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Once again the big news is that Big Takeover issue #95 Fall 2024 is at the printer now, from completed sessions in Brooklyn, NY and Oakland, CA this month! The issue stars beloved, still-going power-pop greats Nada Surf on the cover, original postpunk dynamos Mercury Rev and Idaho, new shoegaze stars Blushing, and features fabulous history interviews with ageless rockers John Cale, Hoodoo Gurus, Steve Wynn of Dream Syndicate & Baseball Project, and Meat Puppets part 2, plus an interesting chat with Joey KeithleyD.O.A. and as a Burnaby City Councilman (Councilor)!
Plus there are shorter chats with M. Ward, Close Lobsters, Chime School, Mo Dotti, Dead Horse One , Caroline Says, Hello Mary, Element 101, Modern Shakes, and The Lemon Twigs!
A full description of its contents is just below!
The magazine will begin shipping any week now, so you should see it quite soon! Remember, we only come out twice a year, every Spring and Fall, so you don’t want to miss one of our jam-packed 160-page issues!
(IMPORTANT!!: If you are a subscriber and you need to update your address, please tell us right away. The post office almost never forwards our issues even if you have a forwarding order in place. Quickly, send updates to me at jrabid@bigtakeover.com)
ALSO IMPORTANT: IF YOU’RE A FOREIGN READER including in Canada and want to order the new issue 95, subscribe including it, or renew including it, if you order in the next few days before we have to give the mailing list to the printer, it’s only a couple dollars for postage instead of $10-15 per issue it will be after that (it’s much more expensive when we mail it air mail instead of the printer). So don’t delay!
REMEMBER, ALSO, since this upcoming issue #95 will soon be shipped to subscribers and those who pre-order it by itself, but will sometimes be unavailable in your local stores (they don’t tend to reorder if they sell out quickly or used to carry us), so it is imperative if you want a copy of the magazine that you order it now, so that we can put in the right number of copies for our order with the printer! It is likely we will sell out of our own office stock thereafter, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. Don’t delay!
LASTLY if you want the issue, you should order right away before the printer finishes its work, so that we can ship it directly from there in the appropriate number of copies!
This you can do by pre-ordering just the one issue from our online store. (You can also buy any or all of our 94 back issues there that have been released over the past 44 years!), or subscribe if you’ve been meaning to, or renew your subscription if it has run out!!!! (Feel free to email me at jrabid@bigtakeover.com if you fear your subscription has run out!)
And just a reminder that there’s still time for the perfect Christmas, Chanukah, other holidays, birthday, or whatever type of gift: Big Takeover magazine subscriptions and back issues! Give the gift of music appreciation and good reading to those you love! (And maybe to yourself while you’re at it.)
Speaking of which, for more super gifts, here’s a reminder about our t-shirts, CDs, and our other fun stuff like Big Takeover beer cozies and signed posters that might be just the thing!
That’s right, Big Takeover issues, subscriptions, back issues, t-shirts in three colors, black, white, and burgundy red in thirteen sizes (including our children’s sizes, 2T, 3T, 4T, and 6MO, 12MO, and 18MO baby onesies!!!!! The coolest gift ever for the kids!), and our accessories (BT beer cozies for only $5 and 12 × 18 color BT Anniversary Festival Posters for $4, which I will sign if you want me to!), as well as our related CDs (including the limited edition Springhouse CD album, From Now to OK), also make the perfect birthday, or holiday) gifts! Especially in this time when we are all trying to economize.
This means our t-shirts still come in three colors (black, white, and burgundy red) and are only $16 for men, $15 for women, and $12 for children’s shirts and baby onesies, even including postage.
Also, all but four 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 94 issues to date, including xeroxes of the four that are out of print! Check theback issues page and you will see that offer.
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 86/100 in Paste!), as well as CDs by EVEN WORSE, LAST BURNING EMBERS, DOUG GILLARD, NON-LINEAR THINKERS and EDP!
