In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Mojo

• FOREVER YOUNG
  THE BEST OF 1974
• ALL BACK TO MY PLACE
  THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…
• Theories, rants, etc.
  MOJO welcomes correspondence for publication.
• Love’s Labours Found
  Eighteen years after his death, a new Arthur Lee album? Players and producers explain all.
• Howard Devoto
  The Buzzcocks and Magazine double agent talks “new” music, Pete Shelley and Julius Caesar.
• Paul Heaton
  Ex-Beautiful South songwriter salutes Spotlight On Al Green (Spotlight On, 1981).
• PARSONS OF INTEREST
  Three of the Project’s best.
• MOJO PLAYLIST
  Tune in! For the month’s best garage blues, future soul and deep disco.
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• THE MOJO INTERVIEW
  A post-punk firebrand cooled by bereavement and industry meltdown, he’s come through surgery and “ego death” with his best album in 30 years. “I still feel like I’ve got a lot left in the tank,” assures The The’s Matt Johnson.
• MATT’S HAT-TRICK
  Three life stages of The The, by Danny Eccleston.
• THE TIME IS RIGHT
  Sixty years ago, the world was ready for a brand new beat, one provided by breakthrough hits by Mary Wells, Martha Reeves, The Supremes and The Temptations. 1964 would prove Motown’s first Golden Year, and though The Beatles and LBJ had parts to play, the label’s genius back room of players, writers and producers were its true stars, writes Nelson George.
• EXPORT STRENGTH
  How My Guy spearheaded Motown’s reach outside the US, by Adam White.
• MADE OF… STARS
  SCHOOLED AT HARVARD, SUCCOURED BY THE TWO-CHORD BEATITUDES OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, GALAXIE 500 WERE THE NEO-PSYCHEDELIC JEWEL OF LATE-'905 AMERICAN INDIE ROCK. BUT IF THEIR PERFECTION WAS TOO VOLATILE TO SURVIVE ENNUI AND LABEL MELTDOWN. THEIR CATALOGUE-NOW AUGMENTED BY UNREALESED TREASURES-SHINES ON. "NOTHING LASTS FOREVER," BAND AND ASSOCIATES TELL ROY WILKINSON, "BUT NOTHING IS EVER TRULY LOST."
• SPACE JAMS
  PRODUCTION GURU KRAMER REVIEWS THE GALAXIE CANON. EXPECT BIAS. RATINGS BY MOJO.
• MOJO PRESENTS
  Trading as JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN, Joan Wasser has spangled this century with her dramatic dressing-up-box pop, while lending multi-instrumental mastery to Anohni, Gorillaz and more. Tragedy has dogged her – notably the drowning of her lover Jeff Buckley – but it’s steeled her, too. “Holy shit!” she exclaims to MARTIN ASTON. “This life has not stopped being real.”
• GOOD COP
  Four key Joan As Police Woman albums, by Martin Aston.
• KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID
  BRANDISHING HIS FIRST ALBUM IN A DECADE, WE BRING YOU NICK LOWE: PRODUCER, SIDEMAN, AND SONGWRITER SUPREME, ON A MISSION TO STRIP ROCK’N’ROLL TO ITS ESSENCE. JUST DON’T ASK HIM TO BLOW HIS OWN TRUMPET. “MY LEGACY – SUCH AS IT IS – ISN’T SOMETHING I LOSE SLEEP OVER,” HE TELLS BOB MEHR.
• BASHER AT THE BOARD
  Nick Lowe: Producer, in five albums, as told to BOB MEHR.
• LOST IN MUSIC
  NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST SINGERS THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN, IDOLISED BY WESTERN ROCK STARS AND MILLIONS OF FANS ACROSS THE GLOBE. IN 2024, NEWLY UNEARTHED MUSIC FROM HIS RICHEST PERIOD UNDERLINES THE QAWWALI MASTER’S ECSTATIC POWER AND THE TRAGEDY OF HIS EARLY DEATH IN 1997. “HE WAS WORKING TOO HARD,” DISCOVERS DAVID HUTCHEON. “HE SAID HE ONLY LIVED FOR QAWWALI.”
• KHAN GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD
  The western pop world’s love affair with Nusrat is documented by DAVID HUTCHEON.
• LAURIE ANDERSON ASKS, O SUPERMAN
  She was making multimedia statements in the NY performance art milieu when lucky chance made her minimal eight-minute Gesamtkunstwerk of crashing planes, mothers and fate into a freak UK Number 2 hit in 1981. She followed up with prophetic album Big Science, diagnosing Reagan’s America and the troubled decades to come. “She’s capturing all sides, the personal, the universal and the political,” say friends and collaborators. “I’m talking to the part of you that never speaks,” she replies.
• ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS
  Planet Waves and BOB DYLAN’s 1974 arena tour with THE BAND have often been dismissed as excessive cash-ins: overblown bouts of premature, and instantly regretted, nostalgia. But time – and a vast new box set of music from the tour – reveals instead a crucial transition, as Dylan turned away from isolation and New York, and towards new and fertile phases of his career. “It was a celebration of the past and a going beyond,” discovers GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN.
• A WORK IN PROGRESS
  When Dylan played Philadelphia on January 7, his ’74 set was still fascinatingly protean. Our man on the spot: DAVID FRICKE.
• ON THE ROAD AGAIN
  One of Dylan’s recent US shows offers clues for European ticket-holders. Or maybe not. Your witness: JESSE JARNOW.
• MERCURY RISING!
  DYLAN AND THE BAND: from emotional depths to frenzied highs. Highlights from their 30 years of "telepathic interplay", selected by JOHN MULVEY.
• Right to roam
  Gilmour’s fifth and best solo album follows new paths through modernist soundscapes, guided by producer Charlie Andrew. By Tom Doyle. Illustration by Ernie Hunt.
• The hoof is out there
  Buffalo boys return with wild ninth album.
• Don’t stop
  West Country singer-songwriter pushes things forward on restless third album.
• The good shepherd
  With his band again roaring at his back, Cave turns toward his future.
• Spectacular vernacular
  The singer formerly known as Marley Munroe bares her soul on remarkable second album.
• Hurricane Neil
  The third, epic instalment of Neil Young’s legacy embraces chaos, transcendence and distortion, 1976 to 1987.
• All the feels
  First full release of the Mighty Real singer’s epochal March 11, 1979 concert in San Francisco.
• Dig your own soul
  Do you take your soul nostalgic or now? Northern or neo? Motown or Manc?
• True grit
  Rod and the boys get rude’n’rowdy at the Beeb over eight discs and a concert Blu-ray. By Pat Gilbert.
• Quill City
  This month’s gem lost in the bracken: exquisitely ragged acoustic NZ psych-pop.
• Jethro Tull
  The unclassifiable ’70s sensation.
• Book of love (and hate)
  An entertaining unpicking of one of rock’s most tangled webs.
• Plus ça change
  Innovative portrait of the cerebral ambient doyen leaves you wanting more.
• The Godfather
  …of the British Blues left us, aged 90, on July 22.
• With A Love That Will See You Through
  The last original Four Top, Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir, left us on July 22.
• Heart Of Texas
  Country satirist Kinky Friedman left us on June 27.
• Who named their album sides?
  Got a nagging question? Let us resolve the music-related questions that irk you.
• Record High
  Win! A Third Man annual Vault subscription!
• Martin Turner and Wishbone Ash
  It began with twin guitar glory, piss and wind. Later, fame’s fatal promise spelled the end.