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THE SONGS OF STEVIE NICKS & FLEETWOOD MAC

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

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

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JULY 1988 …Public Enemy crash the mainstream

Dropping the bomb: (clockwise from above) Public Enemy

Brian Wilson returns

Boy wonder: Brian Wilson goes solo, Malibu, July

SMITHS TO RE-FORM?

They know it’s over: The Smiths’ Morrissey (left)

TOP TEN

PAN-EUROPE SINGLES JULY 9

ALSO ON!

TIME’S UP The KLF, as The Timelords 2(above),

Which hits concealed hidden trauma?

Let us answer your rock ’n’roll queries and settle music-related arguments.

Heaven Up Ear

Win! Melomania M100 headphones from Cambridge Audio.

Geoff Britton and Wings

It began with playing Lucille in Camden – and ended in the French Quarter in New Orleans.

The Big Twang

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO

AI STEVE MARRIOTT SINGS: “THE ULTIMATE SLAP IN THE FACE” OR “BEAUTIFUL”?

Genuine article: it’s all or nothing for Steve

FINALLY! SQUEEZE RECORD 50 -YEAR- OLD LP TRIXIE’S (AND ANOTHER ALBUM)

FACT SHEET Title: Trixie’s Due: TBC Production:

Graham Gouldman

10cc’s master songwriter talks The Yardbirds, Ringo, and the   pros and cons of bubblegum

Ron Sexsmith

A craftsman remembers, in awe, Golden Hour Of The Kinks (Golden Hour, 1977).

FINALLY! LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S LAST HURRAH LIVE IN LONDON

“L OUIS ARMSTRONG,” says Ricky Riccardi, Director of

ANI DiFRANCO, ANTI-FOLK ACTIVIST STILL BRINGING UNPRECEDENTED SH!T

Anti-folk hero: (left) Ani DiFranco – Havana laugh

WHO IS CINDY LEE? ON THE TRAIL OF 2024’S MOST MYSTERIOUS UNDERGROUND STAR

Diamond Jubilee celebration: Cindy Lee’s latest is profoundly

FROM GUATEMALA TO MEXICO CITY: THE FREAKY CELLO GROOVES OF MABE FRATTI

WHEN MABE FRATTI launched herself into Mexico City’s

MOJO PLAYLIST

The month’s best Floydness, banjo freak-outs and old-school rap.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

The junior pole vaulter-turnedvocal acrobat in Deep Purple on the dreams and the screams, rucks with Ritchie Blackmore, ‘being’ Jesus, the farcical Sabbath stint, and… what’s this? Something you might mistake for wisdom? “We were stumbling idiots,” admits Ian Gillan.

A LIFE IN PICTURES

Purple reign: Ian through the ages.

THE EQUALIZER

STEVE ALBINI 1962-2024

LET IN THE SHINE ON ME

The songs of LEAD BELLY lit a path for the folk revival and beyond, but the legend of a guitar-toting killer, freed from prison by white song collectors, was fanciful at best. Adapting from her new book, SHEILA CURRAN BERNARD unpicks the man and musician from the politics of race in 20th century America, and explains how his extraordinary northern debut, 90 years ago, failed to end his troubles...

NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS are the soul-stirring redemption revue taking America, and the world, by storm. But it’s been a hard road, beset by booze, bereavement, doubt and despair, for their forthright frontman. “I guess I’ve just realised you can be who you are,” he tells GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN.

MOJO PRESENTS

SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND

The Heart Of Saturday Night, released 50 years ago, lit a path for TOM WAITS’ next decade of music-making. Beat poetry and noir jazz entwined and his roots in rough-andtumble San Diego showed through in his first truly Waitsian oeuvre. “All the elements were there,” discovers SYLVIE SIMMONS, “ready to be drawn out.”

BEATS WORKING

Tom Waits’ debt to Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs et al, and how he repaid it, by SYLVIE SIMMONS

UP THE DOWN ESCALATOR

The great, underrated overcoat band of the ’80s, with an anguished singer and mercurial guitarist to rank with the decade’s lauded stars, THE CHAMELEONS chose their own path over the road to fame and fortune. Reconvening for a fifth album, 41 years since their first, old wounds still smart, but their defiance shines as hard as ever. “Everything people love about us is everything we fought for,” they tell MARTIN ASTON.

