THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

Bob Gruen Bob is one of the

The Keith Tippett Group

★★★★ Dedicated To You, But You Weren’t Listening

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING

Theories, rants, etc.

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REAL GONE

Breakfast Special Super’ trouper: keyboard king Rick

A Bigger Klang

RARITIES! RECORD SHOPS! CRATEDIGGERS ASSEMBLE!

Electric Miles

High resistance Miles Davis, 1968-1975. On ohmmeter, Andrew Male.

Stranger Things

This month’s re-evaluated album: foreboding 4AD mysterios go bang on the indie dancefloor.

Who played songs backwards?

Let us answer your musical questions and associated rock-related inquiries.

Bernie Leadon and Eagles

It began in a funky little hole in LA. And ended on a stadium stage, after everything in the world showed up.

All Together Now

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO

You Will See Me

What to expect from the all-new Anthology Episode 9?

JANE WEAVER GETS TO WORK ON ALBUM 13 IN AN ELECTRONIC TURRET

Tower of power: Jane Weaver isolates herself

Wreckless Eric

The evergreen English songsmith talks vindication, Andrew Weatherall and the Whole Wide World.

Horse Attitudes

A new photo-book memorialises Patti Smith’s first trip to Paris as a rock star, including a pilgrimage to Jim Morrison’s grave. “She seemed very moved,” says Claude Gassian.

REGGAE VOCAL LEGENDS THE CONGOS VOW TO ROCK FOR EVER

The beat goes on: The Congos (from left)

KISS KISS BANG BANG! MEET NEW AUSSIE DYNAMOS THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS!

Drop the Bombs: The Belair Lip Bombs

OCCULT FOLK SEER DAISY RICKMAN HERALDS THE WINTER DARKNESS

“SAMHAIN IS always a potent time of the

MOJO PLAYLIST

It’s time – for Floyd demos, metal duets and ghost dub.

Heir of poets, preachers and Southern radicals, countryfolk prodigy, songwriters’ songwriter, stroke survivor, she’s a fighter with another battle on her hands – the world we face today. “Some people need to wake up,” insists Lucinda Williams.

IN THE HUSHED YET AIRY “COCKTAIL PARLOUR”

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1969

IT’s DECEMBER 1984, AND Prince Rogers Nelson should

DELIVERANCE

In autumn 2025, the stark landscapes of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ’s Nebraska swim back into focus, as its fabled electric version emerges and a Bruce biopic explores the struggles behind the songs. On p42, director Scott Cooper reveals Springsteen’s role in shaping Deliver Me From Nowhere, but not before the Boss himself has his say. “It was an exploratory period,” he tells WARREN ZANES , “and that affected everything I was doing.”

“BRUCE TOLD ME, THE TRUTH ABOUT YOURSELF ISN’T ALWAYS PRETTY”

Nebraska-era biopic DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE gets under the skin of The Boss. “He came out of it with tears in his eyes,” director SCOTT COOPER tells TOM DOYLE .

Mad Not Mad

NOT JUST THE MOST ORIGINAL VOICE IN FRENCH POP, Brigitte Fontaine IS ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE CREATORS IN ALL POST-WAR MUSIC. JUST ASK SONIC YOUTH, STEREOLAB AND GRACE JONES. A LUXE REISSUE OF HER KEY ALBUM, BRIGITTE FONTAINE EST... FOLLE RENEWS HER CLAIM AND BEGS THE QUESTION: WHY WON'T FRANCE EMBRACE HER? "THEY'LL ALWAYS THINK I'M CRAZY,"

i got my own world

A manifeste of musical and spiritual freedom, Axis: Bold As Love was JIMI HENDRIX ar his most exploratory, utopian. But as a new box set explores, notes of unease and psycho-autobiography cut through the Aquarian haze and freaky, proto-stereo FX, as the Summer of Love entered its more conflicted autumn. "It was all vivid colour," peers and Fhu tell MARK PAYTRESS, "with Jimi at the height of his powers."

THE RISE AND FALL OF FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS

When ska-pop contenders The Beat ended in July ’83, bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox were cut adrift. Then they found frontman Roland Gift, lifted a name from a Natalie Wood movie and re-emerged as FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS . 1985 UK hit Johnny Come Home was followed by international mega-smash She Drives Me Crazy in 1989. “We didn’t think it would go that mad,” recall the band of multi-million sales, Hollywood A-list fans and ‘bendy legs’ dancing. “We didn’t know how to manage the energy that we’d created.”

YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?

Between 1971 and 1973, JOHN LENNON and YOKO ONO fought to realise their dreams of a better society and, as their friends and peers relate, courted danger from every side. Now collected, augmented and remixed in the new Power To The People box set, the music they made to further their aims speaks to a similarly polarised, and febrile age.“It was really ahead of its time,”

A new hope

Mavis continues setting the world to rights with one of the best albums of her triumphant second act.

It takes two

Magical Malian duo bid untimely farewell on final album of Afrofunk’n’roll.

