Once again the big news is that Big Takeover #73 Fall 2013 issue was completed in Brooklyn, NY, Helena, MT, and Oakland, CA this month! Pre-order – Subscribe – Renew – Great gifts! Click through for a quick description of its contents.
The second music video by anti-genocide activist and songwriter Robert Park.
This slinky, atmospheric tune is taken from Jahnke’s upcoming LP Lamplighter.
Powerful new music from a dream-pop supergroup.
Fans of Uncle Tupelo and Avett Brothers, pull up a chair and set a spell.
My guest on this month’s radio sessions, the “Rabid Sessions at Pancake Factory” show for Breakthruradio.com, is New York’s own orchestral pop/ indie pop marvels The Sharp Things! Listen now!
We are crushing hard on this wild and wooly duo.
Citing the influence of David Lynch and the method acting techniques of Stanislavski, the Austin, Texas-based trio Migrant Kids creates an ethereal yet primal psychedelic experience on their self-titled debut.
Neighborhood Veins, the new album by the Chapel Hill/Durham, N.C.-based Schooner, might never have happened.
The lineup includes Daniel Johnston and Half Japanese on the same bill, plus Sparks, AND Silver Apples in other venues, on the same night. Plus Nine Inch Nails, Animal Collective, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gary Numan and more!
This is a really rare case for this writer; a video where I like the band, the song, and the sociopolitical sentiment a great deal—an extremely rare triple play for me!
My guest on this month’s radio sessions show is my own 25-year (off and on!) bandmate from Springhouse, Mitch Friedland! Mitch performs live, solo acoustic, our new cover of “No One Has to Know” just released for a Hurricane Sandy benefit (New Jersey themed) tribute album called Our Hometown, plus, two other Springhouse songs from 1991 and 2008, and a (if you ask me) stunning cover of a 1986 Husker Du/*Bob Mould* song from Candy Apple Grey (never performed or recorded by Mitch before), “Hardly Getting Over It.” Why not listen in?
Fronted by North Carolina-born Lindsey Waldon, The Blues and Greys won us over with their big indie-pop sound!
We’re excited to premiere Monogamy Party’s tough new album on Good To Die Records, in advance of its September 17 release date.
Brooklyn trio Old Monk releases the third in a series of singles this year.
Everyone knows we loves the rock at BT but sometimes you’ve just gotta chill — and where better than in Iceland?
We’re very pleased to debut the new video by the young guitarist, composer, vocalist and bandleader Todd Clouser for his song “Clock At The Top Of The Town,” which was directed by Medeski Martin & Wood drummer Billy Martin.
Check out this exclusive first listen to a song from Briar Rabbit’s forthcoming album, From Your Bones.
Drowner’s new LP, You’re Beautiful, I Forgive You, was released today on Saint Marie Records. We hope you enjoy this exclusive preview as much as we do!
We did the Richard Barone/James Mastro song much louder/heavier/more uptempo/more high energy so that we wouldn’t replicate a song we already loved. Click through to hear it!
After these shows, it is unlikely the band will continue performing together. The Millions sincerely hope fans will make a special effort to attend these concerts.
Click through for a free download of the first single from The Smoking Flowers’ new album!
Charlie Clark‘s debut solo EP, Feel Something, arrives in stores tomorrow on AED, Edwyn Collins‘ label.
It’s a sad day for Let’s Active’s fans and for those of us who have a special place in our hearts for all the fine music and especially all the fine, nice, music-loving musicians and people that came out of the Georgia/North Carolina sister scenes of the early 1980s.
And it’s a special one too: just Zach Rogue guitar/vocals and Pat Spurgeon drums! So the versions are wholly different than on the new LP Nightingale Floors (and older ones)!
Also if you enjoy the new one devoted to Rogue Wave, here are links to the seven previous, recent sessions we have done at Pancake Factory, all this year
Anti-genocide activist Robert Park releases his first music video, “Indifference.” A must-see — and a rough ride. Not your average pop-music video.
A sparkly instrumental treat from the legendary NYC producer and musician.
We can’t think of a better way to kick off the summer than this delightful new music video from Brooklyn’s Cultfever! Cartoons rock!
We get something of a Big Lebowski vibe from this funny and poignant new video, directed by Beau Parlor, from Los Angeles’ own Fortress Social Club:
Famous production clients aside, Daniel Lanois’ haunting musical textures have earned him a devoted following. The Canadian artist is currently focused upon his solo material and traveling to support it.
We were tickled to learn that Ed himself had suggested BigTakeover.com as an appropriate home for this new video from the band’s self-titled debut LP.
We love this new video from Seattle psych-rock outfit, The Purrs!
Big Takeover is delighted to present an exclusive stream of Dundrearies, the new album by songer/songwriter Graham MacRae, which was released today on A Man A Plan A Canal.
Big Takeover is proud to debut the first single from Seattle-based The Moondoggies‘ third album, Adios I’m A Ghost.
Once again the big news is that Big Takeover #72 Spring 2013 issue was completed in Brooklyn this month! Pre-order – Subscribe – Renew – Great gifts! Click through for a quick description of its contents.
Big Takeover is proud to present the exclusive first listen to the third album by British indie-rockers it hugs back! Click through for an interview with bandleader (and Wire guitarist) Matthew Simms.
Released locally last summer on Australia’s Rice Is Nice label, Plains, the debut long-player by Aussie psych band The Laurels, is released today in the United States. The Big Takeover is very pleased to offer us Yanks a first listen to this fine, fine, album.
Big Takeover is proud to present the debut video from Parlour Flames, the new project of former Oasis guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs. Enjoy!
Big Takeover is proud to bring you this world exclusive, streaming the brand-new debut album by New York dreampop/shoegaze stars Dead Leaf Echo, Thought and Language, to be released soon on the Neon Sigh label.
Thalia Zedek might be entering the fourth decade of her career as one of the most singular voices in rock, but she shows no signs of creative fatigue. Click through to watch “Go Home,” the first video from her new LP, Via!
Their last U.S. show was December 30, 1982 at NYC’s Ritz!
“Lights” is the first official video from the new album Green Is Good, released this week on Dive Records.
