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Shindig! 172 (On sale 6th Feb 2026)
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Chad & Jeremy The tweedy folk duo absorb the zeitgeist on 1968 concept album Of Cabbages And Kings.
Roger Nichols An appreciation of the soft-pop maven who we lost in 2025.
Barry Ryan He was bigger and better performing without his twin brother Paul, but how long could it last?
The Moody Blues In exactly three years, the Moodies went from a #1 single to the depths of desperation to creative rebirth.
Powerpop: The Third Wave How a disparate bunch of transatlantic bands looked back to the innocence of Beatlemania and The British Invasion against a backdrop of ’70s punk and new-wave.
20 Questions; Keith West As his archives and ’70s recordings are raided for two new releases, the Londoner, mod face and musical journeyman reflects on 60-plus years in the biz.
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It’s A Happening Thing: Ben Wheatley, Captain Sensible, Green Seagull, Sternpost, Lucy Kitchen, The Electric Eyes, Plastic Family, Greg Weeks, Wewantsounds, Blue Ash.
Family Album: The Troll’s magisterial 1968 psych-pop melodrama Animated Music.
Deep Cuts: Sightings of bands in late ’60s thriller and drama movies.
Words & Pictures Peanuts creator Charles M Schulz’s era-defining philosophy.
Experience: “We need a band. Tonight. In Belgium!” Dave Winslett knows one.
Reviews: The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows.
Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Grapefruit’s So High I’ve Been: A European Rock Anthology
Vinyl Art: Marty Norman’s adventures in ’60s jazz.
Vinyl Clicks: Bob Hughes’s The Kids Are OK.
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Shindig! 171 (On sale 2nd Jan 2026)
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The Monkees: Micky Dolenz reflects on the audition that changed everything.
20 Questions: Brinsley Schwarz. Sixty years since Kippington Lodge formed and 50 since the pub-rockers that bore his name split up, the storied guitarist tells all.
Ann-Margret: The shy Swedish actress’s encounters with fame and notoriety as she embraced the counterculture and made forays into the music world.
Eddie & The Hot Rods: Caught up in the fertile pub-rock movement and early punk scene, the Essex lads who were always more MC5 than Feelgoods.
Bert Decoteaux: The hardest working, most unsung producer/arranger in late ’60s soul?
Grateful Dead: Changing their name from The Warlocks as 1966 dawned, the fearless San Francisco warriors embarked on the longest, strangest trip.
The Herd: How a south London mod band morphed into 56 goth-pop poster boys before crashing in a mire of business and personal upheavals.
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It’s A Happening Thing: Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection, The Studio 68! & Dani Turner, The Decadent Dayze, Midlake, Trolley, Neil Soiland, Clémentine March, Jane Weaver, Mia Wilson, ROVR Radio with Keb Darge.
Family Album: The strange saga of The October Cherries, Truck and Col Truck.
Deep Cuts: “Buy me!” Psychedelia, garage and sunshine-pop in commercials and sponsorship.
Songbook: Barbara Dane’s folk-jazz statement of empowerment ‘Way Behind The Sun’.
Reviews: The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows.
Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Ace’s superb Safe In My Garden: American Pop In The Shadows 1967-1972.
Vinyl Art: Spooky Tooth with Pierre Henry’s career-derailing Ceremony.
Vinyl Clicks: Derek Newark’s self-financed prog-pop odyssey Francesca Suite.
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Shindig! 170 (On sale 5th of Dec 2025)
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The 2025 Shindig! Writers’ Poll: The team offer their highlights of an exceptional year for new music, archival reissues, box sets, books, live shows, TV, radio and more.
Robert Plant: How the determined hippy troublemaker got his break.
20 Questions: Bill Nelson 34 The veteran all-rounder discusses psychedelic beginnings, commercial pop, art-rock and much more.
Super Sister: They came from The Hague… Naked!
