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?

This adventurous trio asks the musical question: “Just what is pop music anyway?”

Also on this week’s show: Radio Birdman, Teenage Fanclub, Buzzcocks, Guided By Voices, Darker My Love, Sleepover Disaster, Secret Shine, Springhouse, Belle & Sebastian, Jeremy Enigk, Mark Eitzel, Greg Graffin, The Libertines U.S., The Reducers, and Robert Forster

The first single off the new album by the legendary NYC underground producer, composer and drummer extraordinaire.

Also featured: songs by Wire, The Undertones, and 10 bands Dot Dash members used to play in: Swervedriver, Minor Threat, Youth Brigade (D.C.), Julie Ocean, The Saturday People, Ultracherry Violet, Strange Boutique, St. Christopher, Glo-Worm, and Tree Fort Angst!

We were so enchanted by this thing that we had to know more about how and why it was made, so we invited Goodwin and Smith to share their thoughts.

The title track from the new EP by Brooklyn’s post-punk dream-poppers

Also on this week’s show: Omi Palone, Soft Science, Cheatahs, +/- (Plus/Minus), Sad Lovers & Giants, Allah-Las, Dot Dash (Live “Rabid Session” at Pancake Factory Studios), Guided By Voices (new), The New Mendicants, Eagulls, Daydream Machine, Nothing, The History of Colour TV, and The Sensible Grey Cells

It’s the debut single from the band’s new, self-titled album.

Also on this week’s show: Roddy Frame (new), Salem 66, Long Blondes, Cramps, Penetration, Upset, Maximo Park, (Paul Collins’) The Beat, Split Single, Nomads, Guided By Voices (new), Slowdive, The Millions, The Steinbecks, and Kristin Hersh (new)

Also on this week’s show: Bevis Frond, Dum Dum Girls, The Rifles, Kaleidoscope, Elvis Costello, Rudi, The Last, 1956 Johnny Burnette Trio, The Joykiller, I Was a King, Minor Alps, Trick Mammoth, Bubblegum Lemonade, Go-Betweens, and 1971 Electric Light Orchestra.

First single from the San Diego-based singer/songwriter’s sophomore release.

Also on this week’s show: Baby Strange, BNLX, Soft Science, Dead Leaf Echo, Mountain Man (live), Prophet Hens, , Real Estate, Mega City Four, Marc Ganancias, X,Wire, Noh Mercy, Catherine Wheel, Headshy, andWithered Hand

Check out this awesome profile by Eugene S. Robinson of Jack Rabid and The Big Takeover on OZY!

New acoustic music from a Canadian punk-rocker turned gold prospector.

Also featured: songs by Half String, Slowness, Mighty Lemon Drops, Ringo Deathstarr, Lush, Highspire, Beach Fossils, and Nothing (Dead Leaf Echo session), and Male Bonding,The History of Apple Pie, Milk Music, Sonic Youth,Waaves, Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine and Metz (Cheatahs session)

Click this thing and jump around!

Also on this week’s show: Bevis Frond, Soft Science, Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five (1946), The Beat (Paul Collins’), Pezband, Shoes, Dwight Twilley Band, The Chills (live), Violens, Dead Leaf Echo, The Black Watch, Warbles, Scattered Bodies, and Trespassers William

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.