Speaker Music, Tu-Ner, Vathres, Wild Up

The Boomerang: Chris & Cosey, Stuart Dempster, John Fahey, Annea Lockwood, Meat Joy, MEV, Native Nod, Pot Valiant, Six Finger Satellite, Sonic Youth, Carl Stone, Techno Animal

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: Inside our brand new issue:

Still House Plants: London's post-post-punk trio use deconstructed songform to tap emotions others cannot reach. By Frances Morgan

FUJI|||||||||||TA: Pulling out the stops with homemade pipe organs. By Antonio Poscic

Cheer-Accident: Thymme Jones's motley crew of Chicago outsiders flip the conventions of the rock band. By Peter Margasak

Lolina: One half of influential duo Hype Williams explores a comic book dystopia in new project Unrecognisable. By Claire Biddles

NikNak: The British musician turns the tables on sound art. By Tayyab Amin

Invisible Jukebox: Kristin Hersh: Will the songwriter and author find her muse in The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Emily Pothast

Unlimited Editions: Tripalium Corp

Unofficial Channels: Billdifferen

Ana Lua Caiano: Portuguese tradition made anew by the musician and audiovisual artist. By Shane Woolman

BBBBBBB: The Japanese trio present their scum manifesto. By James Hadfield

Fatboi Sharif: The Garden State Gargoyle raps a dance of the macabre. By Joseph Stannard

Angelica Sanchez: A set of monster jams from the East Coast pianist. By Stewart Smith

The Inner Sleeve: Lee Gamble on Various Artists' Decay Product

Epiphanies: Jlin maximises her creative potential with Philip Glass

Soundcheck: [Ahmed], Ancine, Andrea & Mud, Maria Bertel Et Nina Garcia, Alan Braufman, Anthony Braxton, Kyle Bruckman, Natalia Cappa, John Carpenter/Cody Carpenter/Daniel Davies, Cheer-Accident, Clarissa Connelly, Anastasia Coope, Viv Corringham, Alison Cotton, Couch Slut, Richie Culver, Elkhorn & Mike Gangloff, Phil Geraldi, Carlos Giffoni, Allen Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg & Youth, Grackles, groundsound, Liz Helman, Julia Holter, Jack O'The Clock, Goran Kajfes Tropiques, Kowloon Spider Temples, Sean Ono Lennon, Magic Tuber String Band, DJ Marcelle, Melvins, Monopoly Child Nightlife, Monopoly Child, Star Searchers, NOUT, Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, Organum Electronics, OU, Pye Corner Audio, Quiet Husband, Mikel Rouse, Bianca Scout, sinono, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Ches Smith, Kavain Wayne Space & XT, Guido Spannochi, Malini Sridharan, Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Thollem, Thollem & Ka, Thollem/Terry Riley/Nels Cline, tilt, Toadliquor, Alan Tomlinson & Lawrence Casserley, Alan Tomlinson Trio, Kamasi Washington, Larry Wish, Cody Yantis, Zombi, Various Resist Colonial Power By Any Means Necessary

The Boomerang: Amon Duul, As One, Cranes, Curve, Brian Eno, Brian Eno/Holger Czukay/J Peter Schwalm, NRG Ensemble, Pharoah Sanders, Linda Smith, Twelve Cubic Feet, Vile Cherubs, Mars Williams & Hamid Drake, Mars Williams/Darin Gray/Chris Corsano, Bernie Worrell, Bernie Worrell/Cindy Blackman Santana/John King, Various Aceh Punx Compilation, Various Groucho Marxist Record Co.Operative, Various Noise Of Cologne 3, Various Punk KS, Various Trouble Brews: A Belfast Punk Compilation

Print Run: Basta Now: Women, Trans & Non-binary In Experimental Music by Fanny Chiarello; Dream Machines: Electronic Music In Britain From Doctor Who To Acid House by Matthew Collin; Ears To The Ground: Adventures In Field Recording And Electronic Music by Ben Murphy; Ain't It Fun: Peter Laughner & Proto-Punk In The Secret City by Aaron Lange; 20 000 Words: Interviews With Antoine Le Bousse by Sylvain Darrifourcq; Switched On: The Dawn Of Electronic Sound By Latin American Women edited by Luis Alvarado & Alejandra Cardenas; The Future Of Songwriting by Kristin Hersh; Elizabethan Tape Loops by Drew Mulholland; The Notebooks Of Sonny Rollins by Sonny Rollins with Sam VH Reese (Editor)

On Screen: Neo Sora Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus

On Location: Andre 3000, San Francisco, US; Fred Frith & Susana Santos Silva, London, UK; FLEA Presents Random Gear Festival + Rashad Becker + Joanne Robertson + Callahan & Witscher + Nick Malkin, London, UK; Cassie Kinoshi with seed. + NikNak + London Contemporary Orchestra, London, UK; Fortuna 2024, Tokyo, Japan; Charlemagne Palestine, Amsterdam, Netherlands; On An Endless Road: It? Noe And The Women Composers Of Her Time, London, UK; Ustad Noor Bakhsh, London, UK; Glamorous Pharmacy, Shenzhen, China; ML Buch + Astrid Sonne, London, UK; Life After Death, London, UK; Brighde Chaimbeul, London, UK

On Site: Pan Daijing Mute, Munich, Germany; Ginsberg In London, London, UK

Notes: Weird Walk Zine Issue Seven

48 page A5 zine

Printed on high quality PEFC certified recycled stock

With the sun at its lowest ebb, and the night stretching to its longest duration of the year, Weird Walk Issue Seven is offered up as a symbol of the continuing cycle of rot and renewal, death and new life.

