This tag can refer to three separate artists: a British rock band, a British news organization, and a Malaysian indie band.

1) The Times were a British rock band of the 1980s and 1990s with Ed Ball as its prominent figure.

Ball, obsessed with '60s britpop, formed the band while he still was a member of the Television Personalities and recorded the first The Times' album in 1980. It went unreleased until 1985 and the second album, Pop Goes Art, was released in 1982.

The Times released a steady stream of albums and EPs on Ball's own Artpop! label after he left the Television Personalities: This Is London (1983), I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (1983), Hello Europe (1984), Blue Period (1985), Boys About Town (1985), Up Against It (1986) and Enjoy The Times (1986).

The Times broke up around the end of 1986 and Ball joined Joe Foster as an executive at Creation Records. It wasn't long, however, before Ball restarted the Times; this time the name was cover for a solo career with a less Carnaby Street-obsessed outlook and more of an interest in current trends. 1988's Beat Torture was standard late-'80s U.K. guitar jangle à la Creation's house band, Biff Bang Pow!, half of which serves as Ball's backing band, but 1989's ecstatically titled E for Edward dips tentatively into the acid house boom spreading over the country that summer. Ball alos recorded three acid house EPs under the name the Love Corporation in the early '90s.

More Times albums followed, Et Dieu Crea la Femme (1990), Pure (1991), and Alternative Commercial Crossover (1993), Sad But True (1997) and Pirate Playlist 66 (1999) before Ball discarded that band name for good.

2) The Times is a national news organization based on the daily newspaper of the same name, which has been published in the United Kingdom since 1785 (when it was known as The Daily Universal Register). The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International. News International is entirely owned by the News Corporation group, headed by Rupert Murdoch.

The paper is traditionally seen as a moderately conservative newspaper and a supporter of the Tories. An American edition has been published since 6 June 2006. The newspaper's parent organization releases multiple podcasts under its name, including The Bugle, a satirical news show hosted by Jon Oliver and Andy Satlzman. It also runs a related news website called Times Online.

3)The Times was an indie rock band from Malaysia.

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The Big Takeover, a reggae/ska/roots band, is enjoying a very triumphant first year. September 2008 marked the release of their debut album, "Following Too Close," (Takeover Productions), as well as exciting performance opportunities. The sextet opened for Bob Marley's former backup band, The Waliers, at the Chance in Poughkeepsie; and for Sam Kininger, saxophonist of Soulive, at the Red Square in Albany. Formed in December 2007, The Big Takeover draws enthusiastic audiences with their lively shows and memorable performances. Their sets include the perfect fusion of familiar reggae favorites and their own hypnotic, danceable rhythms. Helmed by lead singer Neenee Rushie, who originally hails from Jamaica, the band consists of bassist Rob Kissner, drummer Sam Tritto, guitarist Jon Klenk, trombonist Andy Vogt and saxophonist Chas Montrose. They've developed a reputation for always delivering: "This is not a bunch of lazy hippie jammers moonlighting as yet another Bob Marley cover band: The Big Takeover leans much harder toward reggae's more up-tempo parents, ska and rocksteady." (Peter Aaron, Roll Magazine) With over 75 shows to their name, they continue to branch out from their home base of New Paltz into various venues throughout the state such as The Chance complex, Keegan Ales, and historic East Village venues such as the Bowery Poetry Club, Kenny's Castaways, and Arlene's Grocery. .

http://www.myspace.com/bigtakeover


The Big Takeover is also the name of a radio program and podcast supporting both small and large punk, emo, metal and hardcore bands.

http://www.myspace.com/bigtakeoverFM

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