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SORRY. Picture disc, elderly ladies playing improv guitar -- that's what this is! But chopped and mixed enough so the source material is pretty much unrecognizable. Actually we'd almost have preferred to hear the original recordings of the ladies playing guitar!

Sheriff is the Swedish duo Magnus Granberg (vocals, piano, guitar) and Henrik Olsson (percussion), and this is their second release. They are not men of many words. Absolute barebones, intimate, slow and resonant. A piano's keys are struck, the notes allowed to linger languidly. After a few moments they're joined by a deep, very present male voice sing-speaking a handful of lyrics. Each word joins the notes in the air hanging like amber pendants. The following four tracks offer much the same but the piano is occasionally replaced or joined by low plucked guitar strings and strikes of percussion and bowls. An example of just how Spartan the proceedings are: the third song is titled "Stay, Stay" and that word repeated solemnly over and over again forms the better part of the song's lyrics. Brings to mind the most minimal moments of Slint. Hushed and meditative, Sail, Sail Away is an exercise in utter restraint. Super limited, and soon gone, as we only were able to get a handful...

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SORRY. A mellow, minimal, post-rock, indie-pop duo (guitar/piano and drums) from Gothenburg, Sweden. On the same tip as Palace Bros. Gatr Del Sol and early Low. On Hapna, home to Sagor & Swing, Tape, etc.

Another lost gem from the fine folks at EM records in Japan. How do they do it? We're having trouble even discerning a pattern other than the fact that pretty much everything they release totally rules! This disc is called Ten Dubs That Shook The World and we weren't actually sure it was even a dub record until we threw it on, but it is, and no surprise here, it absolutely rules! Just the fact that one of the tracks is called "Grossly Overweight Dub" pretty much guaranteed that this would be a winner. The interesting thing about Sherriff Lindo & The Hammer is that it is actually the work of Anthony Maher who just so happens to be a member of sound experimentalists the Loop Orchestra. Which makes a bit of sense, when you realize that the Loop Orchestra utilized only analog tape machines and spliced tape to produce their Jeck like dronescapes. Exactly the sort of musical mind and old school approach that would lead someone to be into folks like Lee Perry, King Tubby, Prince Jammy and the like. So when Maher wasn't meticulously plotting out collaged soundscapes with his loop buddies he was holed up in his home studio concocting a vast array of tripped out psychedelic dubs. We're huge proponents of effects, especially in dub, take that snare, hit the delay and let it repeat forever and ever and ever, better still, change the speed and pitch while it's going and create a stuttering wall of dizzying sound. The Bush Chemists are still the champions when it comes to pushing the limits of FX common sense in the quest for the ultimate dub, but Sheriff Lindo comes close. But this isn't gimmicky or anything, this is true dub, but just with an extra helping of delay, so snares stutter and hiccup, huge swaths of melody get buried in sonic murk before drifting higher and higher in the mix, dreamlike dubs floating in a psych swirl of careening rhythms and subtle simple melodies, so awesome. Definitely one of our new favorite dub records (well, new OLD records, as this came out on lp years ago, only 250 copies pressed, but youknow what we mean). Definitely worthy of a place alongside the Perry's and Jammy's and Tubby's in your collection for sure. As with all EM releases, super deluxe liner notes, original album cover art, lots of photos, and this time liner notes in English too!!!

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Tragic Johnny Cash protege...

Collection of rare alternate and otherwise unreleased tracks of Bim Sherman recorded for Adrian Sherwood's ON-U Sound label between 1981 and 1995. Only available on LP.

