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Contributor Marc Masters selects ten of his favourite Invisible Jukebox interviews from The Wire ’s back pages featuring Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Jaimie Branch, Lydia Lunch, and more. All selected articles are available to read in The Wire...

In the wake of the Afrofuturism festival of arts and music at New York’s Carnegie Hall, DeForrest Brown, Jr examines the liberating potential of the movement’s legacy

From free jazz to doomy drones, outsider artists have always found a home in the Wire. Its creators reflect on upending the orthodoxy, coining genres – and their hatred of big-name rivals

In the wake of the Afrofuturism festival of arts and music at New York’s Carnegie Hall, DeForrest Brown, Jr examines the liberating potential of the movement’s legacy

Owen Hatherley , April 17th, 2021 08:57 Owen Hatherley interviews Jonathan Meades about his new book Pedro and Ricky Come Again, a massive collection of his writing from 1988 to 2021 – and on why he’s no longer making television Photo by Pablosievert. CC BY-SA 4.0 The last time I saw Jonathan Meades was in May 2018, in Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille. In a flat surrounded with books, paintings, pictures, and postcards he’d made himself, and as we got through several b...

Hertfordshires famous shopping centre used as a set for comedy film starring Harry Enfield Who could forget one of the classic films of the 2000s? Kevin & Perry Go Large has become a cult classic film over the last 20 years (Image: ChronicleLive) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include ...

Itchiness about Beethoven’s cultural dominance would continue to bring classical music out in occasional hives, and in 2007 Nadine Gordimer published a collection of short stories called Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. But the issue of race laid largely dormant until this year – the 250th anniversary of his birth – when against the backdrop of Covid-19 becoming inextricably linked with the Black Lives Matter movement, echoes of Carmichael and X were voiced, coming from directions nobod...