This is the link to this week's trip through the highlights of what has fizzed loudest and most fascinatingly in my new Welsh music inbox over the last seven days.

bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t1xlr/Adam_Walton_11_07_2010/

As well as the (super smart) music, David Wrench concludes his introduction to his new album Spades & Hoes & Plows, an album that digs around at the earthy roots of a folk music far removed from convivial harmonies and real ale. These songs were, frequently, the sound of the disenfranchised and desperate and David (and his collaborators, The Black Sheep) have wrought these interpretations in suitably dark, uncompromising tones.

Huw Williams (or, Hue if you're as excited as many of us are by the prospect of the imminent Pooh Sticks' reunion) waxes lyrical about Welsh chanteuse almost-on-the-verge-of-being-forgotten-about, Cindy Williams. Her 60's single is a sublime piece of girl pop. As you will hear!

I dribble through some anecdotes from Saturday's historic TJ's in the Square gig in Newport: a tribute to the late, great John Sicolo - detailed more fully (and a little more coherently) here.

Ben Hayes tries to persuade us that there was more to Emerson, Lake and Palmer than spinning pianos and histrionic Musicianship (all those virtuoso arpeggios merit a capital 'M').

And music glues it all together: stickily and with great aural fascination.

This week, debut plays for Scams, Wickes, Cry Raphael, Witches Drum and Violas.

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Gig info / music-related announcements and verbal confetti will also be shared with all and sundry.

Smart listening,

Adam

BAD SAM [Newport]
I Love The Port

GALLOPS [Wrexham]
Miami Spider

THE PIPETTES [Cardiff]
Call Me [operator Please Remix]

STEVELESS/SYD HOWELLS [Swansea]
Mullet

RICHARD JAMES [Camarthenshire / Cardiff]
When The Letter Arrives

SIMON AND THE WITCH [Wrexham]
Stormy Ships [session Version]

THE SICK LIVERS [Newport]
Rumney Rock City

SCAMS [Wrexham]
Youngblood

HYENER [Cardiff]
Slowing Down

100 CANNONS [Newport]
Fangs [edit]

KUTOSIS [Cardiff]
Small Cities

SILENCE AT SEA [Cardiff]
I Demand Mazes

SWATHES [Wrexham]
The Weekly Respects

THE VOICES [Cardiff]
Arrivistes

FUTURE OF THE LEFT [Cardiff]
Stand By Your Manatee

KITTY COWELL [Newport]
Alien Romeo

ROLLERCO [Newport]
Rollercoaster

CINDY WILLIAMS [Cardiff]
They Talk About Us

THE DARLING BUDS [Newport]
Hit The Ground

SHY AND THE FIGHT [Llangollen]
How To Stop An Imploding Man

WICKES [Bangor]
Track 01

VIOLAS [Cardiff]
A-ok [hoelion]

LOOSE BUOY [Wrexham]
Who Put U In Universe

RINGS AROUND SATURN [Newport]
Ode To Nothing

DAVID WRENCH/BLACK SHEEP [Bangor]
Helyntion Beca [the Rebecca Riots]

FERAL CHILE [Swansea]
Fifty Summers

WITCHES DRUM [Cardiff]
Stop [giving Me Hell]

EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER
The Sheriff

CRY RAPHAEL [Llandudno]
One More Time

MEILIR [Caerwys]
Fingertips