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Great X-mas gifts including four brand new children’s size t-shirts, men’s and womens’ shirts, beer cozies, magnets, 30th Anniversary Festival posters (signed if you want), buttons, subscriptions, back issues, and CDs!! Ho Ho Ho!
Good news! Big Takeover #69 Fall 2011 issue with Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls on the cover and concluding part twos of our awesome interviews with Best Coast, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, ’60s stars The Left Banke, and concluding part three with James Williamson on the now-revived Iggy & the Stooges, is out on the stands! A full description of its contents, including several juicy sample quotes, is just below!
Remember, we only come out twice a year, every Spring and Fall, so you don’t want to miss one of our jam-packed 184-page issues!
And since the issue has been mailed to subscribers and is appearing in the best book, record, and magazine shops near you, now is an excellent time look for it there or contact us via our secure online Yahoo Store to order it if you would like to receive it in the mail, or subscribe if you’ve been meaning to, or renew your subscription if it has run out.
And just a reminder that there’s still time for the perfect holiday gift: Big Takeover magazine subscriptions and back issues!
And speaking of which, for more great holiday gift ideas, here’s a reminder about our six new children’s sizes for our T-Shirts in three colors, as well as our new Big Takeover Accessories (Beer Cozies, Buttons, and Magnets!) and (signed if you like) Color 30th Anniversary Festival Posters!
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This means our t-shirts still come in three colors (black, white, and dark red) and are only $12 for adults and $10 for kids’s shirts and onesies, even including postage!).
Also, all but two of our back issues are still available (if your friends like a specific band we’ve featured; and there’s always the mega-deluxe gift, the complete set of all of our 69 issues to date, including the two that are out of print!)
And we are also offering used, good-quality CD copies of the three out of print SPRINGHOUSE CDs from 1991-1993 as well as sealed, limited edition art-package copies of Springhouse’s 2008 third LP From Now to OK (see why it got an 86 in Paste!), as well as CDs by EVEN WORSE, LAST BURNING EMBERS, DOUG GILLARD, NON-LINEAR THINKERS and EDP!
So if you want to subscribe or renew or give the gift that keeps on giving, just go to our secure online Yahoo store (and feel free to indicate which issue you’d like to start with (or have your friends start with), issue 68 (Pains of Bring Pure at Heart cover), the new issue 69 (Vivian Girls cover), or the Spring, 2012 issue 70. It’s only $20 for four issues (save 23% off the newsstand price including average sales tax), or $32 for overseas, or $26 for Canada and Mexico. Or, for those in the U.S. you can send us a check made out to “Big Takeover” for $20 to the following address:
The Big Takeover
356 4th St., Upper Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215 USA
Or if you want to order just issue 69, you can send us a check for $6 to that address or order it.
Here, again, is what’s in the new issue 69, with some sample quotes:
Interviews
Vivian Girls (cover)
I’m attracted to music that’s kind of outsider-y, like The Wipers. I really like the weird girl-group songs like ‘Nightmare’ by The Whyte Boots. There’s a song called ‘We Don’t Belong’ by Sylvan. I love this band Bananas that hardly anybody’s ever heard of, but they’re amazing!
Best Coast, pt. 2
“I’m a pretty good sales person. But right before Best Coast, I thought, ‘I just hate this.’ Especially the store that I worked at, they would give us a speech every morning, ‘Sell sell sell sell sell!!’ I would have to walk up to people and say ‘You have to try this soap. It will make your hands feel so soft.’ But really I wanted to say, ‘It’s not going to really make your hands that soft, and it’s way overpriced.’” [Laughter.]
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, pt. 2
“I mean, Iggy Pop is like the awesomest dude ever, he’s talented and a genius, but it just wouldn’t happen now… People are almost too sensitive these days. You read about the shit that used to happen in New York in the late ’70s… Now if a guy gets too drunk to play a show, he’s offended the whole world. Even Kurt Cobain had live shows like that—you see it on Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!, where he’s writhing around, just out of it…”
James Williamson on Iggy & the Stooges pt. 3
[[On the Scala King’s Cross Cinema gig, London 1973:] “And all these guys in London like David Bowie were wearing makeup and stuff, and here we were these Detroit guys, and we felt we had to have some kind of stage thing. So we went out and bought a bunch of makeup, but it was more like clown’s make up!” [Loud laughter.]
Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice)
“Six months in the hospital, I couldn’t say a thing. But I’ve been recuperating. I sing no problem—my talking is still dodgy.”