Nino Tempo: The MOR singer who worked with Spector and worshipped Pet Sounds.
The Pandoras: Back on the road with the all-female LA garage-punk legends.
Humble Pie: “Don’t call us a supergroup!” Behind Marriott, Frampton and co’s explosive first two years together.
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It’s A Happening Thing: What’s Cooking In 2026?, Ger Eaton, Fire In Her Eyes, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Edgar Jones, The Goods, Rose IO, Peter Daltrey, Trimdon Grange Explosion, Temporary Blessings.
Family Album: Inner Dialogue’s slick, slightly spooked self-titled 1969 debut.
Deep Cuts: “Who?” Some of our favourite pseudonyms and aliases
Screen Time: Witchcraft and paganism in superb documentary movie The Last Sacrifice.
Reviews: The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows.
Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Faces’ Early Steps on vinyl.
Vinyl Art: Horse by Horse by Comus!
Vinyl Clicks: Head’s 1973 jazz-rock rarity GTF
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Shindig! 169 (On sale 7th of Nov 2025)
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Granny Takes A Trip: Behind the counter at the iconic, transatlantic boutique.
The Times: The spirit of Swinging London in the shadow of punk.
Terry Southern:The screenwriter and novelist who helped shape the counterculture of the ’60s and ’70s.
Les Boots: The French beat sensations’ fleeting mid-60s purple patch.
The Orange Bicycle: Riding the rocky path between being successful artists and human jukeboxes.
James Gang: How three hairy, revved-up anglophiles blazed a trail out of Ohio and onto the world stage.
20 Questions, George Bunnell: Strawberry Alarm Clock’s bassist, songwriter and survivor turns back the clock.
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It’s A Happening Thing: Holly Golightly, Thee Headcoatees, The Thorn, Amelia Coburn, The Gnomes, Strata-East Records, Regent Sounds, Coastal Ghosts, Danny Ayala, Ronnie D’Addario, Rural Tapes, Hal Paris.
Family Album: Stig & Steen’s pastoral 1972 gem Da Solen Kom.
Deep Cuts: Budget grooves from ’70s UK label Contour.
Screen Time: Freshly-unearthed 1965 TV sci-fi series Object Z.
Reviews: The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows.
Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Honeybus’s Story.
Vinyl Art:Niebiesko-Czarni’s 1968 day-glo Mamy Dla Was Kwiaty.
Vinyl Clicks: Nasty Pop’s eclectic, artistic 1975 debut.
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Shindig! Collectors Edition “Patchwork”
THE FACES: MARK RAISON talks with Kenney Jones.
BADFINGER: JOHN EINARSON charts their rise and fall.
MATTHEWS SOUTHERN COMFORT: KINGSLEY ABBOTT looks at what Iain Matthews did after Fairport.
THE FLAMIN’ GROOVIES: KRIS NEEDS delights in the band that helped change the ’70s.
CARAVAN: MARCO ROSSI on the kings of The Canterbury Sound.
STARRY EYED & LAUGHING: NIGEL CROSS tells the story of Britains biggest Byrds fans.
SPARKS: HUW THOMAS goes back to the beginning.
HELP YOURSELF: NIGEL CROSS celebrates the West Coast adoring London heads.
BE BOP DELUXE: MELVYN DOVER chronicles Bill Nelson’s immaculate shape-shifters.
THE RASPBERRIES: BRIAN GREENE’s account of the backward looking American powerpop sensations.
MARSUPILAMI: RICHARD NASH maps the impact of prog-rock away from the big cities.
FLEETWOOD MAC: JON ‘MOJO’ MILLS considers the band’s new face in the early ’70s.
BLUE ASH: CHRISTOPHER DUDA surveys the US band that should have been huge.
UNICORN: JON ‘MOJO’ MILLS explains the story of the Dave Gilmore supported UK country-rockers.
MOTT THE HOOPLE: KRIS NEEDS’ epic personal account of this incredible band.