Taking inspiration from the woodland, author Nadia Attia explores the folklore surrounding some of Britain's iconic tree species, while leafy associations abound as the Hastings Jack in the Green festival is reflected upon, and the suitably named Verdant Wisdom collective take us through a rural take on dungeon synth music. Elsewhere two mavens of weird walking, Alice Lowe and Benjamin Myers, lead separate quests in two very different locations, each filled with magick and memory.

And if trees can emotionally connect us to the landscape, then so can the old stone monuments that so entrance us; in this issue, phenomenological approaches to ancient sites are explored (and, also, cheese).

Includes photos by Sarah White, Rachel Adams and Freddie Miller.

Notes: The Vinyl Tonic Carbon Fibre Brush has been specially designed to preserve the pristine quality of your cherished records. The brush delicately removes dust and debris, safeguarding your music from unwanted pops and crackles. With its gentle yet effective bristles, the Carbon Fibre Brush ensures a static-free surface, letting you enjoy your vinyl collection. Elevate your listening experience and extend the life of your records with this essential addition to any audiophile's toolkit.

Box contents: 1x carbon fibre brush

Notes: The Vinyl Tonic Carbon Fiber Record Slipmat offers vinyl enthusiasts and DJs a smooth and low-friction surface for seamless record spinning. Crafted with high-quality carbon fiber, it provides excellent grip, reduces noise, and protects your precious vinyl collection. Elevate your turntable experience with this sleek and durable slipmat.

Box contents

1x Carbon Fibre Record Slipmat

Notes: ***B-STOCK: without original box***


This tape head cleaner easily cleans and demagnetizes heads and rollers. It demagnetizes your system by using a spinning magnet, which removes remnant magnetic field or polarity that can distort playback. At the same time, the cleaning tape buffs the heads and rollers. This head cleaner can be used for home, portable and car cassette systems.

Before inserting the Vinyl Styl Audio Cassette Head Cleaner/Demagnetizer into your tape player:

- Apply 5-6 drops of cleaning fluid onto the tape through the slot in the front window
- Insert cassette into your deck
- Press play
- Allow the tape to run until the tape stops
- Remove from deck
- You're done. Sit back and enjoy the music

Package contains:

2 x 20ml bottle of tape head cleaning fluid
1 x Cleaning tape

Review: No, don't worry, Gove and Boris haven't found their way into cosmic disco or twisted acid house....The Conservatives were a brief project for Dutchmen John Scheffer (aka Intergalactic Gary) and Unit Moebius pioneer Ferenc van der Sluijs (aka I-F) around the early 2000s. "Loneliness" was their only single and it still sounds beautiful 13 years later. "Loneliness" is a chunky but altogether trippy slice of what we would now call disco but just called house back then while I-F and Alden Tyrell's remix comes with much more 303 crunch. Well matured and still highly relevant.

Notes: UK Garage Volume 1 features the likes of Casa Trax, Groove Yard, Locked On, Social Circles, Swing City and many more.

Notes: Dubstep Volume 1 features the likes of Boka, Hyperdub, Skull Disco, Tempa, Uprise Audio and many more.

Notes: The Icon Catalogue is a series of small A6 zines profiling 40 record labels in various dance music genres such as Jungle, UK Garage and Dubstep. From the most important labels responsible for the scene's foundations to rare, hard-to-find imprints now defunct, plus a few heavy-hitting newcomers.
Jungle Volume 1 features the likes of Dread, Legend, Moving Shadow, Rugged Vinyl, White House and many more.

Notes: The Icon Catalogue is a series of small A6 zines profiling 40 record labels in various dance music genres such as Drum & Bass, Jungle, UK Garage and Dubstep. From the most important labels responsible for the scene's foundations to rare, hard-to-find imprints now defunct, plus a few heavy-hitting newcomers.

Pages: 44
Size: A6 (10.5cm x 14.8cm)
Binding: Staple bound
Print: Black & white
Authors: Chris Dexta & Alex Immerse

Notes: Following on from his 2021 book, Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back), Oli Freke returns with a Synthesizer Evolution A6 zine series.

The invention of the synthesizer in the 1960s changed musical culture and music production forever, giving musicians whole new worlds of sound to play with. Vintage Synths celebrates that invention and its subsequent history by picking out 46 of the most influential, important or most interesting synths from 1939 - 1998. They represent the introduction of a new technology, had a particular impact, or maybe even formed the basis of entirely new genres.

Explore the most legendary synthesizers ever created, including the Minimoog, ARP 2600, Yamaha DX7, Roland Jupiter 8 and more, with detailed descriptions and the stories behind their development.

Notes: Following on from his 2021 book, Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back), Oli Freke returns with a Synthesizer Evolution A6 zine series.

Drum machines and samplers have something of a shared history and this zine celebrates their invention and by picking out 46 of the most influential, important or most interesting synths from 1949 - 1996. Explore the most legendary drum machines and samplers ever created, including the Roland TR-808, Roland TR-909, Akai S1000, Fairlight CMI, Akai MPC60 and more, with detailed descriptions and the stories behind their development.

Notes: 45RPM Record Adapter Key Chain-Lobster Claw Style

Genuine 45rpm record adapter key chain.

Easy to use "Lobster Claw" style.

Spring action clasp makes loading keys a snap!

A must for any record collector 45 head.