Big Takeover: Issue 93 Fall 2023
$ 7.50
Interviews: Slowdive (on the cover), Sloan Pt. 2, Lenny Kaye on Nuggets, Fountains of Wayne, Blonde Redhead, The Clientele, Emma Anderson (ex-Lush), Ivy Pt. 2, Soft Science, The Modernettes/Los Popularos, Crime and the City Solution, Deer Tick, Mountain Goats, Sweeping Promises, Plush Machine (ex-Libertines U.S.), The 1981, Ratboys, The Make Three, Big Stir Records
Editorials: Rabid: “R.I.P. The Effigies’ John Kezdy, 1959-2023: Farewell to a Fine Friend and Frontman Supreme” * Kelson: “Your Favorite ’90s Indie Band Has Just Blown Up—or Not” * Lauden: “Welcome Interstate Managers Turns 20: Fountains of Wayne”
Live: Alvvays (And Alex G) * Baseball Project (And Stephen Mccarthy) * Beths * John Cale * Chameleons * Shana Cleveland * Feelies * Lotion (And Bird Streets) * Pernice Brothers (And Mini Orchestra) * Sloan * Slowdive * Drom 30 Festival: French, Dots Will Echo, Joy Cleaner, Flower, Sleepyhead, Antietam, Cathedral Ceilings, Das Damen
CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital Reviews: A Certain Ratio * Abilene/Achings * A.M. Nice * Affiliate Links * Alarm * Arthur Alexander * Marc Almond * Emma Anderson * Animal Collective * Another Heaven/The Cult of Lip * A.R.Kane * Albert Ayler * Anton Barbeau * Baseball Project * Art Bergmann * Courtney Barnett * Beach Fossils * Beatles * Bedroom Eyes * Bellrays * Andrew Bird * Black Swan Lane * Black Tape For a Blue Girl * Blasters * Bloc Party * Blur * Blusterfields * Beth Bombara * Breeders * Bully/Chai/Postal Service * Bully Pulpit * Bunnygrunt * Bush Tetras * Will Butler & Sister Squares * Joshua Carpenter * Celibate Rifles * Chills * Cinema Cinema * Cleaners From Venus * Clientele * Cliff & Ivy * Coil * Shirley Collins * Colored Lights * Comateens * Connells * Contestants * Alice Cooper * Coral * Chick Corea * Bethany Cosentino * Crime & the City Solution * Cut Worms * Das Damen * Darling Buds * Dennis Davison * Dead Milkmen * Deeper * Dengue Fever * Denim Tv * Dexys * Dewey Defeats Truman/The Routes * Doors * Downstrokes * Dream Syndicate * Drive-By Truckers * Drones * Easter * Elk City * Evil Nature * Falling Stairs * Fawns of Love * Feeders * Feelies * 54•40 * Film School * Fleshtones * Folk Implosion * Four Star Riot * Frightwig/Mojave Phone Booth * Furious Seasons * Garment District * Marvin Gaye * Rose Gerber * Golden Apples * Grain Hoppers * Grandaddy * Green Palm Radiation * Guest Directors * Guided By Voices * Guitarmy of One * Peter Gutteridge * Half Japanese/Jad Fair And Samuel Locke Ward * Hangmen * Glen Hansard * Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo * PJ Harvey * Hasbros * Juliana Hatfield * Helmet * Eddie Henderson/Mike Clark* Kristin Hersh * Hiss Golden Messenger * William Hooker * Honeycrush * Hurry * Infinite River * Jason Isbell * David J & Comrades * Jeanines * Josephus & the George Jonestown Massacre * Nora Kelly Band * Steve Kilbey (& Frank Kearns) * Kilkenny Cats * The Ladies Of * Latchkey * Laughing Chimes * Len Price 3 * Jenny Lewis * Little Richard * Loose Wing * Inger Lorre* Love And Rockets * Lovejoy * Lowest of the Low * Luna/Cowboy Junkies * Lung And Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends * Luxury * Phil Lynott’s Grand Slam * Madness * Roger Joseph Manning, Jr.* Bob Marley & the Wailers * Brian May + Friends * John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers * Mercy Music * Meters * Metric * Meyerman * Ava Mirzadegan * Charles Mingus * Monochrome Set * Morphine * Mother May I * Motörhead * Mountain Goats * My Version f It * New Model Army & Sinfonia Leipzig * Stevie Nicks * Ocean Blue * Osees/Side Eyes * 100 Flowers/Strikeslip * Los Outsaiders * Pale Angels * Panda Bear & Sonic Boom/Black Market Karma & Sonic Boom * Charlie Parker * Graham Parker * Gram Parsons & the Fallen Angels (With Emmy Lou Harris) * Art Pepper * Pere Ubu * Liz Phair/Queens of the Stone Age * Pineapples * Pipe * Plush Machine * Porcelain Tongue * Jonathan Postal/Lloyds * Pretenders * Proletariat * Public Image Ltd * Rain Parade * Red Kate * Replacements * Residents * Rolling Stones * Todd Rundgren * Saints * Kim Salmon & the Surrealists * James Sardone * Savage Republic * Fred Schneider & the Superions * Scream * Seablite * Sarah Shannon * Sonny Sharrock * Matthew Shipp * Sigur Rós * Simple Minds * Skymender * Slowdive * Small Square/Velvet Crush * Smug Brothers * Soft Science * Sonic Youth * Spoon * Tobin Sprout * Chris Stamey * Sufjan Stevens * Al Stewart * John P. Strohm * Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros * Bobby Sutliff/Jeff Dahl/Sand Pebbles * Swallow the Rat * Swans * Tad * Talking Heads * Teenage Fanclub * Teenage Wrist * Ten Million Lights * 3 Clubmen * Lol Tolhurst, Budgie, Jacknife * Tragically Hip * Tulipomania * Turnsole * T.V. Eye * U2 * Underbites * Useless Id * Veldt * Victims * Voxtrot * Tom Waits * Muddy Waters * Mike Watt * Weirdos * Wetsuit * Clarence White * Wilco * Cindy Wilson * Jackie Wilson * Winter Boys * Woods * Wye Oak * Zero Boys * Godspeed - A Tribute To Pierre Kezdy of Naked Raygun * Jem Records Celebrates Ray Davies * When the Alarm Clock Rings: British Psychedelia, 1966-69 * Pat Tobin (book) * And Hundreds More!