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+ day, 6+ hour ago   (269+ words) Although the title might sound like the sort of track fellow Compton -ites, NWA would have gone for, things have changed in the 35 or so years since they called it a day. So although the title is a suitably incendiary…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (299+ words) The Big Takeover The best inspiration for any art comes from real-world experiences, and that is certainly true of the latest release from Rebekah Snyder. Artists poaching the best players to join their band is part of the horse-trading that…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (379+ words) The Big Takeover Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Follow The Big Takeover Three words that say so much. Anyone who has even the slightest appreciation of Western art will read that title and immediately picture…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (305+ words) The Big Takeover Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Follow The Big Takeover I know the term ‘Beatle-esque’ gets bandied about a lot- too much, really and is usually wrongly applied to music that falls well below…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (371+ words) The Big Takeover Before he joined Roxy Music, guitarist Phil Manzanera played in the early seventies progressive rock band Quiet Sun. Also consisting of future Matching Mole bassist Bill MacCormick, keyboardist Dave Jarrett, and future This Heat drummer Charles Hayward,…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (334+ words) The Big Takeover Even before you get to the music, there is something quintessentially English about the themes that run through Last Night Watchman’s music – everything from ideas of colonial power to fossilised footprints in a riverbed to a Reader’s…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (338+ words) The Big Takeover ‘Far Away’ feels like a song that has fallen into the present from some sort of psychedelic-pop, dayglo, paisley-patterned past, a place that is woven partly from actual nostalgia and partly from the soundtrack to trippy dreams....

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (293+ words) The Big Takeover If you can’t find a sonic reference to your favourite rock and roll style doing its thing and working its way through this new, four-track EP from Royal Blush, then either you aren’t listening properly, or you…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (281+ words) The Big Takeover Despite the title, thankfully, this new single from James Howard is miles away from the conclusions you might be drawing from the title alone. (Books and covers, eh?) In fact, drop the needle on the track and…...