Premiers
Single Premiere: The Greatest Gift – Leem of Earth (reviewed by...
Taken from the band’s forthcoming album, SEE, an ambitious concept album inspired by George MacDonald’s Victorian-era fairy tale The Princess and Curdie, ‘The Greatest Gift’...
Rock/Punk/Metal
It’s The Sky – Diver Through (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Something slightly ragged and wonderfully real about ‘It’s The Sky,’ the opening track of Diver Through’s latest EP, I Want to be Disrupted. And...
Post Punk/Goth
Haunt You – French Inhaler (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Grassroots music scenes: those small yet vital cultural oases in a sea of conformity, comfort zoning, and passionless mediocrity are always more than the...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
Stars – Waves Crashing (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
As they gear up for their first UK tour in November, Waves Crashing have dropped a cool new single to get you in the...
Indie
Fire in the Master’s House – Sheykh Forever (reviewed by Dave...
As always, as you head into anything Sheykh Forever releases, I find myself shedding many trappings – musical expectations, the caress of sonic comfort...
Pop/Power Pop
Blue Alchemy – Catie Turner (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Catie Turner has certainly done a fair few miles in the music industry in the not-quite-a-decade since she caught the public imagination opening the...
Folk/Country
Rose Marie – August Benjamin (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
At a time when anything that even remotely whiffs of a rootsy sound is suddenly branded Americana by gatekeeping tastemakers and pointless pigeonholers, this...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
Fix This Mess – Rebecca Aadland (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
‘Fix This Mess’ isn’t a political song, but it gets to the heart of how we begin the healing process in this increasingly divided...
R&B/Soul
Funkin Days – Made Retro (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Made Retro is, on reflection, a great name for the music made here, suggesting something being constructed in the here and now, but with...
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
Walk On The Fire – Mr B (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It's always refreshing to see artists making music that fits very much into the modern dance-popscape, making songs with instantly apparent commercial appeal and...
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
Ghosts – Mark Newman (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Blues spans a broad spectrum, from the spacious roots sound of a simple, battered acoustic to the full-on electric band sounds made by superstars...
Classical/Instrumental
Get Together – Summer Fades Away/Vaudlow (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
The modern world is a marvellous place. Not many years ago, the idea of a Chinese band and a US duo collaborating on a record would have been...
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
The Highs and The Low: a conversation with Sean Kiely about...
With his latest album Long Live the Low now out, a tour lined up, and memories of sharing stages with some iconic names still...
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
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
HISTORY is written by the winners: A chat with the band giving classic songs...
HISTORY has made a name for themselves by taking classic Swedish songs and reworking them in their own inimitable rock and roll style. I...
Blue Alchemy – Catie Turner (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Catie Turner has certainly done a fair few miles in the music industry in the not-quite-a-decade since she caught the public imagination opening the...
Glass Walls – Deadlight Dance (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you know something about the guys behind Deadlight Dance, you will find subliminal messages and suggestive symbolism throughout Glass Walls. If you aren’t...
Midnight (to Track) – St. Divine (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Being in a band gives you a platform most people don’t have, whether you’re playing to mass festival crowds or 30 people at a...
It’s The Sky – Diver Through (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Something slightly ragged and wonderfully real about ‘It’s The Sky,’ the opening track of Diver Through’s latest EP, I Want to be Disrupted. And...
Haunt You – French Inhaler (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Grassroots music scenes: those small yet vital cultural oases in a sea of conformity, comfort zoning, and passionless mediocrity are always more than the...
