Paul Heaton releases his brand new single and album in September 2010 and will be touring the UK. ‘The Ladder’s Bottom Rung’ sees Heaton sing of ‘The folk you learn to trust the most, Are the folk with hardly any’ which is a celebration of honesty and morality set to a hook-laden classic pop tune. The song is taken from ‘Acid Country’ released a week after the single on 13th September. Having recently made a headline appearance on the Leftfield Stage at Glastonbury in June and played a storming set at Latitude, shows at V Festival follow in August and a full tour in September. He has also just been announced as support on the Madness tour for November/December.

“’She Fell In Love With Silence’ involves the shattered emotions of a victim of domestic abuse as she pauses to question how to make changes in life. Far from being overburdened with its subject SFILWS bounces along with a searing melody that delights and somehow projects the feeling that ‘the blows will stop’.” Jim Kerr – Lostboy’s new single hits iTunes on August 15th

Richard Thompson, one of the most distinguished guitarists and songwriters of our time, returns with Dream Attic, a magnificent collection of 13 new songs, due out August 30th on Proper Records. Penned during a short and inspired burst of creative outpouring, Thompson captured the awesome energy of his live show by recording the album in front of an audience. “I don’t think musicians playing on their own are particularly interesting, it’s only when they play in front of an audience that something interesting happens,” Thompson said in an interview at the show. The songs were performed during a West Coast tour in February of this year, and the bulk of the performances that made the album come from three shows at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.

This summer will see Adam Parker release his debut single ‘Oh My’ on Stray Cat Records on 2nd August.

The track tells a tale of an unexpected sexy encounter with a wistful and thoughtful remembrance layered with tempered guitar hooks and electronic loops. It’s a seamless amalgam of classic singer songwriter sensibilities, indie hook catch ability and the weathered soul of a troubadour, this is intelligent music-making with impeccably high standards and the occasional tongue in cheek humour.

SLAM takes a new look at the stars of Mexican wrestling, in a beautiful coffee-table book designed by Fuel, which comes out in july 2010 through To Hell With Publishing. Katinka Herbert is a respected international portrait photographer whose work regularly appears in publications such as the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, Food Illustrated and Dazed and Confused. Raised on a diet of Giant haystacks and Big Daddy, with a pinch of Evel Knievel, Katinka also recently collaborated with Marco Pierre White on the production of The Best of British cook book.

A few years ago the best known example of Lucha Libre (literally free wrestling, and based on daring acrobatics and spectacular soaring maneuvers), was the film Nacho Libre starring Jack Black and featuring luchador Silver King in the role of Ramses. But since then troupes of luchadores have visited London and been featured everywhere from The Today Programme to The Paul O’Grady Show to Channel Four News and the Daily Star and picking up fans such as Tim Burton and Jonathan Ross along the way.

What the media said about Lucha Libre London debut:
“A spectacle that’s more akin to a rock concert cranked to 11 than your standard British wrestling event. Viva Lucha Libre” Time Out

The Blue Eyed Shark comes from a genuinely unusual background. Taking the nickname from a female friend due to the colour of his eyes and his friends calling him a ‘shark’, the ‘experiment’ part of the name refers to the album, from its inception to delivery and BES’s (Blue Eyed Shark’s) additional musical protagonists.

On June 28th, Proper Records releases the extraordinary new album ‘Tribal’ from Dr. John that shows this great American artist at the pinnacle of his creative powers, making what might be the most complete statement of his musical and personal identity in his 50-year career.

Elizabeth Cook to release her fifth album, Welder on Proper Records this month.

Welder is an album that sees the beautiful country songstress singing about her mama’s funeral alongside other tales of the harshness and delicacies of romantic and familial love in tracks ‘Not California’, ‘Heroin Addict Sister’, ‘Girlfriend Tonite’, and occasionally indulging in the rush of being inappropriate in ‘El Camino’, ‘Snake In The Bed’ and ‘Yes To Booty’.

The legendary Jimmie Vaughan, co founder of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, brother of the iconic Stevie Ray Vaughan, is back with a new album ‘Blues, Ballads & Favorites’.

The Way I’m Wired by Parry Ray heralds the arrival on the British Jazz scene of a special new talent.

A beautiful, married mother of two, with a Masters degree in Physics, Parry Ray has been making real waves on the London Jazz scene for some time and with ‘The Way I’m Wired’ she is ready to emerge centre stage and gain mainstream recognition.