Big Takeover issue #92 Spring 2023
Once again big news is that Big Takeover issue #92 Spring 2023 is complete from sessions in Brooklyn, NY and Oakland, CA this month! The issue stars revered Canadian stars Sloan on the cover, and features fabulous history interviews with 45-year English star Robyn Hitchcock, power-pop legends New Pornographers, Tim Burgess from The Charlatans U.K., original shoegaze greats Ride, two lookbacks from grieving New Yorkers Ivy, and ‘90s California post-punk staples Popsicko, part two of last issue’s cover interview with Elizabeth Stokes of The Beths, popular vets The Hold Steady, and an interview with Brian Wilson Smile LP designer (etc.) Mark London including some nice examples of his work.
Plus there are shorter chats with John Wright of Nomeansno and Dead Bob, bdrmm , Green Pajamas, Skull Practitioners, Fruit Bats, Deerhoof, Lauds, Nyte Skye , Valley Queen, The Heavy Heavy, and Terry Hammer , the soundman from San Francisco’s hallowed Mabuhuy Gardens club, and more! A full description of its contents is just below.
Here, again, is what’s in issue #92!!!!:
Interviews: Sloan (the cover) * The Beths pt. 2 * New Pornographers * Robyn Hitchcock * Ivy * The Hold Steady * Ride * The Charlatans UK * Mark London (Brian Wilson’s Smile LP Artist) * Popsicko * bdrmm * Green Pajamas * Skull Practitioners * Fruit Bats * Deerhoof * Lauds * Nyte Skye * Valley Queen * The Heavy Heavy * Dead Bob * Mabuhay Gardens’ Soundman Terry Hammer
Editorials: Rabid: “The Kids Really Are Alright—My Son the Unlikely Rock Star (For Two Days)” * Kelson: “The Time A Record Clerk Saved My Life—An ode to Peter, Terry, and Brad” * Lauden: “Having Fun Or Dying Young? Paying Tribute To A Long Lost Friend”
Live: Alvvays * The Beths * Black Flag, Dickies, T.S.O.L. * Channel 3 * The Chills * Eyelids * Patterson Hood * Lemonheads, Juliana Hatfield * Real Estate, Cut Worms * Ride, Charlatans U.K. * David Steinhart * Don’t Lie to Me: Big Star Tribute Show * The Music of Paul McCartney (Patti Smith, Graham Nash, Peter Asher, Denny Laine, Lyle Lovett, Christopher Cross, Bettye LaVette, etc.)
CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital Reviews: A Cast of Thousands * A Certain Ratio * Acid King * Adolescents * Album Leaf * Anderson Council/Midnight Callers * APB * Ashenden Papers * Autodidact Dreams * Albert Ayler * Baby Hot-Line * Bad Ends/No Ones/Salt Collective * Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello * Bardo Pond * Barracudas * Beach House * Beatles * bdrmm * Belle & Sebastian * Bettie Serveert * Gina Birch * Bird Streets * Big Joanie * Martin Bisi * Blackbirds FC * Black Nite Crash * Black Watch * Blood Moon Wedding * Bluebells * Blusterfields * Boo Radleys * Boygenius * Brainiac * Bria * Brian Jonestown Massacre * Chris Brokaw * John Cale * Peter Case * Charming Disaster * Cheap Trick * Cheater Slicks * Wild Billy Childish & CTMF * Alex Chilton * Chime School * The Church/Steve Kilbey * The CIA * Circle Jerks * Shana Cleveland * Cliff & Ivy * Cluster * Jenny Conlee * Gaz Coombes * Lloyd Cole * Marshall Crenshaw * Crisis Actor * David Crosby & the Lighthouse Band * Damned * Darts * Dennis Davison * Death Cab For Cutie * Debacle * Depeche Mode * Desario * Indigo De Souza * Dez Dare * DIIV * D.O.A./ Joey Keithley * Donovan’s Brain * Gord Downie & Bob Rock * Bob Dylan * Earthly Frames * Eels * Eluvium * E.R.I.E. * Ex Norwegian * Eyelids * FACS * The Faction * Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward * Fawns of Love * Flash * Flying Burrito Brothers * Flyying Colours * Robert Forster * Josephine Foster * Fotoform * Four Star Riot * Freaks * Fruit Bats * Fucked Up * Glitter Wizard * Goldfeather * Grateful Dead/Bob Weir * Green Pajamas * Grey Factor * Guided By Voices * Hammock * Juliana Hatfield & Emma Swift * Hawkwind * Heartbeeps * Richard Hell & the Voidoids * Joe Henry * Hold Steady * Greg Hoy * Ivy * David J * Jphono1 * Elton John * Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen * Jupe Jupe * Keyside * Carole King * King Tuff * Kingsnakes * Krayolas * Kraut * Laughing Chimes * Furry Lewis * Live Skull * Bruce Licher * Linda Lindas * Long Ryders /Stephen Mccarthy & Carla Olson * M83 * Taj Mahal * March Violets * Miesha & the Spanks * Carina Messier * Metal Marty * Mighty Lemon Drops * Miniaturized * Modernettes * Mononegatives * Kevin Morby * Moss Icon * Most Powerful Telescope In the Universe * Motörhead * Movies With Heroes * Mudhoney * Naked Raygun * National Honor Society * Nervebreakers * Neutral Milk Hotel * New Pornographers * Nils * 1984 Draft * Nirvana (U.K.) * No Alternative * Billy Nomates * Salim Nourallah * Nyte Skye * Sean O’Brien & The Dirty Hands * Phil Ochs * OC Rippers * Off! * Pains of Being Pure at Heart * Pam Risourié * The Panik * Paramore * Charlie Parker * Nicholas Payton/Buster Williams * Peel Dream Magazine * Pere Ubu * Pernice Brothers * Pia Fraus * Pigface * Pink Floyd * Plain Speak * Iggy Pop * Poster Children * Kid Congo Powers/Wolfmanhattan Project/Paul B. Cutler * Primitives * Public Image Limited * Pull of Autumn * Purple Ivy Shadows * Quasi * Raveonettes * Reds, Pinks & Purples * Eric Reed * Residents * Revelons * Romeo Void * Frankie Rose * Ruts * Samiam * Kendrick Scott * Screaming Females * SC.U.M. * Second Layer * Philip Selway * 7 Seconds * Ron Sexsmith * Jim Shepard * Sir Douglas Quintet * Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood * Slackers * Slip~Ons/Brock Pytel * Soft Science * Sparks * Spirits of Leo * Star Collector * Strokes * Subhumans * Successful Failures * Tangerine Dream * Temples * Tennis * Tetsuians * Tombstones in Their Eyes * Transmissionary Six * Tubs * Trotsky Icepick * Underlined Passages * Veldt * Sharon Van Etten * Mike Viola * Wedding Present * Wednesday * White Stripes * The Who * Yo La Tengo * Zombies * Cherry Stars Collide – Dream Pop, Shoegaze and Ethereal Rock 1986-1995 (Box) * Elemental Child (Marc Bolan Tribute) * The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (Best Of K.B.D. Punk 1978-88) * Teenage Glampage – Can the Glam 2 (Box) * Too Much Sun Will Burn: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967, Volume Two (Box) * And Hundreds More!
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