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Wire Festival
Wire Festival is the multi-day techno festival anchored at the Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens, programming the US and international underground across several stages and days each spring, with panels and collective takeovers alongside the music. Since the early 2020s it has grown into one of the city's signature techno gatherings.
Rooms it touched
Knockdown Center
2013–present · Maspeth, Queens
Annual two-night, two-stage techno festival; first edition May 20–21, 2022; co-organized by BASEMENT's Abashidze and Japaridze; stages historically curated with Bassiani (Georgia) and Possession (Paris queer collective); includes daytime panels on industry and artist politics.
Basement
2019–present · Maspeth, Queens
Annual two-day event produced by Abashidze and Japaridze at Knockdown Center; combines daytime panels on electronic culture with nighttime programming by invited collectives (Bassiani, Possession, Herrensauna, Fast Forward); first edition May 20–21, 2022; continues annually.
Sources & further reading
- Wire Festival, Knockdown Center (knockdown.center/event/wire-festival)
- 'Wire Festival 2026 bringing four days/nights of techno to Knockdown Center', BrooklynVegan