If you want to subscribe or renew or give the gift that keeps on giving, just go to our subscribe and feel free to indicate which issue you’d like to start with (or have your friends start with); issue #94 (The Damned cover), the upcoming issue #95 (Nada Surf cover), or the Spring 2025 issue #96 (Loverboy cover – Ha! Just kidding. Just wanted to make sure you were still reading). It’s only $24 for four issues (save 23% off the newsstand price including average sales tax), or $36 for overseas, or $32 for Canada. Or, for those in the U.S., you can send us a check made out to “Big Takeover” for $24 to the following address:
The Big Takeover
356 4th St. 2nd fl.
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Or if you want to order just issue #95, you can send us a check (or make a PayPal payment to jrabid@bigtakeover.com) for $10.50 (including postage) to that address, or order it at the Big Takeover website.
Here, again, is what’s in issue #95!!!!:
Interviews: Nada Surf (on the cover) * John Cale * Mercury Rev * Idaho * Hoodoo Gurus * Steve Wynn/Dream Syndicate * Blushing * Councilman Joey Keithley/D.O.A. * Meat Puppets pt. 2 * Lemon Twigs * M. Ward * Close Lobsters * Chime School * Dead Horse One * Mo Dotti * Caroline Says * Hello Mary * Element 101 * Modern Shakes
Editorials: Rabid: “The 2024 Election Result: American Self-Sabotage, and The Double Standard That Helps It Along” * Kelson: “The Chills’ Martin Phillipps R.I.P.; An Appreciation of His Genius, Friendship, and Musical Tastes” * Lauden: “2024: The Year of Redd Kross”
Live: Alvvays * Beachwood Sparks * Miki Berenyi Three (And Lol Tolhurst & Budgie) * Beths (and Princess Chelsea) * Blushing * Buzzcocks * Chameleons * Damned (and Lenny Kaye) * Decemberists (and Ratboys) * D.O.A. (and Giuda and Fear) * Jeff Lynne’s ELO * Madness (and Fishbone) * Nada Surf (and Office Dog) * Trans-Canada Highwaymen * X * Young Fresh Fellows
CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital Reviews: Adverts * Affiliate Links * Afterimage * Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore * American Darlings * Amy Annelle * Anomalys/Paint Fumes * Another Heaven * APB * Armoires/Half Cubes * Athensville * Bad Brains * Lina Bahn * Bardo Pond * Beachwood Sparks * Belle and Sebastian * Jon Benjamin * Miki Berenyi Trio * Peter Bernstein/Wayne Escoffery/Steve Turre * Andrew Bird * Black Books * Blasters * Bloococoon * Blur * BMX Bandits * Boss Martians * Bratmobile/Mary Gauthier/Melissa Ferrick * Brief Candles * Bright Eyes * Broadcast * Bill Bruford * Peter Bruntnell * Butthole Surfers * Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs * Can * Doug Carn Trio * Daniel Carter/Leo Genovese/William Parker/Francisco Mela/Gerald Cleaver * Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds * Cathedral Ceilings * Chameleons * Billy Childish * Chime School * Cliff & Ivy * Close Lobsters * Cloud Nothings * Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd/Robin Guthrie * Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds * Courettes * Cranes * Crash Harmony * Crowjane * Buck Curran * The Cure * Damnwells * Daniel Danger/Downhaul * John Davis * Dennis Davison * dB’s/New Math * Dead Boys/Stiv Bators * Kim Deal * Iris Dement * Sandy Denny * Detention!