Seems it's been a while since I've heard anything from Mr Sherwood that's tickled my ear. Though not groundbreaking, the two tasty bits here are as good as any of the dub homages on either of the Select Cuts From Blood & Fire comps and it makes me wonder why

Record number two from these practically indescribable musical miscreants, er, GENIUSES. Where to begin? There's a label called Hekaloth, who in their own way are championing what they consider to be the most important musical advancement in recent history, the guitar synthesizer! And how do they do that? By making these insane records of warped warbly atonal synthesized guitar, accompanied by raw demonic sounding black metal rasps. And if that weren't enough, each record is a concept record, about some historical battle, and each one has some sort of theme: guitar synths mixed with jazz, or mixed with world music instruments, or Asian folk instruments. Did we mention the record covers? They generally feature statues or action figures piled atop and around guitar synth modules, which look just like stereo components, often laid out so the synth modules look like landscapes upon which some medieval battle just so happens to be taking place. In the past we've raved about the first Shevalreq record, as well as discs by Gluttony, Thursar and Xynfonica, to read more wild raving and hyperbolic ranting about these amazingly fucked up records check the website, needless to say, this upholds the high standards set forth by those curious collections of freaked out and fucked up weirdness. The guitar synth sounds a little like a weird cheap organ, the melodies atonal and warped, there are different modules the player can install in the guitar synth, so out of nowhere some weird melody will surface that SORT of sounds like a koto or something. As far as we can tell this newest Shevalreq is meant to be a little Asian, but once we decided that, in swoops another track that sounds like the sound track to a Nintendo 64 Dungeons And Dragons game, all Renne Faire tinkle and lilting melody, and of course that deep ominous rasp. Some folks here are driven INSANE by this stuff, but some of us LOVE it, this shit is absolutely nuts. Totally bonkers. It appears to be serious, which only makes it more insane and impossibly awesome. Read the other reviews, listen to the sound samples, this is absolutely essential listening for folks into freaky outsider sounds and any sort of fractured fucked up musical weirdness.

MPEG stream: Agrikhan's Embassy To Angelique
MPEG stream: In The Dungeons Of The Castle Cruel
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We raved about a band called Xynfonica a few lists back. A baffling and ridiculous melding of 'classical music' with growled demonic death metal vocals. Some of us were blown away, others of us, well, were not. We discovered Xynfonica was created using nothing but a guitar synthesizer, and the man behind Xynfonica also had a record label, based entirely on this concept of musics made with guitar synthesizers, coupled with evil metal vocals, and had TWO OTHER RELEASES. One world music! And one jazz. Whatthefuck?! We knew we had to hear all of 'em! So here we have the auspicious debut of Shevalreq. The world music installment of what seems to be a series of truly fucked up outsider musical weirdness. Starting with the cover, Shevalreq was already shaping up to be just as amazing as Xynfonica, the band name and album title in thick purple script, the cover a photo of the guitar synthesizer, and what appears to be a dat machine, and ON TOP OF THE synth and the dat machine are some miniature knights on horseback jousting!!! The back cover shows the same night posing next to the guitar pedals and still on top of the GIANT musical equipment. Inside are pages and pages of lyrics, again, an EPIC, this time concerned with some sort of ancient civilization, jousting, knights, murder, intrigue, castles and royalty, hard to say exactly, especially since it's impossible to understand the lyrics as they're delivered in that monstrous rasp. And then there's the music. To be totally honest, it doesn't sound all that different than Xynfonica, lots of the tracks sound like a Youtube clip of a cat walking back and forth on a synthesizer keyboard. Coupled with the evil vocals, well, it's just totally bizarre, and to some of us absolute brilliance, but this one stands out as suddenly, the sounds will shift, and we're suddenly listening to tablas, or some Eastern sounding horns, and here and there, Monsieur Shevalreq even busts out little squalls of furious lead guitar. Wailing leads, soaring strings, plink plonky synths, growled invokations, rumbling fake cellos, all woven into a stumbling, damaged concept record about jousting and duels and kings and castles. What more do we need to say? If you bought the Xynfonica, you almost absolutely need this, if you didn't, we still have some left, or you might as well start with this one. And next time, we'll review the JAZZ one?!?! We can hardly wait.

