THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

Budgie Born Peter Edward Clarke in St

FEED YOUR HEAD!

THE SECOND COURSE

Tropicália

Brazil freaks out.

Golden Ratio

Rescued from rock’s vault of oblivion, Cream’s ex-bassist brings it all back home.

In With The Spin Crowd

Win! A DUKE and ROY Hi-Fi Stereo Turntable System.

ALL BACK TO KINKS’ PLACE

THE KINKS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...

Theories, rants, etc.

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THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE

For 60 years, HERBIE HANCOCK has taken the bonnet off music, hacking its valves and gears, forging a future as yet unseen. He shaped jazz and funk and synth-rock; Miles and Joni felt the benefit. Now he's a Polar Music Prize laureate. "I've always been this geek, this nerdy guy,"

War

★★★★ Why Can’t We Be Friends? RHINO. CD/DL/LP

When The Storm Broke

Leader of north Wales rockers The Alarm and beyond, Mike Peters left us on April 29.

MOJO COLLECTIONS

RARITIES! RECORD SHOPS! CRATEDIGGERS ASSEMBLE!

Who sent music into space?

Let us answer your music-related queries and settle rock beefs once and for all.

Tanya Donelly and Belly

It began with a plan to make indie-dance music with Kim Deal. And ended in exhausted silence.

Blurred Visions

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO

NEW DYLAN CENTRE EXHIBIT PLUGS INTO ELECTRIC YEAR ’65

Electric dreams: Bob Dylan, all smiles in April

KIERAN HEBDEN AND WILLIAM TYLER UNITE AND CHANNEL ’80s COUNTRY

Country cousins: Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden (left) and

GINA BIRCH

The Raincoat and feminist punk paragon talks solo expression, Year Zero ’77 and superfan Kurt Cobain.

Dennis Bovell

The UK dub master delights in Argent’s Hold Your Head Up (Epic, 1971).

CABARET VOLTAIRE CELEBRATE 50 YEARS!

FIFTY YEARS since Cabaret Voltaire surfaced with a

LEGENDARY BLUES HARMONICAT CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE KEEPS ON BLOWING

Good time Charlie: harmonica legend Musselwhite in 1970.

RINGING IN THE EARS! HOTLINE TNT CALL BACK TO PEAK NOISEPOP

Blowing a fuse: Hotline TNT (from left) Haylen

MEET POOR CREATURE, COSMIC SUPERGROUP OF THE IRISH FOLK RENAISSANCE

INSPIRATION CAN strike in unusual places. “I broke

MOJO PLAYLIST

Turn on! For the month’s best rock, synth-froid and Bolero.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

With his cape and on-stage curry, he defined prog rock excess. Breakdowns, penury and near-death were the prices paid, but somehow the baroque synth lines and droll quips kept flowing… and still do. “I’m my own worst enemy,” laughs Rick Wakeman

WE HUNGER

Body heat: Budgie and Siouxsie make a shower

BE MY B-A-B-Y

Among the starlets of '60s soul, Stax original A THOMAS was dubbed 'The Queen'. Adored by The Beatles and Otis, a star turn at Vattstax, at 82 her flame burns bright, her career a storied object lesson. "I have tried to make it a joyful experience," she tells ANDREW PERRY

Into The Void?

The BLACK SABBATH story will end definitively on July 5, when the band conclude 57 years of sui generis heaviosity and tragi-comic conflict at an epochal mega-gig at Villa Park. Or will it? With less than a month to go, it's still unclear quite how these gallant yet frail septuagenarians make it to the stage... or off it. "We'll probably keel over after two songs!"

MOJO PRESENTS

ENGLISH TEACHER struck a chord with their sparkling, sardonic debut album – the shock winner of last year’s Mercury Prize. Coping with flux and fame has tested the limits of charismatic singer Lily Fontaine, but she’s not complaining. “I thought I’d have to work in pubs and takeaways forever,”

ABC COMPILE THE LEXICON OF LOVE

Evolving from Sheffield’s post-punk synth-raincoat milieu, ABC felt anointed by Chic to make the definitive early-’80s album of hyper-gloss smart pop. Produced by sonic visionary Trevor Horn , they soon won big hits and a visit from Bowie in ’82, but within barely a year the grandeur was over, marked by the mythic flushing of singer Martin Fry ’s gold lamé suit down a Japanese toilet. Likening it to “Bob Dylan but in a disco,” members and collaborators recall The Lexicon Of Love ’s creation. “Sit down, the show is about to start. You will be entertained!”

NOW I FIND I'VE CHANGED MY MIND

SIXTY YEARS AGO, THE BEATLES OPENED UP THE DOOR TO A BRAVE NEW WORLD. ANIMATED BY WEED AND ACID, THEY FOUND THE INTROSPECTIVE SONGS OF HELPI, THE KNOCK ABOUT MOVIE THAT WAS ALSO A SKEWED, STONED SATIRE ON BEATLEMANIA. AND YET, AMID FRESH MADHESS AND MBES, THE ESSENCE OF 196S WAS ALSO A RETURN TO THE BAND'S ORIGINAL SOURCE, THE REVENGE OF THE BEATNIK BEATLES...

Up the unction

Expanded Isle Of Wight band’s second album runs like a well-oiled machine.

“Ohhh, this is our job now!”

Rhian Teasdale speaks to Victoria Segal.

FILTER ALBUMS

U.S. Girls ★★★★ Scratch It 4AD. CD/DL/LP

Back to school

The original Alice Cooper band’s first LP since 1973’s Muscle Of Love .

Brave talk

Brian Christinzio’s historical trauma alchemised into breezy, cathartic pop.

Gwenno

Heaven sent: Gwenno gets expansive and cinematic on

Haim

Dressed for success: Haim’s (from left) Alana, Danielle

Have no fear

Queens, NY R&B auteur dries her eyes and finds her joy.

S.G. Goodman

Signs of the times: S.G. Goodman expands her

WORLD

Julia Mestre ★★★★ Maravilhosamente Bem MR BONGO.

Kokoroko

Kokoroko: Brit-funk for a new generation. ★★★★

JAZZ

Nate Mercereau, Josh Johnson, Carlos Niño ★★★★ Openness

EXTENDED PLAY

André 3000 7 Piano Sketches EPIC. DL

Light of day

Almost 30 years after Tracks , his first big archival drop, the Boss unveils its sequel: seven unreleased albums. But is bigger really better?

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The Montgolfier Brothers ★★★★ Think Once More – A

Richard Hawley

On the Corner : Richard Hawley fused

Dusty Springfield

Longing Dancing in the street: Longing

Happy returns

Welcome back The Beta Band, ripe for rediscovery. Experiencing déjà vu, Jim Irvin

Underworld

Child’s play: (from left) Underworld’s Smith, Hyde and

Another country

Taking flight: Mike Oldfield prepares to launch his

What’s the story?

Danny Eccleston casts the eye of his mind over three new Oasis books.

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Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story ★★★★ Barry