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 ...

SEM FIO: Sintonizando Novas Frequências (WIRELESS: Tuning Into Novas Frequências) is a short film that attempts to capture something of Rio de Janeiro’s cultural life via its annual experimental music ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Louis Moholo-Moholo (10 March 1940–13 June 2025) June 2025 Louis Moholo-Moholo in The Wire 400, London, June 2017. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff & Guy Bolongaro ...

Office Ambience 497 June 2025 Inside Bromp Treb’s studio. See page 34 inside The Wire 497. Photo by Damien Maloney ...

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 ...

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, ...