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Latest from this all female Swiss doom combo, who we had never heard before but are digging a lot, their sound a blackened dirgey death doom, that slips easily from tarpit creep to almost Sabbathy groove, to churning metallic pound with all sort of variation in between, killer riffs, and a harsh raspy vokill (that can slip into a clean angelic croon). The record begins with a bit of clean guitar, draped over what sounds like the crackle of a fire burning, when the songs lurches to life, the riff is a slithery beast, driven by some muscled pound, only to drift right back into a strange bit of psychedelic shimmer, all muted buzz and ominously whispered vox, before the hammer falls, and the song bursts back into motion, this time with haunting clean vocals beneath the churning riffage. The follow up track begins lovely and lilting as well, but soon splinters into some filthy slithery sludge, laced with some surprising melody, and some cool post rocky parts, and an unexpectedly rocking second half. The rest of the record seems to shift freely between, haunting minimalism, and brooding chugging bombast, notable exceptions being the mostly mellow "Souls Colliding" which sounds more like slowcore than doom really, even when it gets heavy, and near the end, there's even some haunting lovely violin, or the clean vocal driven "(You Are) The Mirror" which sounds more like L7 or Hole but more doomy, the clean vocal harmonies a nice contrast to the downtuned chug and churn. But all of that is cast aside for the closer, a seriously abject slab of slow-mo sludge, with some sick demonic vocal rasps, the track a deathmarch dirge, pounding away maniacally, the bleak black pound only occasionally offset by cool clean almost chantlike vox, drifting over the relentless crush, which soon sink into back into the mire, leaving the track to return to its black murky malevolence.

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Classic acid folk reissue.

Wow! Awesome Vistas brings us another stunner with the debut musical release from Sacramento-based artist Christine Shields. Shields, known in the Bay Area for her portraits and ghostly paintings of child spirits, trees and landscapes that evoke a lost Victorian past, has been making and performing music with various groups for awhile, but this is the first time we've heard a full recording and we must say we're quite blown away! Reminding us a bit of Opal or White Magic, Shields and her group have created an amazing record of hauntingly atmospheric chamber folk. Organic vocal harmonies, intricate guitar work, melodica, piano, percussion and bells, evoke a world of beauty and loss, shipwrecks and spirits, dark and light, that is gentle and melancholic but not at all fragile. The songwriting and production are breathtaking and creates the pitch-perfect mood to draw us in and never lets us go. With gorgeous hand-screened covers. Highest Recommendation!

Another mysterious collection of droning wonder from Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, this time from off-duty electrician Mike Shiflet whose 5 pieces on The City Is All In Your Head are excerts from a 12 hour performance which accompanied a sonic sculpture installation. Drone is the order of the day here, and these five tracks are all gorgeously rendered explorations of the vast and varied ambient drone spectrum. From warm fuzzy, warbly organ drones that sound like a surprisingly sonorous vaccuum cleaner rife with shimmering overtones, to a caustic dental drill, to hollow mouthed reverb grinding thrum all pulsing and throbbing, to a crystalline outerspace drone - a static upper register cluster of sound with shifting fuzzy soinc shhhh's underneath and huge fist-to-the-side-of-an-empty-dumpster percussion. All gathered reverentially around the record's centerpiece, a thirty minute slab of massive earth shaking low end rumble, so nice! SUPER LIMITED AS ALWAYS!! NOT SURE WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET MORE WHEN THESE ARE GONE!

