Tottenham-based radio station Threads is looking for a new home. Currently housed above The Cause nightclub, Threads' temporary lease has now come to an end due to redevelopment in the area. The station currently has two streams. One is of live shows from the Tottenham studio while the other offers pre-recorded content and pop-ups across the globe. They're also involved with the Haringey Migrant Support Centre and are partnered with Grow Tottenham through which they have raised money for legal aid.

Now they're looking for a multifunctional space for live broadcasts, pre-records, and video and music production workshops. A crowdfunder will launch on 14 November. There will also be a 48 hour stream between 14–15 December. Confirmed special guests for that are Logos, DJ Food, 2 Bad Mice, I Love Acid and Traxman. Full line up to be announced on 28 November.

You can donate via Go Fund Me.

Music teacher, father, and Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes has published his debut young adult fiction novel. Me And Mr Cigar is a surrealist tale about a teenage boy, Oscar, and his magical pet dog. The pair are on a journey to find the teen's abducted sister, Rachel, who has not spoken to him since Mr Cigar bit off her hand. On their rescue mission they encounter secret technology, agents of the US government, wealthy corporate interests and criminal art dealers.

Published by Soho Teen, it's available for pre-order now.

Jim O'Rourke’s latest work is a collection of previously unreleased solo recordings made between 2017–18 at his Japanese studio Steamroom. To Magnetize Money And Catch A Roving Eye is over four hours in length and comes as a four cd box set. It's released on French imprint Sonoris, a label whose roster also includes Lionel Marchetti, Steve Roden, Kevin Drumm and Wolf Eyes. It's available now.

You can also checkout O'Rourke's many other Steamroom releases via Bandcamp. He was featured on the cover of The Wire 418 alongside Eiko Ishibashi.

The third instalment of research-based art project dedicated to intersections of sound and medicine kicks off this week. Following on from editions in Naples’s La Digestion Festival and Sokołowsko’s Sanatorium Of Sound Festival, its German arm will take place over three days at the Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge, a building on the grounds of long-running psychiatric hospital, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge. An opening event will take place at KM28.

The bill includes Agf HYDRA, Ziúr, Rashad Becker, LABOUR, Yutaka Makino, Evelyn Bencicova, Denial Löwenbrück & Diana Ø, Tørsløv Møller, Anthony Pateras, Barbara Kinga Majewska, Tony di Napoli, Michał Libera, Félicia Atkinson, Erik Bünger, Benjamin Flesser, and Fredrik Olofsson.

Musica Sanae Berlin will run between 14–16 November. Some concerts are free. Watch Audrey Chen perform live at Musica Sanae Sokołowsko.

A panel of judges have nominated four artists as finalists for an award and prize of £10,000. Set up in 1993, The Arts Foundation award is designed to pay for artists’ living and working expenses with “no strings attached”.

This year's chosen musicians are Áine O’Dwyer, Klein, Ashley Paul and Natalie Sharp. They were chosen by a panel of judges consisting of artist and writer Salome Voegelin, Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner and Late Junction's Max Reinhardt.

The winner will be announced on 27 January 2020 at the ICA. Other categories in the award include Comics, Experimental Short Film, Visual Arts and Social Innovation. Runners-up receive £1000.

Tansy Davies, Nick Drake, Lucy Bailey, Mark Padmore and Elaine Mitchener are among the musicians and artists featured in the online launch of London Sinfonietta’s New Music Channel on 12 January. They'll all be participating in a discussion about composer Davies’s and librettist Drake's chamber opera Cave, which will accompany a short live performance. Plus, an exclusive streaming of Cave will be available online throughout 2020.

New Music Channel will regularly present audio and video content, alongside a series of written articles and commissioned new digital works. The channel’s second online event on 17 February will feature Matthew Herbert and Anna Meredith in conversation with cellist Zoe Martlew, which will be recorded live for The Music That Made Me podcast series.

The 12 January event will take place at London Southbank Centre’s Spiritland Royal Festival Hall.

Based on his own intensive research and extensive interviews with musicians, journalists, insiders and DJs, The Wire contributor Mike Barnes’s A New Day Yesterday amounts to a major study of UK progressive rock in the 1970s, examining the scene and the social conditions from which the music grew.

At 608 pages long, A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s is officially published by Omnibus on 27 February. If you order it from The Wire you'll receive your copy a month in advance. More details in the shop.

Focussing on identity and black experience, MHYSA wrote the lyrics for her new album NEVAEH mostly as a method of alleviating stress while touring her 2017 debut Fantasii (Halcyon Veil). She describes NEVAEH as “a prayer for black women and femmes to be taken to or find a new and better world away from the apocalypse [...] a safe space, a sort of negro heaven.

“I wanted to be more vulnerable with my tracks and experiment with vocal range,” she continues. “I wanted to write more complicated vocal melodies that would be harder for me to do.”

Currently based in New York, MHYSA is one half of the Philadelphia performance and sound art group SCRAAATCH.

NEVAEH is released by Hyperdub on Valentine’s Day 2020. Listen to lead track “Sanaa Lathan”.

The Wire cover stars Clipping have teamed up with Shabazz Palaces on “Aquacode Databreaks”, a track originally commissioned for a 2017 episode of This American Life. It’s now included on Clipping's new three track record The Deep, a dark science fiction story about the water breathing descendants of an African woman thrown overboard from a slave ship crossing the Atlantic, inspired by an Afrofuturist myth developed by Detroit’s Drexciya on their 1997 album The Quest.

The Deep is released on Sub Pop on 29 November. Watch “Aquacode Databreaks” below. Read about Clipping in The Wire 430 December issue.

On 6 December London arts organisation Free Word will host Black Home: The Club As Sanctuary. Presented by South London movement Touching Bass leaders Yewande YoYo Odunubi, Alex Rita and Errol Anderson, along with BBZ London, the programme includes a combination of music, poetry and talks honouring the heritage and contributions of black and LGBTQI+ communities to London’s music culture.

A discussion chaired by Odunubi, featuring CDR's Tony Nwachukwu, poets Belinda Zhawi and Kai-Isaiah Jamal, curator and DJ Naeem Davis and DJ Sippin' T, will be followed by DJ sets from Errol, Rita, Nwachukwu and Sippin' T.

“When done right, the club space transforms into much more than just a heavy sound system, a bar and four walls,” says Anderson. “The club can become a sanctuary, a stomping ground, a community meet, the gym, church, a collective shoulder, medicine. Home. Come dance nuh.”

The event is part of Writing Our Way Home, a Free Word project exploring the politics of home and takes place at their venue in Clerkenwell between 7pm–2am .