Dave Hughes releases an album, Seven Songs, which includes a total of (yes) 7 tunes – 6 originals, and a cover of a tune by his contemporary, Roscoe Vacant, entitled ‘Help Save The Youth of Cumnock and Doon Valley’. You can hear ‘Backwards We Play’ at http://www.amazingtunes.com/users/davehughes/tunes/36941 The album has its launch gig at MacSoreleys [...]

Edinburgh rockers Salute Mary release their debut EP ‘Lonely Escapades’ digitally on September 6th. www.myspace.com/salutemary / salutemary.com

The Zephyrs come out of hibernation to release their fifth album , entitled Fool Of Regrets, on September 6th; on the Club AC30 label.

Reformed 80s act The Hardy Boys release EP Under The Piccadilly Clock on September 3rd. It follows album Songs from the Lenin and McCarthy Songbook which recently appeared more that 20 years after the band originally split.

Spectorbullets release their first single, ‘Mayakovsky it Ain’t (Chaos It Is)’, to give it its full title, on Monday September 6th on the Scottish-based Mayakovsky Produkts label. An album is scheduled for later in the autumn.

Come On Gang! release a single, ‘Fortune Favours The Brave’, on September 10th. They launch it with a show at Edinburgh’s Caves the same night, with Found and Jesus H Foxx) also on the bill. The single is the first to be taken from their forthcoming album and will be released as a free download [...]

Gareth Dickson releases an album, The Dance, on his own Sleeping Man label. Instrumental, and described as “a minimal solo guitar album”, it can be obtained via www.garethdickson.comand you can hear more at www.myspace.com/garethdickson

Fife-based songwriter Dan Lyth has released the first fruits of a project, the self-explanatory Some Of My Friends’ Songs. The first three track EP to come from this is available

A new Arran Arctic single entitled ‘Interrupt Me’ is available now at www.arranarctic.com/music.

The Hardy Boys launch their first recordings in 18 years -an EP featuring ‘You’re Just What I Need’, ’The Trains Ran On Time’ and ‘Dear Seamus Heaney’ on Bubblegum Records.