A genre-bending instrumental from the Athens-based band’s new album.

Also on this week’s show: The Valery Trails, Great Ytene, Soft Science, Daydream Machine, Jigsaw Scene, Guided By Voices, People’s Temple, Gene, The Sensible Grey Cells, Irving Kaufman, The Moondogs (Irish 1979), The Last, 65s, We Are Hex, and Scud Mountain Boys

I’m proud and pleased to present the exclusive Big Takeover premiere of this great video from Daydream Machine’s excellent new album, Twin Idols!

Irie Idea takes a traditionalist view of blues, ska and rocksteady reggae and juices it with the energy of the punk rock on which the duo was weaned.

This weird and wonderful video was filmed with a Super 8 camera on a glidecam in abandoned buildings around Atlanta.

Also on this week’s show: Kitchens of Distinction, BLNX, Withered Hand, Sultans of Ping F.C., D.O.A., X, Marc Ganancias, The Spits, Toy, The New Mendicants, Small Faces, The Kinks, The Equals, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, and Inventions!

An exclusive first taste of the BJM tambourine man’s solo debut!

Also on this week’s show: Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band, [Vancouver 79 tribute: Private School, D.O.A., Dishrags, Young Canadians, Subhumans (Canada)], Cheatahs, Seasurfer, Nothing, New Model Army, Minor Alps, Blake Rainey & His Demons, HeadShy, and William Fitzsimmons

Also on this week’s show: The Sensible Grey Cells, Cocoanut Groove, Real Estate, Maximo Park, Gene, Humphreys & Keen, Trick Mammoth, Prophet Hens, Popstrangers, The Chills (live), Paul Revere & the Raiders, People’s Temple, Nine Times Blue, The Breaks, and Iggy & the Stooges. Hey, why not tune in? You might like it!

Some questions from the audience made me think that it truly is a new world order: “What’s a good number of hits on Youtube before you’re interested?”

Producer/engineer Daniel James Goodwin returns with an impressionistic but brutal look at domestic violence.

Live At Galapagos Art Space is available for only $5 on the band’s Bandcamp store, and if you want to help the group fund the project, they’re giving away the actual album for only $10 contribution to their Indiegogo campaign — which concludes this Wednesday, April 2, so bet to act fast!

Also on this week’s show: Withered Hand, New Mendicants, The Sensible Grey Cells, Real Estate, Dandelion Seeds, Dead Leaf Echo, Blouse, Iggy & the Stooges (R.I.P. Scott Asheton), D.O.A. (live), 999, September Girls, and Aztec Camera (Kid Jensen BBC Session) Hey, why not tune in? You might like it!

The Big Takeover is very pleased and proud to present the exclusive world premiere of Wild Sometimes the first album in 15 years by the brilliant ’90s indie-rock band Sleepyhead! Have a listen and scroll down for a brief history of this great band.

Also on this week’s show: Sensible Grey Cells, Cheap Star, Electric Light Orchestra (1971, American Hustle connection), Eagulls, Sebadoh, D.O.A. (live), Spits, The Choir (1966), Eddie Fontaine (1958), Teresa Jennings, Everly Brothers (1960), Pete Seeger (live, 1962), Warbles, Dog Age, and Allo Darlin. Hey, why not tune in? Might be good!

To celebrate the March 21 premiere of Blondie’s New York, a documentary abut the making of Parallel Lines, on the Smithsonian Channel, 10 lucky winners will be chosen at random to get one of five copies of Blondie: Video Hits on DVD or five copies of Blondie: Greatest Hits on CD.

Also onThis week’s show: Sensible Grey Cells, Robbie Fulks, Plus/Minus (+/-), Zebra Hunt, Magnet School, Supergrass, Susanna (with Helge Sten and John Paul Jones), and the Big Easy history salute: Fats Domino, Huey Piano Smith and the Clowns, Ernie K. Doe, Smiley Lewis, and Professor Longhair! Why not tune in?

The long overdue bio reveals, for the very first time, Chilton’s early success and adventures in The Box Tops, exposes new and interesting details to the Big Star story, and gives frank insight into a somewhat arduous career.

