Premiers
Single Premiere: Nicht Nur – DegHerl (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I love the way that DegHerl manages to blend the big and bombastic with the deft and the delicate on their latest single, “Nicht Nur.” It...
Rock/Punk/Metal
Everything – MARYSGARDEN (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you are anything like me, your overall impression of this new album from MARYSGARDEN is likely to be one of scale. Even when the...
Post Punk/Goth
War – Hollow Shift (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Taking the stark and attention-grabbing War as its title, this triptych of songs explores the concept in its various forms, from the internal battles we all...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
Houston – Frank Joshua (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Frank Joshua is not the first person to have had a problem in Houston, but his tale is perhaps the most sonically beautiful, cosmic in...
Indie
Twelve – Ammar Farooki (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It is sometimes easy to forget, especially with contemporary music, that just because something is entertaining and accessible, it can also be intelligent and...
Pop/Power Pop
Come Over/About You – Mick Eddy (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Having spent a lifetime (so far) moving through many countries and cultures and musically wandering through many sounds and styles, it comes as no...
Folk/Country
Chapters – Tom Moriarty (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If Tom Moriaty ever felt any trepidation regarding the more electric guitar-driven path he is pursuing on his latest album Chapters, just one spin of opener, “The...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
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...
R&B/Soul
State of Mind – Darryl Scotti and Big Yard (reviewed by...
If the original version of “State of Mind” ran on a soul-soaked strut and gentle boogey-some rhythms, 2026 sees it reemerge as a more...
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
Mercedes Lament – NUTRI3NT (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Blending cutting-edge, electronic grooves and a timeless folk vocal, “Mercedes Lament” is the sound of worlds, not to mention eras, genres, scenes, and styles,...
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
Navigating the Madness – Franky Fugazi (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is a path that blues took, perhaps since the eighties, that has delivered big, polished, sanitized albums from big-name, polished, sanitized artists, a...
Classical/Instrumental
Music For Walking – Eythor Arnalds (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Just as Iceland is a place where worlds collide – myth and modernity, fire and ice, beauty and harshness, so that landscape in all its conflications...
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
Duke Special – Live at The Tuppenny, Swindon, 25th Nov ’25...
You are obviously doing something right when, without public proclamation or posters or posts, you can fill a venue to the brim on a...
Swindon
The Grass & Time Soundscape Lecture @ Richard Jefferies Museum
The Grass & Time Soundscape Lecture
National Meadows Day – Richard Jefferies Museum
Saturday 4 July 2026 | 2:00 pm–4:30 pm
Part environmental lecture, part live performance,...
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
Come Over/About You – Mick Eddy (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Having spent a lifetime (so far) moving through many countries and cultures and musically wandering through many sounds and styles, it comes as no...
Chapters – Tom Moriarty (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If Tom Moriaty ever felt any trepidation regarding the more electric guitar-driven path he is pursuing on his latest album Chapters, just one spin of opener, “The...
Twelve – Ammar Farooki (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It is sometimes easy to forget, especially with contemporary music, that just because something is entertaining and accessible, it can also be intelligent and...
Houston – Frank Joshua (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Frank Joshua is not the first person to have had a problem in Houston, but his tale is perhaps the most sonically beautiful, cosmic in...
Die of Love – Silver Summer (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If, like me, your only taste of Silver Summer so far has been a stripped-down, live piano version of “Breath,” “Closer”, which comes crashing in to...
Don’t Waste My Time (LA Mix) – 4fro Nick (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Given that 4fro Nick is effortlessly able to blend funky grooves and acid-soaked blues guitars with bubbling synths and the sound of tight, modern production, I...
