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Mike Watt: From Minutemen to fIREHOSE, the San Pedro bass man has charted an unclassifiable career through the heart of US punk and improv scenes. By Alan Licht

Mike Watt Eight Pack: Eight places to start with the bassist’s back catalogue. By Byron Coley

The Primer: Aphex Twin: A user’s guide to the music of the shapeshifting, mercurial mainstay of the UK electronic underground. By Derek Walmsley

You and Me Festival: The Beijing free festival offers a place for experimental performance in the shadow of the connected society. By Drew Daniel

Kaja Draksler: The Slovenian pianist’s chafing against jazz orthodoxy leads to thrilling innovations. By Peter Margasak

Invisible Jukebox: Pamela Z: Will the US vocalist and composer breeze to the end of The Wire’s mystery record selection? Tested by Marc Weidenbaum

Truck Violence: Montreal four-piece drive masculinity in new directions. By Miloš Hroch

Finn Loxbo: The Swedish guitarist’s fingerpicking figures. By Stewart Smith

Global Ear: New music by the lake at Slovenia’s Bled Contemporary Music Week. By Keith Potter

Unlimited Editions: Belgium’s Aspen Edities’ unique brand of Northern European pastoralism. By Peter Margasak

The Inner Sleeve: Yuko Mohri on Yuming’s Pearl Pierce

Against The Grain: Listening in the shadow of Palantir. By Stephen Roddy

Secret History of Film Music: Philip Brophy’s column returns to the pages of The Wire appraising Jon Brion’s work for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and more

Epiphanies: Corey Mwamba on threading his vibraphone with washing line.

Soundcheck: Olivier Alary; Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat; Oren Ambarchi; Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker; Arca; King Ayisoba; Angelo Badalamenti; Ka Baird & Chris Ryan Williams; Belbury Poly; Bhajan Bhoy; Black Bananas; Adam Bohman/Danny Kamins/Adrian Northover; Adam Bohman/Sue Lynch/Crystabel Efemena Riley; Laura Cannell; Cities Aviv; Cold Light; Ned Collette; Faith Coloccia & Tashi Dorji; Loren Connors & David Grubbs; Alison Cotton; Cyst; Sarah Davachi; Dream_Mega; Eartheater; Eldritch Priest; Barbara Ellison; Lawrence English; Alexander Hawkins; Haruomi Hosono; Immersion; Hans P Kjorstad; Locust; John McCowen; Stephen O’Malley; Alexander Ortolan; Francisco Mela; Jowie Omicil & Francisco Mela; OSEES; Matthew Putman/Hill Greene/Francisco Mela; Raymond Roussel; Rhins; Crystabel Efemena Riley; Yvonne Rogers; Paul Rooney; Rosso Polare; Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto; Charanjit Singh; SML; Squanderers; A Tomb Full Of Stars; Topdown Dialectic; Ben Townsend; Windy & Carl Optigan Conservatory; Alicia Witt; Matthew Wright; Xiu Xiu; Rafael Zaldivar; Various, The Travel Agency Is On Fire; Various, Veneration For The Sacred Action

The Columns: Avant Rock by Antonio Poscic; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Emily Bick; Global by Francis Gooding; Hiphop & R&B by Tim Fish; Jazz & Improv by Bill Meyer; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Emily Pothast; Size Matters by Byron Coley

Boomerang: Can; Coil; Funkadelic; Gas; Gentle Fire; Hallucinator; Joe Harriott Quintet; Ton de Leeuw; Negro Leo; Mad Professor; MLO; Monolake; Mos Def; Portion Control; Steve Reich; Alan Skidmore Quintet; Larry Stabbins; John Tilbury; Various, Melodies International Presents Ariwa Sounds

Print Run: We Were Here: A History Of Black People In Alternative Music by Stephanie Phillips; Where Shit Happened: The Paper Trail To Speak In Tongues edited by John Delzoppo; The Sounds Of Lost Futures: British Musical Hauntology by Jamie Sexton; Do What You Fear Most: The History Of The Velvet Underground by Richie Unterberger; Conversation Avec Edgard Varèse by Gunther Schuller; Building A Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin by Zeynep Bulut

On Screen: Alice Coltrane: Eternity’s Pillar; Grant Gee, Everybody Digs Bill Evans

On Location: Jazz Em Agosto, Lisbon, Portugal; Music We’d Like To Hear, London, UK; Heroines Of Sound, Berlin, Germany; Darius Jones & Otomo Yoshihide Quintet, London, UK; Sunn O))), Leeds, UK; Disappearing Images, London, UK; Klang Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark; No Fun: New Perspectives, New York, US; Jazzwerkstatt Peltz, Peltz, Germany

On Site: Nomenclature For The Time Being, London, UK; Elisa Giardina Papa, She Flickered In And Out Of History, London, UK