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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Austrian broadcaster Kunstradio’s manifesto, radiophonic art is “radio made by artists”. 1920s post-First World War playwrights were exploring surrealism in radio drama, and producers, ...

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 ...