Brandi Carlile

★★★★★ Returning To Myself INTERSCOPE/LOST HIGHWAY. CD/DL/LP

Celeste

★★★ Woman Of Faces POLYDOR. CD/LP/CS Oscar

Paul Kelly

★★★★ Seventy COOKING VINYL. CD/DL/LP Aussie songwriter

Chrissie Hynde & Pals

★★★★★ Duets Special PARLOPHONE. CD/DL/LP New solo

The inbetweeners

Third collaboration of 2025 between well-credentialled duo knocks gently on the doors of perception.

Anna Von Hausswolff

Altered images: Anna Von Hausswolff changes things up

Geckøs

★★★★★ Geckøs ORG MUSIC/PIAPTK. CD/DL/LP Wizard lizards:

Noura Mint Seymali

★★★★ Yenbett GLITTERBEAT. CD/DL/LP Mind-blowing desert blues

The Charlatans

★★★★ We Are Love BMG. CD/DL/LP Joy-sparking

The Barr Brothers

★★★★ Let It Hiss SECRET CITY. CD/DL/LP

The Artists In Residence

★★★ Stay PENKILN BURN. LP KLF conceptualist’s

White Lies

★★★ Night Light PIAS. CD/DL/LP Slow-burning seventh

Silvana Estrada

Dream state: Silvana Estrada’s second is a classy

The Belair Lip Bombs

★★★★★ Again THIRD MAN. CD/DL/LP Australia’s cool

Storefront Church

★★★★★ Ink & Oil HIGH ROOM. DL/LP

Wreckless Eric

★★★★ England Screaming TAPETE. CD/DL/LP Strood awakening:

The Cords

★★★★★ The Cords SKEPWAX/SLUMBERLAND. CD/DL/LP Flex appeal:

Bernie Leadon

★★★ Too Late To Be Cool STRAIGHT WIRE.

Tom Skinner

★★★★ Kaleidoscopic Visions BROWNSWOOD/INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM. CD/DL/LP The

High and dry

Illinois’ powerpop perennials clean up with their 21st studio set.

The Besnard Lakes

★★★★ The Besnard Lakes Are The Ghost Nation

Various

★★★ Can’t Get Enough: A Tribute To Bad

Jim White

★★★ Inner Day DRAG CITY. CD/DL/LP Second

Hannah Frances

★★★★★ Nested In Tangles FIRE TALK. CD/DL/LP

Stella Donnelly

★★★★ Love And Fortune ANTI-. CD/DL/LP Understated

Mozart Estate

★★★★ Tower Block In A Jam Jar WEST

Austra

★★★★★ Chin Up Buttercup DOMINO. CD/DL/LP Katie

Laura Veirs And The Choir Who Couldn’t Say

★★★ Live In Angoulême RAVEN MARCHING BAND. CD/DL

Holly Golightly

★★★★ Look Like Trouble DAMAGED GOODS. CD/LP

Cheikh Lô

★★★ Maame WORLD CIRCUIT. CD/DL/LP The quiet

Flock Of Dimes

★★★★ The Life You Save SUB POP. CD/DL/LP

Insecure Men

★★★★ A Man For All Seasons FAT POSSUM.

Of Monsters And Men

★★★★ All Is Love And Pain In The

Roger Eno

★★★★ Without Wind/ Without Air DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON. DL/LP

Sudan Archives

★★★★ The BPM STONES THROW. CD/DL/LP Singer,

Tortoise

★★★★ Touch INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM/ NONESUCH. CD/DL/LP The

The Utopia Strong

★★★★ Doperider ROCKET RECORDINGS. DL/LP Psychedelic ambient

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µ-Ziq ★★★★ 1979 BALMAT. DL/LP In

Yara Asmar

★★★★ everyone I love is sleeping and I

Rianne Downey

★★★★ The Consequence Of Love RUN ON. CD/DL/LP

St. Paul & The Broken Bones

★★★★★ St. Paul & The Broken Bones OASIS

Steve Gunn

★★★★★ Daylight Daylight NO QUARTER. CD/DL/LP LP

Midlake

★★★★ A Bridge To Far BELLA UNION. CD/DL/LP

Whitney

★★★★ Small Talk SPINNING TOP. DL/LP Chicago

Guided By Voices

★★★★ Thick Rich And Delicious GBV INC. CD/DL/LP

Rick Wakeman

★★★ Melancholia MADFISH. CD/DL/LP Piano maestro gets

Various

★★★★ Imaginational Anthem Volume XIV: Ireland TOMPKINS SQUARE.

