Shindig! Issue 181

Features

New York Flower-Power: And how it was never gonna work.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Freedom, bankruptcy, redemption and breakthrough.

The Olivia Tremor Control: The surprise return of the ’90s DIY pop-psych heroes.

Rich Kids: Under the spotlight with the short-lived new-wave powerpoppers.

Pete Townshend: His home studio and the freak #1 single that began life there.

Roky Erickson & The Aliens: Back from the edge with a band, a producer and a new muse. Roky’s 1980 horror-rock masterpiece revisited.

20 Quesions: Peter Asher Beatles-adjacent pop stardom, the London counterculture, the California singer-songwriter boom and beyond.

Regulars

Yellow & Black: An exclusive 20-track Third Man Records sampler.

Thoughts & Words: Your letters, tweets and emails.

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

Subscribers’ Prize Draw: Subscribe now and you could win The Beatles’ Rubber Soul Super Deluxe Edition.

It’s A Happening Thing: Sam Burton, Tom Henry, Mynolia, Scott Fagan, Alice Coltrane, Softjaw, Jeepster, Duncan Browne, Anthony Meynell, Vanishing Twin, The 13th Floor Elevators.

Family Album: The Human Beast’s “electro-flagellation” oddity Volume One.

Deep Cuts: Where man-made machines meet the natural world.

Experience: Brit journeymen Rusty recall their adventures.

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

Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Two Piers’ Cosmic Cowgirls & Female Outlaws 1951-1979.

Vinyl Art: Badfinger’s debut Magic Christian Music.

Vinyl Clicks: Hookfoot’s self-titled 1971 third.