Southern-fried, surfed-out garage-psych!
England’s greats return with a brilliant new album!
Dense and dreamy goth-psych from Portland via the Moon
Click through for a free single from Lenny Zenith’s tough and tuneful new unit
The band’s debut offers alt-rock with a dark, theatrical streak
The solo debut from a veteran punk-rocker is everything but punk-rock.
Producer Michael O’Shea’s haunting remix of Chris Smith’s aching original
An auspicious debut by two boyhood friends from the island of Manhattan
Life is a cabaret, as the song goes, and Wasted Wine is clearly living la vida loca!
Tune in to Real Punk Radio at 12 noon Eastern today, January 26, for the first edition of Jack Rabid’s weekly Big Takeover Show! After the show airs, you can go to our new show page see the track listing and listen again or download.
Those who’ve enjoyed my weekly “Big Takeover” show on Breakthruradio.com the last six-and-a-half years, and have missed it the last month—or would just like to hear a weekly companion to Big Takeover magazine’s coverage—will be glad to know I will be resuming it in the same weekly 90-minute+, format, only listener-supported from now on, at our new home on Realpunkradio.com, starting this Monday, January 26!
Four truly exciting yet often somewhat dreamy-sounding up and comers we love! Click through to watch music videos by all four, and read my reviews of their most recent releases!
An album survives the Khmer Rouge to enchant us today.
A brilliant mixture of trippy tropicalia
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.
