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THE “URGENT NIGHTTIME” ELECTRIC FOLK SOUNDS OF K AYLA COHEN AND ITASCA

Nocturnal emissions: Itasca’s Kayla Cohen enhances dream-state atmospheres.

AMBIENT JAZZ FIXER CARLOS NIÑO TAKES US – AND ANDRÉ 3000! – ON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS

CARLOS NIÑO has a thing about plants. “I

MOJO PLAYLIST

Turn onto the month’s best garage R&B, samba fuzz and blue country.

ALL BACK TO MY PL ACE

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUAR ANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...

Pack leader

The Shangri-Las’ streetwise singer Mary Weiss has left us age 75.

REAL GONE

Melanie Soul-baring enchanter BORN 1947 IN HER MID-TEENS,

REAL GONE

Brian Griffin Post-punk photographer BORN 1948 IN 2017,

MARCH 1976 …Ramones prepare for lift-off

Hot to Bop: the Ramones Joey, Dee

Which LPs don’t include their title track?

Let us answer your rock-related questions and put musical doubts to rest.

Achtung Phono

Win! A Lenco LS-600WA record deck with built-in amplifier and Bluetooth ® .

MOJO COMPETITION

ACROSS 1 See photoclue A (6,6) 8 R&B

Mark Perry & Alternative TV

It star ted with the UK’s first punk fanzine – and ended with downers and disillusionment.

Avon Flow

Por tishead’s Beth Gibbons prepares her first album of new material for 22 years? Collaborators Lee Harris and James Ford explain all.

THE MOJO RECORD CLUB PODCAST RETURNS FOR SEASON TWO!

In pod we trust: recent MOJO podcast guests

Dion

The Wanderer talks tough women, rebellion and Louis Prima.

JB Dunckel

The Air-man and solo pianist raves over Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire De Melody Nelson (Philips, 1971)

THIS IS POST- PLAGUE POP? ST. VINCENT RETURNS WITH A NEW LP

L AST YEAR, St. Vincent channelled Portishead with

GARAGE-PSYCH STORMTROOPER THE BEVIS FROND PEAKS… AT 70

Teddy bears pick Nick: Saloman, AKA The Bevis

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

Miles and Duke were his parents’ pals, ‘Romeo Blue’ his Bowie-ish false start. And, 35 years since his beguiling debut, the records show that he’s always been more than a fashion plate. “I’ve used my gif ts to amplify love,” says Lenny Kravitz.

WE’RE NOT WORTHY

GN’Rs’ Duff McKagan lets his Len love rule.

A LIFE IN PICTURES

It ain’t over: Lenny through the years.

KRAV HITZ

Let Len Rule, in three albums.

THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REGRETS

HOW DID THE SCARIEST. MOST DEMoNIC BAND IN ROCK'N ROLL HISTORY COME SO CLOSE TO MAINSTREAM SUCCESS? AND WHY DID IT ULTIMATELY ELUDE THEM? SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE UNCOMPROMISING ATTITUDE. GUT-WRENCHING LIVE SHOWS AND DELIBERATELY DISTURBING RECORDS? "WE WERE HURT PEOPLE PUNISHING OUR AUDIENCES WITH THE WORST MUSIC EVER." THE SURVING BUT THOLE SURFERS CONFESS TO ANDREW PERRY

"THEY WERE TRUE PIRATES"

THE FLAMING LIPS' WAYNE COYNE ON THE BUCCANEE RING BALLS OF THE BUT THOLE SURFERS

NOW I’VE GOT A WITNESS*

GERED MANKOWITZ’s iconic photographs defined THE ROLLING STONES in their revolutionary 1965-67 phase. Lost, reclaimed, unpublished and rarely seen, here’s a selection from his dazzling new book.

MOJO PRESENTS

WAXAHATCHEE’s soulbaring blend of indie rock and country pop blossoms on Tigers Blood. For Katie Crutchfield, it’s shelter at the end of a long road strewn with broken bottles, bruised hearts and handwringing over her musical identity. “I truly had a few moments where I was like, I’m going to die,” she tells GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN.

