1+ day, 4+ hour 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…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (106+ words) You wouldn’t get that with AI’s weasel words. Eight great songs where the elegance of simplicity is warped into the excess of early rock ‘n’ roll…and not just any rock ‘n’ roll, rock ‘n’ roll that has been boiling…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1025+ words) This kind of material doesn’t emerge out of thin air, and neither does Seabird. Before Lightspheres on Their Way, there was Burlington, a college town small enough that everyone seems to be in each other’s band at some point which…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (390+ words) The Big Takeover I still marvel at Mary Strand’s ability to make music that reminds me of every great pop-rock band in my record collection; play her body of work in its entirety and it sounds like the most brilliant…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (856+ words) In 2025, Maoli switched to full-on country with the album Last Sip of Summer, which resulted in a debut appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. Now, though, there’s a return to the blend of reggae and island country with MMO 3, which…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (858+ words) The Big Takeover Bullseye’s self-titled release arrives with an appealingly stubborn conviction: good songs do not need to disguise their influences, inflate their importance, or mistake novelty for imagination. The New York City-via-Minnesota quartet takes the long American tradition of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1046+ words) The Big Takeover Electric LoFi Seresta’s ‘Dark Days And Clear Noon’ is an album fascinated by contradiction, but not the easy kind in which opposites are simply placed beside one another. Its eleven songs are bound by a more philosophical…...

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…...