Premiers
Album Premiere: Favourite Girl – Favourite Girl (reviewed by Dave...
We are used to artists emerging from under a known band moniker to make music under their own name; it happens all the time....
Rock/Punk/Metal
Turn Down The Noise – The Yum Yum Tree (reviewed by...
Just as you would hardly expect to find a rock and roll band asking someone to “Turn Down The Noise,” you might think that...
Post Punk/Goth
Visions From the Frontier – Noise Factory United (reviewed by Dave...
As you work your way through the six songs that make up Noise Factory United’s Visions From The Frontier, you quickly realise that the frontiers that...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
Birthday Cake – Ava Valianti (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If I were one of those more pedantic writers, I would probably be giving you a potted history of the early eighties post-punk scene...
Indie
Don’t Let The Songbirds Cry – CS Hellmann (reviewed by Dave...
In a world where (I know that sounds a bit AI written, I assure you it is not. But that is the sort of...
Pop/Power Pop
Bad Feeling – Rowhome (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I love songs that sit on the cusp, or in the case of this latest one from Rowhome, many cusps. I get it if you like...
Folk/Country
Glitter Up The Dark – Jessye DeSilva (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
You hardly have to be told that Jessye DeSilva and her collaborator and producer, Aaron Lee Tasjan, set out to explore the idea of unabashed joy on...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
To Cold To Swim – Art Schop (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is always a deeper story running through Art Schop’s songs, not for him throwaway lyrics or offering up merely more of the same old,...
R&B/Soul
In Every Quiet Moment – Lawrence Tomini (reviewed by Dave...
“In Every Quiet Moment” is a song that seems to exist in a very specific space, a place between not only genres, sounds, and...
Reggae/Ska/Dub
Album Premiere: Lost Files – JaDon Blaxx (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If Dancehall arrived in the seventies as reggae's leaner, faster, more street-charged younger sibling, then Lost Files is a clear snapshot of where that...
Dance/EDM
I’m Reigning Ungodly – Flippin’ Gothic Fabp (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Worlds colliding is exactly how new music gets made. No one ever shaped the future from the safety of a comfort zone, and as...
Hip-hop/Rap
Mind How You Go – PanthaDogg (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Hip-hop has come a long way from its birthplace in the South Bronx all those years ago. And while all genres move with the...
Jazz/Blues
Video Premiere: Hearts Like Caves – Dilly Dally Alley (reviewed by...
As I sit here writing, the spring sun streaming through the window, the cat following the warm spot across the floor, green things sparking...
Classical/Instrumental
Rust Mountain (Monochrome Piano Version) – Aptøsrs (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It is one thing to listen to and enjoy a song; it is another to understand it, or at least get a feeling for...
Avant Garde
True Human Trough – Bell Barrow (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Comfort zones? Who needs them? Well, not Bell Barrow that’s for sure. Anyone already familiar with any music that Jeremy Moore has made under this or any other...
Interviews
Beyond Words: A brief conversation with Myles Cochran
With a new album, What You Said, now out, I caught up with Myles Cochran to talk about his journey, physical and musical, the new album, and...
Live
The Crack – En Heat (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If, like me, you feel that mainstream music is all a bit safe, merely appealing to fads and fashions, comfort zones and marketing reports,...
Swindon
Back where it all began. A Big Day out with EXTC
Terry Chambers will always remember his twenty-first birthday. After all, who would forget being subjected to their friend’s TV show reel, fifteen minutes (well,...
News
‘Mariachi El Bronx IV’ out February 13 Marks Alter Ego of...
On February 13 LA trailblazers Mariachi El Bronx will release Mariachi El Bronx IV, their long-awaited new album, and first in over a decade. MEB is the alter...
Playlist
That Was The Music Week That Was – 080825
Another busy week at Dancing Towers, plenty of cool grassroots artists put under the pen, lots of great music mused over, and lots of...
Books
How Not To Write About Music – III: Starting the Week...
One of the joys of writing about new music is that it stops you from getting trapped in the past. Of course, bands like...
6 of the best
In Every Quiet Moment – Lawrence Tomini (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
“In Every Quiet Moment” is a song that seems to exist in a very specific space, a place between not only genres, sounds, and...
I’m Reigning Ungodly – Flippin’ Gothic Fabp (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Worlds colliding is exactly how new music gets made. No one ever shaped the future from the safety of a comfort zone, and as...
Don’t Let The Songbirds Cry – CS Hellmann (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
In a world where (I know that sounds a bit AI written, I assure you it is not. But that is the sort of...
Feverlock – Frezya (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Once you understand that the title refers to that moment that the deed is done and you find yourself in that state of closeness,...
Flight – Near Death Experience (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I’ve been writing about Near Death Experience for a while now, and even with a handful of their releases under my pen, I would be hard...
F.I.V.E. – Fear Increases Violent Emotions – Christine Plays Viola (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Kicking off with a song that runs for almost seven minutes shows you that this is a band that isn’t bothered about building things...
