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
Jack of All Trades – Dusty Edinger (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Although the video might be full of humorous hyperbole, it addresses a very poignant subject. When we look back on our lives, we tend...
Post Punk/Goth
Treachery – TATV GRAL (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Just because music technology evolves, it doesn’t mean we stop looking to the past for inspiration. And if that is certainly the case regarding...
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
A Piece of Fruit Will Set You Free – What’s the...
I’m not saying that What’s the New Mary Jane sounds like any one band or artist in particular, but they do sound like a time and...
Pop/Power Pop
The Other Side of Hell is a Heaven so Delicate –...
I’ve only encountered Heddy Edwards’ music a handful of times, the first being “Black Tunnel,” which opens this, her debut EP, but right from the...
Folk/Country
Single Premiere: The Long Highway – Michael Landgarten and the Converts...
Some music falls easily into generic pigeon-holes, although thankfully, that is a fashion that is dying out. But the best music transcends such nonsense;...
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
‘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
Who Do You Belong to Now? (Great Southern Land) – Paul Louis Villani (reviewed...
Sometimes, music asks us questions, makes us think. Sometimes it provides answers, or at least the author’s take on what those answers might be....
Oh No – The Buddyrevelles (self-released)
You always know that every time you drop the virtual needle on a Buddyrevelles song, anything could happen. Well, not quite anything, but certainly anything that...
Never Present – Thorn Haven (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
A lot happens in the first minute of the first song of this, the debut album of Denver alt-rockers, Thorn Haven. Tribal beats pound, tension rises, guitars explode...
In The Style of Dead Sparrows – AD Ozium (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
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...
Ain’t No Marks” – Aaron Skiles (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
You might make an argument that with “Ain’t No Marks,” Aaron Skiles is hardly breaking new ground. But you also can’t say he hasn’t found...
What You Gonna Be – Spike and the Gandy Dancers (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Spike and the Gandy Dancers is a folk band in the same way that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is a rock band. That is,...
