Members of The Mayan Factor, Telesma & (Damn) This Desert Air announce new band, Flowers For War.

Paige Su traces life-journey from darkness and the specter of death to lightness, acceptance and – above all – love on “You’ll Live Forever in My Songs”.

C.C. Voltage Releases New Single “Berliner Pilsner” On Spain’s Snap Records.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of Video Premiere: “To Love Somebody” by Eva & The Vagabond Tales featuring Bob Cowsill.

JoobieSeaz returns with another killer dreampop/indie single “Something New” via Pyrrhic Victory Recordings.

Seattle-based STAHV premieres anthemic post-punk track “Love 4 Nothing” from Simple Mercies EP.

Spaghetti Eastern Music returns to instrumental mode with blistering electronica-driven acoustic blues, “A Fresh Kill”.

Psych/Shoegaze outfit Cult of Lip announce their upcoming debut full-length by releasing new video for the first single, “Surrender”.

The killer new full-length from San Francisco’s Steakhouse is a modern post-punk masterpiece.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “Dopamine Blues” by Turn Turn Turn.

Chris Picco offers pure power-pop bliss with his new single “Time Changes Everything” from the album Split Down The Middle, available March 22.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “The Days Are Long, But the Years Are Short” by No Time For Caution.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of the first single and video from Star Collector’s sixth full-length album, ‘Attack, Sustain, Decay… Repeat’

San Tropez is blazing a path with their stoner-pop single, “Valley and the Shore,” from their forthcoming debut album Maybe Tomorrow, out on Mint 400 Records later this month.

A follow-up to their last release, In The Distance, Where It Doesn’t Matter is an angsty, high-energy track with a definite early oughts feel, perfect to get one’s hips swaying despite its lyrical basis in a tumultuous emotional struggle.

My Best Bets On Another Great Year For Music, Old And New. Hope This List Inspires You To Find, Or Give A Second Look To, A Few Great Releases You Might Miss Otherwise That You End Up Truly Loving—In This Year of Post-Pandemic Outpouring! (It’s My Longest List Ever!)

Good news! Big Takeover Issue #91 Fall 2022 with The Beths on the cover is now out! It should be arriving in stores now or may have just hit the shelves (please ask for it by name!), and subscriber copies have been mailed and will arrive shortly! And if you haven’t already, you can subscribe for yourself and/or your friends as a holiday or birthday gift, or send away for our juicy back issues! (All 90 are get-able!) All straight from our secure Shopify online store!

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French darkgazers Pam Risourié return with “You Are the Sound” from their upcoming record “Days of Distortion”, continuing their commitment to blending niche genres of 90’s-era shoegaze with more contemporary post-rock persuasions.

Sleepyhead releases video for “New Alchemy,” the title track from their new album, filmed at the Cape Cod location that inspired the song!

Big Takeover is excited to hos the premiere of “It Must Have Been Love” [Roxette Cover] by Covert Stations.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of Elephant EP by Electric Pets.

“Shot Thru”, the second single from The Whiffs’ much-anticipated sophomore album Scratch ‘N’ Sniff is in the air! Not just Another Whiffs record, it’s the NEXT Whiffs record, and it’s here to tickle all of your senses! Recommend if you DIG!: The Whiffs’ previous output, Stiff Records, The Mats, The Rubs and any era of the Fab Four.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “Obvious” by Push Puppets.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “Outside” by Dana Why.

Good news! Big Takeover Issue #91 Fall 2022 with The Beths on the cover has nearly been completed and will be out shortly! But hurry to order—pre-orders and subscriptions are best/crucial! And they are much cheaper than ordering after we have to turn in our mailing list to the printer.

And it’s just in time for the perfect Christmas, Chanukah, other holidays, birthday, or other gift, even to yourself: Big Takeover Magazine subscriptions and back issues (like the big enchilada, complete set 1980-2022)! Plus Children’s sizes for our T-Shirts (to go with several Men’s and Women’s sizes) in three colors, as well as our Big Takeover Beer Cozies and (signed if you like) Color 30th Anniversary Festival Posters, or our CDs!

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “The Bomb” by Emily Duff.

“We didn’t really have a goal in mind, we just kinda let these songs fall out of us with little regard towards it being likable, we wrote these songs for us because that’s what we’ve always done.” – Collin Smith

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “Midlife Suicide” by Underlined Passages.

Montreal psych rockers Atsuko Chiba premiere experimental new single “Link”.

The Mortal Prophets’ newest single is a “contemporary reimagining” of the Delta blues classic, “Grinnin In Your Face,” written by Son House in the 1960s and later covered by Andrew Bird and Beck.

Glam Punk Pioneers The Black Halos Return With Anticipated New LP “How the Darkness Doubled”

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “Late Night Ramble” by Doug Hoekstra.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “White Flag” by Saline.

Legendary producer Martin Bisi releases video for ‘A Storm Called Ida’, the first single from Feral Myths.

Embark on a road trip along Los Angeles’ iconic Sunset Strip with “Back to the Start” by James Houlahan.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “A Modern Olympia” by Little Fuss.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “When You Get Tired” by Renee Maskin.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “Nothing Is Real” by The Endorphins.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “Afterglow” by Pacifico.

Big Takeover is stoked to host the premiere of David Wilson and the Summer Husbands latest EP “The Only Reward”.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “Torchbearer” by Sonofdov.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “Shangri La” by Moonchy & Tobias.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of “Hush” by Stephen Mallinder.

Big Takeover is excited to host the premiere of K.O. by Komodos.

Prog-leaning alt/power-pop/new wave Boston-based trio ELSEWHERE release their musically adventurous and evocative concept album LIFE…IS A FRACTION on 11/4. Hear the exclusive stream now at Big Takeover.

Philly ska-punk band Catbite covers The World/Inferno Friendship Society’s “A Night in the Woods” off the upcoming LP Endless Possibility: A Tribute To Jack Terricloth out this Halloween (Oct. 31) in support of the Jack Terricloth Foundation’s memorial shows.

Brooklyn indie label Perpetual Doom, who has been releasing incredible independent releases since 2014 has just unleashed a new Misfits cover compilation to celebrate Halloween with 100% of the proceeds being donated to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV).

The beautiful new single from Aaron James’ upcoming full-length is an indie folk gem co-produced by Kid Maestro.

The A.M.s release introspective and raw indie-folk debut album, Ignite the Sky.

On Fast We Fall, the new LP from Trumpeter Swan, multi-instrumentalist Drew Patrizi crafts immaculately layered indie rock imbued with urgent, crackling energy. Big Takeover has an exclusive full-album premiere in advance of the records release this Friday.