In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Mojo

• THE COMPLETE UNKNOWNS
  THE BEST OF GREENWICH VILLAGE 1920-1965
• ALL BACK TO MY PLACE
  THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…
• The Madcap Writes
  A new oral history of Pink Floyd brings never-seen letters from Syd Barrett. “Twistravegrooveygroove,” as he says himself.
• Neko Case
  The flaming indie-country talent talks memoirs, real strings and a Thelma & Louise musical.
• Phil Manzanera
  Roxy Music’s guitar maestro on the world opened up by The Soft Machine’s debut (ABC, 1968).
• HADEN VOYAGE
  Josh in three lethal doses.
• MOJO PLAYLIST
  Hey you! This month’s prime hot takes from veteran rebels and new cowboys in town…
• THE MOJO INTERVIEW
  From Cheshire village halls to LA Babylon, he’s the obsessive music fan who rode the Hammond grooves of The Charlatans through baggy, Britpop and beyond. But how has his band remained together through 37 years of chaos and tragedy as well as triumph? “We had to get used to heaviness,” says Tim Burgess.
• A LIFE IN PICTURES
  Telling stories: Tim down the days
• TIM HAS TOLD ME
  Three of the best albums from across Burgess’s career, by Chris Catchpole.
• Being There
  For 10 years, from 1965 to 1975, snapper BARRIE WENTZELL was the all-seeing eye of the UK music scene. His new book, previewed here, captures the biggest stars at their least guarded. DANNY ECCLESTON is agog.
• MOJO PRESENTS
  For 35 years, the sonic scientists of TORTOISE have toiled to redefine the scope and possibilities of indie music. Their influence has been pervasive, but their methods and results remain unique. So don’t call them ‘post-rock’, OK? “Our genre is that there isn’t a genre,” they tell GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN.
• TURTLE RECALL
  A Tortoise retrospective, by Grayson Haver Currin.
• SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE LUCK
  History decrees that TERRY REID missed the boat, to Led Zep legendhood, to solo riches. But, as he told BOB MEHR just two months before he passed, this great songwriter and supreme singer-loved and admired by superstars from Robert Plant and Graham Nash to Aretha Franklin and Dr Dre - didn't see it like that: “I've lived my life the way I wanted.”
• “THE SONGS YOU WRITE, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE”
  The broad reach of TERRY REID's greatest compositions.
• WHAT ME WORRY?
  Post-American Utopia, DAVID BYRNE is continuing to put a positive spin on the global omni-shambles. That includes engaging constructively with his Talking Heads legacy, but don't confuse it with looking backwards. “Even if something is going well and you know how to do this thing,” he tells DAVID FRICKE, “I gotta leave it behind.”
• SLIPPERY PEOPLE?
  TALKING HEADS' PROMO TOUR FOR THEIR STOP MAKING SENSE REBOOT DREW SOME TRICKY QUESTIONS. LIKE WHY NOT PLAY AGAIN?
• SHADOW OF THE MOON
  As THE WHO hit the road, perhpas for the last time, after another drummer-oriented crisis, they reboot Who Are You - KEITH MOON's arduous yet fascinating swan song. With punks at the gate, scraps in the studio and Townshend's demons flaring, it was already hard going. Then came their drummer's tragic implosion. “We all were traumatised,” discovers TOM DOYLE.
• IDENTIFY PARADE
  Five stand-outs from the eight-disc Who Are You box set, selected by Tom Doyle.
• “YOU NEVER REMEMBER THE PERFECT SHOWS”
  The Who's 'North American Farewell Tour' begins… Jeopardy! Cancellations! Reconciliations! Report by James McNair.
• THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW BEGINS
  It started on the London stage in 1973. Depicting squares Brad and Janet ending up in the laboratory of mad scientist/trans alien Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Richard O’Brien’s comedy musical lovingly parodied sci-fi, Frankenstein and glam to packed houses. Then the 1975 movie version with Meat Loaf flopped… until gleeful audience participation turned it into a self-sustaining movie cult of global proportions. Fifty years on, its creators recall the notion, “this could run for a long time… maybe for ever.”
• YOUNG BUT DAILY GROWING
  BOB DYLAN’S 18th BOOTLEG SERIES INSTALMENT – THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW – IS AN AUDIO ANALOGUE TO A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: AN UNFURLING DOCUMENT OF A SEARING YOUNG TALENT IN THE ACT OF BECOMING. BUT BECOMING WHAT? ROCKER? FOLKIE? LOVER? POET? POLITICIAN? DIGGING INTO PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MUSIC FROM 1956 TO ’63, MOJO MARVELS AT DYLAN’S FIRST GREAT PHASE ALONG WITH ITS STILL- STUNNED EYEWITNESSES. “IT WAS EARTH-SHAKING,” THEY TELL DORIAN LYNSKEY.
• THE NAKED GUNNN
  WHAT BOB DYLAN’S FIRST RECORDING TELLS US ABOUT A LIFELONG OBSESSION.
• BLOWING AND SUCKING
  THE UNLIKELY PRE-CAREER OF BOB DYLAN, “HARMONICA VIRTUOSO”.
• “ALL MY SONGS ARE PROTEST SONGS”
  WHEN THE FINGER- POINTIN’ STOPPED, WHAT HAPPENED TO PROTEST DYLAN? DORIAN LYNSKEY INVESTIGATES.
• Altogether now
  Wilco dynamo’s fifth solo LP is a wildly eclectic triple that celebrates collective creativity and freedom.
• “The White Album made a huge dent in my mind.”
  Jeff Tweedy speaks to Tom Doyle.
• Shadow play
  Fourth solo album from former Delgado brightens the corners.
• Wild at heart
  Evan Dando returns with 11 new songs that capture his many untamed aspects.
• “A semi-murderous Godspell Jonestown Manson theme.”
  Evan Dando speaks to Andrew Male.
• Rein supreme
  The punk rock landmark that keeps on giving celebrates half a century with an expanded anniversary edition produced by bassist Tony Shanahan.
• Choose love
  Debut LP by the Mac’s golden couple – pre tantrems and tiaras – gets reissued.
• Just like heaven
  Thorough retrospective for wobbly-voiced baroque poppers.
• 21st century boy
  Bowie’s final era, rebirth to death, caught in another large, expensive box.
• Top Cat
  The ’60s pop star, ’70s troubadour and life-long spiritual seeker who can’t keep it in.
• In the weeds
  Extended 2021 documentary gets first physical release.
• We Will All Go Together
  Tom Lehrer, urbane pioneer of musical satire, left us on July 26.
• All Shot Up
  The rarest vinyl and objects from the globe’s finest collections: this month, Zappa’s Baby Snakes guitar, celebrity flight cases and an anonymous Nick Drake credit.
• The Cramps
  Get primitive, with Max Décharné.
• Practical Mellotronics
  This month’s dusted-off gem: loon pants prog, harmonies and jams rise above the hard luck.
• Whose samples were the wackiest?
  Let us answer your rock questions, and resolve nagging musical issues.
• Hi-Fi Want You
  Win! A Crosley C65 Record Player.
• Derek Shulman and Gentle Giant
  It began with an escape from pop into progressive new horizons. And ended when the writing was on the wall.