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   15,000, published every Spring and Fall.

   Subscribers: 4,200+

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   Source Interlink, Ingram, Ubiquity, Newsways, Speedimpex Canada, FAB Canada, Scratch Canada, Small Changes, Media Solutions, Darla, Get Hip, Newbury Comics, Revolver, Carrot Top, and more.

   NOTE: We also get into Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Hastings, Shinders, Tower, Newbury Comics, and Borders!

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   Quarter page: 3.75” wide by 5” high

   Half page: 7.5” wide by 5” high or 3.75” wide by 10” high

   Full page: 7.5” wide by 10” high (for ads that bleed: that is live area; the final crop will end up around 8.25” wide by 10.75” wide, so we recommend art that extends to at least 8.75” wide by 11.25” high)

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   E-mail us and we’ll tell you where to e-mail the files.

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   E-mail us for pricing and to reserve space. Then, make your check out to “The Big Takeover” and mail to:

   Jack Rabid
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   Big Takeover Magazine
   356 4th St., Upper Floor
   Brooklyn, NY 11215

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   FEATURES ISSUE, #66, SPECIAL 30TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE!: Spoon (cover), Big Star pt. 2, Ramones (unpublished 1992 interview!), Magnetic Fields, The Joy Formidable, Subhumans Canada, For Against, Lou Barlow, pt. 2, ’77 power-pop legends The Nerves pt. 2, Graham Nash on the Hollies, Rogue Wave, The Girls, Sharon Jones, Beach House, St. Vincent, The Supersuckers, Secret History (ex-My Favorite), famed ‘60s producer Terry Manning, New York shoegazers Lost Patrol, Midlake, NomeansNo, and more!

   FEATURES ISSUE, #65: Sonic Youth (cover), Lou Barlow (Sebadoh/Dinosaur Jr.,) Big Star (and John Fry on Chris Bell), Maximo Park, Decemberists Pt. 2, Grizzly Bear,’70s L.A. power-pop legends The Nerves,TV on the Radio, Yo La Tengo, Swervedriver, pt. 2, Love & Rockets, Fairport Convention, ’77 L.A. punks The Controllers pt. 2, Trash Can Sinatras, ‘80s stars The Lucy Show, Devo Pt. 3, The Music Lovers, Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), The Proclaimers, and more!

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   Visqueen live in the studio (and interviewed) and "Best of the New Breed, Vol. 1" now on Rabid In The Kennel!

   by Jack Rabid

   21 August 2010

   “Rabid In The Kennel” appeared on Bastille Day with a very special guest: the one and only Visqueen, playing a special, drummer-less session for us in support of their awesome recent LP , A Message to Garcia, and then the members, including dashing, powerful-throated singer Rachel Flotard, sat for a long 35-minute chat, including lots of funny sexual innuendo.

   More recently, we tried a special new wrinkle on our established format, by presenting all music and no chat with seven less established, but equally deserving new bands, called “Best of the New Breed, Vol 1.” This began airing just last week!

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   Welcome to the new Bigtakeover.com!

   by Jack Rabid

   11 July 2010

   On behalf of all of us here at bigtakeover.com and Big Takeover Magazine, I bid you welcome to our newly redesigned site! Looks cool, doesn’t it? Our print magazine is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, going back to a good 15 years or so before there was any electronic media. So the timing is perfect. Our endeavor has come a long, long way from the days of typing, Xeroxing, reducing, stapling, folding, mailing, shipping, and selling at gigs, and we are celebrating this long three decades of service and commentary in three distinct ways this year.

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