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All 98 issues of The Big Takeover

Interviews with Paul Westerberg (on the cover) • Wire • Flaming Lips • Nuggets stars Barry and the Remains • Midnight Oil • Kim Salmon of The Scientists • Promise Ring • Piebald • Interpol • Superdrag • Pere Ubu • Savage Republic returns • Swevedriver’s Adam Franklin • Hot Snakes • Ken Stringfellow (solo and Posies) • Sleater-Kinney • Hot Hot Heat • Mary Timony (ex-Helium) • Jim O’Rourke • Warlocks • TV Smith of The Adverts • Gillian Welch • Aimee Mann • Mission of Burma part two • Social Distortion’s Mike Ness • part two • Mike Watt part two • Australia’s Citadel Records • producer Brad Jones • California Inland Invasion (Sex Pistols/Buzzcocks/Damned/X/Bad Religion/Social Distortion/Adolescents/TSOL)

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Issue 98 (Spring 2026) half page B&W ad: indie label [3.75" wide by 10" high] John Entwhistle • Major Labels