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Shindig! Magazine is an eclectic cornucopia teeming with obscure TV and film, psychedelia, folk, garage rock, folk rock, progressive rock, funk and soul. Expect to find a treasure trove of intriguing tales in the magazine teeming with stories from the golden ages of music.

This issue features:

Brân  The Welsh musical collective’s side projects and spin-offs

Lord Tim Hudson  The story of American’s “first British import disc jockey” and his brush with fame

Steppenwolf  From Canada to LA via the NYC folk scene, SF garages and celluloid immortality. Leader John Kay grants a rare interview

Nilsson The singer-songwriter’s journey takes him a little too close to the sun. “We did ‘Without You’ because my career was on the wane and we wanted something to make a hit. You have to have hits. I don’t care who you are. If you don’t have hits, fuck you”

Regulars

20 Questions Musician, writer, curator and rock ’n’ roll fan Lenny Kaye

Thoughts & Words  Your letters, tweets and emails

It’s A Happening Thing  CAM Sugar, Black Ivy, David Christian, Pixy Jones, Julie Doiron, Cheval Fou, Tom Shotton, The Violet Mindfield, Big Legal Mess/Bible & Tire, Joe Harvey-Whyte, Madmess, Glenn Fallows & Mark Trefell, Ger Eaton, Regal Worm, Andrew Gabbard, Estranhos Românticos, Scrounger

Shindiggin’ What’s hot on the Shindig! turntable

Family Album  Duncan Browne’s ill-starred 1968 debut Give Me Take You

Song Book  How Van Dyke Parks’ ‘High Coin’ became a folk-rock standard

Back To Back  ‘The Last Thing On My Mind’

Deep Cuts Anatolian rock

Reviews  The best in reissues, new releases, 45s and books

Prize Crossword Win David Crosby’s If I Could Only Remember My Name

Vinyl Art  Strawberry Alarm Clock’s The World In A Seashell