For those who enjoy Big Takeover Magazine, you might like my weekly radio show too, as I play a lot of stuff that is covered in our pages. New show today!

It’s not often that a young band cites Queen, Rush and Supertramp as primary influences, but that is in fact the case with this amazing Vancouver-based quartet.

“A white melting substance drizzles down the face of the shirtless creep in a state of mortal discomfort.”

The band’s third release offers ten tracks about unrequited lust, love and heartache.

The shoegazing couple offers an appropriately dreamy take on a classic single.

We really dig this greasy track!

Louisiana quintet Mahayla returns from the dead with their first album in 14 years.

Today’s song premiere comes to us from Chicago indie band, Divino Niño. Members Camilo Medina and Javier Forero met in Bogota, Colombia when they were very young, reunited in Miami in 2003, and have been playing music together ever since.

Congratulations to Teri of Broken Arrow, OK; David of East Earl, PA; and Gary of Akron, OH — winners of our Johnny Marr merch contest!

Neither fifes nor sousaphones, but an abundance of bright melodies and effervescent arrangements on this Swedish duo’s third LP.

Yeah, we’re diggin’ this tune, and not just because it reminds us of “Pretty In Pink” by Psychedelic Furs.

Jump around to the first single from the new album by the Birmingham-based singer-songwriter.

BigTakeover.com, in an exclusive arrangement with Alternative Distribution Alliance and Sire Records, is giving our American site visitors a chance to win cool merch from Johnny Marr’s recent U.S. tour! Click through for details!

All in all, this book is a terrific read and I had trouble putting it down, barreling through its 400 or so pages quite quickly. If you are a former City Gardens patron or a fan of the ’80s and early ’90s underground music scene, this book is for you.

Beat the arctic chill with our exclusive premiere of the new album by Kat Burns and Kashka!

We at The Big Takeover are again pleased and proud to support human rights activist Robert Park in his efforts on behalf of the oppressed people of North Korea.

Last Call! Just a reminder that there’s still time for the perfect X-mas gift: Big Takeover magazine! Our brand new Fall/Winter issue 73 with (ex-Smiths guitarist) Johnny Marr cover is out on the stands, in case you want to treat yourself (you little devil!). Or indeed, if you want a holiday gift subscription for your friends or family whom you think would enjoy our pages (or one of our t-shirts including all womens’, childrens’ and infants’ sizes, or any of our back issues, or our CDs, or our “accessories,” our buttons, magnets, signed 30th anniversary festival posters or beer cozies), either way you can still order on our secure online store (or check or paypal). Order right away and we will be glad to send the package by priority mail to ensure it gets there fast and on time!

We’ve got a soft spot in our heart for so-called “bedroom musicians”, so naturally this video resonated. “Ducks In A Row” is the first single off Sherman Baker’s self-titled third LP, slated for release February 11, 2013.

Brooklyn/Queens band Beachniks have released their first music video for a special instrumental party mix of “Romeo Chang,” originally off of their self-released debut full-length, In Color, from earlier this year.

Good news! Big Takeover #73 Fall 2013 issue with ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr 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! 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!”

This song is so peaceful and gorgeous, it makes everything OK.

This lovely song, from the Seattle-based dream-pop band’s second LP, Things to Figure Out

Alternative blues featuring the inimitable sax playing of Dana Colley, ex-Morphine.

From Peru via Brooklyn, this song’s peppery, clap-happy percussive drive is as refreshing as a Pisco Sour. ¡Disfrute!

Snowflake is the new project of producer/engineer D. James Goodwin.

The new album from New Orleans’ Delta Psych combo

Just a reminder that there’s still time to pre-order our brand new Big Takeover #73 Fall 2013 issue that will likely ship this week some time! Or subscribe! Either way, if you get in your new order, we will be glad to rush you your copy straight from the printer when the do their mail out upon completion of its printing and binding! And remember, we only come our twice a year, every Spring and Fall, so you don’t want to miss one of our jam-packed 140-page issues!

A song about a sailor who crashes into an island and gets captured by robots who try and throw him into a volcano but he gets saved by animals at the last second.