23+ hour, 52+ min ago   (371+ words) The Big Takeover Nostalgia and memory play a big part in music. Over time, the boring bits get edited out, and what remains often becomes a heightened and cherished version of events. And that gets to the heart of how…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (241+ words) The Big Takeover Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Follow The Big Takeover Proof that pop music can be every bit as poised and authentic as any of the genres that seem to be seen as…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (304+ words) Scenes From a Well Worn Path is full of so many interesting facets that it is hard to know where to start. Let’s begin with the title. The suffix “Side One” tells us that here we certainly have an artist…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (244+ words) The Big Takeover As ‘Sunset’ kicks off this new three-track EP from Hollow Star, I suddenly find myself elsewhere, an eighteen-year-old kid in a sea of black-clad denizens of a basement club as post-punk comes into its own. It’s that…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (289+ words) The Big Takeover Spin Class is everything that the rock and roll world needs right now, and the fantastic new single, ‘Rip ‘n’ Dip,’ is a perfect example of why. Without getting too artsy-fartsy on you, music can be seen…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (227+ words) The Restless Few’s eponymous new single is a song in the spirit of all those great stadium anthems that have, through the ages, become the cornerstone of the rock ‘n’ roll world. Verses build the anticipation, but it is the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (843+ words) The Big Takeover Archival releases often function as historical footnotes, preserving alternate takes and forgotten recordings for devoted collectors while offering little insight beyond curiosity. ‘Gravest Gravy’ achieves something considerably richer. Drawn from the October 1977 Ardent Studios sessions that also…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1140+ words) The Big Takeover ‘D.O. & The Bytes’ by Cherry Cheeks understands something that many concept records forget: a story does not need to become self-important simply because it has a plot. Across fourteen compact songs, Kyle Harms turns a tale of…...