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Big Takeover returns with features on THE Damaned, Slowdive (part 2), Jesus & Mary Chain, Meat Bodies, Real Estate, J. Robbins, Alejandro Escovedo, Meat Puppets, Camera Obscura, Jane Weaver, Mary Timony, Umbrellas, THE Shop Window, Paul Collins, and more!

On the cover of the magazine: 19 page special feature – inside the sound world of David Lynch, including a new interview with the director and his music collaborators Chrysta Bell Zucht and Dean Hurley + essays on Dune, Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Wild At Heart, backwards speech, wind sounds, drones, finger clicks, lip-syncing, and more.

Also in the magazine: interviews with Copper Sounds, Miaux, and Theodora Laird & Caius Williams, plus: Invisible Jukebox: Dhangsha, Unlimited Editions: Discreet Music, Epiphanies: Lonnie Holley, The Inner Sleeve: Mabe Fratti, Global Ear: Monterrey, and 36 pages of reviews including Vijay Iyer, World Service, Joe McPhee, Paul Burwell, new histories of krautrock and free jazz, Chicago Jazz String Summit, and more.

Finally: all copies of the August issue come complete with a free CD of The Wire Tapper 65 featuring 16 new tracks by Farida Amadou, Mettani, Landless, Noémi Büchi, Doc Sleep, TAU, and more.

On the cover: Still House Plants. Inside: Cheer-Accident, Lolina, NikNak, FUJI|||||||||||TA, Ana Lua Caiano, BBBBBBB, Fatboi Sharif, Angelica Sanchez, Invisible Jukebox: Kristin Hersh, Unlimited Editions: Tripalium Corp, The Inner Sleeve: Lee Gamble on Chain Reaction, Epiphanies: Jlin on Philip Glass, Global Ear: Tashkent, plus 40 pages of reviews including Kavain Wayne Space & XT, Natalia Cappa, Bianca Scout, NOUT, Ustad Noor Bakhsh, punk rock in Northern Ireland, Indonesia and Kosovo, female Latin American electronic music composers, Sakamoto on film, and much more.

A four-year filming of the present-day live houses and clubs that supported band members and band kids from the 1980s to the 2010s, but are no longer around today. Tokyo Rockers - The band boom, the melodic hardcore boom, and the places where we kids poured our youth into.

This issue features exclusive interviews with Donovan, Adam Green, P.G. Six, Modern Nature, Moving Gelatine Plates and Pete Brown (pt. 2), as well as features about Cornwall's Psychedelic Underground, the Gathering of the Juggalos, Folklore Tapes, LSD Underground 12, Vascha, book reviews, new music reviews, creative writing, poetry & more.

The second volume of the "Past Venue GUIDE," which tracks the sites of live houses and clubs that have been our allies from the 1970s, the era of rapid economic growth, to the 2000s, is now available. In the previous issue, 42 sites were introduced, mainly in the Tokyo metropolitan area, but this time 64 sites were covered. The coverage area has been expanded to include not only the Tokyo metropolitan area, but also Osaka, which is important for unraveling the history of punk/hardcore in Japan. The text (Japanese only) is kept as simple as possible, and more photographs are used to create a sense of realism. Full color, 56 pages. Random trading card included.

Our first cover this time is dedicated to OUR Legacy and their Spring 24 collection titled ‘Snow in April’. The covershoot, shot in Tokyo is also accompanied by an interview with one Jockum Hallin, one of the label’s co-founders. Our second sees the return of norbit by Hiroshi Nozawa as a cover brand featuring an editorial shot in the mountains west in the Greater Tokyo area. Lastly a simple cover dedicated to our love of Navy featuring some of the latest pieces from the editor’s choice x SEE SEE.

We’ve also included several multibrand editorials for this issue featuring a plethora of different labels alongside our regular product highlights.

Our first cover this time is dedicated to OUR Legacy and their Spring 24 collection titled ‘Snow in April’. The covershoot, shot in Tokyo is also accompanied by an interview with one Jockum Hallin, one of the label’s co-founders. Our second sees the return of norbit by Hiroshi Nozawa as a cover brand featuring an editorial shot in the mountains west in the Greater Tokyo area. Lastly a simple cover dedicated to our love of Navy featuring some of the latest pieces from the editor’s choice x SEE SEE.

We’ve also included several multibrand editorials for this issue featuring a plethora of different labels alongside our regular product highlights.

Our first cover this time is dedicated to OUR Legacy and their Spring 24 collection titled ‘Snow in April’. The covershoot, shot in Tokyo is also accompanied by an interview with one Jockum Hallin, one of the label’s co-founders. Our second sees the return of norbit by Hiroshi Nozawa as a cover brand featuring an editorial shot in the mountains west in the Greater Tokyo area. Lastly a simple cover dedicated to our love of Navy featuring some of the latest pieces from the editor’s choice x SEE SEE.

We’ve also included several multibrand editorials for this issue featuring a plethora of different labels alongside our regular product highlights.