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Listen to a recording of Wire staff member Shane Woolman ’ s closing set at this year's Stihia festival near Moynaq, Uzbekistan ...
Fingerpicking guitar player combining influences from American Primitive, Mississippi blues and Appalachian finger styles, with a new album Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark coming out on We Are ...
Simon Coates compiles an annotated playlist to go with his report on Dhaka’s underground music scenes in The Wire 497 ...
The 12 June edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Burqa Boyz, Moin, Iceman Junglist Kru, DJ Haram, Incapacitants, Abdullah Minawy, Slikback, S ...
A farewell concert for the Ugandan improvising multi-instrumentalist and poet who is moving to Iceland. London Avalon Cafe, 15 June, 1pm–6pm, £12.
The experimental music label announces a come-back and pre-order/membership drive to support a new series of projects. A screening of the documentary Tony Conrad: Completely In The Present and the ...
Free afternoon music events in Lewisham combining a performance with a demonstration or workshop: Kate Arnold uses stringed instruments with electronics (Deptford Lounge, 14 June), Jo Quail is a ...
Improvising vocalist most well-known for his performance of Kurt Schwitters' Dada sound poetry epic Ursonate (the recording of which has recently been reissued by Corbett vs Dempsey), joins top London ...
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. Broadcast on 22 November and featuring music by Forest Drive West, Jerusalem In My Heart, Nkisi, and more ...
New documentary about the transgressive musician and artist who co-founded Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, integrating P-Orridge’s conception of magick into their countercultural ...
In The Wire 496, Jo Hutton argues that radiophonic art is its own highly developed and theorised artistic practice, not merely an offshoot of electroacoustic music ...