New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical tunings and transformed instruments. By Chal Ravens.

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 ...

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) ...

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