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 ...

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 ...

The 26 June edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show featured tracks by Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann, Swans, Błoto, Anna Nacher & Marek Styczyński, Otaco, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker and more ...

An opporutnity for musicians of all backgrounds interested in improvisation to work with vocalist Amirtha Kidambi, electric bassist Farida Amadou and double bassist Luke Stewart. Brooklyn Ibeam, 29 ...

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 ...

Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother and Rasheedah Phillips's interdisciplinary project Black Quantum Futurism Collective will take over Park Night at London Hyde Park’s The Serpentine on 18 August. Exploring ...

Music teacher, father, and Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes has published his debut young adult fiction novel. Me And Mr Cigar is a surrealist tale about a teenage boy, Oscar, and his magical ...

Intakt have announced the full line-up of their mammoth London festival at The Vortex in April 2017. Many of the Swiss label’s artists have already been announced, including Irène Schweizer, Ingrid ...

London's annual Korean music festival is back this year and covering a selection of both traditional and contemporary music. Launched in 2013, K-Music is produced and directed by the Korean Cultural ...

A new book about the impact of Kingston’s famed Roman Catholic boarding school Alpha Boys' School, the institution that spawned many of Jamaica’s great jazz, ska and reggae musicians, has been ...

The latest addition to UK art studio Dorothy’s music blueprint series is Acid House Love Blueprint: A History Of Dance Music And Rave Culture, a map documenting the cities, clubs and individuals ...