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Chris Carter To Stand In For Factory Floor's Dominic Butler

Bad news and good news: The bad news is that Factory Floor's Dominic Butler will not be able to perform with the group at Primavera, or at Chris Cunningham's Roundhouse AV performance in June.

The good news is that Chris Carter will be stepping in for Butler on both dates. Prior to this collaboration, Nik Void from Factory Floor will be joining Carter Tutti for the Friday night of Short Circuit this weekend.

Joker To Release On 4AD

4AD's foray into dubstep continues with news of an incoming 12" from Joker on the label. The A side of the 12" is a vocal version of a track called "The Vision (Breathe In)", featuring collaborator Jessie Ware, and an instrumental version on the B side. Listen to a radio rip of the track over at FACT. Pre-orders give a release date as Monday 16 May.

This news follows last month's announcement that Zomby has signed to 4AD. His first release is a 10" (released today) of "Natalia's Song". Following the single is full length album Dedication, slated for release in early July.

Call For Submissions: Radio Art & Sound Art: AIR/EAR Installation

AIR/EAR is a collective installation of radio and sound art planned for Santa Fe, Argentina by Rubén Marino Tolosa. The installation will "show the different ways in which the radio art grows", and invites submissions from artists to participate. Audio of between 5–15 minutes can be submitted as MP3, WAV, or on cassette, of field recordings, conversations, noise, or radio recordings, along with an explanation or thoughts on the recording. Sound quality is not important. Send submissions to rmtolosa@gmail.com by 1 June. For a postal address and more info head here.

Richard Youngs: New Album And Tour Incoming

Richard Youngs has announced the imminent arrival of his next album, Amplifying Host. Youngs is joined on record by Damon Krukowski of Damon & Naomi and Galaxie 500 (watch a Chris Marker video for a track from Damon & Naomi's album False Beats And True Hearts here), who adds his percussive skills to Youngs's compositions. Listen to "Tessellations" from Amplifying Host here.

Following Krukowski's appearance on Amplifying Host, Youngs will be playing four opening slots for Damon & Naomi starting 9 May in Glasgow. The album will be released on 18 July by Jagjaguwar in vinyl and digital formats. Glasgow Captain's Rest (9 May), London Cafe Oto (11), Penryn The King's Arms (13), Bristol Cube Cinema (14), Leeds Howard Assembly Room (with Fennesz) (21), Fano Free Folk Festival (25 June).

Richard Skelton For The Charles Linehan Company

Choreographer Charles Linehan's dance piece The Clearing will be performed in London later this month. The Clearing features a specially commissioned score by last month's Wire cover star Richard Skelton (The Wire 326, April 2011).

The work includes four dancers: Theo Clinkard, Rachel Lopez de la Nieta, Rahel Vonmoos and Greig Cooke, and was performed for the first time in October last year. On the bill with The Clearing is The Fault Index, also by Linehan, which is described as "celebration of isolated events", where a collection of ensemble pieces is presented in a different order at every performance. London The Place, 19 May, 8pm, £6–£17.

Watch a video of Linehan's work in progress below:

Dãm-Funk Remixes Ariel Pink

On the cusp of a lengthy string of tour dates across the UK and Europe, Ariel Pink has been given the remix treatment by Dãm-Funk (aka Damon Riddick). Have a listen below. For the a complete list of all Ariel Pink tour dates head here.

Boris Announce European Tour

Following the release of two new albums in May, Boris will tour Europe in June and July. Attention Please and the second Boris album entitled Heavy Rocks (no connection to the 2002 album, except for that it's heavy), will be released on 30 May. The tour opens in the Netherlands on 17 June, and wraps up a month later in Germany. Support is from Chicago based Russian Circles.

Dates are as follows: Tilburg 013 Popcentrum (17 June), Brugge Entrepot (18), London ULU (19), Manchester Islington Mill (20), Bristol Fleece (21), Paris La Maroquinerie (22), Madrid Caracol (24), Barcelona Apolo 2 (28), Zurich Rote Fabrik (30), Karlsruhe Jubez (1 July), Munich Feierwerk (2), Vienna Arena (7), Leipzig Connewitz (8), Prague Matrix Club (9), Berlin Festsaal Kreuzberg (10), Hamburg HafenKlang (11), Oslo John Dee (13), Stockholm Strand (14), Dortmund FZW (16), Dour Dour Festival (17)

Listen to a track from Heavy Rocks below:
Boris - Riot Sugar by Cargo_Promo

Steve Gurley & Zed Bias Collaborate For Keysound Recordings 12

Zed Bias is collaborating with reclusive UK garage producer Steve Gurley on a 12" for Keysound Recordings. Gurley, despite having a defining influence on UK two-step garage and as a result, dubstep, has gone quiet in recent years, and this is his first release after a long hiatus. The A side "Roll" is described as an "explosive, dark UK funky track". The B side is a "Dept Repaid" remix by Keysound label boss Blackdown.

Ghostface Killah: The Beer

A Colorado-based micro brewery has produced a beer called Ghost Face Killah. The beer, made by the Twisted Pine brewery, is a "six peppered beer dry hopped with ghost peppers, the hottest peppers in the world".

Twisted Pine is only making around 100 bottles of the beer, which is getting its own launch party on Wednesday 5 May at the Twisted Pine Ale House in Boulder, Colorado. Ghost Face Killah the beer is touted as the "hottest beer this side of hell", so hot it's been submitted to the Guinness Book Of World Records. Ghostface Killah the man has yet to speak on the matter.