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To complement her interview in The Wire 511, Korean American composer Lucy Liyou creates an exclusive Wire mix

Lucy Liyou grew up in Seattle, and as a child was a talented classical pianist. Her strengths, at first, were late Romantic and 20th century music; then she discovered the likes of Andrew Hill and Cecil Taylor, which inform the fiendishly...

In this extract, taken from the chapter “Mystical Warriors”, Laurie Osborne aka Appleblim and Sam Shackleton recall the development of their influential Skull Disco label

Appleblim: Shackleton’s a unique character. He’s extremely well read and speaks at least five languages – but he’s also hilarious, one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. When y...

Chicago poet and performer Marvin Tate presents vivid vignettes of magic and loss on his elusive new album, writes Mosi Reeves in The Wire 511

Marvin Tate
Controlled Burn
Amalgam DL/LP

Marvin Tate is a linchpin of Chicago’s creative arts scene, emerging as a slam poet in the early 1990s and subsequently pa...

Listen to the music we played to Jennifer Herrema during her Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 511

Each month in the magazine we play an artist or group a series of tracks which they are asked to comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear.

In The Wire 511 it is the turn of Royal Trux co-founder Jennifer Herr...

Collective listening events respond to a cultural need, but are at risk of co-option by wellness and lifestyle marketeers, argues Derek Walmsley in The Wire 511

“You’re in the right place!” smiles the man in the smart shirt and trousers at the velvet rope line. Inside a modest door on a touristy street in London’s Soho is a cocktail bar, work space, podcas...