10 May 2009
Bo Diddley(R.I.P) (and that ain’t no Cadillac Records; maybe Nas will play him in the sequel; Little Walter, “My Babe”
I heard a Bo Diddley tribute on local college station KALX (and they played songs influenced by him, and hardley ANY Bo-Diddley. Ugh. We need more BO DIDDLEY (at least they played The Animals “The Story Of Bo Diddley” alongside “I Want Candy” and The Smiths policies (threatening to become law as so many elected officials remain ignorant of the political, democratic, stakes involved in this issue) is to contact www. savenetradio.org
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Eddie Bo
Recently deceased, amazing New Orleans piano soul/funk r &b sides.
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The Curious Mystery, Rotting Slowly (K Records)
Saw these guys a year or so ago in Oakland, were on the verge of breaking up, but managed to stay together to see through their debut album (release date, Malcolm X’s Birday May 19th). This fourpiece features the lead vocals of Shana Cleveland, who will probably get many comparisons
to Mazzy (“Fade Into You”) Star vocalist, but Cleveland’s voice takes is much more expressive and evocative than Hope Sandoval‘s, closer to PJ Harvey range. Guitarist Nicholas Gonzalez is amazing; playing bizarre chords that at first seem out of tune (Which may be why Calvin Johnson liked the band in the first place) but fit in very well with the very contemporary dense textured psychedelic revivalism; and Faustine B Hudson is as melodic as she is rhythmic. A stong debut -
Norman Whitfield
Also, recently deceased (September, 2008). Another amazing “behind the scenes” guy, whose songwriting and production was as at least as important to “The Motown Sound” as Smoky Robinsonand Holland Dozier Holland
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John Rich, “In The Real World They’re Closing Down Detroit”
blog comments powered by DisqusOr is it “In the real world they’re shutting down Detroit”—Factcheck; it’s a contemporary country hit whose working class message I was very happy to hear. Bailing out the fat cats on Wall Street. But, watch out, democrats and progressives. People like
Visqueen live in the studio (and interviewed) and "Best of the New Breed, Vol. 1" now on Rabid In The Kennel!
21 August 2010
“Rabid In The Kennel” appeared on Bastille Day with a very special guest: the one and only Visqueen, playing a special, drummer-less session for us in support of their awesome recent LP , A Message to Garcia, and then the members, including dashing, powerful-throated singer Rachel Flotard, sat for a long 35-minute chat, including lots of funny sexual innuendo.
More recently, we tried a special new wrinkle on our established format, by presenting all music and no chat with seven less established, but equally deserving new bands, called “Best of the New Breed, Vol 1.” This began airing just last week!
Welcome to the new Bigtakeover.com!
11 July 2010
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.
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