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We've been going kinda crazy lately for super dark, ultra minimal, abstract techno, the darker and murkier the better, records by Shed and Terrence Dixon, as well as the whole Hospital Records axis (Silent Servant, Vatican Shadow, etc.). We also just discovered Marcel Dettmann, whose latest we'll review on an upcoming list, not to mention recent reissues from Fluxion and Monoton, and then there's this, the first we've heard from Shifted, who delivers exactly what we've been hankering for, super spare, crackly, skeletal, avant techno murk, all clicks and pulses, some sort of spaced out electro dub ultra minimalism that had us in its thrall from the very first few seconds. Equal parts clinical Raster-Noton style electronic abstraction, and Chain Reaction heroin house, the sound of Shifted is gorgeously hypnotic, and utterly mesmerizing, the opening intro a spaced out sort of dronescape, with distorted smears of what sounds like guitar, blurred into a drifty atmospheric haze, laced with strange industrial crunch, the whole thing getting more and more distorted and dirty as it progresses, which had us expecting something a bit more blown out and noisy, but instead, in swoops "Chrome, Canopy & Bursting Heart", a delicate crystalline arrangement of hiss and static, throb, and thrum and pulse, underpinned by a distant rumbling low end, and laced with strange bits of clatter, and softly reverbed texture, another one of those cases, that if the record had simply been a 70 minute version of THIS song, we'd be just as into it. Instead, the sound of Under A Single Banner moves in al sorts of different directions, but never deviating too much from the hushed and clipped minimalism that makes it so hypnotic. "Suspended Inside" is all high end sizzle and skitter, laced with distant rhythmic flurries, peppered with barely there bleeps, and draped over a backdrop of what sounds like crickets, while the title track is an ominous bit of crunchy abstract stutter, this time driven by deep, distorted bass pulsations, and woozy, groovy rhythm, a sort of ghost electro, that's haunting, and subtly harrowing at the same time. "Burning Tyres" is heavy on the reverb and echo drenched, and could be some obscure Hospital Records B side, being spun is a massive cave, the beats ricocheting all over the place, the melodies blurred and smeared, the whole thing a gauze-y fantastically garbled field of blackened and blurred space-house, which leads directly into the much more controlled "Pulse Incomplete", which loops what sounds like a human breath, and links it to percolating rhythms, and subtly blooping and bleeping cascades of muted melody, the beat frantic and frenzied, but somehow also subdued and dialed way back. "Contract 0", makes us think of a Kompakt record stripped of every non essential element, almost like the opposite of Pop Ambience, all the fuzzy, dreamy melodic driftiness pulled back, leaving just the barebones rhythm, and some strange distant glitchery, and fragmented static. Finally, "Story of Aurea" is all droned out mystery, a burbling, softly undulating low end swell, laced with tiny upper register trills, and barely audible dog whistle sonar sine waves, which leads directly into the closer, "Wash Over Me", which begins as some abstract minimal electro dub, just rhythm, and a distant chordal thrum, before the rhythm is joined by some soft billowing clouds of synthy shimmer, the sound transformed into a dreamy bit of new agey soft focus skitter, which again, we would dig a WHOLE record of. So good! One of our new favorite electronic / minimal techno records for sure, our current going to sleep music (which as you all know, is probably THEE highest recommendation we can give to this sort of record), and very likely to end up on some of our top ten lists (cuz list making time is coming up!!)...

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Shifts is the work of Frans de Waard (Goem, Beequeen, and the proprietor of Staalplaat). "8 Lines" features two lengthy buzzing ambient soundscapes constructed mostly through the bouncing / doubling of tracks on an 8 track. One piece is a glistening drone of soft guitar wash, and the other is an eerie manipulation of the perenially avoided 60 cycle hum.

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SORRY. Culled from the Shiggerfraggar radio show records that've been lovingly reissued by Billy Jam on disc, this is a prime breaks record for all you turntablist DJs. Speaking of which, has everyone heard about the cool turntable festival happening in LA November 2002? Looks incredible! Everyone from Kid Koala to Philip Jeck. http://http://www.turnament.com/index2.html

DJ Disk brought this in the other day, a dvd (or dvd-r, we're pretty sure, it's blue on the playing side, whatever that means) version of this video document of the infamous Invisible Skratch Picklz, originally released on VHS ten years ago. Disk, Q-bert, Flare, Shortkut, and the devilish brown-bag masked Shiggar Fraggar himself skritch-skritch-scratch the hell out of a bunch of vinyl on an array of turntables, in a crazed DJ jam session. It's pretty amazing to see them do this live, even today. Indeed, it's what Time Magazine (TIME MAGAZINE!) called "the greatest turntable scratch show ever created". Frenzied fun showcasing mad skillz. For live visuals of classic "Turntablist Orchestrated Music" with a wacky sense of humor, look no further!

