An EXTREMELY special event celebrating our own Blake Jones & the Trike Shop's release of their new album MAKE, plus some true superstars of the power pop and punk pop firmament!

Big Stir Burbank, Saturday May 26 at Joe's Great American, is perhaps the Biggest Stir Ever: 

-THE RECORDS, power pop hall of famers in every sense! 
-BLAKE JONES & THE TRIKE SHOP, down from Fresno to celebrate their acclaimed new album MAKE on Big Stir Records! 
-THE AUTOMATICS, legends of British first wave punk! 
-THE ARMOIRES, back as a full band with new tunes to premiere! 
-DJ JOHN BORACK spinning the classics! 

FREE as always and guaranteed to thrill! Pass it on! 

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OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! 

Big Stir Records is unspeakably proud to be able to announce that we will be releasing a brand new album from Fresno, CA legends BLAKE JONES & THE TRIKE SHOP on vinyl LP, CD and digital download. April 21, through the Big Stir Records website and other online music retailers! 

It's called "MAKE". It's the Trike Shop's sixth album and their first on BSR. And it's really an extraordinary work, a celebration of the importance of creativity and community in the face of an indifferent world and personal grief. But it's also got all the quirky pop hooks and humor that the Trike Shop is justly famous for. It's a career high in an already illustrious career -- Rex keeps calling it BSR's "Forever Changes" -- and we can't wait for you to hear it. 

We'll be telling you a lot more about it, and you'll be getting previews and hearing airplay from our friends in the global pop community, in the coming weeks. Stand by to MAKE a new day!

Officially introducing: BIG STIR MAGAZINE Issue 1! 

You've heard the rumors, seen the selfies, and tasted the teasers. Now it's time to tell you what it's all about. 

Lovingly created by and for the international Big Stir music community, BIG STIR MAGAZINE is a 21st Century spin on the classic Zine format, published quarterly. Not just music reviews and features (although we have those, from some of the best music writers out there), it's just as much a lifestyle journal, with the prime movers from your favorite bands musing on whatever may strike them: books, food, culture, history, and of course records and live shows. 

All 36 pages are packed with original illustrations and comics from the contributors, designed by the always-brilliant Champniss of London, making BIG STIR MAGAZINE a feast for the eyes as well as the mind and soul. As diverse, whimsical, and loose as the community it represents, BSM aims to be an antidote to the divisiveness that too often pervades social media, and a reminder that music, now more than ever, can and must bring people together. 

BSM is available at Big Stir Concert Series events in the US and UK, or by mail through the BSR website here -- we wish shipping weren't so much, but it's handcrafted and we'll get as many autographs on your copy as we can! 

https://bigstirrecords.com/magazine 

Contributors include Carl Cafarelli (This Is Rock & Roll Radio), Rex Broome (The Armoires) and his daughters Miranda and Ridley, Steven Wilson (Plasticsoul), Blake Jones (Blake Jones & the Trike Shop), Peter Watts (Spygenius), Patrick "Pooch" DiPuccio (The Condors, Flipside Fanzine), Sumishta Brahm (13 Frightened Girls), Christina Bulbenko (The Armoires) and her daughter Larysa, Andy Rennie (The Fast Camels), John Borack (Goldmine Magazine, Popdudes), David Bash (International Pop Overthrow Festival), Keith Klingensmith (The Legal Matters, Futureman Records), Jeff Charreaux (The Walker Brigade) and Andy Creighton (The World Record). Also included are special interviews as Big Stir Annoys the Women of Pop: Ella Pearson (Hux & the Hitmen), Karla Kane (The Corner Laughers), Lindsay Murray (Gretchen's Wheel), Ruth Rogers (Spygenius), Christina (The Armoires) and Teresa Cowles (Pacific Soul LTD and Mod Hippie among many others)!

BIG STIR BRITANNIA returns to The Oval in Croydon, South London, with a visit from psych-pop legend ANTON BARBEAU, traveling from Berlin in support of his fabulous new record "Natural Causes", ably assisted by Oxford's finest, CHARMS AGAINST THE EVIL EYE, who'll also do their own set... and hosted by Big Stir Records' own masters of quirky jangle-pop and more, SPYGENIUS of Canterbury. FREE as always! 

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Plus: BIG STIR MAGAZINE available on the premises!!!

Saturday April 21, at Joe's in Burbank, BIG STIR is back again with: 

-The pure pop perfection of SHPLANG! 
-The freakbeat fury of THE LIVING DOLLS! 
-The garage-rock grandeur of THE EX-TEENS! 
-The Bollywood-psych blend of DOCTORS & ENGINEERS! 

FREE as always! 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1636376749774834/ 

Big Stir Magazine for sale on the premises! Tasty food and free parking! Don't miss out, and THANK YOU, FRIENDS!

The Big Stir concert series continues March 24 at Joe's in Burbank -- FREE as always! 

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13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS from London keep it transcontinental! 
THE WORLD RECORD cannot be surpassed! 
LESLIE PEREIRA & THE LAZY HEROES spring into action! 
BSR's very own PLASTICSOUL causes a rock and roll meltdown! 
Plus DJ JOHN BORACK and his Stack of Tracks tying it all together! 

Stay tuned for an announcement about a special surprise available for the first time ever at THIS SHOW...

Was one brilliant animated video from SPYGENIUS not enough to convince you that their new release 'Pacéphale (on Big Stir Records) belongs in your collection? Then behold, for lo, All Her Snakes Were Decked With Smiles! 

"And Her Snakes Were Decked With Smiles" by SPYGENIUS

Again helmed by the brilliant Champniss and this time featuring the vocal stylings of Ruth "Cosima Ovum" Rogers. You've now experienced visualizations of the first and final tracks on this fine album. Grab your own copy here today (and check out the entire Spygenius back catalog, also available on this site)!

This month's BIG STIR LIVE concert at Joe's Great American Bar & Grill in Burbank celebrates the release of Spygenius's 'PACÉPHALE album with a televisual live acoustic set from the band, live and direct from Canterbury!  Meanwhile you'll get free live sets from your local favorites MOD HIPPIE, JASON BERK, PLASTICSOUL and THE ARMOIRES, with tunes between sets from DJ JOHN BORACK!

Details are here:

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Thank you, friends!

Longtime friends of the Big Stir: Power Pop & More Concert Series and founders of Big Stir Britannia, Canterbury, England's SPYGENIUS have joined the roster of Big Stir Records!

To celebrate, we are issuing a special US edition of their fourth record, the brilliant but far-too-little-heard 'Pacéphale, their gorgeously jangly, sophisticated, whimsical and acidic masterpiece. Drenched in hooks and structured around a mythological pataphysical journey sumptuously illustrated by mad genius Joseph Champniss, the record will reach the US with a few bonus goodies in its Big Stir Records iteration.

We will naturally be celebrating this momentous event with live music. Plans are for the band's Peter Watts and Ruth Rogers to join us via Skype from Canterbury at the monthly Big Stir: Power Pop & More shindig at Joe's Great American Bar & Grill on February 24th.  Live and in person performances from BSR bands Plasticsoul and The Armoires, along with fellow pop travelers Jason Berk and Mod Hippie, will continue the revels.

Further frivolity will no doubt ensue when Spygenius recommences Big Stir Britannia in Croydon, South London for the new year.  Details will follow, but for now, let us welcome Peter, Ruth, Alan and Matt officially to the inner sanctum of BSR, grab a copy of 'Paceéphale, and start the 2018 as we mean to go on: with melodic madness and musical mayhem in the Big Stir style!