Once again the big news is that Big Takeover issue #97 Fall 2025 issue is at the printer now, from completed sessions in Brooklyn, NY and Oakland, CA this month!
The issue stars beloved, still-going, ageless legend Neko Case in our big cover story, plus part two of our equally long interview with Bob Mould of Sugar and Hüsker Dü, plus other lengthy interviews with similarly long-serving underground veterans New Model Army, The Saints ’73-’78, Salem 66, Peter Prescott from Mission of Burma and Volcano Suns, and Independent Project’s 45th Anniversary chat with Bruce Licher and Jeffrey Clark, plus newer bands Rocket, and Jeanines!
Plus there are shorter chats with Fruit Bats, Sugar For the Pill, Sorry, Six Figure Satellite, Nelson Bragg, Royal Blunder, Bria Salmena of Tortoise, and Too Much Joy!
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 172-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 97, 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 $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 #97 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), 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 ordering just the one issue from our online catalog. (You can also buy any or all of our 95 back issues there that have been released over the past 45 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 several sizes, 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 original limited edition Springhouse CD album before its recent reissue, 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 $18.
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 97 back 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 online store and feel free to indicate which issue you’d like to start with (or have your friends start with); issue #96 (Bob Mould cover), the upcoming issue #97 (Neko Case cover), or the Spring 2026 issue #98 (Lady Gaga 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 #97, you can send us a check (or make a PayPal or Zelle payment to jrabid@bigtakeover.com) or venmo to @paul-corradi-1 for $7.00 to that address, or order it at the Big Takeover website.
Here, again, is what’s in issue #97!!!!:
Interviews: Neko Case (on the cover) * Bob Mould pt. 2 *The Saints ’73-’78 * Rocket * New Model Army * Peter Prescott (Mission of Burma/Volcano Suns) * Salem 66 * Jeanines * Independent Project’s 45th Anniversary * Fruit Bats * Sugar For the Pill * Sorry * Six Figure Satellite * Nelson Bragg * Royal Blunder * Bria Salmena * Tortoise * Too Much Joy
Editorials: Rabid: ““No Kings” Is the Real Spirit of ’76 (And Some Thoughts About the Wrong Kind of American Exceptionalism)” * Kelson: “New Zealand’s Flying Nun Records—Rough Trade’s Only Rival As Best Indie Label of Last 50 Years” * Lauden: “Power-pop Adjacent”
Live: Adverts * Alvvays (with Halsey) * Miki Berenyi 3 (and Gina Birch) * Black Country, New Road * Chameleons (U.K.) * Channel 3, Mala Vista * The Damned (and The Bellrays) * Dandy Warhols * Death Cab For Cutie (and Sea Lemon) * Dinosaur Jr. (and Snail Mail, Easy Action) * Gang of Four * Japanese Breakfast * Bob Mould Band * Panchiko (and Alison’s Halo) * Stiff Little Fingers * Superdrag * Wedding Present (and The Tubs) * Slide Away Festival: Nothing, Swervedriver, Pains of Being Pure at Heart
CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital/Book Reviews: Aarktica * A Certain Ratio / Mark Stewart * AFI * Alison’s Halo * Allo Darlin’ * Appaloosa * Fred Armisen * Richard Ashcroft * Bangles * Anton Barbeau * Bats * Larry Beckett & Stuart Anthony * The Beths * Big Thief * Bird Streets * Philip Blackburn / Nick May/Alex Siu Lin Li * Black Ferns * Blackfox * Black Swan Lane * Blood Orange * Bog Witch * Nelson Bragg * David Byrne * Camper Van Beethoven * Cardiacs * Neal Casal * Neko Case * Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds * Charboneau * Charlatans UK * Chameleons * Ray Charles * Chatham Rise * Cheater Slicks * Chris Church * Cliff & Ivy * Cloud Nothings * Cochemea * Le Concorde * Alice Cooper Group * Cords * Cranberries * Comet Gain * Marshall Crenshaw * Cut Worms * Dandy Warhols * Dennis Davison * Dead Bob * Deadlights * Descendents * Dickies * Dianogah * Divine Comedy * Donner Party * Dogmatics * The Dogs / Candy Snatchers * Donovan’s Brain * Dotsun Moon * Dragon Inn 3 * Nick Drake * Dream Syndicate * Dropkick Murphys * Brian Dunne * Eater * Echodrone * Eels * Iyla Elise * Brian Eno & Beattie Wolfe * Erie Choir * Alex E.T.