Features

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.

Regulars

Thoughts & Words: Your letters, tweets and emails.

Shindiggin’ What’s hot on the Shindig! turntable.

Subscribers’ Prize Draw: Subscribe now and you could win an Ace Records vinyl bundle.

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.

Reviews: The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows.

Vinyl Art: Jimmy McGriff’s 1970 soul-jazz classic Electric Funk.

Vinyl Clicks: Spreadeagle’s 1972 prog-pop oddity The Piece Of Paper.