Premiers
Video Premiere: Sweeter Than Before – Scott Allen & The List...
As I probably said when reviewing their splendid album, June, Scott Allen & The List has a timeless, almost genreless sound, or at least...
Rock/Punk/Metal
Raw Cuts – The Clean Crime Scene (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Raw Cuts, the debut album from The Clean Crime Scene, is a reminder that not everyone makes music to get rich and famous, that the...
Post Punk/Goth
Drums Are Beating My Steps – Eternal Mourning (reviewed by Dave...
The best music is made at collision points. Either at constructive points of divergence where music pulls away from the core, letting all manner...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
Inevitable – Awake & Dreaming (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
What’s in a name? Well, in the case of Awake & Dreaming, quite a lot. It not only reflects co-founder and co-songwriter Sasha Kristoff’s...
Indie
Silver Lining – Byorn Gold (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something rather brave about writing songs for your children, especially when you are prepared to admit that parenthood isn't always the straightforward,...
Pop/Power Pop
Making Me Dream – Inches From Sin (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
From their recent album Jerusalem Hill Road, 'Making Me Dream' finds Karen Holloway Brewer and Robert Brewer adding a visual dimension to an already upbeat, joyous song with...
Folk/Country
King’s Grave – Nathaniel Paul (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I’m not implying that the new one from Nathaniel Paul is political; his songs seem more universal, more general, and certainly more tastefully tailored...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
Oh Domination! – Erik Rabasca (reviewed by Dave franklin)
Sometimes the simplest musical arrangements provide the most effective platforms for difficult truths; you could even say that, for the best balance, as the...
R&B/Soul
The Powers That Be – J-Dynamite (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Jeff Silverman might not be a household name, but he has been a guiding hand in the soul and funk scene for over three...
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
Rising Empire – Lord Conrad (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
While some artists build their musical worlds around familiar sounds and styles that fall easily into existing comfort zones, Lord Conrad prefers something altogether...
Hip-hop/Rap
Snap, Crackle & Bop – Us3 (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Hip-hop and the myriad styles and sounds that it spawned have moved a long way from the soul and funk and jazz and pop...
Jazz/Blues
Cry For Love – The Heard Eye (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
You have to admire the way that The Heard Eye effortlessly mix optimism and hope with the grooviest of music. And you can tell...
Classical/Instrumental
Oceans – Alexander Laing (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If music with a lyrical component tends to draw you to the artist’s intended conclusion – actually, more than that – it pushes you...
Avant Garde
Phantoms of Nagasaki – Vantablack (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Nick Hudson has been responsible for some of the most moving, eclectic, devastatingly beautiful, beguiling, exciting and adventurous music of recent times, probably because...
Interviews
Birdsong: a short conversation with Alucuo about their calm and creative...
Since spring 2025, Alucuo has released a string of calm, acoustic instrumental songs themed for birds. I caught up with him to find out...
Live
Deadlight Dance/Flowers of Sacrifice @ The Tuppenny, Swindon 17th Sep ’26
Ahh, those were the days, my formative years spent in basement rock clubs drenched in dry ice, the smell of patchouli, the floor sticky...
Swindon
My River – M3G (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Trying to stand out in a world of guitar-slinging folk-popsters and would-be hipster troubadours when you make music with just voice and guitar is...
News
Latest single ‘So Keen’ from Indie punk band Poets Corner is...
Following a great bunch of reviews & a host of radio plays for previous single She’s Got You Now, Hull’s authentic indie outfit Poets Corner are back with...
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
Playing the Changes – George Collins (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something wonderfully appropriate about using music as the backdrop to a story about picking up the pieces of a shattered life. Music,...
6 of the best
Birdsong: a short conversation with Alucuo about their calm and creative musical world
Since spring 2025, Alucuo has released a string of calm, acoustic instrumental songs themed for birds. I caught up with him to find out...
Playing the Changes – George Collins (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something wonderfully appropriate about using music as the backdrop to a story about picking up the pieces of a shattered life. Music,...
Oh Domination! – Erik Rabasca (reviewed by Dave franklin)
Sometimes the simplest musical arrangements provide the most effective platforms for difficult truths; you could even say that, for the best balance, as the...
matar la luz – MatAre (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
MatAre has proven adept at taking echoes of the past and weaving them into the sound of the future, time and time again. And...
Silver Lining – Byorn Gold (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something rather brave about writing songs for your children, especially when you are prepared to admit that parenthood isn't always the straightforward,...
King’s Grave – Nathaniel Paul (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I’m not implying that the new one from Nathaniel Paul is political; his songs seem more universal, more general, and certainly more tastefully tailored...
