Blog Rocking Beat Mix Vol. 1 is the first in a series of artist and songs features right here on Blog Rocking Beat. In this collection, we highlight an eclectic mix of elemtronic, ambient, indie and rock choons.

1ne. Train – Younger Brother
2wo. Roulette – Grand Pianoramax
3ree. New Year – FM Belfast
4our. Raw Spectacle (Pantha Remix) – Miracle Fortress
5ive. Horse Fury – Scarlet Season
6ix. Touching Down – Therapies Son
7ven. Birds of North America – Merdith Bragg
8ght. Baby, I Will Leave You In The Morning – Marissa Nadler
9ine. Cassette 2012 – Delay Trees
10n. Heat Lightning – Moonlight Towers
11ven. Locomocion Capillar – Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Proclaimed “amazing” by Performing Songwriter for creating what the Chicago Reader calls “perfectly molded power-pop,” Moonlight Towers is “Austin’s favorite three-minute heroes” according to the Austin American-Statesman and the renowned music city’s “finest power pop export” (Pop Culture Press).

Moonlight Towers is celebrating the recent release of its third album Day Is The New Night, out now on Austin’s Chicken Ranch label, with a hometown Austin show at famed venue, Antone’s on April 30th. The band will then be heading out on a two-week tour that will take it around the Eastern half of the US with shows in Chicago, New York and down south to Mississippi and Alabama.

On Day Is The New Night, the band’s third long-player, the foursome delivers its finest and richest offering yet. Such superlatives become viscerally tangible the moment the band steamrolls into “Heat Lightning,” (hear it here) the disc’s aptly named lead track. The timeless potency of two mighty guitars and muscular bass and drums bring urgency, buoying vocals that alternately sear and soar.

Moonlight Towers Tour Dates
04/29 San Antonio, TX @ Boneshakers w/ Snowbyrd
04/30 Austin, TX @ Antone’s Austin CD Release Show
05/12 Houston, TX @ Continental Club w/ Electric Heights
05/14 Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry’s
05/15 Birmingham, AL @ The Nick
05/16 Nashville, TN @ The Basement
05/17 Knoxville, TN @ Longbranch Saloon
05/19 Raleigh, NC @ Slim’s Downtown Distillery
05/22 Brooklyn, NY @ Southpaw
05/23 New York, NY @ Pianos w/ Battle Circus
05/26 Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern w/ Mother Hips
05/28 Kansas City, MO @ Czar Bar