Issue 162

Features:

Evergreen Review: Inside the subversive world of the counterculture magazine.

Goodtimes Enterprises: Performance. That’ll Be The Day. Stardust. Slade In Flame. All the work of one visionary British film production company.

20 Questions: Ed Kuepper 34 Saints alive! The reluctant forefather of Australian punk reflects.

The Best Compilation Albums Of 1969: Our top Greatest Hits sets, seasonal fillers and memorial anthologies.

Delta: From the ashes of The Sea Urchins rose this dynamic, out-of-time nearly-was.

Shelagh McDonald: The folk siren who dazzled then disappeared.

Al Kooper: He was there! Adventures at the vanguard of the late ’60s US music scene.

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 Richard Morton Jacks’ Pressing News.

It’s A Happening Thing: Floral Image, Lunchbox, British Birds, Record Store Day, Brown Horse, M Ross Perkins, Telecom, Jetstream Pony, Pearl Charles, David Leaf, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Short Story: Surrounded by celebrity, doomed to fail. Who were Straight?

Deep Cuts: Tread softly. When poetry infiltrated pop.

Back To Back: All aboard the ‘City Of New Orleans’.

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

Prize Crossword: Win a copy of the Krautrock Eruption book and CD.

Vinyl Art: Fraternity Of Man get trippy in the desert.

Vinyl Clicks: Swedish pop aggregation Figaro’s 1976 one-off.