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Shindig! 168 (On sale 3rd of Oct 2025)
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Bent Rej The Danish photographer who captured ’60s rock royalty.
The Marmalade Determined to put their sugar-coated ’60s work behind them, Glasgow’s finest claim creative control and redefine themselves for the new decade.
The Revillos The DIY pop-punk heroes born of kitsch B-movies and ’60s garage.
Surf Music: An Alternate History Countless American ’60s stars cut their teeth in the waves and on the beach. We dive in.
Eternity’s Children From Mississippi garage to sunshine-pop success and latter-day acclaim.
Buckingham Nicks The humble origins of ’70s rock’s power couple.
20 Questions: Lyn Dobson Legendary LA garage/psych gods The Seeds’ keyboard maestro, still on the road at 79.
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It’s A Happening Thing: The Len Price 3, Vanity Mirror, Fabienne Delsol, The Cords, I Was A King, What Happened To Counter-Culture?, Mod Lang, Josienne Clarke, Jamie Hoover, Winter McQuinn, NQRA Radio.
Family Album: Anglo-Israeli oddballs The Churchills’ towering debut.
Deep Cuts Dark and funky: psychedelic soul.
Screen Time Inside visionary queer hauntological 1974 TV drama Penda’s Fen.
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Prize Crossword Win a copy of Love’s The Elektra Singles.
Vinyl Art Thelonious Monk goes Underground.
Vinyl Clicks Bunk Dogger’s mysterious 1978 one-off First Offence.
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Shindig! 167 (On sale 5th of Sept 2025)
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The Vietnam War The songs and voices that were heard aboard, for the soldiers, their families and the protestors.
The Heard Cult Texan garage obscuros follow ‘Exit 9’.
COB ISB founder Clive Palmer’s major label progressive folk experiment.
Brigitte Fontaine The avant-garde singer who rewrote the rulebook and redefined French underground music.
The Monks How five US ex-GIs turned accidental feedback and pounding drums into an asynchronous sonic assaulted that resonated through krautrock, punk and beyond.
20 Questions: Lyn Dobson The man whose flute and sax adorn oodles of the ’60s and ’70s records in your collection reflects on 60 years of rock ’n’ roll, jazz and folk.
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It’s A Happening Thing: Tchotchke, Curtis Harding, Sharp Pins, Project Gemini & Wendy Martinez, Ghostwoman, The Genesis, Wide Orbit, Eve Adams, Dom Mariani, Modern Nature, Maybe I’m Dreaming.
Family Album: Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66’s blissful 1970 swansong Stillness.
Back To Back 30 Terry Reid’s ‘Without Expression’ becomes CSNY’s ‘Horses Through A Rainstorm’.
Songbook How Pete Dello’s ‘(Do I Figure) In Your Life’ became a modern classic.
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Vinyl Art: Jimmy McGriff’s 1970 soul-jazz classic Electric Funk.
Vinyl Clicks: Spreadeagle’s 1972 prog-pop oddity The Piece Of Paper.
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Shindig! 166 (On sale 1st of Aug 2025)
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Weird Walk We find time to decompress among ancient sites and forgotten lanes.
20 Questions: Gary Crowley Broadcaster and champion of The Good Stuff speeds through 50 years and a thousand guests.
Two-Lane Blacktop Existentialism, speed and rock stars. A classic before it was even released.
Joy Bang The all-American starlet who defined the changing faces of US alt-cinema.
Field Studies 1967-72 Dispatches from the frontlines of KFRC Fantasy Fair & Magic Mountain, Isle Of Wight Festival, Phun City, The First Scottish Blues & Progressive Festival, Knighton Festival, Krumlin Festival, Garden Party II and The Festival Of Hope.
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It’s A Happening Thing: The New Eves, The Lancashire Hustlers, The Evening Sons, Tom Cox, Mae Powell, Sly & The Family Stone, The Coral, Flopsy’s Dream, Crayola Lectern, Stephen J Kalinich, Mattias Uneback, RaRa.
