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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, ...
Simon Coates compiles an annotated playlist to go with his report on Dhaka’s underground music scenes in The Wire 497 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...