Sarathy Korwar

★★★★ There Is Beauty, There Already OTHERLAND. CD/DL/LP

Luther Dickinson

★★★ Dead Blues Vol. 1 STROLLING BONES. CD/DL/LP

Jacob Collier

★★★★ The Light For Days HAJANGA/INTERSCOPE/DECCA. CD/DL/LP

Laura Jurd

★★★★ Rites & Revelations NEW SOIL. CD/DL/LP

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Joanna Duda Trio ★★★★ Delighted BYRD OUT. DL/LP

The Bongolian

★★★★ Indian Summer Of Love BLOW UP. CD/DL/LP

Will Glaser

★★★ Music Of The Terrazoku NOT APPLICABLE. DL/MC

Brògeal

★★★ Tuesday Paper Club PIAS. CD/DL/LP Jumbled

Alex Lukashevsky

★★★★ OOOOH! TIN ANGEL. DL/LP Tracked live

Madi Diaz

★★★ Fatal Optimist ANTI-. CD/DL/LP Nashville singer

Red River Dialect

★★★★ Basic Country Mustard HINTERGROUNDS. DL/LP First

Drazek Fuscaldo With Jorg A Schneider

★★★★ Attachments FEEDING TUBE/CARDINAL FUZZ. DL/LP Multi-disciplinary

Sprints

★★★★ All That Is Over SUB POP/CITY SLANG.

Makaya McCraven Off The Record

XL RECORDINGS/INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM. DL

David Garland

★★★★ The Spark TALL OWL. CD/DL Operating

Jeremy Tuplin

★★★★ Planet Heaven TRAPPED ANIMAL. DL/LP An

Turner Williams Jr & Derek Monypeny

★★★★ Drueling 2182 RECORDING CO. DL/LP Unlikely

Hilary Woods

★★★★ Night CRIÚ SACRED BONES. CD/DL/LP Shannon

Shine until tomorrow

The Minneapolis hellraisers’ wayward 1984 album; a career crossroads and the best of everything the original four had to give, says David Fricke.

Bleak house

The mythic origin story of Springsteen’s greatest album revealed.

Bob Dylan

★★★★★ The Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The

The Dream Syndicate

★★★★ Medicine Show DOWN THERE. CD/DL/LP The

The Who

★★★★ Who Are You UNIVERSAL. CD/DL/LP Moonie’s

Split Enz

★★★ ENZyclopedia Volumes One & Two CHRYSALIS. CD/LP/BR

Ike Quebec

★★★★★ The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions BLUE

Oasis

★★★★ (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? BIG BROTHER.

William Basinski

★★★★★ The Disintegration Loops TEMPORARY RESIDENCE. CD/DL/LP

Peter Hammill

★★★★ The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971-1986 UMR.

Ronnie McNeir

★★★★ Makes A Move KENT. CD/DL/LP Superb

The Alan Parsons Project

★★★★ I Robot COOKING VINYL. CD/LP Lavish

Ray Charles

★★★★ Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul TANGERINE.

Animal Collective

★★★★ Feels DOMINO. CD/DL/LP Baltimore’s trippy pilgrims’

Various

★★★ Caraïbes États-Unis: Du Calypso Au Ska 1944-1972

Shirley Johnson

★★★★ Selfish Kind Of Gal DELMARK. LP

Ronnie Wood

★★★★ Fearless: The Anthology 1965-2025 BMG. CD/DL

Frank Sinatra

★★★★ At The Hollywood Bowl 1943-1948 SING. CD/LP

Soft Cell

★★★★ The Art Of Falling Apart UNIVERSAL MUSIC.

Carry on cowboy

From swamp to Stetson to disco: how TJW tackled the ’80s. By Sylvie Simmons.

Pulp

★★★★ Different Class UNIVERSAL/ISLAND. CD/DL/LP Mercury-scooping UK

Elton John

★★★★ Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy

Grateful Dead

★★★★ Blues For Allah RHINO. CD/DL Haight-Ashbury’s

Tradition accomplished

A teenager’s unusual folk-soul experiment comes around again.

Supergrass

★★★★ Road To Rouen BMG. CD/DL/LP How

Clock DVA

★★★ White Souls In Black Suits THE GREY

Dog Soup

★★★★ Fragments DARK CIRCLES. DL/LP Auspicious first

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

★★★★ The Jimmie Vaughan Years: Complete Studio Recordings

Horace Silver

★★★★ Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse

The Lilac Time

★★★★ Looking For A Day In The Night

Various

★★★★ You’re No Big Deal CHERRY RED. CD

The big Easy

Frog turns into a prince as shy kid transforms into global superstar. By Mark Cooper.

This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll: Pop Music, The Swastika And The Third Reich

★★★★ Daniel Rachel WHITE RABBIT. £25 An

Last Rites

★★★★ Ozzy Osbourne SPHERE/LITTLE BROWN. £25 Unintentional

Rumors Of My Demise: A Memoir

★★★★ Evan Dando FABER & FABER. £20

Wings: The Story Of A Band On The Run

★★★★ Paul McCartney ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN PRESS. £35

Ringo: A Fab Life

★★★★ Tom Doyle NEW MODERN. £25 Dear

Punk: The Last Word

★★★★ Chris Sullivan & Stephen Colgrave OMNIBUS PRESS.

Pink Floyd: Shine On

★★★★ Mark Blake NEW MODERN. £25 The

Daft punks?

Akron’s Devo were anything but, as Netflix’s colourful documentary reminds Danny Eccleston.