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 ...

Listen to a recording of Wire staff member Shane Woolman ’ s closing set at this year's Stihia festival near Moynaq, ...

The 12 June edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured tracks by Burqa Boyz, Moin, ...

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 ...

Composer Dean Hurley and music editor Lori Eschler reflect on the experience of working on David Lynch and Mark Frost’s cult ...

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, ...

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 ...

Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few reimagine Coltrane’s classic with Collier on tenor sax, Brandon Coleman on piano, William Parker on upright bass, and Tim Regis on drums. With support from Jimetta Rose ...

Sixth annual midsummer concert doubling as an album launch for this experimental choir. With a durational performance by Joanna Ward and Reuben Esterhuizen, music from the new album Affordances by ...

The experimental music and art publisher, gallery, event organsier and record label celebrates its birthday with performances from DJ Dez Andrés, Detroit ensemble Will Sessions, electronic musician ...

Improvising pianist performs an early morning and a mid-day performance of a new work commissioned to be played on the Solstice inside Mark Rothko's non-demoniational chapel which features 14 of the ...