Join us at the .HBC theater on Saturday, January 21st for a cabaresque evening with Islaja, Mimosa Pale, So Low Suicide, Stella Veloce, Christiane Hommelsheim, Joey Hansom and Anita Drink, plus the photo exhibition Eastern Europe in Drag…

An excursion through genders and genres including new unreleased music by Goldfrapp, Xiu Xiu and Nina Kraviz, plus an interview with director Yony Leyser, whose documentary William S. Burroughs: A Man Within hits German cinemas this month…

Here’s our overview of some of the year’s most interesting recordings from queer and gender-defiant artists, judged by songcraft and sonic storytelling as well as political content, including Hercules & Love Affair, Austra, Beth Ditto and Hunx and his Punx…