Big Takeover: Issue 98 Spring 2026
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!
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