The Big Takeover Issue 63

Once again here’s a quick note to let you know that Big Takeover #63 with Death Cab For Cutie on the cover, and concluding part two of our awesome Johnny Rotten Sex Pistols interview, is coming soon! Look for it in your favorite store near you that carries good music magazines!

If you want to subscribe or renew, just go to our secure online Yahoo store (and feel free to indicate which issue you’d like to start with, issue 61 (NEW PORNS cover), issue 62 (R.E.M. cover), or the new 63 (Death Cab For Cutie). It’s only $20 for four issues (save 23% off the newsstand price including average sales tax), or $32 for overseas. Or, for those in the U.S. you can send us a check made out to “Big Takeover” for $20 to the following address:

The Big Takeover
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Brooklyn, NY 11215

Finally, if you are a subscriber and you need to update your address, please tell us by email. Send updates to me at jrabid@bigtakeover.com

And remember, BIG TAKEOVER ISSUES, BACK ISSUES, TSHIRTS, CDS, AND SUBSCRIPTIONS ALSO MAKE THE HOLIDAY GIFT!

Here is what’s in the issue:

Death Cab For Cutie (cover) * Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten, Pt. 2 * Fleet Foxes * Spiritualized * Sloan * Feelies * Devo * The Zombies (Chris White & Hugh Grundy) * Band of Holy Joy * Mudhoney * Rock Writer V. Vale (Search & Destroy, RE/Search), Pt. 2 * Top 50 Reggae LPs, Pt. 2! * MGMT * Calexico * Deerhunter * Dropsonic * Everest * Frightened Rabbit * Joey Cape/Lagwagon * Jealous Girlfriends * Jason Ringenberg * Corleone Records

Editorials

Rabid: Goodbye George Bush, Hello Financial Crisis; Where is the Angry Right? * Ackerman: Record Industry Bust and the Baby Boomers * Sommer: The Rich Kids, The Professionals, PiL, and the Lost Legacy Of The Sex Pistols

Live Reviews

Baby Lemonade * The Black Watch (/Jason Falkner) * Death Cab For Cutie * Devo * Rob Dickinson * The Effigies (/EDP/False Prophets) * Don McGlashan (Crowded House/PS22 choir) * New Model Army * R.E.M. * Rogue Wave · Sam Phillips * Sloan * Swervedriver * Astrid Williamson * Wire * Hippiefest (Jonathan Edwards, Melanie, Turtles, Joey Molland/Badfinger, Eric Burdon & the Animals

Hundreds of CD Reviews

American Music Club * Baby Lemonade * Bad Religion * Belle & Sebastian * Billy Bragg * The Breeders * Busy Signals * Gene Clark * The Coast * The Clash * CSNY * Darker My Love * Ray Davies * Decemberists * Rob Dickinson * D.O.A. * Everest * Fatal Film * Fleet Foxes * Franz Ferdinand * Futureheads * Goo Goo Dolls * Ideal Free Distribution * Iggy & the Stooges * International Jetsetters * Neil Halstead * Billie Holiday * Jan & Dean * Rick Johnson reader * Damien Jurado * Love * Magnetic Morning * Colin Meloy * Mercury Rev * Mogwai * Motorhead * Willie Nelson * Oasis * Pas/Cal * Robert Pollard * Sebadoh * Section 25 * Ron Sexsmith * Skybombers * Sleepover Disaster * Patti Smith & Kevin Shields * Smithereens * Snow Patrol * Stereolab * Subhumans (Canada) * Supergrass * Matthew Sweet * T.S.O.L. * Vancougar * Velouria * Wire * Wolf Parade * and more!

Hope you all pre-order it, or buy it when it’s 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 hope you can share the gift of reading with your friends this holiday!

Cheers!
Jack R