CELEBRATION OF THE LIZARDS

Six albums containing all the colours of The Chameleons.

THE ART OF WAR

A funk-soul-Latin-rock band from Long Beach, they collided with a lost Eric Burdon in 1969: together they got free, jammed with Hendrix and hit big with the acid-soaked Spill The Wine. War did even better after Eric jumped ship mid-tour, reaching US Number 1 with 1972’s conscious The World Is A Ghetto and setting stages alight. “We were musically waging war against war,” recall the group who rode a tank down Sunset Strip. “We never stopped.”

Journey of The SORCERESS

Bereft of Christine, and broken with Lindsey (or so it seems) for good, STEVIE NICKS soldiers on, her Hyde Park show in July a testament to the power of her personality. Fifty years since she joined the band that made her name and wrote songs that gave them new life, it’s time to do something for herself. “I can do anything I want now,” she tells BOB MEHR, “and not have to worry about going back to Fleetwood Mac.”

HEART SONGS

Stevie Nicks’ romantic rollercoaster, in 20 recordings.

“LOSING SWEET CHRISTINE WAS CATASTROPHIC”

Are Fleetwood Mac really finished? BOB MEHR asked MICK FLEETWOOD.

The stone tapes

Demos found by Cash’s son lead new arrangements of songs a struggling star sang before Rick Rubin arrived

For your pleasure

Sylvie Simmons delights in Thompson’s new release.

Shellac ★★★★

To All Trains TOUCH AND GO. CD/DL/LP The

Beak> ★★★★

INVADA. CD/DL/LP Krautrock-inspired Bristol trio’s fourth outing. Follow-up,

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats ★★★★

South Of Here STAX. CD/DL/LP Colorado R&B sensations

Deep Purple ★★★

=1 EARMUSIC. CD/DL/LP Producer Bob Ezrin returns to

Travis ★★★

LA Times BMG. CD/DL/LP Letter from America: tenth

Dirty Three ★★★

Love Changes Everything BELLA UNION. CD/DL/LP Warren Ellis’s

Marc Almond ★★★★

I’m Not Anyone BMG. CD/DL Astute covers album

Soul on a roll

Blue-eyed soul: Aaron Frazer stylistically ventures back and

Bernocchi/ Chaplin ★★★★

The Same And The Other CURIOUS MUSIC. CD/DL/LP

Hifi Sean & David McAlmont ★★★★

Daylight PLASTIQUE RECORDINGS. CD/DL/LP Dancefloor maestros’ second instalment

Cigarettes After Sex ★★★

X’s PARTISAN. CD/DL/LP Third album from Texan band

Guided By Voices ★★★★

Strut Of Kings GBV. CD/DL/LP The notoriously prolific

Patricia Wolf ★★★

The Secret Lives Of Birds NITE HIVE. DL/MC

Marina Allen ★★★★

Steve Gullick Eight Pointed Star FIRE. CD/DL/LP The

Bed Maker ★★★

Bed Maker DISCHORD. DL/LP Debut album from longtime

Mabe Fratti ★★★★

Sentir Que No Sabes UNHEARD OF HOPE. CD/DL/LP

Joe Goddard ★★★

Harmonics DOMINO. CD/DL/LP Hot Chip man’s dance-pop treatise

Kasabian ★★★

Happenings COLUMBIA. CD/DL/LP Twenty years after their first

Lankum ★★★★

Dark stars: Lankum rip up the cosmos in

Loma ★★★★

Ghostly delights: Loma go beyond on their third

The Folk Implosion ★★★

Walk Thru Me JOYFUL NOISE. CD/DL/LP Erstwhile movie

Bad Breeding ★★★

Contempt ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT. CD/DL/LP Stevenage hardcorists’ treatise

Susanna ★★★★

★★★★ Meditations On Love SUSANNASONATA. CD/LP/DL Norwegian singer’s

Huun-Huur-Tu, Carmen Rizzo & Dhani Harrison ★★★

Dreamers In The Field DARK HORSE. DL/LP Tuvan

Robert Vincent ★★★★

Barriers THIRTY TIGERS. CD/DL/LP Merseyside singer-songwriter accentuates the

Zara McFarlane ★★★★

Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan ETERNAL SOURCE OF

Apocalypse, now!