One of the joys of working at record stores and doing college radio shows is how much access you end up getting to amazing records that otherwise you might not ever get to come across. And the cool thing about both radio and record stores, is that you're then in a position to share that music with everyone! One such record was by an Australian band called The Hungry Ghosts who released one full length album in 1999 called Alone, Alone. One of those records whose beauty strikes you on first listen and continues to move you a hundred listens down the line. Hungry Ghosts utilized an approach similar to their Australian cohorts, The Dirty Three, yet somehow managed to make their sound maybe even more gorgeous and heartbreaking. I (Irwin) remember playing it for the first time back when I had a show on KSPC in southern California and instantly falling in love. Sadly they seemed to disappear after that record. No trace of them anywhere. I even tried writing them and never heard back. Turns out I wasn't the only one who couldn't find them. John Brooks who was a founding member of the group is said to have entered a black hole of sorts. Later to be found at the Tara institute, a Tibetan Buddhist meditation center in Melbourne. It's there that he went back to his surname of Shilo and with a four-track donated by a fellow resident he began to record music often by candlelight and the results are this absolutely stunning record. You can feel the solitude, the still, the searching and the moments of transcendence. Musical sketches that evoke such a moody elegance. Kind of like if Do Make Say Think and the GYBE camp were forced to trade in all their outbursts and grandiose climaxes and instead go deep within to find the essence of their sound. Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth knew he had to put this out when he finally got the tapes from Shilo and we're so happy he did. Every time we play this in the store someone comes up to see what it is and usually leaves with a copy for themselves. A timeless and totally beautiful record!

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MPEG stream: The Drowning Horse
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These laidback SF popsters make light, sweet-tart songs, and here's a six-song ep for your listening delight! A little backyard ramshackleness, a little swirly 'n' spacy psych-folkish, a little '60s beach blanket worthy with warm vocals, jangly guitars, some horns and hey, was that a recorder we just heard tooting away too? Actually they wouldn't be at all out of place in the warm, creative company of the Elephant 6 collective. Nice.

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You'd think by now, that we'd all be sick of reverby garage rock, the whole retro girl group thing that seems to be the M.O. of every new band that pops up these days, but beyond the onslaught of sound alike bands, it's a sound that's tough NOT to love, and when done right, and creatively, it still pushes all our buttons and we can't get enough of it. But more and more these days, the bands that do in fact do it right, are few and far between. Which brings us to Shimmering Stars, a Canadian reverb heavy Spector worshipping dream pop group whose debut, this right here, takes that sixties sound, and melds it to a more fifties sound, reflected by the band's sonic obsession with the Everly Brothers and Del Shannon, and that makes all the difference. Besides the classic, sound all distorted and reverby, dreamy and jangly, the band have come up with some crazy catchy songs, that besides sounding fantastic, also actually sound like they could actually be from the fifties. If someone told you these were all covers, it wouldn't be tough to believe. Granted, the sound here is way more fuzzy and distorted, but the songs are just so perfect, classic and catchy, simple but dreamily melodic. The opening three song salvo here should have you smitten in no time. But the whole record is bursting with could have been classics, in some alternate universe fifties, these guys would have been the biggest band in the land. And be sure to stick around for the closer "Walk Away", a dreamy dirgey chunk of shimmery reverb heavy garage rock pound that while still channeling the fifties should have fans of Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin and all the rest freaking out big time. Another new pop favorite, which we'll most likely be jamming nonstop along with the new Veronica Falls and the new Big Troubles. SO GOOD!

