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…
If ever a video was made for full-screen viewing, it’s this one!
[Updated, corrected for correct time:] It’s tomorrow, Friday, August 15, 5-8 PM Eastern Standard Time, 3-6 PM Mountain time on Bozeman, MT’s KGLT, and can be streamed at kglt.net. Thanks to KGLT legend Ron Sanchez!
Daydream Machine are back with another cool video from their fine 2014 album.
Also on this week’s show: Omi Palone, The Muffs (new), The Reducers, Alvvays, Beverly, Penetration, The Specials, Madness, The Ruts, Flower (live Rabid Session), The KVB, Clustersun, Savage Republic (new), and The Sensible Grey Cells. Cool!
This tune, off their third and latest record, Dirty Looks, knocked us out with its irresistible blend of Blur‘s “Song 2” and the Velvet Underground‘s “Sweet Jane.”
An all-star band including Garth Hudson delivers on this Paul Simon cover from Florence’s debut album.
In their second video from Stereo Types, Very Americans gives a whole new meaning to “faceless” rock. Joke! This is great, watch it.
Also on this week’s show: La Sera, Drive By Truckers, George Jones, Martin Carr (new), The Muffs (new), Cheatahs, The War on Drugs, Sad Lovers and Giants, Conor Oberst, The Clean, David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights (new), Slowdive, and Scud Mountain Boys
The King of Power Pop returns with a new album!
Russia’s Sounds of Sputnik has paired up with Canadian-Ukrainian duo Ummagma for his debut album, New Born.
Rock n’ roll is a universal language, and you can’t find better evidence of that than this fine new song from Argentina’s renowned melodic noise rockers.
Also on this week’s show: Bob Mould (new), Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Dum Dum Girls, SPC ECO, Elbow, Teenage Fanclub, Pale Lights, Prophet Hens, Rock City (Big Star), Flower, Chino, Bevis Frond, and Mountain Man (live)
Good news! Big Takeover #74 Spring/Summer 2014 issue with Dum Dum Girls on the cover is out on the stands! And there’s still time for the perfect gift: Big Takeover magazine subscriptions and back issues!
With the July 11 passing of drummer Tommy Ramone from bile duct cancer, the original quartet that launched 1,000 others are consigned to memory, film, and record.
This tune is loud and lazy, gritty and pretty and we like it a lot. Hope y’all agree.
Here’s a fine thing for a lazy summer’s evening.
Also on this week’s show: Cocoanut Groove, Slowness (new), The Rifles, Kaleidescope (U.K.), Allah-Las, Math and Physics Club, Maximo Park, The Steinbecks, Shoes, The Ramones, Beverly, The Outskirts, and Roddy Frame (new).
Indeed, The Stone Roses remains an immortal moment in modern British pop history. A quarter century on, one is still held enthralled by John Squire’s lovely, commanding yet beautiful guitar passages, Mani’s booming, loping bass, and Reni’s kick-drum-heavy grooves, backing a bravura performance from smallish, po-faced frontman Ian Brown, whose almost whispery trilling belies an essential brashness. There’s not a false moment, from the opening buildup of the says-it-all “I Wanna Be Adored” to the concluding, psychedelic funky freak-out of the (also self-explanatory) “I am the Resurrection.”
Also on this week’s show: Soft Science, Lightfoils (new), +/- (Plus/Minus), Sad Lovers and Giants, The Weirdos, Penetration, Radio Birdman (live), Bob Mould (new), Replacements, The Last, Throwing Muses, Tanya Donelly, Lisa Mychols, and an oldie by New Riders of the Purple Sage!
The New York band’s new single, “Walk Away,” is a four-minute mini-suite, swooping and soaring through riveting twists and turns.
Also featured: songs byThe Stooges, MC5, Saints, New Christs, Birdman and other Tek bands/projects of the past and present, Donovan’s Brain, The Visitors, Angie Pepper, and New Race
We can’t imagine a better way to kick off the weekend than this bouncy, infectious, yet also melancholy number from this sprawling East Coast chamber-folk collective.
Also on this week’s show: Bob Mould (new), Real Estate, Cheatahs, Upset, Screaming Females (live), Deniz Tek, Guided By Voices (new), Omi Palone, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Ken Stringfellow, House of Love, Goya Dress, and Gene.
Summer’s here! And the time is right for this here new video by Baltimore art-poppers New God.
However, the film instead chooses to focus on the music and on Bisi’s life story.
Mysterious, elegant, visually arresting: yes it’s another stunning video from Woodstock, NY-based producer, engineer, musician, and video auteur D. James Goodwin.
Talk about pedigree: the credits on this new song and video by NY/NJ-based Heroes of Toolik is like a Who’s Who of underground music.
Also on this week’s show: Flying Colours, First Communion Afterparty, Ty Segall, Elvis Costello, SPC ECO, The War on Drugs, Kaleidescope (U.K.), Veronica Falls, Cheap Star, Dot Dash (Rabid Session Live at Pancake Factory Studios), Victim,The Forty Nineteens, and The Spits
We instantly fell in love with this quietly emotional video.
Also on this week’s show: Maximo Park, Valery Trails, Chan Romero, The Rifles, Dum Dum Girls, Math & Physics Club, Dot Dash (Live “Rabid Session” at Pancake Factory Studios), New Model Army, Procol Harum (live), The Starlight Run, Negative Lovers, Wax Idols, White Blush, Last Remaining Pinnacle, and Headshy
“Young Prayer” is from the foursome’s debut full-length, Onfim Goes to War, available July 1 via Smacktone Records. Are you ready for the weekend?
