wire: july 2016

On the cover: Loren Connors (Kurt Gottschalk meets the enigmatic outlier of avant garde blues guitar). Inside the issue: Britt Brown tells the story of how new age music came to 1970s Malibu courtesy of 'America's foremost psychic researcher' Dick Sutphen and Valley Of The Sun; Geeta Dayal hails the triumphant return of Afrocentric arkestra Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids; Invisible Jukebox: Beatrice Dillon; Collateral Damage: Sam Richards on music and migration; Epiphanies: Alexander Tucker; and more..