New Yorker gently brings down fire from heaven.

Vocation, vocation

Fifth album from North Carolina folklorist.

James Vincent McMorrow ★★★★

Mark Sloan Wide Open, Horses NETTWERK. CD/DL/LP Seventh

Naomi Bedford And Paul Simmonds ★★★★

Strange News Has Come To Town WILLOW RECORDINGS.

Redd Kross ★★★★

Redd Kross IN THE RED. CD/DL/LP Following their

Jon McKiel ★★★★

Hex YOU’VE CHANGED. CD/DL/LP Cottage industry seeks to

Nonkeen ★★★★

All Good? LEITER. DL/LP Nils Frahm-led avant-garde trio

Actress ★★★★

Statik SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND. DL/LP Calming collection of cerebral

KRM & KMRU ★★★★

Disconnect PHANTOM LIMB. DL/LP The Bug’s Kevin Richard

Kokoko! ★★★★

Butu TRANSGRESSIVE. CD/DL/LP Cacophonous nocturnal beats from Kinshasa

Kiiōtō ★★★

As Dust We Rise NUDE. CD/DL/LP Atmospheric collab

EXPERIMENTAL

Eiko Ishibashi ★★★★ Evil Does Not Exist DRAG

Pond ★★★★

Stung! SPINNING TOP. CD/LP Tenth album from rapidly

Diamanda Galás ★★★

In Concert INTRAVENAL SOUND OPERATIONS. CD/DL/LP Typically unflinching,

Jason McNiff ★★★★

Every thing’s A Song TOMBOLA. CD/DL/LP Ninth studio

Rui Gabriel ★★★★

Compassion CARPARK. CD/DL/LP The Venezuelan half of indie

Winston Francis ★★★★

Unfinished Business TAMOKI-WAMBESI. CD Studio One alumni reunite:

Beachwood Sparks ★★★★

Across The River Of Stars CURATION. CD/DL/LP The

Myeye & JUICEBOX ★★★★

Psyche Gems JAKARTA. DL/LP Hook-up between LA rapper

Hermanos Gutiérrez ★★★★

Sonido Cósmico EASY EYE SOUND. CD/DL/LP Spaghetti western

Various ★★★

Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration Of Tom

Pat Metheny ★★★★

MoonDial BMG. CD/DL/LP Contemplative originals and standards played

Madeleine Peyroux ★★★★

Let’s Walk THIRTY TIGERS. CD/DL/LP The self-effacing singer-songwriter’s

Ani DiFranco ★★★★

★★★★ Unprecedented Sh!t RIGHTEOUS BABE. CD/DL/LP Prolific alt-folk

WORLD

The Joy ★★★★ The Joy TRANSGRESSIVE. CD/DL/LP Mesmeric

FILTER ALBUMS EXTRA

Joshua Massad & Dylan Aycock ★★★★ Two

Arthur Russell In The Light Of The Miracle

BE WITH LONG OVERDUE first commercial 12-inch single

Brain surgery

Lennon’s act of contrition; his fourth solo album gets a lavish, rejuvenating box-set treatment.

Marquee cha-cha

Lightning striking itself: the master’s last three, cruelly undervalued, solo albums.

