12 concerts and four workshops spread over four days and seven venues. With Nina Garcia, Neil Charles' James Baldwin project Dark Days, Alister Spence & Tony Buck and Xhosa Cole's FreeMonk project.

Issue 499 September 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 499. Inside our brand new issue: Cabaret Voltaire: The surviving members of the Sheffield ...

Modernist prom with a new cello concerto by Icelandic composer Thorvaldsdottir, alongside Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring, Varèse's Intégrales and Ravel's Boléro. London Royal Albert Hall, 13 August, ...

A listening post has been installed in the Lady Chapel of the 975-year old cathedral relaying a live internet transmission of Jem Finer's 1000-year composition from its home in London's Lighthouse at ...

The drummer Kyasu has played in Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha among other ensembles. When he performs solo, he improvises wildly with just a snare drum. The Leeds date is a rare solo performance with a ...

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black aspiration in Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) and Us (2020).

Four weeks of new music, sound art, music theatre and discourse around Berlin. The collectively developed programme includes contemporary music for pipe organ by Éliane Radigue, Claire M Singer, Gamut ...

The Sabres Of Paradise Sabresonic Warp CD/DL/2xLP Haunted Dancehall Warp CD/DL/2xLP You remember the face, but you can’t quite place the name – though both seem familiar to you. Start with the former.

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 ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's Top 50 Releases Of The Year, as voted for by The Wire 's contributors. You can read more about the artists featured in our chart, as well as those ...

Spotify’s partial catalogue of underground genres such as grime and jungle distorts listeners’ understanding of their history, argues Derek Walmsley “We really want to soundtrack every moment of your ...

The 17 July edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured an exclusive guest mix from Anvar Kalandarov, musician and founder of Uzbek label Maqom Soul, as well ...