Dry Cleaning return to the style that first brought them to attention with their new single Sliced By A Fingernail.

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Here we go again: the usual mix of old and new and black and white and funk and soul and reggae and jazz and country and disco. And tributes to  to the dead in a busy month for the grim reaper: Country Joe, Chip Taylor, Mike Vernon, Terry Cox, Wayne Perkins and Wes McGhee. There’s even some Peruvian punk, which is a first for me (and surely you). 

Flea turns jazz trumpeter on his first solo album at the age of 63, and brings in his old Atoms For Peace bandmate Thom Yorke.

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If he had never written another song, Chip Taylor would have earned a place in the pantheon of rock history as the writer of Wild Thing.

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Terry Cox was the drummer with British folk-rock pioneers Pentangle, who also played on landmark albums by David Bowie and Elton John.

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Tiwayo is a wealth of contradictions: a young Frenchman singing classic soul tunes in the world-weary voice of an old bluesman.

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Maisy Owen is a young singer-songwriter from Nashville, who plays finger picked guitar and has earned comparisons to some of the folk greats.

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Mike Vernon was a key figure in the British blues boom of the mid-Sixties, and produced a swathe of influential debut albums.

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Wayne Perkins was one of those Zelig-like music figures, a brilliant guitarist who pops up on records everywhere but never became a household name.

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CMAT resolves her differences with the Naked Chef to share the spotlight with him in a new video for The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station.

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