MPEG stream: Walk Away
MPEG stream: Believe
MPEG stream: I'm Gonna Try
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Another big thick issue (146 pages) of this Mojo-meets-Ugly Things music mag from England, devoted to cool music of '60s / '70s vintage, or stuff that sounds like it. This ish, baroque popsters The Left Banke (you saw our reviews of their recently reissued records) grace the cover. Also: Annette Peacock, Buffalo Springfield, the High Llamas, Roy Harper, and Los Dug Dug's, amongst others! There's a Munster label feature, an article about the "Paisley Underground" scene, and a Hawkwind album art feature that threw us into confusion: is the album called "In Search Of Space", as we always had thought, or actually "X In Search Of Space", which seems to be the case?

A mixture of Mojo and Ugly Things, this colorful magazine is always a nice read for those who like their music a little bit on the vintage side. On the cover this month, The Hollies! Wait, no, flip it upsidedown, it's the Ramones as the cover stars!! Also this issue: The Bosstown Sound, Popol Vuh, Stephen Stills, The Incredible String Band, reviews, news, all the usual stuff...

Another issue of this rad retro mag from England, featuring Paul Revere and the Raiders on the cover, along with cult power poppers Shoes, psychsters Sun Dial, proggers Caravan, and plenty more... The Stooges, Alex Chilton, The Lemon Drops, The Yardbirds, Granny's Intentions, all that and more this ish.

Another issue of this colorful British magazine devoted to cool music from way back when, the psychedelic and punk eras in particular... The cover is shared this ish by the legendary Lee Hazlewood and the cheerful insanity of Giles, Giles, & Fripp (pre-King Crimson psych pop genius). Also inside, everything from the Damned's Captain Sensible, to proto-metallers Bang, to Michael Fennelley of The Millenium and Crabby Appleton, to UK heavy proggers Samuel Prody... and plenty more, old and new. Lotsa reviews, news, all the usual stuff. Basically if you read Mojo and/or Ugly Things, you should be reading Shindig! too.

"Psych, garage, prog, powerpop, soul, folk..." are this retro-minded magazine's into. This ish, features The Birds (no, not the Byrds) on the cover. Y'know, Ron Wood's band before he was in the Stones. Also: Swedish psych poppers Tages, John Sebastian, The Remains, The Purple Hearts, and plenty more. Including a free 21 track download thingee.

Big and brightly colored, every issue of UK music magazine Shindig! is good readin', if you're into the old school sounds they celebrate, mostly '60s and '70s rock, folk, pop, prog, garage... This issue's got the pre-fab four, The Monkees, on the cover, with a story about their cult movie Head (as Shindig! terms it, their "celluloid suicide note"). Then there's also stuff about Aussie legends The Easybeats, The Iveys (pre-Badfinger band, y'know), Todd Rundgren, Free Design, proto-metallers Banchee, Kaleidoscope (UK not USA), Jim Sullivan, and plenty more, including a ton of reviews, ads for stuff to salivate over, oh and an appreciation of the cover to The Poppy Family's 1969 single "Which Way You Goin', Billy?".

AQ faves the Bee Gees (psychedelic '60s Bee Gees) grace the cover of this issue of Shindig!, the UK magazine of rad old music and likeminded modern day retro sounds. Also this ish: Jason Falkner of Jellyfish, Mighty Baby, The M-80s, The Action, The Move, drummer John Shirley, The Modern Folk Quartet, and plenty more. Plus all the usual features - news, reviews, and the comic strip Bob Dylan Supervillain.

Another big, colorful, glossy, action-packed issue of this UK music mag, devoted to cool sounds from past dimensions (wait, that's Ugly Things motto, well they cover about the same sort of stuff). '60s pop psych, '70 acid folk, garage rock, freaky prog heaviness, all sorts of things we love. Plus they give some coverage to modern day bands with the same spirit and sound. This time around, it's a US Psych Special, with features on The Strawberry Alarm Clock, Clear Light, The Fallen Angels, Crystal Syphon, and more, including a handy guide to "50 US Psych Albums You Need To Hear". Plus plenty more, including stuff on Bill Fay, the Alive Naturalsound label, and power pop greats The Shoes! And reviews, reviews, reviews... Lots to read, lots to oogle, lots to make you go digging around for reissues!

