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Update on our Springhouse tour this week with Magnetic Morning (extra date added! Atlanta with For Against!), and our new third LP is released TODAY!!!: Repeat! "From Now to OK" is out at last, after 10 Years' work!!! / Big Takeover on Breakthruradio.com
Oct 12Hey again, Big Takeover readers! Our new Fall issue #63 is coming soon, and details of that are inside. (Subscribers, don’t forget to update your address if you’ve moved!) But first, here’s the latest update on the SPRINGHOUSE East Coast tour we are doing supporting MAGNETIC MORNING starting this Thursday in Chapel Hill, NC, with more info on it, including the new ATLANTA date with FOR AGAINST (Yes!!!!!!!!)!: Click here for full info!
Big Takeover #62 Out Now, and in the Stores! Selected Quotes and Highlights!
May 30Big Takeover #62 with R.E.M. on the cover is on the stands! Look for it in your favorite store near you that carries good music magazines! Below is a slightly longer description of its contents than what I sent previously, with some good quotes from the issue! Like this one from R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe: “”I think that future generations will look back on this time in American history, it will be as foreign to them as slavery is to us. So I’m 48 now and I’m looking [back]; we were right in the middle of women’s liberation, we’d just come through Civil Rights, and I was in an environmental science course in seventh grade talking about pollution and how we’d gotten into this mess, and how we can easily get out of it with alternative energy sources. And we were going to change the world, and guess what? It didn’t happen!”
Ike Turner 1931-2007
Dec 12IKE TURNER died December 12, reportedly in his sleep. He was 76 years old. Was he a good man? Seems unlikely. Was he a good musician? Hell yeah. The man invented rock ‘n’ roll. Really.
The Current Comeback Tour Trend: Not Reunions, Not Reinventions (Not Addressing the Issue.)
May 15Of course the beauty of music is in the listener’s reaction to how it sounds. Why is this stated like a revelation? Is this also part of the super-saturation of image marketing, identity-politics, fashionable rebellion, and Marxist signifiers?
SXSW Report 2007: Part II
May 15Over the next three days of SXSW I saw some bands I love repeatedly and caught some for the first time.
Trying to Make Sense of the RIAA's Latest Crackdowns on College Students
May 6It’s odd that a younger generation of consumers is being punished for (and threatened) for exactly—or a very similar—thing that thrived in the repressive JOE MCCARTHY era …
SXSW Report 2007: Part I
Apr 8For a true music geek, SXSW is a dream come true. It is all about seeing bands you already love and discovering new ones to love in the future.
Guest SXSW Blog by Michael B. Ackerman: Part III
Mar 31The musical portion of my Friday began in late afternoon when I went to the Pop Culture Press party at a pub a short trip from downtown. Ostensibly, I went to meet up with my friend Michael Krumper and to see the Hoodoo Gurus, because Michael and I had seen them together on their first tour of American twenty three years before. To the great credit of the Pop Culture Press people, the lineup of bands playing at the party was outstanding (and the fish and chips weren’t bad either—although someone stole my beer when I set it down and turned my back for a minute.
The Herd of Elephants in the Room: Why We are Not Going to See the End of DRM Anytime Soon
Feb 20At some point, those other sleeping giants are going to be awakened by the clamor in the music industry and start to rattle the cages of our imperial federal government. They will demand action and they will get it.
Blues Great Robert Lockwood Jr. Dies, Age 91
Nov 26Guitarist Robert Lockwood Jr. was one of the greats of blues, though the general public never seemed to realize it.
Three Rare U.S. Tours Happening Right Now You Absolutely Don’t Want to Miss: Avengers, Radio Birdman, Ipanema
Aug 31Three extremely rare tours by longtime Big Takeover favorites are hitting the U.S., one American, one English, and one Australian. And take it from this writer; you need to see each one of these if you can!
Goodbye, Arthur Lee (Love)
Aug 15I wouldn’t want to have been his merchandize seller (who we saw being caned by a wobbling Lee after a Town Hall show a few years ago, for transgressions unknown!), or for that matter his drummer or even his towel boy or bartender or banker or drug buddy, but man, being his fan on these last few years’ concert nights felt better than anything.
Forever Changing: R.I.P. Arthur Lee (Love), 1945-2006
Aug 9Last week, Arthur passed away, due to acute myeloid leukemia, in his birthplace of Memphis, Tennessee. Here, I offer my respect to one of music’s all-time greats.
Live Tonight at Knitting Factory (New York): The Hyperspace Rock Sound of Blind Idiot God
Jul 21The short answer to the above questions is that BLIND IDIOT GOD made me feel what it might be like to fly in the Millennium Falcon while inside one of its engines… and enjoy it.
All-Around Talent: R.I.P. Red Buttons 1919-2006
Jul 14On Thursday, famed comedian and actor RED BUTTONS died in Los Angeles after a lengthy struggle with vascular disease. He was 87.
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of August 17
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Billy Bragg – Mr. Love & Justice (Anti)
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Bad Religion – New Maps of Hell (deluxe edition) (Epitaph)
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Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe (New West)
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Ron Sexsmith – Exit Strategy of the Soul (Yep Roc)
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Billie Holiday – Beautiful Ballads & Love Songs (Columbia/Legacy/SonyBMG)
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Everest – Ghost Notes (Vapor)
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Rob Dickinson – Fresh Wine for the Horses (double CD) (Fontana/UNI)
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Secret Shine – All of the Stars (Clairecords/Tonevendor)
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The Effigies – Reside (Criminal IQ)
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For Against – Shade Side, Sunny Side (Words on Music)