* The Fall * Fangs / Melody Chamber * Feelies * Liam Finn * Fishbone * Flying Vipers * Forth Wanderers * Fruit Bats * Funkadelic * Fuzz * Geese * Geckøs * Gene Loves Jezebel * Joe Gibbs & the Professionals * Glide * Guided by Voices * Gulp * Guerilla Toss * Woody Guthrie * Half Cubes * Hagfish * Luke Haines & Peter Buck / Marc Almond & Michael Cashmore * Half Japanese * Jennifer Harper * Healees * Hickoids / Krayolas * High Frequencies * Highspire * Peter Holsapple * Hyperbubble * Idlewild * Immersion * Ivy * In Lieu / Something is Waiting * Iron and Wine & Ben Bridwell * I Was a King * Jeanines * Jeff the Brotherhood Featuring Blanc Du Blanc * Daniel Johnston * Kallai * Cameron Keiber * Satch Kerans Band * Kilkenny Cats * Kramies * Lake Ruth * Lard * Last Throes * Latchkey * Leatherface * Cate Le Bon * Cindy Lee * Jens Lekman * Lemonheads * Little Richard * Lovina Falls * Lowsunday * Luckyandlove * Phil Lynott’s Grand Slam * Magnetic Morning * Major Spark* Jason Maksymilian * Dom Mariani * Denise Marsa * Zachary Mason * Massage * Don McGlashan & Anita Clark * Bret McKenzie * Melancholy Kings * Mercyland * M.I.A.* Mighty Rootsmen / Kingston Lions * Milltown Brothers * Tom Minor * Minus 5* Modernettes * Tony Molina * Roy Moller * Morricone, Berio, Maderna, Nono * Motörhead * Mother Love Bone * Motion City Soundtrack * Moving Targets * Paul Muldoon & Rogue Oliphant * Muster Point Project * My Morning Jacket* My Version of It * Nation of Language * La Need Machine * New Math * Charlie Nieland * Hayes Noble * Nord Electric featuring Mark Gardener * Marianne Nowottny * Nutrias * Oasis * Oberon Rose * Outer Limits * Buck Owens & His Buckaroos * Pale Fountains * Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus * Pavement * Physarum * Plush Machine * Pointed Sticks * Emma Pollock * Primitive Romance * Psychic Pigs * Pulp * Radiohead * Raging Nathans * Rain Parade * Red Lorry Yellow Lorry * Real Estate * Reds, Pinks & Purples * Jonathan Richman * Rocket * Romans * Rousers * Jeffrey Runnings * Saint Etienne * St. Divine * The Saints ’73-’78 / The Saints * Salt Collective * Scenics * Sea Hags * Sea Lemon * Selector Dub Narcotic * Ron Sexsmith * Shearling / Onsetter * Adrian Sherwood * Skids * Sloan * Slow Salvation * Sly & the Family Stone * Elliott Smith / Heatmiser * TV Smith* Jay Som * Sorry * The Kyle Sowashes / Smug Brothers * Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles * The Special Pillow * Speed The Plough * Spinal Tap * Splitsville / Spongetones * Sprints * Standing Waves * Star Collector * James Erik Stark * Startographers/Nim * Stayres * Stella & the Very Messed * Stereolab * Yusuf/Cat Stevens * Los Straitjackets * Suburban Resistance * Successful Failures * Sugar * Sugar For the Pill * Sunday Artist * Superchunk * Swell Maps * Telephone Numbers * Temple of Love * Ten Million Lights * Testors * Textbook Maneuver * The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die * The Third Mind * Tights * Tombstones in Their Eyes * Trolley * Tsar * Tullycraft * Turnsole * Twin Foxes * Lily Vakili * Vampisoul/Munster Records Roundup * Valery Trails * Via * Vicious Clay * Vivabeat * Nick Vivid * Stellan Wahlström Drift Band * Warlocks * Water From Your Eyes * We Are Spectral * Webstirs * Wednesday * Welcome Strawberry * Jesse Welles * Wet Leg * Whimbrels * White Lies * Big Joe Williams * Marty Willson-Piper * Jah Wobble/Ken Booth * Wreckless Eric * Xmal Deutschland * Yndling * James Yorkston * Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts * Lucina Yue * Frank Zappa * Zero Boys * Zombies * Various: I Helped Edward Ball Escape (Tribute) * Various: I Wanna Be a Teen Again—American Power Pop 1980-1989 * Various: Jem Records Celebrates David Bowie * Various: Play On: a Raspberries Tribute * Various: We Were Living In Cincinnati Vol 2: Punk and Underground Sounds From Ohio’s Queen City * Various: You’re No Big Deal—Grunge, the U.S. Underground and Beyond 1984-1994 * SOME JAZZ: Eddie Daniels * Bill Evans Trio * Carmen McRae * Denman Moroney Quintet * Nicholas Payton/Esperanza Spalding/Karriem Riggins * Eric Scott Reed * Frank Sinatra & Duke Ellington (& Count Basie)* ECM Records Roundup * SOME BOOKS: Billy Bragg book, Bill Janovitz’s The Cars book, Sahan Jayasuriya’s Die Kreuzen book, Barry Mazor’s Everly Brothers book, Steve Miller’s Laughing Hyenas 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
