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11 July 2010Welcome to the new Bigtakeover.com!
On behalf of all of us here at bigtakeover.com and Big Takeover Magazine, I bid you welcome to our newly redesigned site! Looks cool, doesn’t it? Our print magazine is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, going back to a good 15 years or so before there was any electronic media. So the timing is perfect. Our endeavor has come a long, long way from the days of typing, Xeroxing, reducing, stapling, folding, mailing, shipping, and selling at gigs, and we are celebrating this long three decades of service and commentary in three distinct ways this year.
11 July 2010Big Takeover #66 (Special 30th Anniversary Issue) is in stores now!
We only come out twice a year, every Spring and Fall, so you don’t want to miss one of our jam-packed 192-page issues! Read on for a quick description of the new issue’s contents.
2 September 2010Quest For Fire – Lights From Paradise (Tee Pee)
The primary difference is that the band pays even closer attention to melody than before – no unfocused jamming here.
31 August 2010Dora Bleu - Earthly Bombs (Ikuisuus)
In today’s musical climate of regression and huge-fonted neon infantilism, where even the more esoteric labels are trying to put forth vapid beats to please and increasingly ADD audience you have to despair if you’re a music fan with any degree of patience and focus. Luckily the independent composer will never die, and Dora Bleu’s latest CD-R, Earthly Bombs , stands in direct opposition to the fast-food market of ipod commercial ready bands.
31 August 2010Richard Thompson – Dream Attic (Shout Factory)
Sure, the album is going to be, in general, strong, but how will it stack up against his own best work?
29 August 2010Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby – Two-Way Family Favorites (Southern Domestic)
Even if the prospect of yet another covers record gives you the hives, you’ll likely find your pants charmed right off by Two-Way Family Favorites.
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of August 22
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Big Star – Radio City (Ardent)
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Posies – Blood/Candy (Ryko) out Sept. 23!
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Idlewild – Post Electric Blues (Nice Music Group)
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Newtown Neurotics – Beggars Can Be Choosers (Vivid Japan)
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The Misfits – Static Age (Caroline)
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Young Rival – Young Rival (Sonic Unyon)
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Wild Nothing – Gemini (Captured Tracks)
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Pernice Brothers – Goodbye Killer (Ashmont)
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Teenage Fanclub – Shadows (Merge)
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The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning (Pure Groove U.K.)
The Big Takeover
Jack Rabid spins the best new and classic indie music for you every Monday at 12 noon Eastern.
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Now playing: August 30, 2010Browse our show archive
Rabid In The Kennel
Exclusive performances and interviews, live from The Kennel Studio in Brooklyn, the second Wednesday of each month at 12 noon Eastern.
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Now playing: August 11, 2010 - The Best Of The New Breed Volume OneBrowse our show archive
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Devo at the Minnesota Zoo, July 3, 2010. Photo by Kathy Easthagen.
by Jeff Elbel30 August 2010Yankovic wisely made a point of keeping things current with a fresh batch of funny material. “Skipper Dan” described a failed thespian, doomed to a soul-destroying life of corny jokes as a riverboat guide on Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise attraction. Recent parody “You’re Pitiful” gave a more memorable upgrade to James Blunt’s maudlin “You’re Beautiful.”
Read more...Iggy and the Stooges - House of Blues (Atlantic City) - Friday, August 27, 2010
29 August 2010With no opener and wasting not a second, they opened with “Raw Power”, which led right into “Search and Destroy”.
This Will Destroy You – Bowery Ballroom (New York City) – Thursday, August 26, 2010
29 August 2010It goes without saying that This Will Destroy You know exactly how to command attention.
by Tim Bugbee19 May 2010The conclusion of my interview with Steve Diggle, touching on his new record, his relationship with Pete Shelley, and tattoos.
Read more...Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks (Part One)
16 May 2010The Buzzcocks’ co-founder and singer/guitarist discusses their impending American tour, during which the band will be playing their first two records in their entirety.
Nara Denning (featuring Stoo Odom of The Graves Brothers Deluxe), Part II
16 January 2010The Graves Brothers Deluxe were one of the first three rock bands I got into when I moved to the Bay Area, and the only one for which I jumped around in an ape suit.
Guest interview: TSOL singer Jack Grisham (and His Humanitarian Efforts)!
13 January 2010Got this excellent interview with TSOL founder/frontman Jack Grisham from our contributor Jeff Alexander and wanted to share it with you!
San Francisco Film-Maker Nara Denning, Part I
9 January 2010In Nara Denning’s Neurotique, words get in the way of the games couples play.
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