Animal Collective ★★★★★

Merriweather Post Pavilion DOMINO. LP Fifteenth anniversary double

Neil Young With Crazy Horse ★★★★

Early Daze REPRISE. CD/DL/LP Previously unheard 1969 recordings

Spiritualized ★★★★

Songs In A&E FAT POSSUM. CD/DL/LP Jason Pierce’s

Sufjan Stevens ★★★★

Seven Swans ASTHMATIC KITTY. CD/DL/LP Twentieth anniversary reissue

Cluster ★★★★

Zuckerzeit BUREAU B. DL/LP German electronic benchmark gets

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention ★★★★

Frank’s wild year: Zappa and The Mothers Of

Derrick Harriott ★★★★

Sings Jamaican Reggae DUB STORE. LP Vinyl reissue

Various ★★★★

Arthur Baker Presents Breaker’s Revenge SOUL JAZZ. CD/DL/LP

Sprung Aus Den Wolken ★★★

1981 – West Berlin BUREAU B. CD/DL/LP Light

Various ★★★★

Sing Out! OWSLEY STANLEY FOUNDATION. CD/DL A musical

Harold Land ★★★★

Choma (Burn) WEWANTSOUNDS. LP Hard-bop saxophonist’s percussive 1971

Various ★★★★

Superstar ’80s DJ, here we go…: Rusty Egan

Various ★★★★

© Peter Ashworth Didn’t I Blow Your Mind?

The Rascals ★★★★

It’s Wonderful: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings NOW

Loleatta Holloway ★★★★

We’re Getting Stronger – The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings

Guy Clark ★★★★

Truly Handmade Volume 1 TRULY HANDMADE. CD/DL/LP The

Various ★★★

The Observer Roots Albums Collection DOCTOR BIRD. CD

Jorga Mesfin ★★★★

The Kindest One MUZIKAWI. DL/LP Wider release of

Orchestral manoeuvres

Underachieving pop-puppet twins take control, book an orchestra and zoom to the Getty top

Follow The Louder

This month on rock obscuria’s MIA list, powerpop gold from no wave NY.

Paul McCartney & Wings ★★★★

One Hand Clapping CAPITOL. CD/DL/LP Double album soundtrack

Roy Brown ★★★★

Roy Brown – Rocks BEAR FAMILY. CD The

Cranes ★★★★

Fuse DADAPHONIC. CD/DL/LP Rare, early recordings from Portsmouth’s

The Pretenders ★★★★

Learning To Crawl SIRE. LP When The

Grateful Dead ★★★★

From The Mars Hotel RHINO. CD/DL/LP Band’s

Woo ★★★★

Xylophonics + Robot X INDEPENDENT PROJECTS. CD/LP Celebration

Delroy Wilson ★★★★

Playing it cool: ‘Dean of Reggae’ Delroy Wilson

Sun Ra

Sonny Blount’s catalogue is home to a vast array of intriguing and unique music, visited by Andrew Male.

10 It’s After The End Of The World

MPS, 1970 You say: “No comfy cuddles for

4 Angels And Demons At Play/The Nubians Of Plutonia

EVIDENCE, 1993 You say: “Angels… eight succinct tunes,

9 Fate In A Pleasant Mood

SATURN RESEARCH, 1965

3 The Magic City

SATURN RESEARCH, 1966 You say: “The Arkestra [take]

8 Disco 3000

EL SATURN, 1978 You say: “This is how

2 Jazz In Silhouette

EL SATURN, 1959 You say: “Big fan of

7 The Night of The Purple Moon

THOTH INTERGALACTIC, 1970 You say: “Accessible gem but

6 Space Is The Place

BLUE THUMB, 1973 You say: “Space Is The

1 Lanquidity

PHILLY JAZZ, 1978 You say: “Definitely Lanquidity. One

5 Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy

SATURN, 1967 You say: “I agree with what

NOW DIG THIS

If you’ve cheated and you’re reading this first

Both sides now

Travelling woman: Ann Powers is, eventually, dazzled by

Beyond The Bassline: 500 Years Of Black British Music ★★★★

Paul Bradshaw (Ed) BRITISH LIBRARY PUBLISHING. £35 From

1967 ★★★★

LITTLE BROWN. £22 Way back in the 1960s:

There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born In The USA’ And The Death Of The Heartland ★★★★

Steven Hyden HACHETTE. £28 Forty years after the

Hip Hop Is History ★★★★

Questlove WHITE RABBIT. £25 Roots drummer and Summer

The Secret Public ★★★★

Jon Savage FABER. £20 Substantial, revealing saga of

To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorised Unauthorised History Of Billy Childish ★★★★

Ted Kessler WHITE RABBIT. £30 The many-faceted career

Imperfect harmony

FILTER SCREEN Boy wonder: The Beach Boys’ Brian

REAL GONE

Shooting star: Dennis Thompson prepares to get into