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
Hell has frozen over – Sarina (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you want to hear how rock moves with the times, at least one strand of it, then giving the new one from Sarina a spin...
Post Punk/Goth
There Are Spiders In My Dreams – Poems For Dead People/Intertitle...
If you are looking for something different, if you are tired of all the style-over-substance pop wannabes and cooler-than-thou (they wish) indie kids…and I know I...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
Be – Apple Eyes (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Travel broadens the mind, they say. So true. I’d even go so far as to say that the music made by people who have...
Indie
Villains – Father Chocolate (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It’s always great when a piece of music’s feel matches the song’s themes, as if the artist is creating a complete and complementary sonic...
Pop/Power Pop
Artificial World – Deborah (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Sometimes the most thought-provoking questions arrive in the most innocent of guises. 'Artificial World', the latest offering from published poet, social advocate, and HR...
Folk/Country
Just Might Be Enough – Young Martyrs (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Let’s be fair, no one really agrees on what Americana means. For some, it is about a certain sound; for others, a specific place; and some...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
Scenes From a Well-Worn Path (Side Two) – Music By Jeremy...
If debut albums are supposed to be the sound of an artist finding their feet, finding their sound, finding their way into the musical...
R&B/Soul
Paint The Sky, Pt. 1 – JoJo Green (reviewed by Dave...
If you kick off your record with some of the best funk bass work since Larry Graham dropped the mad and marvelous ‘POW’ on an unsuspecting...
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
Feasting – The Sway (HK remix) (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I love what The Sway has done with ‘Feasting,’ not only because it reminds you of what a great remix can achieve, but also because...
Hip-hop/Rap
Beat the System – Holland Izz & Tayo Fetti (reviewed by...
Although the title might sound like the sort of track fellow Compton -ites, NWA would have gone for, things have changed in the 35 or so years since...
Jazz/Blues
Planet Android – Shapes (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It’s not that Shapes don’t fit easily into one genre; it’s more that they fit too easily into many. But not through some lack of focus...
Classical/Instrumental
Unanswered – mokroïé (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I remember watching a short film years ago that visually chronicled a journey from the outer reaches of the known universe to the molecular-level...
Avant Garde
Body Without Organs – AD Ozium (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you like the idea of the three-minute pop song, of music that doesn’t require much engagement, a tune which can jig and jog...
Interviews
Reflections and reality: Modest Needs on healing the inner child and...
Modest Needs is the musical moniker of Thomas Modig, a singer-songwriter from Uppsala, Sweden, and with his reflective new single, ‘Ett bättre jag’ (‘A Better Me’), now 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
Just Might Be Enough – Young Martyrs (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Let’s be fair, no one really agrees on what Americana means. For some, it is about a certain sound; for others, a specific place; and some...
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
Scenes From a Well-Worn Path (Side Two) – Music By Jeremy (reviewed by Dave...
If debut albums are supposed to be the sound of an artist finding their feet, finding their sound, finding their way into the musical...
Stay – EverWill (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Ahead of next year’s six-track EP, EverWill gives us a glimpse of what’s to come, and it is pretty engaging stuff, especially if you like music...
Things to Make Do With – Fran Ashcroft (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Perhaps in keeping with an album of largely understated, totally authentic, honest, personal-sounding and deeply meaningful songs, Fran Ashcroft has made a point of avoiding all...
Be – Apple Eyes (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Travel broadens the mind, they say. So true. I’d even go so far as to say that the music made by people who have...
Whatcha Gunna Do?! – Courtney Hadwin (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If the art of making music that moves the ever-evolving wheel forward is to take inspiration from the past, wrap it in sonic trappings...
Rocket to The Moon – Patrick Doval (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Metaphor is a marvelous tool for the songwriter, and so, as Patrick Doval tells tales of looking for love in the stars, of finding the one...