WAX TRAX

Katie Crutchfield’s path to Tigers Blood, by Grayson Haver Currin.

daydream believer

Torch-holder for outré pop in The Pale Fountains, self-sabotaging songsmith supreme in Shack, Scouse enigma michael head spent years in the wilderness, battling smack, booze and music biz indifference. It’s what makes his current revival so poignant, joyous and – frankly – unexpected. “You could feed half of Liverpool off Mick’s positive energy,” discovers ian harrison.

loveandmersey

Head for heads: five essential albums picked by Ian Harrison.

THE WISE GUYS

A 10-PAGE CELEBRATION

"THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A FEEL"

Latterday Dan trumpeter/MD Michael Leonhart on the Tao of Walt and Don.

"THEY WERE COMPLETE PACKAGE"

Key Dan axeman Larry Carlton on energy, sophistication and Third World Man.

MARVIN GAYE SAYS, LET’S GET IT ON

In 1973 the conflicted Prince of Soul was enjoying a new $1 million Motown deal. He was also battling writer’s block and had a separation from the boss’s sister to navigate. The moment brought forth a charged song cycle which reconciled his prodigious spiritual and erotic drives into an ecstatic whole. Then its success meant he had to tour it. “Some part of him thought he was a fraud,” recall collaborators and friends, “but he made it look easy.”

WHAT THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR

A third act for LIAM GALLAGHER is a third coming for JOHN SQUIRE, The Stone Roses’ guitar genius who thought he might never play guitar again. Together, they’re the band fans of UK indie’s golden age could have wished into being. All it took was two Knebworths, some shoes and “loads of guitars”. “It’s the best bits of Oasis with the best bits of The Stone Roses,” they promise

STONE CLASSIC!

Thirty-five years on, producer JOHN LECKIE relives the Roses’ epochal debut LP, and John Squire’s pivotal part in it.

“I HAD MY MIND BLOWN!”

The seismic impact of Squire and the Roses on the ’90s UK indie scene, by Ride’s

MAY THIS BE LOVE

How JIMI HENDRIX taught John Squire to play guitar.

A sense of wonder

Folk-ar t evangelist sinks into the green, green grass of home.

“It’s a slow boiling of the frog.”

Sam Lee speaks to Jim Wirth.

Elbow

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Norah Jones

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Liam Gallagher John Squire

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The Bevis Frond

★★★★ Focus On Nature FIRE. CD/DL/LP Uncrowned classic-rock

The Black Crowes

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No tux given

Atlantan polymath conducts herself to highest standards through fifth album.

Altered images

Guest-filled four th album from nouveau blues-and-more guitarist

Skyway Man

★★★★ Flight Of The Long Distance Healer MAMA

Chris O’Leary

★★★★ The Hard Line ALLIGATOR. CD/DL/LP New dispatches

Oisin Leech

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Sheer Mag

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Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley

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Mo Kolours

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Gossip

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Aircooled

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Laetitia Sadier

★★★★ Rooting For Love DRAG CITY/DUOPHONIC SUPER 45s.

Strange Boy

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Julia Holter

★★★★ Something In The Room She Moves DOMINO.

Honey come home

The Reid brothers make peace on eighth album.

Karl Bartos

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Moor Mother

★★★★ The Great Bailout ANTI-. CD/DL/LP Experimental jazz

Sheherazaad

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Pissed Jeans

★★★★ Half-Divorced SUB POP. CD/DL/LP Debt, parenthood and

Bardo Pond

★★★★ Volume 9 FIRE. DL/LP A cathartic experience

EXPERIMENTAL

Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer

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FILTE R ALBUMS

Collective conscience: Kim Gordon navigates the fractured landscapes

Whitelands

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Big Big Train

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Kaiser Chiefs

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Cast

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Jacob Collier

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Colouring

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David Nance & Mowed Sound

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KillerStar

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The Liber tines

★★★★ All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade EMI.