New issue of this UK magazine, kinda like a slicker Ugly Things, devoted to the all the fantastic psych/folk/garage/etc. music of yesteryear - and also to stuff from the here and now that tries to live up to the glories of the past. On the cover, harmony pop greats The Free Design. Also: Bill Fay, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Ian Hunter, Ken Stringfellow of the Posies, Lee Hazlewood, the Guerssen label, and the Swedish retro-rock scene. And more. A big colorful read, that will get you spinning some old records!

An obscure little band called The Rolling Stones is featured on the cover of this new issue of the UK retro-minded mag Shindig! Of course, we're talking the Stones circa 1967, at their most psychedelic, not today's inexplicably still at it old age pensioners. There's lots more of course in this big colorful magazine: Family, Ray Stinnett, Gary Farr, Ian Hunter, the Crusher label, Kevin Coyne's Siren, their 2012 writer's poll (Best New Album: Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell), and plenty else besides, including the usual load of reviews.

We had to order twice as many copies of this issue of Shindig!, just 'cause of the cover photo of the band Shocking Blue, specifically their bodacious lead singer Mariska Veres. Lots of sex appeal there. That classic '60s Dutch pop-psych band (famously covered by Nirvana) are only one of interesting features inside this ish though, other retro psych rock (and folk, and pop...) related stuff covered being Satanic Majesties era Rolling Stones, '90s paisley power poppers Jellyfish, Richard Thompson, the Sundazed label, Eastern bloc psych rarities, The Bevis Frond, The Bee Gees, and more. Lots of reviews of course, colorful graphics & photos, glossy paper, the usual good stuff we've come to expect from the UK's much prettier, and more frequently published, answer to Ugly Things. 98 pages this time.

UK vintage/retro sounds magazine Shindig! returns, this time with Broadcast on the cover, kind of a surprise but it makes sense, the piece on them is accompanied by an article all about Giallo cinema & soundtracks. Also inside: The Sweet, Donovan, Mike Heron, Emerald Web, the Ghost Box record label, and bunches more, including the usual tons of reviews. 98 tall colorful glossy pages in all.

Another colorful issue of this right-on magazine from the UK all about cool psych/folk/pop/garage music (both vintage & retro)... This issue has "flower-punks" The Seeds on the cover, and also: Kim Fowley, Francoise Hardy, Marsupilami, The Third Power, Sandie Shaw, You Am I, White Fence, and plenty more. Tons of reviews, lots of informative sidebars, etc. etc.

It's another tall, colorful new issue of this vintage (or sounds like vintage) rock/pop/folk/psych magazine from the UK. "Great American pop architect" Harry Nilsson is on the cover (another chance to find out why some folks are so obsessed). Other cool cats in this ish include: Swamp Dogg, Dave Davies of The Kinks, Captain Beefheart, Gene Clark, Billy Childish (& Thee Mighty Caesars)... There's a label profile of one of our faves, the Omni Recording Corporation, there's a sixties garage band from Bombay, India called The Combustibles, there's an appreciation of the cover art of Cauldron by 50 Foot Hose. And plenty more from fuzz monsters Morgen to stoner rockers Dead Meadow. Lots of reviews too of course.

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SORRY. Another big glossy colorful issue of this UK mag devoted to the cool music of (mostly) yesteryear, psych pop folk prog garage etc. The theme this ish is "Beatleisms", which means there's an article all about the sometimes obscure bands/albums that tried to carry on the sound of the Fab Four into the '70s (like Emmit Rhodes, Rockin' Horse, Blue Ash, We All Together and tons more), and also specific features on some of most interesting/successful/weird/notable, like Klaatu, The Rutles, Stackridge and Harry Nilsson... Plus there's stuff on '70s solo Paul McCartney too. Also, not quite so Beatlesly, this issue also features The Hammersmith Gorillas, The Hollywood Stars, Simones, The Deviants, and more.

