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Ramblers & gamblers
LANKUM, ANGEL BAT DAWID, LISA O’NEILL, CASSANDRA JENKINS, JANA HORN, ANGELINE MORRISON, JULIE BYRNE & MORE
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ALL BACK TO MY PLACE
THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...
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For The Black, White And Blues
New doc Born In Chicago salutes the city’s titanic music legacy, with help from original masters, their apprentices and Dan Aykroyd.
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Sparks
Ron and Russell talk Cate Blanchett, creative obstinacy and wanting to be sued.
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THE MOJO INTERVIEW
Fronting the ’60s’ most anomalous band, he was a choirboy among “pirates and brigands”. A Zombie and a gentleman in 2023, his remains a unique path through rock’n’roll. “The less I try, the more successful I am,” reckons Colin Blunstone.
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MOJO PRESENTS
Fifty years ago, the sound of liberation rang around southern Africa, as a generation of heavy, funky rock bands heralded a new political and musical era. At the forefront? Zambia’s WITCH, surviving turmoil and tragedy to become cratedigger superstars in the 21st century. “We want to keep the Zamrock fire burning,” they promise DAVID HUTCHEON.
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nick drake: the making of a genius
Far from the work of a cloistered savant nick drok0's subtle songs were shaped by myriad influences, from Bach to Bert Jansch, Mose Allison to Randy Newman. Mining his interviews for a brand new authorised biography richord morton jock tracks Drake's listening from cradle to tragic early grave and its impact on his art: "Nick was very conscious of what was happening."
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THE TEARDROP EXPLODES ACCEPT THEIR REWARD
Careering out of Liverpool’s post-punk scene, The Teardrop Explodes and Orphic pin-up JULIAN COPE looked set for hugeness when existential piledriver Reward stormed the Top 10 in March 1981. Yet their fame-year of escape, adventure and psychedelic colours nosedived when heroic second LP Wilder tanked. “It was mad fun, and everyone was involved,” recall members and affiliates, of supporting Queen, playing Macca at pool and tripping on Top Of The Pops. And then? “Disaster.” Tom Sheehan
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LOVE HURTS
Divine, deranged, divided: it’s taken 50 years and change for LOVE’s JOHNNY ECHOLS to make peace with his doomed band’s ageless legacy. In 2023. the Book of Love is reopening, but not before the guitarist confronts its more contentious passages.”1 won’t sugar-coat it.” he tells ANDREW PERRY. “There’s nothing to hide."
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THAT TOUCH OF MINK
Pimp style, tough love, and the romance of New York, Paris and New Orleans infused the extraordinary rock, roots and soul of wily De Ville But as sylvie Simmans discovers, bad luck, hard drugs, and tragic deaths cast long shadows across his life and music. "I constantly have this kind of hunger," he confessed, "an emptiness."
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THE JAZZ SINGER
As JONI MITCHELL preps for her landmark June 10 show, MOJO explores another key watershed: Court And Spark. Crazy chords, unreliable beaus, jazz cats and a drunk Lennon litter the path to her second great masterpiece, an intimate self-portrait and dissection of the LA scene’s Gatsby-ish bacchanal. “It’s an almost perfect record,” learns TOM DOYLE.
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Reach out, touch faith
At once sublime and chilling, Simon’s latest act of devotion is a masterpiece.
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Westway to the world
With a little help from friends including Damon Albarn and Angie Stone, Mali’s brightest star pushes forward.
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Altered estate
Quitting the dancefloor, Noel turns in his best post-Oasis album.
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Have guitar, will travel
The mystical Yorkshireman finds himself inside vast influences.
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Walls come tumbling down
Joey Burns and John Convertino mark 20 years of blurring the boundaries.
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Twilight zone
Dylan’s other-worldly 2021 take on his back pages – yours, finally, to keep.
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It goes like this…
Carefully curated trawl of lesserspotted cuts from the first wave of hip-hop 45s.
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Green Machine
Black and white united in their enthusiasm for the olive/magenta label from Philly.
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Libretto Blaster
This month’s sublime rediscovery: Tim Buckleycharged Italian prog-folk-jazz.
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Keith Jarrett
The great jazz pianist before and after Köln.
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The big chill
The inside story of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 masterpiece Nebraska.
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The truth about selling out
They were the biggest rock band in the US. Then Richard Nixon got involved.
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Which band had the first logo?
Let us answer your rock’n’roll queries and bring enlightenment where there is doubt.
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Tim Staffell and Smile
They came together in college in London. And when he split they got a guy called Freddie in and became Queen…
