Plus there are shorter chats with deary, Squeeze, Metric, Twilight Sad, Blue Herons , Messthetics , Hatchie , Railcard, Tammy Shine and Dahlmanns! Plus a special “list” article from our own Jeff Kelson: “My Top 50 Albums of the 1990s”

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 98, 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-$20 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 #98 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 pre-ordering just the one issue, 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 Father’s Day, Graduation, 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 #97 (Neko Case cover), the upcoming issue #98 (The Wedding Present cover), or the Fall 2026 issue #99 (Taylor Swift 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 #98, 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 #98!:

Interviews: The Wedding Present (on the cover) * The Saints ’73-’78 pt. 2 * Broken Social Scene * Bevis Frond * DIIV * Heavenly * Telephone Numbers * Sungaze * SLIP~ons * deary * Squeeze * Metric * Twilight Sad * Blue Herons * Messthetics * Hatchie * Railcard * Tammy Shine * Dahlmanns

Editorials: Rabid: “The Worst American Exceptionalism: Our Crumbling Political System, and the Doom Loop of Alienation and Damage it Causes” * Kelson: “My Top 50 Albums of the 1990s” * Orzeck: “Support Protest Musicians; Their Lives—and Yours—Depend on It”

Live: Bambi Kino * Bobby Bare Jr. * Miki Berenyi 3 (and Gina Burch) * The Beths (and Illuminati Hotties and Phoebe Rings) * Chameleons (U.K., aand The Veldt) * Will Coffey & The People’s Poets * Dirty Fences and Jeanines * John Doe * Geese * Idaho * The K’s * Ed Kuepper & Jim White (and Mick Harvey) * Luna (and Elk City) * Joe Pernice * The Saints ’73-’78 * Snail Mail (and Sharp Pins and @) * The Tubs (and Low Healer) * Voxtrot (and Lightheaded) * The Wedding Present (with Mark Robinson) * Welcome Strawberry * Independent Project 45th Anniversary Festival (Mark Mastopietro & Dan Voznick, Driveway Ceiling, Kommunity FK, Lanterna with Bruce Licher, Springhouse, Alison Clancy, Shiva Burlesque, and David J)

CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital/Book Reviews: Bette A. & Brian Eno/Roger Eno * Joshua Abrams * Barry Adamson * Adverts * Altin Gün * And Also the Trees * Angel Face/Teengenerate * Anti-Nowhere League/Chrome * Art Schop * Fran Ashcroft/Paul Archer * Ashes and Diamonds * Jacob Augustine * Bad Brains/Descendents * Peter Baldrachi * Band Of Horses * Bantom Woods/Appi * Courtney Barnett * Richard Barone & James Mastro * Jim Basnight * Bat For Lashes * Beach Boys * Beck * Bedroom Eyes * Beggar Weeds * Miki Berenyi Trio * Bevis Frond * Black Beach * Black Cat Habitat * Black Heart Procession * Black Watch * Blake Babies * Blasters/The Third Mind * Blue Herons * Colin Blunstone/Zombies * Blusterfields * Boys * Billy Bragg * Brigitte Calls Me Baby * Broken Social Scene * Simon Bromide * Burning Limos * Paul Butterfield Blues Band * Buzzcocks * Cable Street Riot * Terry Callier * Camera Obscura * Canyons/Frankie Trillo/Pretty Baby * Cast * Cat Power * Cat’s Miaow/Autocollants * Cento Threeo * Charlatans UK * City Gates * Clientele * Clock DVA * Charlotte Cornfield * Gal Costa * Crooked Fingers * Crushingswans * Cub * Cut Worms * Chris D/Poison Fang Society * Dambuilders * Damned * Dandy Warhols * Danny & the Doorknobs * Diana Darby * Deary * Death Cab For Cutie * Death Cult * Die Kreuzen/Don Caballero * DIIV * D.O.A.* Dr. Strangely Strange * Doleful Lions * Dope * Doused * Downstrokes * Kevin Driscoll * Dry Cleaning * Amy Duncan * Dutch Interior * Dylan Thomas.* Eater * Eddie & the Hotrods * DB Edmunds * 84 Days * Vera Ellen * Embrace * Emitter * Erotics * The Fall * Fast Camels * Feeders * 54-40 * Fig Dish * Fire In the Radio * Fishbone * Abby Fisher/Stephanie Lamprea & Alistair Macdonald/Christopher Shultis * Flavor That Kills * Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks * Flyboys/Sür Drone * Flying Vipers * Freddie & the Dreamers * Friko * Bill Frisell * Fruit Bats * Funkadelic/David Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7/Charley Patton/Various: Westbound Sound: Single Minded Vol 3 * Fuzz * Gang of Four * Gardener * Gene * Geologist/White Fence * Doug Gillard * Girl Trouble * José González * Kim Gordon * Gorillaz * Greenberry Woods * Jack Grisham & the Life Undone * Al Green* Green Seagull * Guest Directors * Guided By Voices * Guitarmy of One * Gull Boy * Victor V. Gurbo & Co. * Aldous Harding * Françoise Hardy * Chris Harford * Hater * Juliana Hatfield * Hawkwind * Heavenly * Hen Ogledd * Hrishikesh Hirway * His Name Is Alive /Perfume Genius * Honeychain * Jesca Hoop * Hüsker Dü * Idaho * Iron and Wine * Joe Jackson * Janus 4-14* Joecephus & the George Jonestown Massacre * Gary Klebe * Joyce Manor * Junk Fingers * Junior League * Jupe Jupe * Michael Keane * Keeley * Kilbey Kennedy * Killing Kind * King Ropes * King Tuff * Chip Kinman * Kisu Min * Knockout Artist * Kula Shaker * Ladytron * Laughing Hyenas * Legal Matters * Lemon Twigs * Adrienne Lenker * Liar, Flower * Lions Of The Interstate * Loft * Rachel Love/Railcard * Lovin’ Spoonful * Lowsunday * Gia Margaret * Sir George Martin Scott McCloud * Buck Meek * JB Meijers * Melody Chamber * Memorials * Mercury Rev * Metric * M.I.A./Naked Soul * Mice * Yea-Ming & the Rumours * Tom Minor * Eugene Mirman * Mitski * Moby * Derek Monypeny & Kevin Corcoran/Benjamin Miller * Monochrome Set * Thurston Moore & Bonner Kramer/David Yow & Orcutt Shelley Miller * Kevin Morby * Necessaries * Nils/Viletones * Nervous Twitch * New Pornographers * Klaus Nomi * Nothing * Salim Nourallah * Sean O’Brien & His Dirty Hands * Overnight * Paper Kites * Paranoid Style * Parlor Greens * Peaches * Penny Arcade * Joe Pernice * Physarum * Pixies * Pony * Pullman * The Question? * Rain Parade * Ratboys * Reds, Pinks & Purples * Reigning Sound * Replacements/Slim Dunlap * R. Missing * Rocketship * Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever * Romeo Void * Royal Ottawa * Todd Rundgren * Leon Russell & Mary Russell * St. Divine * Scivic Rivers * Searows * Shapes Like People * Sharkeologist * Sharp Pins * Shoreline * Sister Double Happiness * Sleaford Mods * Sleep Paralysis/No Peeling * Slift * Tom Smith * Smitt E. Smitty & the Fezztones/Little Billy Lost * Softjaw * Souled American * Snail Mail * Snake Corps * Social Distortion * Soft Shoulder * Sparkler * SPC ECO * Squeeze * SRC * ST37* Suneaters * Sunn O))) * Earl Sweatshirt, Mike & Surf Gang * Tee Vee Repairmann * Thee Allyrgic Reaction * They Might Be Giants * Throttle Back Sparky * Total Pleasure * Touch Girl Apple Blossom * Trashcan Sinatras * Triptides * Twenty One Children/King Automatic/Gentilesky * Twilight Sad * Twisted Teens * Underbites * Undercover Dream Lovers * Urge Overkill * Lily Vakili * Vampisoul/Munster Records Roundup * Vanderwolf * Velocity Girl * Verlaines * Void * Rocky Votolato * Voxtrot * Rufus Wainwright * Wall of Voodoo * Mike Watt & J Mascis/Larry Mullins & Mike Watt * Waves Crashing * We Are Spectral * Wedding Present * Greg Weeks/Magus * Weird Nightmare * White Denim * Lucinda Williams * Jimmy Witherspoon & Robben Ford * Xmal Deutschland * Ya Tseen * Young Fresh Fellows * Gary Young, Pavement, Noah Georgeson, Etc. * Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart * Various: All You Good Good People, Britpop & Beyond 1995-1999 * Various: And the Angels Wouldn’t Help You * Various: CBGB: A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986 * Various: Music Music Musique 1979: the Roots of Synth Pop * Various: This Can’t Be Today: a Trip Through the US Psychedelic Underground 1977-1988 * Various: Something For the Longing: Scottish Independent Pop 1985 – 1999 * Various: Soul to Soul: Music From the Original Soundtrack * SOME JAZZ: Atlantis Quartet * Albert Ayler With Don Cherry * Charles Downs Quartet * Jakob Dreyer* Gary Peacock & Ralph Towner/Mark Turner * Walter Smith III * Craig Taborn * SOME BOOKS: Jonathan Bernstein’s Justin Townes Earle Book, Robyn Hitchcock Book, Richard Langston’s The Clean Book, Jesse Malin Book, Tom Piazza’s John Prine Book, Tyler Sonnichsen’s Dead Milkmen 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