The Big Takeover: Music With Heart - Reviews, Essays, Interviews, Profiles, Mixes, News, Top 10, Books, Business, Concerts, DVDs, Events, Film, Music, Print, Theatre, TV

Jack Rabid's Big Takeover

Big Announcement!: Springhouse reforms for new third LP From Now to OK and East Coast tour dates 2008, with Magnetic Morning and Julie Ocean! / Listen to Big Takeover on Breakthruradio.com! / Don't Forget the New Issue 62!

NEW YORK – Aug 16

Here’s all the info on my old band Springhouse’s first LP in 15 years (since we were on the Caroline label), From Now to OK, and accompanying “Big Takeover Magazine Presents” East Coast tour with Magnetic Morning and Julie Ocean! (and on one date, The Jet Age):

Read more and comment...

Don't vote! Unless you care about your future.

The Power of Music Compels You!

by Greg Bartalos

Rob Dickinson - Fresh Wine for the Horses (Sanctuary)

BROOKLYN – Sep 27

Dickinson flirts with melodrama but unlike Wile E. Coyote, who invariably chases the Road Runner only to fall off a cliff, Dickinson is more a like an experienced horse that gallops near the periphery of a jagged cliff yet knows enough to not fall off.

Read more and comment...

Sound Fix

by Steve Holtje

Jamie Davis - Vibe Over Perfection (Unity Music)

BROOKLYN – Sep 27

For male vocalists in pop music, it’s the tenors who get all the glory, but in jazz and much soul it’s the baritones, and when I saw this San Francisco-based veteran compared to JOE WILLIAMS and LOU RAWLS, I was eager to check him out.

Read more and comment...

Wax-Covered Earplugs

by Tim Bugbee

Robert Pollard's Boston Spaceships and Big Dipper - The Paradise (Boston, MA) - Tuesday, September 30, 2008

BOSTON – Oct 4

Boston Spaceships achieve lift-off, heading straight for the Big Dipper.

Read more and comment...

Downloader Frolics

by Chuck Foster

Interview: Mike Riddick of Metalhit.com (Part 2)

NEW YORK – Sep 14

Part Two of an interview with the internet metal mogul.

Read more and comment...

File Under: Alt. City

by Chris Stroffolino

Drama Review: San Francisco's Outside Lands Festival at Oakland's Happiness Hotel (August 22nd)

OAKLAND – Aug 22

Read more and comment...

JapaneseGod JesusRobot

by Matthew Berlyant

Sonic Youth with The Hold Steady - Theater of the Living Arts (Philadelphia, PA), Friday, August 29, 2008

PHILADELPHIA – Aug 30

SONIC YOUTH were terrific despite playing virtually the same setlist as they played last month.

Read more and comment...

The Business of Art

by John Davidson

The Music Industry's Most Amusing Myth: It Can't Compete With Free

ATLANTA – Nov 26

If the industry reduces their failure down to pricing competition, then they will always lose to the lowest price.

Read more and comment...

Shadowtime

by Kristen Sollee

Tamaryn - Led Astray, Washed Ashore (Tamaryn)

NEW YORK – Aug 10

Somber and seductive, brooding and atmospheric, Tamaryn’s debut EP is filled with the kind of shimmering songs that alto chanteuses like Nico and Siouxsie Sioux offered us in years past.

Read more and comment...