Five large-scale paintings by the guitarist, visual artist and poet. Connors will play a solo set at the opening at 5pm (31 May). Brooklyn Blank Forms, 31 May–12 July, free.

Philip Brophy analyses the musical rendering of emotional and cultural deception in Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s scores for ...

Flutist, sound artist and composer Barbara Held worked closely with Japanese composer Yasunao Tone, who died earlier this ...

To accompany his report on Colorfield Records in The Wire 496, Daniel Spicer explores a playlist co-curated with label boss ...

The 15 May edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Marc Melià, Cosey ...

Like Mark E Smith and The Fall, David Thomas and Pere Ubu were featured in The Wire early on in the life of the magazine, when it was still primarily concerned with jazz and improvised music. Thomas ...

The Pere Ubu singer has died at the age of 71. As a tribute we have made a number of articles on him and the group free to read in the online library Like Mark E Smith and The Fall, David Thomas and ...

The 23 May edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured an exclusive guest mix from ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 494. Inside our brand new issue: Raven Chacon: The Diné/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical ...

The UK outsider singer-songwriter has died aged 81. As a tribute, we have made Rob Young’s 2005 interview in The Wire 253 free to read in our online library.

The UK jazz and free music pianist died in February aged 81. As a tribute, we have made Julian Cowley’s 2010 interview in The Wire 318 free to read in our online library.

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 493. Inside our brand new issue: Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on new album PLEASE COME ...