40 years of the Wire magazine: 'Music deserves intelligent treatment. If that's elitist, so be it' | Experimental music

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

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