* Dillon Fence * Disappearing Act * Dishrags * Dopamines * Dot Dash * Dotsun Moon * Downstrokes/Prozacs * Drop Nineteens * Dummy * Justin Townes Earle/Steve Earle * Echodrone * DB Edmunds * Eels * Effigies * Einstürzende Neubauten * Alejandro Escovedo * exlovers * Ex Norwegian * Fairmont/E.R.I.E. * Fastbacks * Feeders * Flamin’ Groovies * Folk Implosion /Dale Crover * Fontaines D.C. * Forest Fallows * 14 Iced Bears * Gavin Friday * Galaxie 500 * James Grauerholz * Hank Dogs * Juliana Hatfield * Richard Hawley * Healees * Helix.Ext * Hello London * His Name Is Alive * Robyn Hitchcock (and book) * Hugo Largo * Idaho * Idles * Illuminati Hotties * Iress * Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit * Ivy * I Was a King * David J * Jemima James * Japandroids * Jesus Lizard * Junior League * Karate * Kilbey Kennedy * David Kilgour * Kronos Quartet * King Krule * Ladybug Transistor/Outer World * Mark Lanegan * Latvian Radio * MJ Lenderman * John Lennon * Greg Lisher * Linda Lindas * Chris Livesay & Loud Flowers * The Loft/Jesse Garon & the Desperadoes * Loma * Lone Justice * Lowsunday * David Lynch + Chrystabell * …Man or Astro-Man? * Johnny Marr + the Healers * Maxïmo Park * Paul McCartney & Wings * Melanie/Leæther Strip/Horace Andy & Jah Wobble * Memorials * Mercury Rev * Mercvrial * Pat Metheny * Meteor Police * M.I.A. (punk) * Alan Milman Sect * Mingus Big Band * Don Aaron Mixon * Modern Shakes * Mo Dotti * Mono * MC5* Güten Morgan * Stuart Moxham * Paul Muldoon & Rogue Oliphant * Nada Surf * Never Heavy * 999 * Hayes Noble * Oasis * Overheard * Panda Bear & Sonic Boom * Paper Jays * Aaron Parks * Charlie Patton/Carducci Brothers/Dennis Coffey * Perfect Garden * Peter Perrett * Sam Phillips * Pieces N/H * Pixies * Physarum * Plan Nine * +/- * Quags * Rain Parade * Recalculating * Phil Ranelin & Wendell Harrison/Cecil Taylor * Redd Kross * Lou Reed * Red Lorry Yellow Lorry * Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn * Rifles * Amy Rigby * Roach Squad * Rockpile * Romans * Royal Headache/Antenna * St. Lenox * St. Vincent * Saints * Ryuichi Sakamoto * Sansyou * Scared Of Chaka * Jeff Schroeder * Ty Segall/Aerial M/Bill Callahan/Dirty Three * Sloan * Elliott Smith * Snow Patrol * J Spaceman & John Coxon * Alan Sparhawk * Spirit of the Beehive * Spoon * Tobin Sprout * Standing Waves * Starflyer 59 * David Steinhart * Stray Owls * Suburban Resistance * Successful Failures * Tears Run Rings * Willie Tee * The The * Throbbing Gristle * Tindersticks * Toilet Rats * Tombstones In Their Eyes * Pete Townshend * Tragically Hip * Trauma Kit * Trauma School Dropouts * Travis * Triceratops * Tulipomania * Underbites * Underlined Passages * U2 * Alan Vega * Velocity Girl/Washed Out/Suki Waterhouse * The Verge * Voxtrot * Tom Waits * The Web * Wednesday Week * Ween * Gillian Welch & David Rawlings * Jack White * Wilco * Chelsea Wolfe * Steve Wynn * X * X-Teens * Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention * Zeros * Various: No Escape From What You Are (D.O.A. Tribut) * Various: Roots Rock Rebels: When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982 (box) * Various: Tales of aa Kitchen Porter; A Tribute to Cleaners From Venus * Various: There Must Be a Hole In Your Memory 2; A Tribute to The Sound & Adrian Borland * Cary Baker (nook), Warren Zanes (book), Continental Drifters book, Fairport Convention book, Krautrock book, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska book, Toxic Shock Records book, Mia Zapata & The Gits book, And Hundreds More!
Lastly, thanks to our Patreon sponsors, who make our magazine and weekly radio Big Takeover Show at Real Punk Radio (all archived at The Big Takeover online) viable, without whom we’d have to stop one or both! If you’d like to join them and help support and sponsor us, it is easily done at that Patreon site, or you can always send a check to Big Takeover to our address as a kind donation. We’re very grateful!
Hope you all buy the magazine now that it’s coming 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 us!
And hope you can share the gift of reading and passion for music with your family, friends, and anyone else who is interested! If we can help you, let us know!
And in this unusual time, we hope you are all well and staying that way.
Cheers!
Jack R
