contents ISSUE 138, APRIL 2023
Features The King’s Road
The birth of Swinging London’s epicentre
The Heavy Metal Kids
The pre-punk, glam-adjacent rockers who almost made it
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The Masters Apprentices 54 Part One of our in-depth appreciation of the influential, shape-shifting Aussies
The Byrds
Country-rock, soundtrack infamy, megalomania and awkward reunions. Inside their tumultuous final years
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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 copy of Hawkwind’s 10-disc Days Of The Underground box set
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It’s A Happening Thing
Emma Tricca, Blood Ceremony, Susan James, Lael Neale, The Ironsides, Daydream Review, Desert Ships, Wendy Martinez, Vox Teen Beat, Record Store Day, Tom Cox
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Family Album
Pete Dello & Friends’ 1971 folk-pop gem Into Your Ears
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Deep Cuts
The Sly & The Family Stone songbook covered
Eddie Piller
A young mod’s unforgotten story
20 Questions
Engineer, producer, writer and arranger Alan Parsons
Reviews
The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows
Prize Crossword
Win a copy of Too Much Sun Will Burn: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967 Volume 2
Vinyl Clicks
Anna Själv Tredje’s Tussilago Fanfara
Vinyl Art
Pete Bardens’ The Answer and the Annie Walker model agency
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The Lemon Twigs
The preternaturally talented duo reflect on the past and welcome the present “For this record there’s so much collective agony that you don’t even hear about it anymore”
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