Big Takeover Issue 84 Spring 2019

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Interviews: Bob Mould (cover) * Alvvays * Chip Kinman (Dils/Rank & File) * Beths * Joe Jackson * ‘60s stars The Cyrkle * Walter Lure of Johnny Thunders’ Heartbreakers/Waldos pt. 2 * Vancouver punk photographer Bev Davies * Piroshka * Moving Panoramas * Ummagma * Girlpool * TEEN * Pip Blom * Peel Dream Magazine * American Football * reunited Long Ryders * Big Bliss * and more

Editorials: Rabid: “Winter is Coming; Orange Cersei Doesn’t Care” * Sommer: “Rock ’n’ Roll Is Like the Train to Hogwarts: If You Believe In It, It Exists” * Kelson: “Has Popular Music Passed Us By?”

Live Reviews: The Chills * Echo & the Bunnymen * Fake Laugh * Mike & Micky of the Monkees * Music for Enophiles, Swervedriver, Teenage Fanclub * Kalamshoegazer 12 Festival: Ringo Deathstarr, Springhouse, Soft Science, Airiel, Tears Run Rings, Tambourina, Seashine, and Brief Candles

CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital Reviews: Albert Ayler & Don Cherry * Bad Religion * Bangles, Three O’clock, Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade * Beatles * Big Brother & the Holding Co. * Andrew Bird * Black Nite Crash * Black Watch * Brian Jonestown Massacre * Broken Social Scene * Buzzcocks * Cardigans * Channel 3 * Alex Chilton * Chocolate Watchband * Shana Cleveland * John Coltrane *Cranberries * Decemberists * Deerhunter * Dickies * Discharge * D.O.A. * Drums * Steve Earle & the Dukes * Faux Co. * Fawns of Love * Feeders (Sam Vicari) * Flesh Eaters * Flight of the Conchords * Ben Folds * Fontaines D.C. * Robert Forster * Fotoform * Gretchen’s Wheel * Groundhogs * Gudrun Gut * Guest Directors * Guided By Voices * Glen Hansard * Idlewild * Iron & Wine * I Was a King * Jet Black * Joan Jett * Bunk Johnson & Leadbelly * Joy Cleaner * Dr. Timothy Leary * Lemonheads * Gordon Lightfoot * Brent Loveday & the Dirty Dollars * Loose Wing * Stephen Malkmus * Mammoth Penguins * Curtis Mayfield * Mississippi Fred Mcdowell * Meat Puppets * Mekons * Van Morrison * Nada Surf * New Age Healers * Posies * Proper Ornaments * Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever * Sebadoh * Silver Bars * Sleaford Mods * Sleeper * Slowness * Dave Smalley & The Bandoleros * Specials * Mavis Staples * Tacocat * Tangerine Dream * Toy * True Primitives * Sharon Van Etten * Weyes Blood * Ron Wood & Ronnie Lane * Thom Yorke * Frank Zappa * Various: Big Gold Dreams; A Story Of Scottish Independent Music 1977-1989 * And So Much More