Fountains of Wayne
“I was a psych major, and when I first got out of school, I worked as a psychiatric counselor, believe it or not, for less than a year. I quit that job because I got the [expletive] kicked out of me by this 300-pound psychotic woman…”
‘60s stars The Left Banke pt. 2
“I wrote ‘My Friend Today’ about all the disappointment I felt about [recently departed member] Mike Brown and The Left Banke. Also, I threw in all of the pain I felt from my childhood, and all the times I was made to feel unwanted, unworthy, and unloved. I then decided to do an about face, and wrote “Nice To See You” and “There’s Gonna Be A Storm,” about the current 1968 vibe that was in the air—cosmic psychedelic tunes that sounded better if you took some LSD…”
‘60s stars Paul Revere & the Raiders frontman Mark Lindsay
“We were watching [labelmate Byrds guitarist Roger] McGuinn do some overdubs and I’m not sure whether it was on ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ or what. But, you know, he played 12-string on everything. He had that Rickenbacker, and I think that [Raiders guitarist] Drake even borrowed the ‘Ricky’ one afternoon to try out from Roger, and he liked it so much that he went out and bought one himself. And that appeared on the next record we cut, which was, [1966 #4] “Kicks.’”
Crass singer Steve Ignorant
“After we get this tour done, the final gig will be November 19, 2011 at Shepherds Bush Empire. That’s the last time I will ever do Crass songs live. Absolutely. I will never, ever go back on my word. It’s going to be awful. Because two days after I do that [expletive] gig, I am going to get a phone call, “Steve, we’ll give you 50 billion dollars if you come and do one more!” [Laughter.]”
Susanne Tabata‘s new Vancouver ’78-’82 punk documentary film Bloodied But Unbowed and D.O.A. sidebar
“I remember [Modernettes bassist] Mary Jo Kopechne at the Smilin’ Buddha [club]. She really stands out—she was, for a Vancouver musician, for a female, really sassy and brash—and that wasn’t the etiquette at the time. I wasn’t expecting anything when I went out to see Mary, but I wasn’t surprised that she had strong feelings about the past. Most of the people who are the main characters in this film have extraordinarily large personalities, and they’re not pushovers. They’re very independent-minded and opinionated.”
Other Interviews
Animal Collective * Cymbals Eat Guitars * Wild Beasts * Liam Finn * Eddy Current Suppression Ring * Lydia Loveless * Something Fierce * Slumberland Records
Editorials
Rabid: “Pick Your Protest: The Tea Party, the 1773 Boston Tea Party—or Occupy Wall Street?” * Polk: “Before You Scream ‘Racket,’ Thing Again; the Logic Behind Indie Labels’ CD Pricing” * Sommer: “The Band of Our Life; R.E.M. and the Birth of the Alternative World”
Live Reviews
Bastards Of Melody * Crosby & Nash * Death Cab For Cutie * The Decemberists (And Best Coast) * John Doe * Echo & the Bunnymen * Eddie & the Hot Rods * Husband&Wife * Joy Formidable * Paul McCartney * Don McGlashan * Bob Mould * Off! * Haroula Rose * Savage Republic * Sebadoh * Sloan (and You Am I) * Stiff Little Fingers (and Kraut) * Superchunk * Swervedriver * T.S.O.L. * White Fence * Wire * Zounds * “Big Star’s Third” Tribute * Doe Bay Festival
Hundreds of CD Reviews
Art Brut * Pete Astor * Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School Of Medicine * Big Troubles * Blues Magoos * Bon Iver * Bubblegum Screw * The Caseworker * Johnny Cash * The Chambermaids * Gene Clark * Lloyd Cole * Dengue Fever * Dot Dash * Dum Dum Girls * Felice Brothers * Fleshtones * Forever Goldrush * Fountains of Wayne * French * Doug Gillard * The Girls * Happy Hate Me Nots * Hazey Janes * Jimi Hendrix Experience * The Hollies * Ivy * Jayhawks * Jigsaw Seen * Leatherface * Nick Lowe * Male Bonding * Stephin Merritt * Meyerman * Moby * Peter Murphy * Jesse Payne * Sam Phillips * Iggy Pop * Radio Birdman * Red Button * Redettes * The Rifles * The Servants * Patti Smith * Smithereens * Tommy Stinson * Peter Tosh * Trolley * TV On the Radio * Veronica Falls * Wild Swans * Wesley Wolfe * Toy Love Tribute * and more!!
Hope you all pre-order it, or buy it now it’s out! And/or hope you subscribe, as that is still by far the best way to support the print magazines you love if you want them to keep going. It means a lot to them!
And hope you can share the gift of reading with your friends! And happy holiday season, everyone!
Cheers!
Jack R
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