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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:

Ten Years After – That time, Alvin Lee couldn’t cadge a ciggy off anyone at Woodstock.

Home – Adventures in the UK rural/prog-rock playground.

Space Opera – The mercurial Texan country-psych act that was over far too soon.

Summer Soundtracks – The Shindig! team offers its pick of mellow, sunburnt sounds.

Jan & Dean – How the sunny surf duo reinvented themselves as ambitious adopters of sophisticated studio-pop.

Spanky & Our Gang – The heartache behind the smiles of sunshine-pop’s merry pranksters20 Questions – Heavy blues, jazz-fusion, throwback rock ’n’ roll, The Wombles… Chris Spedding has done it all.

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 a Guerssen vinyl bundle.
It’s A Happening Thing – Stewart Lee, Finn Rees, Greg ‘Stackhouse’ Prevost, Looking Glass Alice, Brent & Madeline, Jordie Lane, Amy Rigby, Martial Arts, Horse.

Family Album – Harpers Bizarre’s ambitious 1969 swansong.

Deep Cuts – Laidback funky hippy summer vibes.

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

Prize Crossword – Win a copy of Two-Piers’ moody Night/Train double set.

Vinyl Art – Joan Armatrading’s debut Whatever’s For Us.

Vinyl Clicks – Chopyn’s explosive 1975 outing Grand Slam.