Once again the big news is that Big Takeover issue #99 Fall 2026 issue is at the printer now, from completed sessions in Brooklyn, NY and Oakland, CA this month! The issue stars England’s newly reformed/touring ’90s stars Gene in our big cover story (we get the inside lengthy lowdown on why and how they came back!), plus part two of our equally long interview with beloved, still-going, ageless indie-rock pioneer David Gedge of The Wedding Present, plus other long interviews with similarly long-serving underground veterans Henry Rollins and In the Red Records’ label head Larry Hardy on The Cramps’ 1977 recordings they unearthed, Trash Can Sinatras (mourning the death of guitarist John Douglas), ex- Zombies singer Colin Blunstone, Protomartyr, Imperial Teen and Chris Houston (ex- Forgotten Rebels), plus newer band, and The Cat’s Miaow!
Plus there are shorter chats with Chicago’s The Feeders, Perennial, Desperate Journalist, Real Numbers, The Sewing Club, The Young Sinclairs, Above Me, Nourallah Brothers, and Shabazz Palaces! And a special “list” article from our own Jeff Kelson: “C80s: The U.K. 1980s Scene” in 50 pivotal records!
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 #99 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 #98 (Wedding Present cover), the upcoming issue #99 (Gene cover), or the Spring 2027 issue #100 (Nickelback 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 #99, 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 #99!:
Interviews: Gene * The Wedding Present, pt. 2 * Henry Rollins & Larry Hardy on The Cramps * Trash Can Sinatras * The Zombies’ Colin Blunstone * Protomartyr * Imperial Teen * The Cat’s Miaow * Chris Houston (Forgotten Rebels) * The Feeders* Perennial * Desperate Journalist * Real Numbers * Sewing Club * The Young Sinclairs * Above Me * Nourallah Brothers * Shabazz Palaces
Editorials: Rabid: “Republicans Reap the Whirlwind” * Kelson: “C80s: The U.K. 1980s Scene” * Orzeck: “The Corporate Co-Opting and Bastardization of Punk Rock’s Most Earnest and Essential Ethic: DIY”
Live: Basement * Belle and Sebastian * The Beths (and Chelsea Jade) * Colin Blunstone (and Peter Asher) * Casa Sueño (Mike Watt, Mike Baggetta, and John Herndon) * Chime School * The Damned (and Flamin’ Groovies) * Flower (and Phantom Tollbooth, Nice Strong Arm) * Gibby Haynes * Beth Kaplan * Bruce Licher & Henry Frayne * Perennial * Joe Pernice * Reds, Pinks & Purples * Sharp Pins (and Horsegirl) * She’s Green * Social Distortion, Descendents * The Strokes * Successful Failures * Sugar (and J. Robbins) * Swervedriver (and Slow Fiction, The Still Out) * Vivian Girls * Weird Nightmare * Welcome Strawberry
CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital/Book Reviews: @ * Absolute Grey * A Cast of Thousands * A Certain Ratio * The Action * Afghan Whigs * Allah-Las/L’Rain * Thee Allyrgic Reaction * Amyl & the Sniffers * Antietam * Antorcha/Canarios/Camilo Sesto/Iker Munduate/Litto Nebbia/Silver Pumpkins * Arab Strap * The Arms of Someone New * Art Schop * Kevin Ayers/Peter Hammill * Bad Brains * Band of Horses * Anton Barbeau * Barnes & Barnes/Ogden Edsl/Puddles Pity Party * Bart & the Brats * Bastard * Bates Motel/Orang-Utan * Beatles * Bob Bert * B-52s * Black Bananas * The Black Drumset * Black Ferns * Black Swan Lane * Black Watch * Blasé Debris * Blasters * Blondshell * Bloococoon * David Bowie * Phoebe Bridgers * Butthole Surfers * CA In LA * Sera Cahoone/Youbet/The Go * Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs * Can/Coil * Canning * Catburgers * Cat’s Miaow * Ceremony * Channel 3/Mike Magrann book)* Cheap Star * Circle C (Copyright) * City Gates * Claudettes/Wesley Stace * Cliff & Ivy * Clinic * Clipping * Bruce Cockburn * Le Corbeau, Love Big Dummy * Elvis Costello * Cramps * Creatures of the Sun * Criminal Hero * Crocodiles * Croz Boyce * Cucumbers * Dahlmanns/Shrubs * Darling Buds * The dB’s * Dennis Davison/United States of Existence * Dead Boys * Dear Boys * Deathray Davies * Derribos Arias * Desario * Dickies * Die Kreuzen/The Crosses * DIIV * Dinosaur Jr. * Dismiss * Dogs on Shady Lane * Downpilot/Starter Car/Telescopes * Docile Bodies * Tanya Donelly * Downtown Boys * Draculina * Dragonflies * The Drags/Useless Eaters * Dwarves/Queers * Driveway Ceiling * Dummy * Durutti Column.