New Jersey indie-rock labels Dromedary Records and Pyrrhic Victory Recordings have teamed up with punk veterans The 65’s to release a cover of the New York Dolls classic “Personality Crisis.” All proceeds will be contributed to the GoFundMe campaign of…
NJ-based acoustic punk outfit Scary Hours, who coined their name from an old Wu-Tang song, imbue their jangly tunes with a biting satirical edge. The band’s acoustic pop punk and filtered lens radiates the confrontational ethos of hardcore—a bit like…
Singer-songwriter Ryan Struck, who flies under the moniker of Scary Hours, creates witty and unsettling anti-folk, informed by his past in hardcore punk bands. The confrontational ethos of punk is hard to shake, especially when you live the daily grind…
Hailing from Avignon, France, post-rock/shoegaze band Alpha du Centaure transports listeners into a sonorous, ethereal, and ever-shifting space filled with a chilling crystalline light and dusky, contemplative shadows.
The Big Takeover is pleased to host the premiere of Alpha du…
Le duo lyonnais revient cette année avec un nouvel EP qui, dans son cheminement instrumental, passe par autant d’états que de questionnements. C’est un disque à remous, jamais à remords, qui frappe par sa tension complexe, imprenable, imperturbable, inattendue entre…
Since I have now completed my two countdown radio shows for the top 50 albums of 2018—see The Big Takeover Show button above to hear one song from each—here is my complete list of the 160 best albums…
A horror punk band from New Jersey pens a couple catchy little ditties that any fan of their home state’s horror punk history should enjoy. –Chad Williams (Pyrrhic Victory, pyrrhicvictoryrecordings.com)
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Struck grew up in Northern New Jersey, cutting his teeth in various punk and hardcore bands through his teen years and early ’20s. Over time, varied musical interests influenced him to write songs deemed unfit for…
Pittsburgh-based indie rock band Strange Monsters return with their second full-length album, Strange Monsters II or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Strange Monsters, due out on November 30th via Pyrrhic Victory Recordings.
They love post-rock, shoegaze, but also metal, jazz and pop. They listen to Slowdive as well as Deafheaven, Russian Circles and This Will Destroy You. Since 2015, Alpha du Centaure, project started solo by Cédric Tessonneau, quickly joined by the…
Ethereal edgy harmonizing vocals buried behind the carefully arranged guitar slice and the monochromatic drum brush, Leo and Cassandre are creating psychedelic, indie folk music that is generously compared to Brian Jones Massacre. Their about section states that are a…