Pete Astor

★★★ Tall Stories & New Religions TAPETE. CD/DL/LP

Idyll rich

Leeds chroniclers’ follow-up to The Overload; proving that sometimes, more is more.

Muireann Bradley

★★★★ I Kept These Old Blues TOMPKINS SQUARE.

Legendar y Singing Stars

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Mary Timony

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Aziza Brahim

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James Mastro

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Joel Ross

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Dion

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Down by the river

Big Thief singer gets it together in the countr y for four th solo album.

Itasca

Buck Meek ★★★★ Imitation Of War PARADISE OF

Waxahatchee

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Katherine Priddy

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Nils Frahm

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House Band Aventurine Apt, perhaps, that in the

Paris, trance

Volume vier in the live chronicles of Cologne’s

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Horsing about: (from left) Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot,

Xmal Deutschland

Henry Diltz/Getty Images ★★★★ Early Singles (1981-1982) SACRED

Allen Ginsberg

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Thundercat

★★★★ Apocalypse NINJA TUNE. CD/DL/LP Tenth anniversary reissue

Joe Henderson

★★★★ Power To The People CRAFT RECORDINGS/ JAZZ

Martin Carthy

★★★★ Mar tin Car thy TOPIC. LP Foundation

Two Tons O’ Fun

★★★★ Two Tons O’ Fun SOUTHBOUND. LP 1980

Sonic Youth

★★★★ Walls Have Ears GOOFIN’. CD/DL/LP Long-lost semi-official

The Children’s Hour

★★★ Going Home SEA NOTE/DRAG CITY. DL/LP Chicago

Johnny Lytle

★★★★ People & Love CRAFT RECORDINGS. LP Soul-jazz

Various

★★★★ Song Keepers: A Music Maker Foundation Anthology

Coley Park

★★★ Devil Tree BIG POTATO. CD/DL/LP Country-fried gem

Various

★★★★ Jon Savage’s 1983-1985: Welcome To Techno City

The Mystic Tide

★★★★ Frustration NUMERO GROUP. LP Collected tracks by

Nicely out of Toon

A future star hones his craft across four discs

Force of habit

Home recordings from the Ethiopian nun who became a cult pianist in her eighties.

Cal Tjader

★★★★ Catch The Groove: Live At The Penthouse

West Coast Consortium

★★★ All The Love In The World, Complete

Danielle Boutet

★★★★ Pièces FREEDOM TO SPEND. DL/LP First vinyl

The Mighty Clouds Of Joy

★★★★ Kickin’ OMNIVORE. CD/DL/LP Exultant gospel-disco from 1975.

Grupo Los Yoyi

★★★★ Yoyi MR BONGO. CD/DL/LP Cuban rarity offers

Martin Rev

★★★★ Mar tin Rev BUREAU B. CD/DL/LP 1980

Brion Gysin

★★★★ Junk WEWANTSOUNDS. DL/LP A 24 carat early-’80s

Robert Forster

★★★★ Warm Nights NEEDLE MYTHOLOGY. CD/DL/LP A Go-Between’s

Abdallah Oumbadougou

★★★★ Amghar: The Godfather Of Tuareg Music Vol.

Linda Smith

Spring has sprung: Linda Smith uncovers some lost

Various

★★★★ That’ll Flat Git It! Vol. 43: Rockabilly

Studio One Reggae

The pick of Jamaica’s foundational label.

Art and graft

The Southwestern maverick has been widely misunderstood for 60 years. At last: a reckoning, says Grayson Haver Currin.

Canyons Of Your Mind

This month’s revived power source: chaos and luminescence from a New York jazz loft.

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Cosmic Scholar: The Life And Times Of Harry Smith

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Revolución To Roxy

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The Future Of Songwriting

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Neumusik: The Complete Edition

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Marc Bolan: A Chronology: There Was A Time

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Don’t Dream It’s Over: The Remarkable Life Of Neil Finn

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In The Jingle Jangle Jungle

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