Shindig! issue 136

Features

Black Lips  They’re not evil! Twenty years of transgressive garage

Brainticket  On the trail with the pan-European ’70s psych enigmas

Dorothy Ashby, The jazz harpist who transcended genre and expectation

UK Psych CompsThe genesis and development of the format

that continues to bloom

Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil  How Brazil’s most promising young talents were exiled

to London and the music that surrounded their adventure

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 The Rolling

Stones In Mono 16-LP box set

It’s A Happening Thing 

 The New Eves, Shovel Dance Collective, Senior Class,

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan,

Anton Newcombe, Spencer Cullum, Laure Briard, David

Brewis, Tapir!, Fievel Is Glauque, Hifi Sean, The Bonzo Dog

Doo-Dah Band, Happening club, Soundfl at Records

Family Album  Scott Seskind’s self-titled 1985 loner-folk outlier

Song Book  The story of Stephen Schwartz’s ‘Butterflies Are Free’

Deep Cuts  10 RCA 45s that were contenders for

the ‘Starman’ crown

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

Prize Crossword  Win a copy of Cluster’s excellent second album

Vinyl Clicks  Craig McLearie’s warped late ’70s lost gem

Vinyl Art  Audience’s House On The Hill…

20 Questions Guitar magus Steve Hillage reflects on Canterbury days, ’70s crossover success and festival afterlife.