Indie rock legend Lou Barlow takes the stage for a rare career-spanning set (Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, The Folk Implosion), from lo-fi anthems to intimate solo gems, weaving together songs from every chapter of his groundbreaking journey.

Finessekid is a young rapper from South London making serious waves in the UK scene. Emerging in 2024 through viral snippets and cyphers, he quickly built a reputation for sharp wordplay, infectious hooks, and cutting boasts, earning co-signs from the likes of Skepta. 

A version of james K was born. Comprised of bones, reactive metals and a larynx with freckled eyes that catalyzes that mix, she can now see through all the schemes. This is the truth. When she chews gum, it’s not clear which one of her personas does it. Since their first release in 2013, describing them separately is grunt work as they switch places, cosplay each other and would most likely lull you into a lonesome dream.

Courtesy brings her Against Interpretation Club to the ICA — part group show, part club night —where musicians, DJs, and contemporary artists explore performance, music and sound. 

Dove Ellis marks the release of his debut album Blizzard, out 5 December, with an album launch show at ICA

A night of Oscar Jerome’s music reimagined for a special ensemble containing some of London’s finest musicians. Featuring Lucinda Chua on Cello, Raven Bush on violin, Jihad Darwish on double bass, Richie Sweet on percussion and Ben Grose on drums.

No Tags is a podcast and newsletter from Chal Ravens and Tom Lea chronicling underground music culture. This event marks their main London live show this year, and the launch party for the second No Tags book.

As the name suggests, the tracks that make up Snapped Ankles’ Hard Times Furious Dancing album were designed for live performance. Or more specifically to make people move as if their lives depend on it. Honed at the band’s Forest Rayve club nights throughout 2024 and released in 2025 - it marked a new era for the woodwose. Support from TaliaBle.

With a soundscape of intimate acoustic sounds, dreamily distorted vocals, and atmospheric synths, orbit has found his way to express inner dream worlds and connect them with impressions from his hometown in rural Germany. 

ERASERHEAD XIU XIU is an exploration of the sonic and visual universe that is David Lynch's Eraserhead. It's art installation, an exploded tribute to a cinematic triumph and an epitaph to an idol, as intense, odd and curious as you’d want it to be.

Philadelphia post-rock band They Are Gutting A Body Of Water perform live and in-the-round at the ICA in February. 

From Ikaluktutiak (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut), internationally celebrated artist Tanya Tagaq is an improvisational singer, avant-garde composer and bestselling author.

Juana Molina is a master of experimental pop and one of the most original voices in contemporary music. 

LYR are UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Pearson, and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Richard Walters.