Shindig! Issue 180

Features

Do What You Want To Do: The effect of Rubber Soul on US pop, garage & folk-rock. Pictured: The Choir.

Jim Lea: Slade’s quiet bass man revisits 1969.

20 Questions: Colin Newman  From post-punk to electronica. Colin Newman talks about life on music’s cutting edge.

David Bowie: The next 12 months in the former Davie Jones’ ’60s shape-shifting.

The Direct Hits: This south London mod-pop trio was a cut above the rest

Genesis: How five public schoolboys and a wannabe music biz entrepreneur tried and failed but created a fascinating curio.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Florida garage bands evolve into Mudcrutch. Their leader shines.

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 Austrian Hi-X25BT headphones.

It’s A Happening Thing: Sylvie, Bobbie Dazzle, Dream Phases, The Loved Ones, Eli Paperboy Reed & Swamp Dogg, Exploding Flowers, Midweek Circle, Ella Thompson, Jim Jupp, Rose Of Nevada, The Orchids.

Family Album: Mort Garson’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia.

Deep Cuts: Earth Day 1970 and the dawn of eco-rock.

Screen Time: Daniel Farson’s TV dispatches from the cultural frontline.

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

Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Genesis’s From Genesis To Revelation.

Vinyl Art: Mungo Jerry’s You Don’t Have To Be In The Army.

Vinyl Clicks: Robin Bradshaw’s Double Exposure.