Following Michael Hurley’s death on 1 April, Ryan Meehan tracks the outsider folk singer and cartoonist’s journeys across America and remembers the restless bohemian spirit that powered them ...

The full chart: Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das SSAC42 (Infinite Machine) Rex Casswell Blood From A Stone (scatterArchive) Chuquimamani-Condori & Joshua Chuquimia Crampton Los Thuthanaka (Self-released) ...

Volume 47 of The Wire’s subscriber-only download series includes tracks by Larry Wish, Bianca Scout, Semay Wu, Abdullah Miniawy, Ava Mendoza & Malcom Mooney, Lulenga, and more ...

Satch Hoyt: The one-time Burnt Sugar member’s Un-Muting project opens museum archives of stolen instruments. By Francis Gooding ...

Nilotpal Das was born in Kolkata, India. He started learning music production aged 16 through YouTube tutorials and self-improvised methods.