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We've been stocking this magazine for a little while now & thought we'd put it on our list this time so mailorder customers (or locals who didn't spot it already on the magazine rack here) could get a chance at it, if they're interested in the sixties-centric stuff that Shindig! specializes in. Published in the UK, this full-color bimonthly is kinda like Ugly Things done glossy like Mojo, covering "psych, garage, beat, powerpop, soul, folk...". They definitely dig into some obscurities of the era, but just not 30 pages deep they way they'd do in UT. This issue has Marc Bolan's folky, freaky Tyrannosaurus Rex on the cover. Inside, stuff about the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Move, The Youngbloods, Slade, and (yes!) AQ fave Aussie proto-metallers Buffalo, amongst others. Plus lots and lots of reviews and the other usual magazine things. And they reserve a smidgen of space for modern-day acts of the appropriately retro persuasion, too. 80+ A4 sized pages.

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SORRY. This snazzy British psych/garage/folk/R&B/beat mag delivers another colorful issue. This time with Roky Erickson on the cover, back in the day with his 13 Floor Elevators, as part of a 15 page section devoted to the Texas psychedelic sixties scene (with articles on Bubble Puppy, Cold Sun, The Moving Sidewalks, and others)... plus, this issue also boasts features on the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Strawbs, exploito hippie era paperbacks, Jackie DeShannon, producer Mickie Most, and more. Including tons of reviews. 82 A4 sized pages.

The cover story this issue is is all about the early years of The Soft Machine. Also: AQ faves Euphoria ("the remarkable saga of the most expensive cult album ever made"), surf psych maven Merrell Fankhauser, Canada's Allied Records, home to Plastic Cloud and others, a eulogy for horror actress Ingrid Pitt, and much more, including the usual lots of reviews and colorful graphics in this way-back machine of a magazine.

Yet another issue of this retro-minded music magazine out of the UK. We always get 'em, don't always list 'em, but we should 'cause they're good reads indeed if you're into '60s and '70s stuff, like in this issue, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (on the cover, no less!), Procol Harum, actress Mimsy Farmer, Todd Rundgren, The Up, and more, including a feature on the marketing scheme/actual scene known as The Bosstown Sound. And there's of course tons of reviews and news and regular columns etc. as well. All in 99 large glossy full color illustrated pages.

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SORRY. UK '60s / '70s retro rock (garage, folk, psych, beat, soul...) magazine Shindig is back with another ish, this time Kippington Lodge and Brinsley Schwarz on the cover (not too familiar with them, perhaps? well then read up on 'em here). Also: Rodriguez, H.P. Lovecraft (the band, not the man), Sandy Salisbury of The Millennium, The Poets, articles on The Prisoner TV series and hippy lit, plus the usual ton o' reviews... and more. Including some stuff on new bands that are carrying on the spirit of the '60s...

Another issue of the UK's Shindig, kind of the slicker, skinnier British cousin to Ugly Things, delving into similar territory (but not quite to the same obscure extent). Vintage '60s and '70s garage rock, psychedelia, folk and soul stuff, plus sometimes contemporary bands with retro leanings. This issue's got The Pretty Things on the cover, plus pieces on Alice Cooper, Kevin Ayers, Tim Rose, The Count Five, Funkadelic, and more.

In this issue of this more-retro-than-Mojo mag from the UK... Gene Clark of the Byrds on the cover, along with features on country-folksters like Great Speckled Bird and The Dillards and a list of the '10 Country-Rock Albums You Need'... also a retrospective on Zigzag, the underground UK rock mag of the '60s/'70s, an interview with 'soft pop siren' Margo Guryan, and part one of a two-part feature on classic British exploitation films, among much else, including loads of reviews.

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