Big Takeover Magazine, Issue #89, The Chills on front cover, Fall 2021, Paper Print Magazine

This issue stars beloved 40-year New Zealand/Flying Nun stars The Chills on the cover, and features fabulous history interviews with indie rock legends Dinosaur Jr. part 2, renowned pop/rock duo Sparks, Paul Leary of Texas shock rockers Butthole Surfers part 2, Dublin ’90s post-punk icons Whipping Boy, and four-decade U.K. music photographer Phil Nicholls part 2. We also have multi-page conversations with femme surf-rockers La Luz, Toronto’s atmospheric folk outfit Weather Station, Belgian heavy, vespertine shoegazers Slow Crush, and compelling Canadian post-punk duo TRAITRS.

Plus there are shorter chats with Illuminati Hotties, The Umbrellas, Willie Nile, Ed Dowie, Aaron and the Lord, HYLA, Pia Fraus, Thala, Pink Turns Blue, and more!

Here, again, is what’s in issue #89!!!!:

Interviews: The Chills (the cover) * Dinosaur Jr. pt. 2 * Sparks * La Luz * Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers) pt. 2 * Whipping Boy (the Irish one) * The Weather Station * Phil Nicholls (U.K. photographer) pt. 2 * Slow Crush * TRAITRS * Illuminati Hotties * The Umbrellas * Willie Nile * Ed Dowie * Aaron and the Lord * HYLA * Pia Fraus * Thala * Pink Turns Blue

Editorials: Rabid: “’The Problem is We Are Running Out of Hallways’; Scenes From Two Mountain West Hospitals, As a Political Party Turns Into a Death Cult * Kelson: “Josef K and McCarthy—The Unheralded Stars of British ’80s Music * Lauden: “The Replacements’ Sorry Ma at 40”

Live: Death Cab For Cutie * Deep Sea Diver * John Doe * Emma Swift

CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital Reviews: 1st Base Runner * 7 Seconds * Damon Albarn * Mose Allison * Amyl & the Sniffers * Aztec Camera * Bad Brains * Bart & Friends * Bastards of Melody * Janet Batch * Beach Boys * Beachwood Sparks * Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come * Beau Brummels * Be-Bop Deluxe * Belly * Be Positives * Beths * Bevis Frond * Karen Black * Black Swan Lane * Black Watch * Blasters * Simon Bromide * Colin Blunstone * Bomboras * Boo Radleys * Billy Bragg * Breathless * Jackson Browne * Nick Cave & Warren Ellis * Chameleons * Charlatans * Ray Charles * Checkered Hearts * Chelsea * Wild Billy Childish * Chrome * Cliff & Ivy * Clinic * Collect Pond * Shirley Collins * Alice Coltrane * John Coltrane * Connells * Josie Cotton * Couch Flambeau * David Crosby * Lucy Dacus * Db’s/Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey * John Denicola * Descendents * Donovan’s Brain * Downstrokes * Bob Dylan * The Fall * Fawns Of Love * Feeders * Film School * Flamin’ Groovies * Fleeting Joys * Flock Of Dimes * Fotoform * Fucked Up * Furious Seasons * Rory Gallagher * Garbage * Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth * Goon Sax * Grizzly Bear * Guided By Voices * Gun Club * Steve Gunn * Robin Guthrie * Luke Haines * George Harrison * PJ Harvey & John Parish * Hawkwind * Iggy & the Stooges * Joe Jackson & Todd Rundgren * Bert Jansch * Elton John * Joy Formidable * Steve Kilbey * Lanterna * Latvian Radio * Lauds * Listening Post * Los Lobos * Low * Nick Lowe * Lusitanian Ghosts * Manic Street Preachers * Aimee Mann * Mac McCaughan * Don McGlashan * Melt Citizen * Merseybeats/Merseys * Metal Urbain * Metz * Ministry * Modern English * Modest Mouse * Mommyheads * Motörhead * Mudhoney * Muun Bato * Peter Murphy * My Bloody Valentine * Nada Surf * Naked Raygun * New Pornographers * Gary Numan * Angel Olsen * Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark * Outsiders * Parquet Courts * Pere Ubu * Persian Leaps * Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers * Pineapples * Pinx * Piroshka * Pointed Sticks * Pop Group + Dennis Bovell * Primal Scream * Prince * Justus Proffit * Quivers * R.E.M. * Edward Rogers * Haroula Rose * Rubinoos * Sacred Shrines * Archie Sagers * Saint Etienne * Scenics * Scientists * Seasurfer * Ty Segall * Brian Setzer * Shannon & the Clams * Skids * Sleepersound * Connie Smith * Son Volt * Sorrows * Spacehog* Space Summit * Split Single * Christopher Paul Stelling * Stranglers * Supergrass * Successful Failures * Suneaters * Super Furry Animals * SVT * Tape Waves * Tennis System * Trash Can Sinatras * Travis * Triptides * Claire Tucker * Turnsole * Twin Rains * Underwater Sunshine * U-Roy * Vapors * Alan Vega * Wallflowers * Watch Clark * Webstirs * Whimsical * Wolverton Brothers * Daniel Wylie’s Cosmic Rough Riders * Thalia Zedek * And Hundreds More!

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