* Editors/Nouvelle Vague * Eels * Eleventh Dream Day * Envy * Exploding Flowers * Ezra Collective * The Fall * Pete Fij * Flesh For Lulu * Flight of Mavis * Flower Travellin’ Band * The Fondled * Fontaines DC * Four Tops * Funkadelic * Jake Xerxes Fussell * Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio/Ryan J. Raffa & Sam Prekop & Wavefiler/Lorna Dune * Ruth Garbus * Genre is Death * Carlos Giffoni/Chris Corsano * Gilla Band * Girlschool/Danzig/Mourning Noise * Go-Betweens * Goods * Great Plains * Luke Haines * Haircut 100 * Hamlet * Glen Hansard * The Harrow * Hello London * Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo * Thee Headcoats/Thee Headcoatees * Healees * Highspire * Hi Sheriffs of Blue * Robyn Hitchcock * Hollow Star * House of Love * John Howard * Greg Hoy * Human Hearts * Hurry * Hyperbubble * Hypnolovewheel * Immersion * Imperial Teen * I Will Die n This Jean Jacket * Jim James * Japanese Heart Software * Jayhawks * Darryl Jenifer * Jet Black Berries * Milo Jones * Cameron Keiber * King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard * Kiwi Jr * Krayolas * Lambchop * Sam Lapides & the Rotten Liars * Leem of Earth * Life Skills Department/Living Pins * Live Skull * Loudmotor/John Mack * Lovejoy * Lowsunday * Lydia Lunch & the Art Gray Noizz Quintet * Major Spark * Jason Maksymilian * Jo Mango * Roger Joseph Manning Jr. * Man or Astro-Man? * Bob Marley & the Wailers * Johnny Marr * Mars * Mekons * Memo PST * Memorials * Mesh * Ministry * Tom Minor * Modest Mouse * Mopar Stars * Motörhead * Mountain Goats * Movietone * Chris Murphy * Naked Raygun * Israel Nash/Floyd Nation * Nerves * New Age Healers * No One Mind * Sean O’Brien & His Dirty Hands * Odyssey Cult * OK Cowgirl * Olivia Tremor Control * Orchids * Panda Bear & Sonic Boom * Charlie Parr * Pegboy * Pepper Kings * Perennial * Physarum * Poem Rocket * Porcelain * John Prine * Protomartyr * Pulp * Purdins * Queens of the Stone Age * The Question * Radiola * Railcard * Real Numbers * Red Rockers * Residents * Dawn Richard * Rolling Stones * Romeo Void * Frankie Rose * Josh Rouse * Royal Blunder * Cecyl Ruehlen * M. Sage//Lottie Tauber * St. Divine * St. Vincent & Jules Buckley * Salaryman * Sansyou * Scientists * Seasurfer * Shabazz Palaces * Sharp Pins * Joan Shelley * She’s Green * Shudder to Think * Silent Boys * The Silversound * Nancy Sinatra * Sir Gregory F.K. * Skarnheim * Skooshny * Sky is Alright * Smashing Times * Smug Brothers * Soccer Mommy * Softjaw * Soft Science * Snake Corps * Some Velvet Sidewalk * Soup Activists * Sparks * Emily A. Sprague * Spectral Assignment * Standing Waves * Starflyer 59 * Strange Pains * Strawberry Alarm Clock/Wormstew * Strokes * Sugar * Susanne Sundfør * Suneaters * Swans/Exp * Swansea Sound * Sweeping Promises * Sweet Teeth * Swervedriver * Sylvan Esso * Deniz Tek * Temples * Textbook Maneuver/Michael Keane * Thao * Thermals * These Foolish Things * This Heat * This Is Lorelei * Richard Thompson/Buddy Miller * Tim and the Turmoil * Toilet Rats/Ritual Bronze * Too Much Joy/Wonderlick * Trash Can Sinatras * Tremolo Beer Gut * Tubs * Molly Tuttle * U.K. Subs * Ultra Lights * Underbites * Underlined Passages * Ups and Downs * Dick Valentine * Variant Cause * Veldt * Velour 100 * Veronica Falls * Laura Veirs * Velocity Girl * Vida Eterna * Voltress * Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz, Anagram Ensemble * Waterboys * Weakened Friends * We Are Spectral * Jimmy Webb * Wednesday Week * Jesse Welles * Junior Wells & Buddy Guy * Westside Cowboy * Whiles * Jack White * Wild Magnolias * Cameron Winter * Womack Sisters * Wyldewood Green * Pete Yorn * Young Sinclairs * Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention * Zombies * Various: Armagideon Time: When Punk Met Dub 1978-1984/Digging Your Scene: New Pop and All That Jazz 1982-1987/We Are the Beautiful: Two Decades of Shoegaze 1991-2011 * Various: Before the Gold Rush; An American Country Rock Anthology 1966-1973 * Various: Felice County Fair (Felice Brothers Tribute) * Various: I Helped Edward Ball Escape (tribute) * Various: Live Wire 33 1/3 * Various: Sittin’ With Blaze (Blaze Foley tribute) * * Various: The Well * SOME JAZZ: Miles Davis * Allen Lowe * Thelonious Monk * Caesar Pink Quintet * Pete Roth Trio * Schanzer-Speach Duo and Guests * Andy Sheppard/Enzo Favata * Matthew Shipp/William Parker Duo * Clark Sommers * Steve Swallow * CLASSICAL * Jin Hi Kim * Steve Reich SOME BOOKS: Robert Boyd’s Nirvana book * Nic Brown’s Violent Femmes book * Larry Crane with John Baccigaluppi book * Tony Fletcher/Ira A. Robbins/Tim Sommer books * Joshua Greenbaum book * Georgia Rose Lucas’s Sandy Denny book * Lydia Lunch’s Cookbook * Ben Merlis’s Beastie Boys book * Tim Stegall’s ’70s punk book* and many 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
