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STAX UNCOVERED!

Courtesy of Stax Museum Of American Soul Music,

Theories, rants, etc.

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The Man, The Smith

Andy Rourke, bassist with The Smiths, left us on May 19.

“For him, it was effortless fluidity…”

Smiths drummer Mike Joyce remembers his friend and bandmate Andy Rourke.

The Part Where The Heartaches Come

Canadian folk giant Gordon Lightfoot left us on May 1.

TIME MACHINE

JULY 1960 ...The Beaulieu Jazz Festival riots! There’s

Who came back with a new name?

Let us fill the gaps in your rock knowledge and answer your most nagging questions.

Orange Juiced!

Win! An Orange Box or an Orange Box-L Bluetooth speaker.

Bobby Balderrama and Question Mark & The Mysterians

It began with the splits and immortal hit 96 Tears, and ended when acid rock and the draft beckoned.

With Hearts Full Of Soul…

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO

A POGUE/KLF STONE AGE RAVE WITH HURDY-GURDY AND A COMET? HELLO, URBAN PSYCHO!

Romancing The Gurdy Stone: Urban Psycho & The

SHOEGAZE MOVERS SLOWDIVE RETURN FOR ALBUM FIVE

Rachel Goswell. Emit a howling sound: Slowdive’s Neil

Marshall Chess

The Chicago blues label scion talks Howlin’ Wolf, the Stones and trouble every day.

Wreckless Eric

The art school legend gives it up for Ornette Coleman’s The Art Of The Improvisers (Atlantic, 1970).

PET SURROUND SOUNDS? THE BEACH BOYS’ MASTERWORK GOES IMMERSIVE

GILES MARTIN remembers being on a flight with

FUTURIST ANOMALIES LANDSCAPE STIR AGAIN

Add it up: Landscape in 1980 (from left)

COMING TO A FESTIVAL NEAR YOU: THE GHANAIAN GOSPEL ECSTASY OF ALOGTE OHO & HIS SOUNDS OF JOY

Making a joyful noise: Alogte Oho & His

SAVE THE DATE! IT’S TIME FOR WEDNESDAY’S ELECTRIFYING OUTLAW SHOEGAZE

The day today: Wednesday’s (clockwise from left) Margo

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

Pugnacious pioneer of the folk revival ’til her voice faltered, she returned to carry its torch. But if her new LP is really her swan song, what wisdom does she pass on? “You just sing the song for its own sake,” says Shirley Collins.

None more Black

Of portentous lineage, Gigger Buttler wasBlack Sabbath’s secret weapon, an instinctive innovator and scribe of their seminal lyrics. But behind the doom and anguish of Sabbath's songs, and the slapstick comedy of their career, there brooded a man fighting for his sanity. "It was like this big black cloud came over me and I couldn't get away," he tells mark Blake

BETTER BE GOOD TO ME

TINA TURNER 1939-2023

MOJO PRESENTS

Touring the States with Fontaines D.C., singer GRIAN CHATTEN lost the plot. Finding it again involved writing an “angry, bitter” song cycle based in an Irish seaside town. But is his first solo album a good or bad omen for his bandmates? “Things got very intense,” he tells TED KESSLER.

YOU GOT ME HUMMIN'

Who knew that in the mountain of snogs Stax Records didn't put out were many as great as those they did? Ouly their writers - until now. This month, a brand new seven-disc box set of unreleased demos and overlooked songs sheds extraordinary new light on memphis's soul explosion, and its prime movers. "Everybody at Stax was there for one reason," they tell Bill DeMain:"to get ahit record!"

ARE YOU HAVING ANY FUN?

Songs and sketches newly emerged from the locked vault of VIVIAN STANSHALL offer new reasons to join the BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND one-off’s silly cult. But, as friends and family reveal, behind the hilarity and eccentricity hid a conflicted man transfixed by “foul yellow fright” and addicted to self-sabotage. “He didn’t know when he was brilliant and when he was terrible,” they tell MAT SNOW. Portrait by BARRIE WENTZELL.

GLASTONBURY ’97 BEATS THE MUD

After a run of blazing summers, the West Country’s mother-ofall-festivals Glastonbury returned in June ’97 after a fallow year. And didn’t it rain. And rain. And rain. But, besmirched in mud, the revellers stood firm. With inspirational encouragement from guru Joe Strummer, a feast of music followed, Saturday night headliners Radiohead defeating technical cock-ups to deliver a transcendent, career-landmark performance. “It was a shock to everybody,” say organisers, performers and attendees. “It was one of the golden ones.”

DANGER IN THE PAST

Sat in a house he hadn’t entered for 40 years, pondering questions that cut to the very meaning of his art, conversations with the writer and musician WARREN ZANES led BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN down perilous paths- back to his post-River crisis, his childhood, and beyond, and formed the core of Zanes’ illuminating new book about Nebraska. As the singer explained, “I needed to know that I could go back and be nobody.”

Rebirth and the lady

With her tenth album, Harvey finds new life through stories of the old country. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by José Saccone.

FILTER ALBUMS

Dub thumpers: African Head Charge’s Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah

Heavy type

Josh Homme releases the tension of five troubled years in an electrifying robo-funk barrage.

The beat goes on

One of Americana’s most unflinching voices snarls at the last three years. By Grayson Haver Currin.

Don’t mention The Wall

Waters’ war-themed lockdown set gets first physical release. By James McNair.

FILTER ALBUMS

Building bridges: Anohni demands engagement. Anohni And The

WORLD

Vinicio Capossela ★★★★ Tredici Canzoni Urgenti WARNER MUSIC

FILTER ALBUMS

Looking ahead: Beverly Glenn- Copeland recognises no boundaries.

ELECTRONICA

Creep Show ★★★★ Yawning Abyss BELLA UNION. DL/LP

Elegy and ecstasy

A deeply moving valedictory love letter from the Buffalo, New York singer-songwriter. By Andrew Male.

UNDERGROUND

MV & EE ★★★★ Green Ark RAMBLE. DL/LP

EXTENDED PLAY

Kevin Morby More Photographs (A Continuum) DEAD OCEANS.

Shake your tail

After Hot Rats, the Alpha Mother ditched jazz-rock improv for smut, satire, and showbiz. Newly discovered tapes reveal the missing link

Dorothy Ashby

Sheer harp attack: the quietly revolutionary Dorothy Ashby.

Southern Discomfort

The Muscle Shoals rockers’ magnum opus, now bigger and even better. By John Mulvey.

Can’t stop the hop

The prescient songwriter’s vast archive keeps delivering remarkable, surprising wonders. By Grayson Haver Currin.

Pet Shop Boys

★★★★★ Smash – The Singles 1985-2020 PARLOPHONE. CD/DL/LP/MC

Cryogenius

Buzzing like a Fridge, two decades on. By Jim Irvin.

FILTER REISSUES

Grateful Dead ★★★★ Here Comes Sunshine 1973 RHINO.

Dub And Thunder

This month’s deep sea salvage operation: Anglo-Jamaican space-reggae sorcery.

The Doors

Reassessing the most maligned group of the 1960s.

Me and Alan McGee

A brilliant account of the last great indie label is republished.

Guy and doll

Martin Scorsese’s portrait of fellow New Yorker David Johansen.