Yoshimio Dancing to a different drum, the Boredoms player is bringing gamelan to her group OOIOO. By James Hadfield

EMS For the last 50 years Stockholm’s electronic music studio has welcomed the world’s sonic explorers. By Frances Morgan

Alan Courtis Kek-W plots the zigzag trails of the Argentine wanderer, from the Arctic wastes of Russia to the Great Wall of China

DJ Taye The Teklife producer is opening new routes for Chicago footwork. By Rory Gibb

Karen Gwyer The ex-dancer flexes muscle memories to build new club tracks. By Jennifer Lucy Allan

International Nothing Berlin clarinet duo expand on the city’s reductionist heritage. By Clive Bell

Sofia Jernberg From jazz to opera, Fire! Orchestra’s soprano ventures beyond language. By Abi Bliss

Torturing Nurse Shanghai’s audience abusing noise unit inflict their agony on the UK. By Josh Feola

Global Ear Lagos Mattin and Xabier Erkizia monitor the changing sound enviroment of a city in flux

Invisible Jukebox Butterz Grime label founders Elijah and Skilliam chat over the beats in The Wire’s mystery record selection. By Joe Muggs

The Inner Sleeve King Britt on The Police’s Ghost In The Machine

Epiphanies James Toth on the Canadian kids’ entertainer who soundtracked his headbanging years

Print Run New music books: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Selected Lyrics by Ariel Pink, edited by Anthony Atlas Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch Bird: The Life And Music Of Charlie Parker by Chuck Haddix Testimony: A Tribute To Charlie Parker by Yusef Komunyakaa Came To Call Mine by Graham Lambkin Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Marc Wiedenbaum

On Screen New films and DVDs: Passinho Dance Off Hear Now DVD Mirror Lands DVD

On Site Recent exhibitions: Audio Arts cassette archive and Eternal Bliss™ online

On Location Recent festivals, gigs and clubs: Stephen O’Malley + Aluk Todolo, Brighton, UK Electric Spring, Huddersfield, UK Richard Youngs, Glasgow, UK Mammane Sani, London, UK Tri-Centric Festival, Brooklyn, US

Soundcheck A–Z Louis Andriessen Michael Baird Sir Richard Bishop Black Top Cindytalk Viv Corringham The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown Drcarlsonalbion Dynasty At Ghost Town Lawrence English Fire! Orchestra Hildur Guðnadóttir Jacaszek & Kwartludium Kitchen Cynics Tomas Korber & Konus Quartett Thomas Larcher Edvard Graham Lewis Arto Lindsay & Paal Nilssen-Love The Lowland Hundred Jake Meginsky Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit Bill Orcutt Jim O’Rourke/Paal Nilssen-Love/Lasse Marhaug Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides Anthony Pasquarosa Pavees Dance People Jonathan Richman DJ /Rupture Aaron Sheppard Shit And Shine Sudden Infant Tanya Tagaq Triptykon Various Dynasty At Ghost Town Various #EstateLife Vols 1–12 Various Rolê: New Sounds Of Brazil Wolfgang Voigt Xeno & Oaklander

The Boomerang

Adam Bohman Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band Alice Coltrane Toshi Ichiyanagi Angus MacLise Muslimgauze Roxy Music Somei Satoh Various African Gems Various Bombay Disco: Disco Hits From Hindi Films 1979–1985 Various C86: Deluxe Edition Various Punk 45: Sick On You! One Way Spit! After The Love And Before The Revolution Vol 3: Proto-Punk 1969–76