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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 25, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Interview: Ian Haugland (Europe) (opens the original)
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Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Forty years after “The Final Countdown” turned Europe into arena-rock royalty, the band is still making the case for the album as an art form. Its latest chapter, which began with 2015’s War of Kings, draws heavily from the ’70s hard-rock tradition of Deep Purple, Rainbow and UFO—a sound that may have been lurking beneath Mic Michaeli’s keyboards, John Norum’s searing guitar wo
Interview: Dave Marr and Philip McArdle (The Star Room Boys) (opens the original)
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Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs From the same Athens, Georgia college music scene that birthed artists like R.E.M., Pylon, The B-52’s, Widespread Panic, and Drive-By Truckers, The Star Room Boys were an anomaly. Active from 1994 to 2002, they were one of the few classic country acts to come out of that scene. Inspired by artists like Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard, the band released two albums, Why Do Lonel
Interview: Frank Bello (Anthrax) (opens the original)
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Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Anthrax’s twelfth studio album, Cursum Perficio, is the New York thrash veterans’ first full-length since 2016’s For All Kings. Bassist Frank Bello spoke with Big Takeover by video call in late August, a week before the band began a run of stadium dates with Iron Maiden, about the decade between records, the songs on the new one, and why retirement isn’t on his radar. Cursum Pe
Interview: Beth Plumb and Dan Elliott (Tokyo Tea Room) (opens the original)
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Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Tokyo Tea Room’s irresistible, nuanced dance-pop is built on deep grooves, sparkling guitars and dreamy vocals. More subdued than frantic, the band’s latest album, Feel Forever, sounds less like the soundtrack to a late-night club than something a poolside DJ might spin on a warm afternoon. Always believing in themselves while remaining realistic about the music business, songw
Soundtrack of My Life: Chad Jewett (Perennial) (opens the original)
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Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Shop our Big Takeover store for back issues, t-shirts & CDs Following a scholarly theme, Perennial’s Chad Jewett calls his band’s new release, Modernism, the follow-up class to last year’s ”A” is For Abstract: The Complete Art History. Chad and I have a deeper dive into the album in Big Takeover Issue 99 out later this year, but as I’ve been doing with all of my conversations for BigTakeover.com, I asked Chad about a song, artist, or al
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