Irish singer-songwriter Davie Furey’s new single, “History,” is a Celtic-folk-infused, synth-bolstered anthem begging to echo off arena walls. It’s a sound as big as its carpe-diem call to action.
The Asbury Park-based songwriting team of former Psychic TV bassist Alice Genese and Shaune Pony Heath, who operate as Ov Stars, are releasing their debut, Tuesdays.
With a handful of releases already under their belts (most recently 2021’s Highly Fascinated), Weiss and his collaborators return in 2022 with an ambitious double album, Sunglass & Ash.
A frequent collaborator in the Brooklyn music scene, Willis Willis is releasing his debut album Predazzled on April 22. The project explores themes of transformation with a refreshing emotional candor, mixing in elements of ’90s grunge, gothic Americana, and classic alt-rock.
Shot entirely at iconic Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn, Blake Morgan’s new video “Baby I Would Want You” re-teams the artist with New York City indie-filmmaker Alice Teeple.
“Orbit” is a video for song that’ll be included on songwriter/producer Alpha Cat’s upcoming Venus Smile EP. The track was written and produced by Alpha Cat aka Elizabeth McCullough and features Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams, John Mayer) on guitar, bassist Reggie McBride (Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Parliament) and Jason Harrison Smith on drums. It was mixed and mastered by the late Brett “Cosmo” Thorngren.
Alpha Rabbit recently released their compelling new single, “Eternity,” through New Jersey Indie label Mint 400 Records. Coming on April 15t,h the band drops their new album which is also titled Eternity. Today the Trenton, NJ trio brings you the premiere of the video for “Eternity”.
Equal parts melancholy and glitter, Chateau Chateau is an evolving community of musicians from Tuscon, Arizona making cathartic indie pop for weirdos, outcasts, queer folks, and anyone else who needs it.
Putnam’s urgent melodies, wrapped in just-slick-enough production, draw you in and keep you there. “Tension In The Air” is one of The March Divide’s best examples of this trick to date.
Today The Big Takeover is excited to be premiering “Open The Line,” the first single from Datura4’s new Neanderthal Jam LP.
Pleasingly loud, blown-out-speaker, hard-hitting melodic alt-rock from Lansing, Michigan
“Backslide’‘ is the second single from the Austin-based band’s forthcoming debut album, coming in late 2022. The single will be released this Friday on Shifting Sounds.
As the sun sets on an ever-heating planet, strange synthesizers converse in the distance, punctured by disco rhythms and interjected by saxophone growls, akin to a jukebox of divine sadistic temptations, oozing goth rock-esque melodies that forever haunt you… You have just been exposed to the groovy sonic onslaught of CSDM a.k.a. Celebrity Death Slot Machine, a collective based in Atlanta, Georgia that features current and former members of alternative outfits: Material Girls, Neighbor Lady, Mothers and Rose Hotel.
“I’m an eternal intern, celebrating the buzz.”
“Wound Too Tight” will be available to stream and download on all digital platforms this Friday, April 1.
A goldmine of dream pop and psychedelic folk, it’s the second take from the Atlanta-based outfit’s upcoming sophomore album. Listen to the exclusive single premiere today — only at The Big Takeover.
Sleepersound is a five-man collective, combining elements of Indie-rock, Jazz, and Krautrock, to a live mixed visual aesthetic weaving a real time soundtrack.
The Big Sway had played a particularly rowdy late-night set at a local festival.
Campbell’s version of “Shivers” appears on her sophomore EP Leave No Trace, which was released on Friday, March 25, and the lyric video was conceived, directed and edited by Joe Dean Hinkle.
Like a musical multivitamin, Caleb Nichols’ music weaves together the experience of a micro-mushroom-dosed pizza for your gay date night with the magnesium/iron combo of queer comedy and tragedy.
Shoe-gazing singer/songwriter Taylor Barefoot is priming a new album for release on April 8 — but the Big Takeover has an early peek at the record with the self-effacing, cinematic escape anthem “Why So Serious.”
Rhode Island-based alternative-pop artist El Valerie returns this spring with Tender Ardor, a new
album of expressive, endlessly catchy songs. Raised in Queens, New York, and currently residing
in Providence, she draws from various cultural and artistic influences to build a colorful creative
world.
Caterer reunites with bassist John San Juan (Hushdrops) and drummer John Perrin (NRBQ) for an electrifying performance recorded at SPACE, an intimate concert hall on Chicago’s north side.
Tomorrow, Calgary’s post-punk meets psychedelic pop outfit Sunglaciers will be releasing their new album, Subterranea, via Montreal imprint Mothland. Ahead of the album’s release, the Big Takeover is happy to premiere an early album stream of the record.
