THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

Lois Wilson “A genuine thrill,” is how Lois,

GRATEFUL DEAD FROM THE BAY TO THE POOL LIVE 1971-1978

1 Truckin’ 10:00 “Some very good friends

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING

Theories, rants, etc.

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The One

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died suddenly on March 25 in Bogotá, Colombia

He Came In Peace

Indiana soul man Timmy Thomas, who asked Why Can’t We Live Together, left us on March 11

MAY 1968 …Paris riots – and rolls

Another brick for the Gauls: Gendarmes

Who was in the studio next door?

Time to deal with this month’s tricky rock brain-teasers, puzzling mysteries and uncanny enigmas

Cranium Rock!

Win! A pair of wireless Orange O Bones® headphones

Ava Cherry and David Bowie

Creative and personal harmony blossomed in NY. Then managerial tumult and craziness split them asunder

Anarchy On The TV

The Sex Pistols hit the small screen? Steve Jones and director Danny Boyle explain why and how

DRIVEN POST-HARDCORE ROCKETMAN SWAMI JOHN REIS GOES IT ALONE

Scream team captain: John Reis, AKA Speedo, at

SCREEN CAVE-PORTRAIT THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE – REVEALED!

Knowledge is power: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

HE’S BACK! AFTER 16 YEARS, GREEN GARTSIDE READIES SCRITTI POLITTI LP SIX

Everything’s (eventually) gone Green: Gartside adds the finishing

COCTEAU TWIN LIZ FRASER RETURNS AT L AST! WITH SUN’S SIGNATURE

Do the bright thing: Sun Signature’s Damon Reece

Conor Oberst

Bright Eyes’ mainman bows down to If You’re Feeling Sinister by Belle And Sebastian ( Jeepster, 1996)

RECORD STORE DAY IS HERE AGAIN! BUT WHAT’S UP FOR GRABS?

Wax Vobiscum : Catherine Deneuve, Johnny Hallyday and

ABDUL ‘DUKE’ FAKIR

The last Four Top talks Motown, the borscht belt and inner voices

LEYLA McCALLA TUNES INTO THE VODOU TRADITIONS AND ÉMIGRÉ STORIES OF RADIO HAITI

“Music helped me process my place in the

THE SOFT, STRONG AND VERY LONG ASCENT OF CAROLINE, LONDON’S UNDERSTATED NEW POST-ROCK HEROES

APUB FULL of drunk Millwall fans is not,

MOJO PLAYLIST

Gird your loins! For the month’s punk-disco, jazz flutes and soul

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

Music was his ticket out of Wallsend and helped him face his parents’ deaths. No wonder he says he’ll be making it ’til he’s “ too old and stupid to do it any more”. What’s his secret? “I like to work,” says Sting

Mystic Mods

Swapping leapers and button- downs for acid and djellabas, The Action became Mighty Baby. But while Sufism took their music to another level, it also made rock’n’roll, with its breadheads and drug busts, hits and misses, seem frivolous and profane. Ultimately, it pushed them apart, but not before wonders were performed. “We all tasted something extraordinary,” they tell Jim Irvin

“They Were A Band Trying To Explore”

RICHARD THOMPSON was a fan and a friend of Mighty Baby and eventually joined their spiritual search

MOJO PRESENTS

SHARON VAN ETTEN made her name turning bad times and worse guys into great songs. Luckily for us, she can still locate the “intensity” and the “demons” in parenthood and a caring relationship. Just no-one tell her mother. “I’m not completely dark,” she assures VICTORI A SEGA L. “I’m just darkish.”

