Big Takeover: Issue 96 Spring 2025 Special 45th Anniversary Issue [brand new PREORDER!!!]
$ 7.00
Interviews: Bob Mould (on the cover) * 45 Years of Big Takeover Covers * Nada Surf pt. 2 * Frank Black * Alan Sparhawk (Low) * My Morning Jacket * Doves * Swans * Deep Sea Diver * I, Braineater * Laughing Chimes * M(h)aol * Brief Candles * Rhymies * Bosses * Clinic Stars * Jeff Shelton (Well Wishers) * Tisburys * Will Stratton * Todd Trainer (Shellac)
Editorials: Rabid: “45 Years and Still Taking Over” * Kelson: “My 50 Favorite Albums of the 1970s” * Orzeck: “Amid Republican Threats to Democracy, Idaho Stands Up and Shines (And a Connection Between Music and Current Politics Becomes Evident)
Live: American Darlings * Avengers * Bevis Frond * Downstrokes * Frank and Walters * Gerald Love & the Magic Influence * Ride (and Rocket) * The Saints ’73-’78 * Slowdive * Tobin Sprout with Bevil Web (and The Moles) * Tetsuians, Kestrels, Skymender * Zeros * SXSW 2025: Yndling, Steve Wynn, Voxtrot, Five Eight
CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital/Book Reviews:
Above Me/The 1981/Grey Causeway * Tunde Adebimbe * Airport 77s * Allo Darlin’* American Darlings * Greg Amici * A.M. Nice * Art Schop * Corin Ashley * Greg Antista & the Lonely Streets * Paul Arámbula * Bag People * Julien Baker & Torres * Peter Baldrachi * Bantom Woods * bdrmm * Beckies * Beirut * Craig Bell & the Dead Man’s Handle * Bevil Web (Tobin Sprout) * Frank Black * Black Tape For a Blue Girl * The Black Watch * Blasters/Phil Alvin * Blueboy * Blue Oyster Cult * Bongos * Dennis Bovell & Friends * Bromide * Burning Limos * Andi Camp * Can * Chappaquddick Skyline * Chills * China Crisis * Gene Clark & Carla Olson * The Clean * Clipping * Cloakroom * Cmon Cmon * Compulsion * Celeste Corsano * Coward Brothers (Elvis Costello/T. Bone Burnett) * Cracker/David Lowery * Crisis Actor * Julee Cruise * Lucy Dacus * Danny & the Doorknobs * The Darkness * Darkside * Dauber * Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom/Dean Wareham * Deep Blue Something * Dennis Davison * Richard Dawson * Des Demonas * Destroyer * Dez Dare * Dogs * Dotsun Moon * DoubleVee * Doves * Dr. John * Dr. Strangely Strange * Dropkick * Drop Nineteens * Dunkirk Riots * Joe Ely * Escape-Ism * Wayne Everett * Evil Nature * Ex Norwegian * The Faint * Fake Plastic * The Fall * Feeders * Fine China * Craig Finn * Flavor Crystals * Fleshtones * Flying Vipers * Robert Forster * Fotoform * Gentle Spring * Doug Gillard/Bunnygrunt * The Gits * Glorybots * Go-Betweens * Alan Goldberg * Great Unwashed * Grip Weeds * Guided By Voices * Victor V. Gurbo * Pearl Harbor & the Explosions * Francoise Hardy * George Harrison * Harsh Symmetry/ Justin Warfield * Lee Hazlewood * Heaven * John Lee Hooker * Horsegirl * Greg Hoy * Humdrum * Huntingtons * Ida * Los Idiotas/Psychic Pigs * Johnny Iguana * Immersion W/Suss * Innocence Mission * Interpol * Jason Isbell * I Was a King/King Husky * Elmore James * Janus 4-14* Japanese Breakfast * Jetstream Pony * Steve Kilbey/Jack Frost * King Ropes * Kinski * Krayolas * Ed Kuepper & Jim White * Ben Kweller * Lambrini Girls * Laughing Chimes * Legendary Pink Dots * Jeffrey Lewis * Librarians With Hickeys * Limps * The Loft * Loons * Lowest of the Low * Lunchbox * Lumineers * Barbara Manning * Marina Rocks * Paul McCartney & Wings * Mekons/Nightingales * Melanie * Miss Massive Snowflake * Mobelisk Grove * Mogwai * Bob Mould * The Move * MSSV * Mt. Misery * Mumford & Sons * Peter Murphy * Muster Point Project * Jeff Myers * My Morning Jacket * The Names * The National * New Model Army * Alyssandra Nighswonger * Ian North/Dwight Twilley/Graham Parker * Nourallah Brothers * Oasis * Sean O’Brien and His Dirty Hands * October Days * Onsetter * Optdemics * Buck Owens & His Buckaroos * Pains of Being Pure at Heart * Pale Saints * Panda Bear * Fernando Perdomo * Perfume Genius * Physarum * PillowPrince * Pink Turns Blue * Pleasure Pill/Plight * Plush Machine * Pocket Gum * Poke a Brain * Doc Pomus * Iggy Pop * George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners * Preoccupations * Pulsars * Raging Nathans * Rain Parade * Reagan Youth * Restless Mosaic * Riot For Romance * Rozz Rezabek * Roach Squad * Rocket * Royal Blunder * Royal Chant * Royksopp/Saint Etienne * Todd Rundgren * Running Man * Salem 66 * Scientist Meets Blanc Du Blanc * Scratch Acid * Screaming Bloody Marys * Seefeel * Shannon & The Clams * Sixpence None The Richer * Skin Yard * Sleepersound * Elliott Smith * Smithereens * Smoking Popes * Smug Brothers * Sonic Youth * Sorrows * Souled American * Spool * Springhouse * Stalwart Lovers * Starflyer 59 * Ringo Starr * St. Divine * Σtella * Stereophonics * Rick Street * Stress Dolls* Suburban Resistance * Sunflower Bean * Swans * Swervedriver * Talking Heads * Tearaways * Benmont Tench * Television Personalities * Tennis * Tetsuians * Textbook Maneuver * Throbbing Gristle * Throwing Muses * Translator * True Primitives * Tubs/Ex-Void * 20/20 * Two-Man Giant Squid * Unrest * Unstable Shapes * Vampisoul Records Roundup * Eric Van Dijsseldonk * Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory * Vapors * Vida Vella * Waves Crashing * Weather Station * Wet Leg * Clarence White * Dmitry Wild * Lucinda Williams * Wut * Zabrecky * Various- C92 box * Various: Just Like Heaven-a Tribute to The Cure * JAZZ: Nels Cline * Ella Fitzgerald * Vince Guaraldi Trio * William Hooker * Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez/Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio * Art Pepper * ECM Records Roundup * ESP-Disk’ Roundup * BOOKS: Eric N. Danielson’s Wipers Book, Glen E. Friedman’s Bad Brains Photo Book, Jon King’s Gang of 4 Book, Fiona Mcquarrie’s Fountains of Wayne Book, Malcolm Wyatt’s The Jam People’s History Book * And Hundreds More!