British trans existence in 2025 is precarious, making the intersection of underground music and queer nightlife liberatory ...

In The Wire 497, Esi Eshun reviews Mourning [A] BLKstar's eighth album, Flowers For The Living, which explores strategies for resistance ...

Dub producer, musician and songwriter Bovell is the guest selector alongside regular host, reggae historian and DJ David Katz. The evening starts with a Q&A at 7:45pm. London Upstairs At The Ritzy, 9 ...

Issue 498 August 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 498. Inside our brand new issue: Bill Orcutt: The late blooming career of the former Harry Pussy ...

A weekend celebrating zines, activism and radical creativity including free and pay-what-you-can panels, drop-ins and workshops. Glasgow Tramway and Hidden Gardens, 5–6 July, free/PWYC.

Sound and video installation investigating climate change, its psychological impacts and “the sonic memory of nature”. There will also be a live choral performance which is the result of workshops and ...

Current 93's David Tibet made his first mark in the 'Industrial' culture of the early 1980s even though the was skeptical of the Industrial formula equating inept noise with socially 'transgressive' ...

Watch a video of Crystabel Efemena Riley performing at London’s Ormside Projects to accompany her interview with Abi Bliss in The Wire 497 “I remember at our first gig, people were just shouting, ...

Dusty Ballz seeks to build bridges, introducing musicians reacting to Chinese contexts into international dialogues around new music. Founded by China-born, currently London-based Mabu Li in 2020, all ...

The experimental music and sound work coming out of Dhaka is driven forward by three key sensations: anger, frustration and resolve. Everything is politicised in Bangladesh. Every element of ...

The 19 June edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show featured tracks by Cosmic Ear, Mark Stewart, Ensemble Nist-Nah, Musarc, Matmos, Linda May Han Oh, Steve Lehman, Hekate, Three-Layer Cake and more ...

Two evenings of ad hoc combinations of improvising musicians drawn from a pool of ten – a format devised by guitarist Derek Bailey in the 1970s. Compered by Stewart Lee, the pool comprises Khabat Abas ...