Family Album: Skin Alley’s 1972 jazz-rock offering Two Quid Deal?
Deep Cuts: An ode to Brian: Beach Boys soundalikes 1965-75.
Screen Time: The spooked sci-fi of 1975’s Sky.
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Vinyl Art: Ralph McTell’s spellbinding Spiral Staircase.
Vinyl Clicks: Halfbreed’s sole self-titled 1975 outing.
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Shindig! 165 (On sale 4th of July 2025, Print On Demand)
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World Countdown Inside the pages of the short-lived California pop paper.
20 Questions: Bonnie Dobson 36 The Canadian legend glances back at 65 years of folk music’s changing faces.
Kula Shaker From Britpop and #1 albums to rebirth and respect.
Sandro Brugnolini The Italian composer’s mind-blowing Overground and Underground diptych.
Kevin Ayers:The suave poster boy for exotic 42 psychedelic pop’s Whole World.
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich The most misunderstood UK ’60s pop act? We aim to redress the balance.
Alice Cooper As their first new album in 52 years lands, we join the surviving members of the hugely influential original line-up for an appreciation of their 1971 breakthrough.
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It’s A Happening Thing: Gwenno, His Lordship, Fruit Tones, La Nouvelle Musique, Tom Henry, The Final Solution, Jessica Risker, Midnight Rodeo, The Montgolfier Brothers, Chris Stamey, The Natural Yogurt Band, Sugarfoot.
Family Album: The Soft Boys’ Underwater Moonlight: still shining bright.
Deep Cuts: British ’60s actresses’ adventures in the pop game
Screen Time: All those times Doctor Who got really far-out.
Reviews: The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows.
Vinyl Art: The Avengers’ NZ psych-pop pinnacle Medallion.
Vinyl Clicks: Daylight’s self-titled 1971 gem.
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Shindig! 164 (On sale 6th of June 2025)
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Psych Hip-Hop How a generation of crate-digging creators pilfered the psych cut-out bins.
20 Questions: Martin Carthy With a new album out, the 84-year-old father of English folk reflects on seven decades of music and staying true to his roots.
Bert Jansch The influential guitar hero goes it alone in the ’70s.
Julian Jay Savarin Literary science-fiction prog-rock? Yes, and a whole lot more besides.
Bee Gees Adrift and directionless in the early ’70s, the brothers Gibb remained as productive and original as ever.
Stereolab The original retro-futurists return with their first album in 15 years. We offer an appreciation and fresh insight from The Groop themselves.
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It’s A Happening Thing: People Of The Wind, Natalie Bergman, The Above, Durand Jones & The Indications, The Chemist, The Preacher & The Musical Players, Peter Baumann, The Molotovs, Michael Robert Murphy, Comet Gain, Sharp Pins, Eclipse
Family Album: Duffy Power’s lost Argent collaboration Hell Hound.
Deep Cuts: Albums covered in their entirety.
Song Book ‘Did You Give The World Some Love Today, Babe?’ Easy-listening or hippy-jazz?
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Vinyl Art: Hatfield & The North’s Canterbury scene landmark The Rotters’ Club
Vinyl Clicks: Mike Silver & Mike Beason’s uncategorisable 1969 oddity The Applicant
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Shindig! 163 (On sale 2nd of May 2025, Print On Demand)
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Mike Bloomfield: The mercurial blues guitarist’s trip to acclaim, without playing the fame game.
20 Questions: Lee Dorrian Childhood mod, grindcore icon, record collector supreme, whatever next?
The Dwarf Music Acetate: The story behind the “forced” Dylan songs that proliferated the record world in 1968.
Robert Crumb: How an old-timey comic book artist became the freaks’ choice.
Bee Gees: Back-biting! Stalled solo careers! Insane work ethics! The brothers reunite in 1970.
