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Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes ...

The Wire's archive releases of the year for 2013 were compiled from the individual votes of the magazine's staff and contributors - and here are those voters in full. Our overall charts for 2013 are ...

The Wire's Julian Cowley looks back at the life, work and unseen worlds of the experimental composer, who has died at the age of 75 “Music is my way of being in the world.” The words of “Blue” Gene ...

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