Shindig! Issue 164

Features

Psych Hip-Hop How a generation of crate-digging creators pilfered the psych cut-out bins.

20 Questions: Martin Carthy With a new album out, the 84-year-old father of English folk reflects on seven decades of music and staying true to his roots.

Bert Jansch The influential guitar hero goes it alone in the ’70s.

Julian Jay Savarin Literary science-fiction prog-rock? Yes, and a whole lot more besides.

Bee Gees  Adrift and directionless in the early ’70s, the brothers Gibb remained as productive and original as ever.

Stereolab The original retro-futurists return with their first album in 15 years. We offer an appreciation and fresh insight from The Groop themselves.

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 High Moon Records vinyl bundle.

It’s A Happening Thing: People Of The Wind, Natalie Bergman, The Above, Durand Jones & The Indications, The Chemist, The Preacher & The Musical Players, Peter Baumann, The Molotovs, Michael Robert Murphy, Comet Gain, Sharp Pins, Eclipse

Family Album: Duffy Power’s lost Argent collaboration Hell Hound.

Deep Cuts: Albums covered in their entirety.

Song Book  ‘Did You Give The World Some Love Today, Babe?’ Easy-listening or hippy-jazz?

Reviews: Win a copy of Ace’s acid-folk 2-LP set, Gather In The Mushrooms.

Vinyl Art: Hatfield & The North’s Canterbury scene landmark The Rotters’ Club

Vinyl Clicks: Mike Silver & Mike Beason’s uncategorisable 1969 oddity The Applicant