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
Rev It Up – Divergent (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I know that art, and obviously music is included in such a label, can be about holding a mirror up to who we are;...
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
Civilization – Forgotten Garden (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Such a poised song, such a poignant theme. As the title perhaps suggests, this latest song from this Scottish-Portuguese duo takes a look at...
Pop/Power Pop
The lost art of making friends – Messy Eater (reviewed by...
'The lost art of making friends' makes for a cool song title, but it also gets to the heart of one of the problems...
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
A Day of Unrest – Eleven 76 (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
In a world where gatekeepers of taste and style seem hell-bent on shoehorning music into this fad or that fashion, labelling it a certain...
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
Rev It Up – Divergent (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I know that art, and obviously music is included in such a label, can be about holding a mirror up to who we are;...
Ozark Moon – Jonivan Jones (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something old, honest and authentic about the music found on these two tracks that make up Jonivan Jones new offering, something at...
Folk Kitchen – Franc Cinelli (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Franc Cinelli has been on an interesting journey since our paths last crossed, including making albums of a more ambient, soundscaping nature and music...
Gloom – Cabbage Patch Kill Dolls (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something about the repetitiveness of the lyrics and the restlessness of the music that sets up an inherent tension at the heart...
Civilization – Forgotten Garden (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Such a poised song, such a poignant theme. As the title perhaps suggests, this latest song from this Scottish-Portuguese duo takes a look at...
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...
