Sacramento, CA · swancore · post-hardcore

Dance Gavin Dance

3 upcoming festivals

Swancore's funk-flecked flagship — technicolor riffs and dual-vocal whiplash, a prolific catalog that never stopped mutating.

Dance Gavin Dance formed in Sacramento, California in 2005 and have become one of the defining bands of the style now called swancore. The group is built around guitarist Will Swan, whose funk- and math-rock-influenced playing gives the music its jittery, brightly coloured character, and a two-vocalist format that pairs clean singing with screamed passages.

The band has cycled through several vocalists across its career, with Jonny Craig, Kurt Travis and Tilian Pearson each fronting different eras alongside longtime unclean vocalist Jon Mess. Their catalogue is large and released at a steady clip, and their records tend to combine intricate riffing, sudden tempo shifts and pop-leaning choruses.

swancorepost-hardcore