Skip to content
HeyJared

Dave Franklin

Reporter

Indexed articles, last 90 days
233
Latest publication
Oct 1, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Big Takeover
Top 5M sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 6, 2026

Latest articles

  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · by Dave Franklin

    LiVES - Burn (Sister 9 Recordings) (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs With a new album, Ghosts, cued up for early next year, ‘Burn’ is here to tease the audience and test the waters, and personally speaking, you can consider me more than pleasantly teased, totally taunted, tested and with more than a toe in their tantalizing sonic water. Part raucous post-punk, part proto-punkish rock and roll, all barely controlled anger and abrasive attitude (b

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · by Dave Franklin

    AGAM - The Ascension (self-released) (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Music sessions in private houses have become a popular feature of modern, grassroots music. But of course, it is nothing new; before the monetization and fame-seeking nature of contemporary music, it was always an art form made for simpler, purer reasons. To connect, to entertain, and to celebrate beautiful sound in an environment with no barrier between the players and those l

  3. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · by Dave Franklin

    The Del-Viles - It's Just a Kiss-Off (self-released) (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Given that Minneapolis gave us Husker Du, The Replacements, and Babes in Toyland, among many other greats, it isn’t surprising to find bands doing raucous, alternative, punk-infused, scuzzy rock ‘n’ roll like The Del-Viles does here. And It’s Just a Kiss-Off, the band’s recorded-live-and-in-a-day debut long-player, isn’t just a potted history of that city’s underground scene bu

  4. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · by Dave Franklin

    Sean Hopkins - Shadows & Light (self-released) (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone · English

    Read excerpt

    Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs I love the pitch that comes with this latest album from Sean Hopkins. “Great music – take a listen.” Five words that seem so simple, but which really get to the art of both making music and listening to it. We live in an age where social media-driven marketing and PR tricks, studio gadgetry, celebrity guests, and inhuman enhancements seem far more important than writing somethi

  5. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · by Dave Franklin

    Pembroke Tenneson - Sex Appeal (self-released) (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone · English

    Read excerpt

    Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs I’m not sure what I expected from a chap with a name reminiscent of a Regency-era poet and who looks like he should be modeling Pendleton’s latest range of plaid shirts, but it certainly wasn’t this. With his tongue pressed firmly in his cheek, well, let’s hope so, Pembroke Tenneson charges through the idea of rock star charisma and celebrity sex appeal…hence the single’s title

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

Top 5M sites

For The Big Takeover, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026

Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about Dave Franklin