Politics, creativity, love, family relations and just telling a good storytelling have inspired the New York musician’s relationship with the art of writing and an ease with the insanity that is creativity.
Today, the Big Takeover premieres a new video by Fred called “Latest Jesus.” The song appears on his Creature, EP out Friday on Mother West.
On April 1, the raucous outfit from Bakersfield, California, will deliver their second full-length, Invisible Self. In their corner this time around is producer Jim Ward of At the Drive-In and Sparta fame.
The indie-pop quartet’s long-awaited debut LP is due to arrive later this year. But in the meantime, the Vancouver crew is feeding us a colorful new video to whet our appetite.
Due to drop Friday, Where Were We? might reference the pandemic, but its ebullient, smooth sound resembles anything but fear and frustration. Today, the Big Takeover is excited to present one of the tracks from the record.
With the horrors occurring in Ukraine amid Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the country, the Big Takeover has the distinct honor today of exclusively debuting a musical ray of hope originating from one of the best bands Ukraine has to offer.
The second single off the album Audience of Thoughts cements the effort as a raucous release. “I wanted the song to shred,” the musician behind the project told the Big Takeover.
The Honyock co-frontman’s creative new video finds him performing on a miniature set built entirely from recycled materials.
The song is a sunny, shimmering, irresistibly pleasant tune reminiscent of Brian Wilson that perfectly suits a video sequence in which a smiling young girl blows bubbles while prancing across the lawn.
New York rock n’ rollers, Jeremy & the Harlequins are premiering their new single, “Afterlife” exclusively on the Big Takeover. “Afterlife” is featured on the band’s upcoming album, ABRA CaDaBRA, out May 20 on Pasadena Records.
The song appears on the band’s debut album of 11 original songs, released on their own Secret Monkey Records. It was recorded at Mitch Easter’s Fidelitorium Recordings and was engineered, produced and mixed by Don Dixon (R.E.M., the Smithereens).
Guitarist/vocalist Daniel Kelley says the song is “about that dude that graduated high school five years ago but still throws parties at his parents’ house when they are outta town and still brags about the glory days.”
A supernatural flash of new wave and dream pop, it’s the latest from the Kansas City duo’s forthcoming debut album. Listen to the single premiere exclusively on The Big Takeover.
The second single from their forthcoming album, Wash, Rinse, Repeat, is a heartfelt guitar-led number, expressing sincere, unconditional love. Fans of the blues-rock band from L.A. get a chance to hear it first via our exclusive premiere.
The robust, resplendent songs on his new album, Gameblood, absorbs all the senses of the listener, with his open-hearted, lyrical storytelling evoking both tender wisdom and elegiac musical craftsmanship.
The Brooklyn-based indie-rock band’s philosophical message is that what’s past is prologue, and the future holds promise, but neither will count unless you make peace with the present.
Offering a little more focus and hocus pocus on this one, the group boasts that it is heavy on mid-‘80s “hood culture” energy on their new record, Hoodlums. Check out a video from it right here.
The Seattle trio of super-multi-instrumentalists steep themselves in nu-disco, synthwave and future bass on Density, which comes out Friday. But it’s a remarkable story of triumph that makes Surrealized a truly one-of-a-kind band.
The video features the ferocity of Liily’s raging live show, warped with bouncing strobes and black lights. It’s a raucous good time, and a perfect indicator of their amazing presence in a live capacity.
The Big Takeover is touched to be able to premiere a cartoonish yet nightmarish new video by the band. The song is featured on TBG’s new album, Cancel the World, which they eerily titled before the pandemic began.
The Los Angeles-based indie-pop artist continues to explore her acoustic singer-songwriter side with her new single, a haunting song about longing and loneliness.
When clubs shut down in 2020, the live recordist from Georgia began charting his own path by writing songs. Before he knew it, Simpson had an album in his hands. His friends in the Athens music scene contributed parts remotely for the upcoming LP, System Update.
On her forthcoming LP, Bird Language, the Lithuania-born, New York-based vocalist/composer forgoes the fictional narrative elements that characterized her previous releases, instead crafting a sonic portrait of the artist and the world that has shaped her.
The experimental pop group originally self-released Ad Hoc in May 2018. The new vinyl version, is released by Earth Libraries and will come with a free digital bonus track, “Thick of It,” for those who buy the vinyl.
United Ghosts’ Axel Ray Steurwald returns as CADET A on a tuneful power pop/rock single and fun music video where he meets a musical alien.
Collyn McCoy — a defiantly anarchistic, anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist multi-instrumentalist — unleashes his new metal/industrial project with an EP dropping Friday. Feast your ears (and eyes) on our exclusive premiere of the record — a stream presented in the form of a
