Shindig! 174

Features

DMZ: Out of time garage-punk 50 rumblings in Boston, Mass: new evidence emerges

20 Questions: Elvis Costello 34 We follow up on last issue’s cover story with an interview with the man himself.

Jack Kerouac:How the Beat writer’s work fired up a generation of literate rock outsiders.

Piero Piccioni: Behind the music with the other ultra-prolific Italian soundtrack maestro.

Connie Converse: The first ever singer-songwriter? Let’s find out!

The Sorrows: The beat/R&B heroes’ journey from Coventry to Joe Meek to chart success and an afterlife in Italy.

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 Third Man Records vinyl/merch bundle.

It’s A Happening Thing: The Black Crowes, Jim Jones, Moon Attendant, Record Store Day, Soul To Soul, The Rockerati, Sam Grassie, Josephine Network, Lenny Kaye, Mordecai Smyth, Tatsu Akiba.

Family Album: The Sick Rose’s 1986 garage revival classic Faces.

Deep Cuts: Music from schools, colleges and universities.

Experience: Drummer for hire Jake Milton’s adventures.

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

Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Small Faces’ Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake half-speed master edition.

Vinyl Art: Legendary 1973 R&B compilation Another Saturday Night.

Vinyl Clicks: Loving Awareness’s pre-Blockheads oddity.