1+ day, 50+ min 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…...

4+ day, 3+ 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…...

5+ day, 1+ 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…...

5+ day, 22+ 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, 36+ min ago   (333+ words) The Big Takeover I love the idea of liminal spaces. Everything from music made on those fringes to the idea of actual places that seem to exist just beyond our own, or meet subliminally in two worlds at once, of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (310+ words) The Big Takeover Chicago’s Brent Colbert has been releasing his experimental pop music for years, working with artists like Esmé Patterson, Gia Margaret, and appearing alongside Lala Lala. These artists fit in well with his songwriting project’s sound under the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (191+ words) ‘Closer’ is wonderfully confident, the sound of pop music being given a shot in the arm, of rock music being stripped to its infectious essence; all though I suspect genre tags are the furthest thing from the band’s mind. Why…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (398+ words) The Big Takeover Sugar World’s ‘White Noise’ takes its title from a sound associated with neutrality and turns it into something far more emotionally charged. Rather than functioning as sonic wallpaper, the single uses noise as a point of departure…...

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   (271+ words) The Big Takeover The vibraphonist occupies a unique spot in jazz, wielding an instrument that’s both rhythmic and harmonic. Thus it can both lead a band into new territories, or provide distinctive support in side work – cf. innovators Bobby Hutcherson,…...