Premiers
Video Premiere: Hypnotic – The Gods They Made (reviewed by Dave...
Sitting between a post-punk past and a forward-thinking indie future, The Gods They Made is a reminder that all music, all creativity, all art, is...
Rock/Punk/Metal
Strains 420 Delux EP – Space of a Day (reviewed by...
There is an art to making music that feels almost exclusively forward-thinking yet still echoes with a distant shimmer of the past. It is...
Post Punk/Goth
My Tomorrow is Already Missing You Today – George Collins Band...
Some songwriters merely write songs, which is fair enough given the job title. Others, however, capture the most intimate parts of what it is...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
please – sadplanet (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Ahead of the autumn release of their debut EP, slowing down, sadplanet drops their second single from it, “please.” Here, they give us an immersive cocoon of...
Indie
Anxiety Dogs – Dick Valentine (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It would be easy to wax lyrical about Dick Valentine's past exploits, his parallel careers, and his singular and sensational back-catalog output across many...
Pop/Power Pop
Dance Again – Patti Zlaket (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
None other than F. Scott Fitzgerald himself famously said, “There are no second acts in American lives,” perhaps thinking of his own peaked too early success. But even if...
Folk/Country
My Greatest Disaster – Fred Presley (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Regrets, he’s had a few… as the song suggests, and “My Greatest Disaster” is about exactly that. The song is a confessional, as the...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
A Dangling Thread – Gary Hubber (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Proving that pop and rock were never the opposing camps that their followers often thought, or at least if they were, they were opposites...
R&B/Soul
Still Love You – Lee Knox (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
With Still Love You, Lee Knox has fashioned an album that comfortably explores the space where classic R&B, commercial soul, and contemporary pop grooves...
Reggae/Ska/Dub
A Fistful of Covers – The Hempolics (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
A band releasing an EP of recordings covering their favorite songs is nothing new. A band doing that while also offering a dub reworking...
Dance/EDM
Keep Dancing (remix) – Schkeuditzer Kreuz (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Even if you can’t make out the vocals, which are both minimal and obscured beneath the raw, abrasive sonics and the industrial, delirious dance...
Hip-hop/Rap
00′ Shawty – Ja Fearce (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Taken from the EP of the same name, Ja Fearce's latest single, "00' Shawty", sits in a beguiling middle ground between artistry and energy....
Jazz/Blues
1979 – Bernell Jones II feat. Julius Rodriguez (reviewed by Dave...
“1979” is less a song and more a feeling, and perhaps even a destination. Its smoky textures and urban groove suggest a late-night uptown...
Classical/Instrumental
Prelude in E Minor (Op. 28, No. 4) – Ben Aubergine...
Ben Aubergine poses an intriguing question with this reimagining of “Prelude in E Minor (Op. 28, No. 4)”: What might Frédéric Chopin’s music sound like if...
Avant Garde
In The Style of Dead Sparrows – AD Ozium (reviewed by...
You never set foot into Jeremy Moore’s sonic world without bracing yourself for the unexpected. In fact, the unexpected is the one thing you can...
Interviews
Punk and folk and all that jazz: Welcome to the eclectic...
With her album of covers, Born in Time, now out, it seemed the perfect time to catch up with Rachelle Garniez to find out about her influences, her...
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
Chris Murphy announces new Seth Lakeman produced single, Songs From The...
Los Angeles-based Americana/roots rocker/world Musician Chris Murphy is excited to announce his new single ‘Songs From The Trees’ on June 19th. It’s the second...
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
Here’s to Pretending – French Dogs (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
When it comes to listening to music, I must confess that I’m a bit old-school. Although we live in an age where we are...
Dance Again – Patti Zlaket (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
None other than F. Scott Fitzgerald himself famously said, “There are no second acts in American lives,” perhaps thinking of his own peaked too early success. But even if...
Anxiety Dogs – Dick Valentine (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It would be easy to wax lyrical about Dick Valentine's past exploits, his parallel careers, and his singular and sensational back-catalog output across many...
Tides Will Turn – Tides Will Turn (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Foot on the monitor. Fist in the air. Heads down, no nonsense, boogiesome punk ‘n’ roll! Let’s go! Who’s in? Of course you are.
“Lifetime...
Walk Through The Fire – Criminal Hero (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It’s not that Criminal Hero is a backward-glancing purveyor of nostalgia, but his music does remind us of rock ‘n’ roll’s rich and rugged past. Less...
Strains 420 Delux EP – Space of a Day (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is an art to making music that feels almost exclusively forward-thinking yet still echoes with a distant shimmer of the past. It is...
