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Happy Holidays from The Big Takeover!
Good news! Big Takeover #75 Fall 2014 issue with The Raveonettes on the cover is out on the stands! And there’s still time for the perfect holiday gift: Big Takeover magazine subscriptions and back issues (like the big enchilada, complete set 1980-2014)! Plus six children’s sizes for our T-Shirts (to go with several Mens’ and Womens’ sizes) in three colors, as well as our Big Takeover Accessories (Beer Cozies, Buttons, and Magnets!) and (signed if you like) Color 30th Anniversary Festival Posters! What a way to say “Happy Holidays!”
Space is the place for producer and multi-instrumentalist Wharton Tiers
An exclusive first listen to the first album in eighteen years from Brighton’s indie-pop stalwarts
You can help defray production, printing, and pressing costs for a groundbreaking compilation of 25 bands from South America
A record you can play in your CD player, and a CD you can play on your turntable? What?
A powerful 30-minute trip into a world that is not your home.
Veteran Austin-based producer releases his first solo album in 18 years
An unreleased bonus track from a new reissue of the band’s 1986 debut
A decade in the making, a gorgeous, mysterious debut.
An outtake from his new Static Noise LP covers the Ronettes classic
It will begin shipping any day now, so you should see it quite soon! Click through for details!
This scorching soul number conjures up the spirit of Jeff Buckley’s Memphis recordings. Enjoy!
Pogo ‘neath the mistletoe with this early Christmas present from Future Perfect!
Have some fun!
The frustration and yearning in this catchy tune will strike a nerve with anyone trying to navigate the Gotham dating scene!
LP4 goes full-on Lovecraft in this epic, insane new video!
Watch the video and then click through to hear the remix!
So many influences come to bear on this track, it’s hard to encapsulate in just a few words, so why don’t we just shut up and let you decide for yourself, hmmm?
The trio has a new singer but they’ve still never been in the same place at the same time.
Give us a triple dose of this bluesy garage-rock!
Bensalem, PA’s The Burgeoning meet the masses with an excellent EP, out today.
Rocket 3 strap on the quads and give new meaning to the term “jam band” in this charming video featuring the members of Portland Renegade Roller Derby.
Holy crap! We’ve got the new album by The Primitives!
A sense of loss and longing pervades this evocative and beautifully filmed video, directed by Ryan Browne.
Sunny California rock quintet The Gromble will release their debut EP later this month, and heralding the event is this charming, funny and peculiar video.
A chance meeting with a future pop star led to a new life — and some really good music.
When your first music teacher is James Brown’s drummer, and Steve Miller teaches you how to play guitar, you’re in for an interesting life.
The swan song for a micro-indie is the magnificent new album by an unsung New Jersey music stalwart.
A perennial Big Takeover fave, The Jigsaw Seen has made Jack Rabid’s Top 40 countless times over the last two decades. We are thrilled to debut Old Man Reverb in its entirety, exclusively on BigTakeover.com!
Whether you’re home in front of a desktop, sipping coffee with your laptop or on the go with your mobile device, The Big Takeover Store is ready to serve you.
Dirty and beautiful, Comerford’s latest will appeal to fans of Lou Reed, Bill Callahan (SMOG), Neil Young.
We love this “old school, messy guitar rock” from the Texas band’s upcoming second album.
Also airing this week: Pale Lights, Jet Black (new), History of Apple Pie (new), Sloan (new), Paul Collins (new), Byrds, Pretty Things, Kinks, Zombies, Roddy Woomble & Band (new, live), Luluc, (new), Roddy Frame, and Tim Hardin.
A rockin’ new tune from the NYC band’s upcoming third album.
The charming second volume in an EP series from a former contestant on The Voice.
Also airing this week: Valery Trails, Cheatahs, Proper Ornaments, Wesley Wolfe, Moose, Idaho, Talk Talk, Luff, Bob Mould, Replacements, Suicide Commandos, Suburbs, Loud Fast Rules, and Rogue Wave
MammaBear turned us on with its rough and reverb-laden retro-rock sound!
Dream-pop fans will love this song from a new band comprised of members of Aberdeen, Fonda and Trembling Blue Stars.
Sparkling, ambitious indie-pop from a Brooklyn-based duo.
This video from Australia’s Closure In Moscow defies explanation.
This Sacramento, California-based foursome’s new album, Detour, won a coveted #2 ranking in Jack Rabid’s Top 40 listing in the latest Big Takeover #74.
Echoes of ’70s prog and Laurel Canyon folk-rock intermingle in this anything-but-retro new song from the Boston-based singer/songwriter.
Quebec’s Jet Black returns with a spectacular follow-up to its 2011 debut.
As longtime fans, we’re especially pleased to be premiering this video for the first single from the band’s new, fourth LP, their first in three years.
A dead night in a moody lounge turns around for Portland’s Hawks Do Not Share when a mysterious stranger walks through the door. Spolier alert! He’s not what he seems…
