Big Takeover Issue 92 Spring 2023

$ 7.50

Interviews: Sloan (the cover) * The Beths pt. 2 * New Pornographers * Robyn Hitchcock * Ivy * The Hold Steady * Ride * The Charlatans UK * Mark London (Brian Wilson’s Smile LP Artist) * Popsicko * bdrmm * Green Pajamas * Skull Practitioners * Fruit Bats * Deerhoof * Lauds * Nyte Skye * Valley Queen * The Heavy Heavy * Dead Bob * Mabuhay Gardens’ Soundman Terry Hammer 

Editorials: Rabid: “The Kids Really Are Alright—My Son the Unlikely Rock Star (For Two Days)” * Kelson: “The Time A Record Clerk Saved My Life—An ode to Peter, Terry, and Brad” * Lauden: “Having Fun Or Dying Young? Paying Tribute To A Long Lost Friend”

Live: Alvvays * The Beths * Black Flag, Dickies, T.S.O.L. * Channel 3 * The Chills * Eyelids * Patterson Hood * Lemonheads, Juliana Hatfield * Real Estate, Cut Worms * Ride, Charlatans U.K. * David Steinhart * Don’t Lie to Me: Big Star Tribute Show * The Music of Paul McCartney (Patti Smith, Graham Nash, Peter Asher, Denny Laine, Lyle Lovett, Christopher Cross, Bettye LaVette, etc.) 

CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital Reviews: A Cast of Thousands * A Certain Ratio * Acid King * Adolescents * Album Leaf * Anderson Council/Midnight Callers * APB * Ashenden Papers * Autodidact Dreams * Albert Ayler * Baby Hot-Line * Bad Ends/No Ones/Salt Collective * Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello * Bardo Pond * Barracudas * Beach House * Beatles * bdrmm * Belle & Sebastian * Bettie Serveert * Gina Birch * Bird Streets * Big Joanie * Martin Bisi * Blackbirds FC * Black Nite Crash * Black Watch * Blood Moon Wedding * Bluebells * Blusterfields * Boo Radleys * Boygenius * Brainiac * Bria * Brian Jonestown Massacre * Chris Brokaw * John Cale * Peter Case * Charming Disaster * Cheap Trick * Cheater Slicks * Wild Billy Childish & CTMF * Alex Chilton * Chime School * The Church/Steve Kilbey * The CIA * Circle Jerks * Shana Cleveland * Cliff & Ivy * Cluster * Jenny Conlee * Gaz Coombes * Lloyd Cole * Marshall Crenshaw * Crisis Actor * David Crosby & the Lighthouse Band * Damned * Darts * Dennis Davison * Death Cab For Cutie * Debacle * Depeche Mode * Desario * Indigo De Souza * Dez Dare * DIIV * D.O.A./ Joey Keithley * Donovan’s Brain * Gord Downie & Bob Rock * Bob Dylan * Earthly Frames * Eels * Eluvium * E.R.I.E. * Ex Norwegian * Eyelids * FACS * The Faction * Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward * Fawns of Love * Flash * Flying Burrito Brothers * Flyying Colours * Robert Forster * Josephine Foster * Fotoform * Four Star Riot * Freaks * Fruit Bats * Fucked Up * Glitter Wizard * Goldfeather * Grateful Dead/Bob Weir * Green Pajamas * Grey Factor * Guided By Voices * Hammock * Juliana Hatfield & Emma Swift * Hawkwind * Heartbeeps * Richard Hell & the Voidoids * Joe Henry * Hold Steady * Greg Hoy * Ivy * David J * Jphono1 * Elton John * Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen * Jupe Jupe * Keyside * Carole King * King Tuff * Kingsnakes * Krayolas * Kraut * Laughing Chimes * Furry Lewis * Live Skull * Bruce Licher * Linda Lindas * Long Ryders /Stephen Mccarthy & Carla Olson * M83 * Taj Mahal * March Violets * Miesha & the Spanks * Carina Messier * Metal Marty * Mighty Lemon Drops * Miniaturized * Modernettes * Mononegatives * Kevin Morby * Moss Icon * Most Powerful Telescope In the Universe * Motörhead * Movies With Heroes * Mudhoney * Naked Raygun * National Honor Society * Nervebreakers * Neutral Milk Hotel * New Pornographers * Nils * 1984 Draft * Nirvana (U.K.) * No Alternative * Billy Nomates * Salim Nourallah * Nyte Skye * Sean O’Brien & The Dirty Hands * Phil Ochs * OC Rippers * Off! * Pains of Being Pure at Heart * Pam Risourié * The Panik * Paramore * Charlie Parker * Nicholas Payton/Buster Williams * Peel Dream Magazine * Pere Ubu * Pernice Brothers * Pia Fraus * Pigface * Pink Floyd * Plain Speak * Iggy Pop * Poster Children * Kid Congo Powers/Wolfmanhattan Project/Paul B. Cutler * Primitives * Public Image Limited * Pull of Autumn * Purple Ivy Shadows * Quasi * Raveonettes * Reds, Pinks & Purples * Eric Reed * Residents * Revelons * Romeo Void * Frankie Rose * Ruts * Samiam * Kendrick Scott * Screaming Females * SC.U.M. * Second Layer * Philip Selway * 7 Seconds * Ron Sexsmith * Jim Shepard * Sir Douglas Quintet * Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood * Slackers * Slip~Ons/Brock Pytel * Soft Science * Sparks * Spirits of Leo * Star Collector * Strokes * Subhumans * Successful Failures * Tangerine Dream * Temples * Tennis * Tetsuians * Tombstones in Their Eyes * Transmissionary Six * Tubs * Trotsky Icepick * Underlined Passages * Veldt * Sharon Van Etten * Mike Viola * Wedding Present * Wednesday * White Stripes * The Who * Yo La Tengo * Zombies * Cherry Stars Collide - Dream Pop, Shoegaze and Ethereal Rock 1986-1995 (Box) * Elemental Child (Marc Bolan Tribute) * The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (Best Of K.B.D. Punk 1978-88) * Teenage Glampage - Can the Glam 2 (Box) * Too Much Sun Will Burn: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967, Volume Two (Box) * And Hundreds More!