The Who: From The Goldhawk Club to The Marquee to the Top 10. The first half of 1965 brought about a seismic shift in the fortunes of the West London mod icons. Plus: Conquering America three years later: the photos!
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It’s A Happening Thing: Louis Phillippe & The Night Mail, Lavinia Blackwall, Céline Dessberg, The Chemistry Set, Twïns, Young Gun Silver Fox, Amelia & The Housewives, Scott Hepple & The Sun Band, Glenn Brigman, Cosmic Crooner, North Sea Radio Orchestra
Family Album: Beaver & Krause redirect electronic music on 1971’s Gandharva.
Deep Cuts:Mellotron mania, but not from the usual suspects.
Screen Time: Dennis Hopper’s acid-drenched metafiction The Last Movie examined.
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Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Dig! XX on Blu-ray
Vinyl Art:The Sensational Alex Harvey Band’s Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Vinyl Clicks: Massimo Giuntoli & Roberto Meroni’s Diabolik E I Sette Nani.
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Shindig! 162 On sale 3rd of Apr 2025 (Print On Demand)
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Evergreen Review: Inside the subversive world of the counterculture magazine.
Goodtimes Enterprises: Performance. That’ll Be The Day. Stardust. Slade In Flame. All the work of one visionary British film production company.
20 Questions: Ed Kuepper 34 Saints alive! The reluctant forefather of Australian punk reflects.
The Best Compilation Albums Of 1969: Our top Greatest Hits sets, seasonal fillers and memorial anthologies.
Delta: From the ashes of The Sea Urchins rose this dynamic, out-of-time nearly-was.
Shelagh McDonald: The folk siren who dazzled then disappeared.
Al Kooper: He was there! Adventures at the vanguard of the late ’60s US music scene.
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It’s A Happening Thing: Floral Image, Lunchbox, British Birds, Record Store Day, Brown Horse, M Ross Perkins, Telecom, Jetstream Pony, Pearl Charles, David Leaf, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Short Story: Surrounded by celebrity, doomed to fail. Who were Straight?
Deep Cuts: Tread softly. When poetry infiltrated pop.
Back To Back: All aboard the ‘City Of New Orleans’.
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Prize Crossword: Win a copy of the Krautrock Eruption book and CD.
Vinyl Art: Fraternity Of Man get trippy in the desert.
Vinyl Clicks: Swedish pop aggregation Figaro’s 1976 one-off.
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Shindig! 161 (On sale 6th of Mar 2025)
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Fountains Of Wayne NYC’s reluctant powerpop godheads’ 2003 rebirth.
20 Questions: Kris Needs From the Stones to punk to house, he was there. The rock Zelig speaks.
Colin Scot The larger-than-life folkie whose flame burned brightly but briefly.
Gordon Stevens The eye-popping adventures of a part-time Merry Prankster and Moby Grape sideman.
Judy Collins Abandoning folk trappings, Judy Blue Eyes goesin search of “the song”.
Tom Jones How Thomas Woodward escaped humble Welsh beginnings by becoming one of the great voices and personalities of the ’60s
The Sea Urchins Indie-pop ambition, ’60s mod style and music press adoration. The perfect storm for Sarah Records’ great white hopes.
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It’s A Happening Thing: Brian D’Addario, My Morning Jacket, The Crystal Teardop, Melin Melyn, Will Stratton, Frankie, Rosettes, Snails, Andy Bell, Hannah Cohen, Le Beat Bespoke
Family Album: Kathy McCord’s self-titled 1970 folk-psychjazz debut.
Deep Cuts: US ’60s folk-rock 45s that flew under the radar.
Back To Back How Dion & The Belmonts’ ‘My Girl The Month Of May’ became a UK psych classic.
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Vinyl Art: Camel’s 1976 lunar odyssey Moonmadness.
Vinyl Clicks: Darras & Desumeur’s prog-pop oddity Temps.
