Shindig! Magazine Issue 172 (February 2026) Powerpop: The Third Wave

Shindig! Magazine Issue 172 (February 2026) Powerpop: The Third Wave

Features
Chad & Jeremy - The tweedy folk duo absorb the zeitgeist on 1968 concept album Of Cabbages And Kings.
Roger Nichols - An appreciation of the soft-pop maven who we lost in 2025.
Barry Ryan - He was bigger and better performing without his twin brother Paul, but how long could it last?
The Moody Blues - In exactly three years, the Moodies went from a #1 single to the depths of desperation to creative rebirth.
Powerpop: The Third Wave How a disparate bunch of transatlantic bands looked back to the innocence of Beatlemania and The British Invasion against a backdrop of ’70s punk and new-wave.
20 Questions; Keith West As his archives and ’70s recordings are raided for two new releases, the Londoner, mod face and musical journeyman reflects on 60-plus years in the biz.

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 an eight-LP Busy Bee label haul.
It’s A Happening Thing: Ben Wheatley, Captain Sensible, Green Seagull, Sternpost, Lucy Kitchen, The Electric Eyes, Plastic Family, Greg Weeks, Wewantsounds, Blue Ash.
Family Album: The Troll’s magisterial 1968 psych-pop melodrama Animated Music.
Deep Cuts: Sightings of bands in late ’60s thriller and drama movies.
Words & Pictures Peanuts creator Charles M Schulz’s era-defining philosophy.
Experience:  “We need a band. Tonight. In Belgium!” Dave Winslett knows one.
Reviews: The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows.
Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Grapefruit’s So High I’ve Been: A European Rock Anthology
Vinyl Art: Marty Norman’s adventures in ’60s jazz.
Vinyl Clicks: Bob Hughes’s The Kids Are OK.

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