Scott Lavene - Milk City SweetheartsHe released an album as Big Top Heartbreak, 2016's Deadbeat Ballads, and followed it with his first album under his own name, 2019's droll and marvellous Broke. "I was signed to a little label in Bristol, but then they went skint," he remembers. This time, however, the disappointment didn't shake his confidence or his resolve. "I started writing prose, like 'flash fiction', and I've begun a novel," he says. "And I've started some creative writing

a clutch of studio demos

La Verne Walk by Oscar Pettiford

Began his love affair with the saxophone in his native Baltimore

the Jackson 5

The rapid changes of measure and unique tonality of Lithuanian folk music that have fascinated ethnomusicologists are present throughout this 1955 a cappella release

inspired by both the great classics of rock'n'roll and by genre cinema

Michael Ayres - Heart of Love

Merge Records offers 1994's FOOLISH on September 13

The piano writing is scarcely less bold and quick-thinking

Features 'Temper Temper'

their last few releases have featured their daughter Sarah who is truly a rising star as a lead vocalist

King Of The Corn 16