THE MANCUNIAN CANDIDATES

MAGAZINE’S EXISTENTIAL SOUNDTRACKS HAD FRONTMAN HOWARD DEVOTO ACCLAIMED AS ‘THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN ALIVE’, YET THEY’RE OFTEN REDACTED FROM POST-PUNK’S OFFICIAL HISTORY. AS A NEW BOOK ABOUT THE GROUP’S TRAGIC -GENIUS GUITARIST JOHN McGEOCH EMERGES, DEVOTO AND THE GROUP’S SLEEPER AGENTS LINE UP FOR A DE-BRIEF. “THERE’S MORE TO IT THAN MEETS THE EYE,” THEY TELL IAN HARRISON

MODEL WORKER

FROM A NEW BOOK, FIVE EMINENT ADMIRERS SALUTE LATE MAGAZINE/BANSHEES/PiL GUITARIST JOHN McGEOCH

L ABELLE SOAR WITH NIGHTBIRDS

Non-standard girl group survivors and prodigious harmonisers, PATTI LaBELLE, NONA HENDRYX and SARAH DASH were aided by The Who’s managers and Stevie Wonder before heading to New Orleans, re-inventing themselves as silver funk sirens and charting big with their “Womanifesto” 1974 LP and its spicy worldwide smash single Lady Marmalade. “We filtered the Zeitgeist,” say the group, manager Vicki Wickham and others. “We blazed a trail. But it wasn’t how people wrote about us.”

A HIGHER POWER

In 1972, the GRATEFUL DEAD embarked on their first bona fide European tour, a cavalcade of clown masks, switchblades and lashings of LSD. Fifty years on, as official releases loom for its legendar y soundboard treasures, the sur vivors celebrate some of the most extraordinar y music they ever made, and the last hur rah of the talismanic Pigpen. “It was pure Grateful Dead back then,” they tell GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN. “Magical and innocent and beautiful.”

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

WRITTEN OFF AT 40, RESURGENT AS HE APPROACHES 50, LIAM GALLAGHER’S SECOND ACT RESOUNDS TO THE ROAR OF THE CROWD, WITH TWO SOLD-OUTKNEBWORTHS AND A NEW ALBUM WITH SOME “WEIRD SHIT” HE’LL COME AROUND TO EVENTUALLY. AND IF THAT SEEMS AN UNLIKELY ENOUGH TRANSFORMATION, JUST WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS-GULP!-WHEN HIS TIME IS UP. “I’LL BE REBORN AS A WASP,” HE TELLS TED KESSLER.

Quality of Mersey

The Arthur Lee of Liverpool returns from the crossroads with the imaginar y movie soundtrack to his life. By Keith Cameron. Illustration by Vince McIndoe

“So debauched they threw Aldous Huxley out!”

Mick Head talks to Keith Cameron

Electric Maryland

Ninth album from the Wassoulou soul singer finds her in the US, looking back to her roots. By David Hutcheon

Reload/Refresh

A dread and wonder-filled sixth sets the Canadian group back on track.

Willie Nelson

★★★★ A Beautiful Time SONY LEGACY. CD/DL/LP His

You’ve been framed

Seventh LP from Mr Waxahatchee sees life flicker by in a series of exposures.

JAZZ

Daniel Villarreal ★★★★ Panamá 77 INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM. DL/LP

Infinite Joy

Great white hopes of Aussie rock serve up third belter on the bounce.

Jon Spencer & The HITmakers

★★★★ Spencer Gets It Lit BRONZERAT. CD/DL/LP NYC

Jo Schornikow

★★★★ Altar KEELED SCALES. CD/DL/LP Music without borders:

SOUNDTRACKS

Richard Thompson ★★★★★ Grizzly Man NO QUARTER. CD/DL/LP

FILTER ALBUMS EXTRA

Bloc Party ★★★ Alpha Games BMG/INFECTIOUS. CD/DL/LP Seventeen

Under the counterculture

Tape rolls on the next instalments in Young’s Official Bootleg Series; includes the legendar y recording at The Bottom Line

Cool for cats

Comprehensive career survey of the pioneering folk ar tist’s hardto-find work.

Soul under the skin

A young Mod’s forgotten stor y

Dennis Bovell

★★★★ The Dubmaster: The Essential Anthology TROJAN/BMG. CD/DL/LP

Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus: using his double bass like a

Live Injection

This month’s lost artefact dredged from obscuria: the Rock & Roll Junkie from the Lowlands

Gil Scott-Heron

The street sermoniser, ‘bluesologist’ and godfather of rap. 

78 Kids Forever

A subtly profound and wholly entertaining history of pre-rock pop.

Sprawling and enthralling

Expansive doc unpacks the creative enigma of the late, great Morricone.