Brooklyn Vegan — photo: GD50 in Santa Clara (more by Jay Blakesberg) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... TOPS, Puro Instinct, Jerry Paper @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Montreal's TOPS make... more info

The Telegraph — Womad festival headliner Youssou N'Dour tells Mark Hudson about his journey from grooves to government - and back again more info

The Independent — Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have been awarded the 2013 Polar Music Prize, Sweden's most prestigious award for musicians.      more info

Guardian Music — Has your suggestion made the playlist this week? Gather your nerves and find outThis week's playlist has been selected by Magicman.• My favourite song title this week was Jetplane Landing's There Is No Real Courage Unless There Is Fear. As commenta... more info

Guardian Music — Welcome to our coverage of Womad 2012. Stay tuned for news, views and reviews from the festival site as some of the biggest names in world music take to the stage11.44pm: Good morning, Caspar Llewellyn Smith here, and welcome to what is undoubtedly t... more info

Guardian Music — Youssou N'Dour is performing at this weekend's Womad festival at Charlton Park, Wiltshire. To get you in the mood, here's a video of a young N'Dour at an earlier Womad festival more info

Guardian Music — Faouzi Skali founded Morocco's spiritual music festival, a haven of peace among the bloodshed across the Arab worldThe Moroccan philanthropist Faouzi Skali founded the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in 1994. For the past 12 years the programme ha... more info

Guardian Music — Mohamed Vall's Saphire d'Or record store helps melt divisions in a still-segregated society – and helps people track down that half-remembered tune. Hear some gems belowTucked down a sandy alleyway in Nouakchott, the desert capital of Mauritania, M... more info

Guardian Music — Neneh Cherry, who stormed into the 80s with Buffalo Stance, is back – with an avant-garde jazz album. She tells Jude Rogers why it took her so longNeneh Cherry sits in her manager's fashionable office, wearing a necklace made out of a mousetrap tha... more info

Guardian Music — A collaboration of African and western musicians, Africa Express is now headlining festivals and planning a huge train tour of the UK this year. Damon Albarn and Baaba Maal talk to Caspar Llewellyn Smith'It's always felt like a journey on an African... more info