THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

Mark Blake Mark’s new book, Us And Them:

US AND THEM A PINK FLOYD COMPANION

▲ LOVE ▲ MILES DAVIS ▲ RON GEESIN

TIME MACHINE

JANUARY 1964 …the Whisky A Go Go opens in LA!

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

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

REAL GONE

Careering Clash-PiL co-founder and post-punk guitar iconoclast Keith Levene

Who ‘borrowed’ band names?

Let us answer your burning rock-related questions and nagging conundrums.

Code Orange!

Win! Crest Edition Wireless Headphones from Orange Amplification.

Gavin Friday and the Virgin Prunes

It began with punk and youthful bravado. But as members bled out, maturity called a halt.

Theories, rants, etc.

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All The People…

2023 THE ESSENTIAL PREVIEW LIVE

Will 2023 finally bring a new Stones album?

2023 THE ESSENTIAL PREVIEW ALBUMS

Flashback! With Teardrop Explodes box Culture Bunker.

2023 THE ESSENTIAL PREVIEW REISSUES

How deep is Bob Stanley’s love for the Bee Gees?

2023 THE ESSENTIAL PREVIEW BOOKS

Time Has Told… the official biography of Nick Drake

IN MAY 1979, Dark Star magazine published an

There’s a legendary Robert Johnson biography on your trail

THERE WAS a time when Robert Johnson, who

Bio-doc Why Should I Care? pursues the enigma of Alex Chilton

2023 THE ESSENTIAL PREVIEW FILMS

KING CRIMSON! BOWIE! GUITAR MAGUS ADRIAN BELEW SOUNDS OFF

“It’s about making sounds rather than being a

IRISH POST-PUNKS THE MURDER CAPITAL PREPARE TO MAKE A DIFFERENT KIND OF KILLING

Crime pays: The Murder Capital (clockwise from front)

CLIMATE GRIEF, CHAMBER FOLK AND ANOTHER DESSNER… IT’S TIME FOR COMPLETE MOUNTAIN ALMANAC

SOUNDING IN PARTS like a great lost record

MOJO PLAYLIST

Listen up – for the month’s best buzzpop, folk and Cumbia.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

Brisbane’s bohemian king of lyrical intrigue choogles on, through the shadowed ruins of The Go-Betweens and current family adversity. What keeps him writing, singing? “As long as there’s more than 50 people listening, that’s all I need,” says Robert Forster.

I AM WHAT I AM

JERRY LEE LEWIS offerd no apologies for his life or for his art. Yet his incendiary rock and bewitching country classics were underscored with fears for his soul, while excess, scandal and tragedy dogged his every step.Intimidating and unknowable and, as fellow musicians relate, perhaps also a genius. He was one of the greatest singers eve, they remind BOB MEHR

X-RAY SPEX SAY OH BONDAGE UP YOURS!

Born in punk zero year ’76, POLY STYRENE’s retina-searing group had no truck with anything as boring as boredom, and instead unleashed joyous deconstructions of consumerism, artificiality and identity itself. But linchpin singer Styrene was too fragile for the music biz, and what should have been a pop phenomenon crashed in ’79. “She was close to the spirit of punk,” says friends and bandmates, “[but] like other geniuses, she was not quite connected to reality.”

1972 NUGGETS

From the year of Zigoy, Fxile, Harvest et al, 50 under-theradar albums that blew MOdO's writers' mingds, and could blow yours, too, if you're not carefull. From witchy prog to bitchin’ funk - it's all great in our crate. So let the digging commence!

Dancing in the Light

“SPANISH TONY” WAS THE ROLLING STONES’ ENIGMATIC FIXER IN THEIR YEARS OF PEAK DECADENCE, AN ERA HE DOCUMENTED IN RARELY SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS. AS HIS GRANDSONS REOPEN HIS ARCHIVE, MOJO IS GRANTED AN EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW, AND A NEW TAKE ON THE MYSTERIOUS SNAPPER. “HE WAS A LOVELY GUY ON A PERSONAL LEVEL,” HEARS ANDREW PERRY

MOJO PRESENTS

Surviving meth hell and defying roots purists, BILLY STRINGS is the rocket-propelled picker blasting bluegrass into the future. Good news for truck-drivers, ’shroomheads, goths, his mum and dad – almost everyone, really. “I don’t want to be playing to just old people knitting,” he assures ANDY FYFE.

Lust Never Sleeps

IGGY POP’snew album is a reassertion of his punk rock id,facing down the fakers, “sicios” and “bougie dicks” aller a Phase of snmhre rellection.It ’s the latest kink in a contrary solo career that began with Bowie and survived smack, Soldier, and Elton in an ape suit. “I iry to avoid the Professionals,” he informs TOM DOYLE

ON THE SPECTRUM

ON THE EVE OF ITS GOLDEN JUBILEE, MOJO CELEBRATES THE DARK SIDE OF THEMOON, THE ROCK MASTERPIECE THAT DARED, AS ONLY PINK FLOYD COULD DARE, TO ENCAPSULATE THE ENTIRETY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE. FIFTY YEARS SINCE ITS RELEASE, JOIN WRITERS AND MUSICIANS ON A VOYAGE INSIDE ITS SONGS AND STORIES: “IT’S STOOD THE TEST OF TIME BECAUSE OF THE SPIRIT AND EMOTION WHICH WENT INTO IT.”

THE ART OF NOISE

HIPGNOSIS’S SLEEVE ART FOR DARK SIDE REMAINS THE MOST ICONIC OF ALL, A MASTERPIECE BY THE COMPANY’S ODD-COUPLE DUUMVIRATE: DISARMING AUBREY POWELL AND THE LATE, PUGNACIOUS STORM THORGERSON. IN THIS EXTRACT FROM MARK BLAKE’S NEW BOOK, WE INTERRUPT THEIR JOURNEY FROM Z CARS TO LED ZEP, CAMBRIDGE TO CAIRO AND BEYOND, AND ZOOM IN ON A “BLATANT STOREFRONT MANOEUVRE” CHARGED WITH MYSTICAL POWER.

Lost In Space

The Midwest farmer’s daughter finds spiritual release and a new direction in gently psychedelic country. Making a brew, Tom Doyle. Illustration by Janelle Barone.

“We lost ourselves for a moment.”

Margo Price speaks to Tom Doyle.

Throwing shades

Eminent contrarian tells more ghost stories on first album of new material for a decade.

Kicking Against The Pricks

Bristol-based singer-songwriter’s second album explores the wilderness years.

ELECTRONICA

Hieroglyphic Being ★★★★★ There Is No Acid In

WORLD

Benjamin Biolay ★★★★ Saint-Clair BLUE WRASSE/POLYDOR. CD/DL/LP Ten

JAZZ

Soweto Kinch ★★★★ White Juju LSO LIVE. DL/LP

The Boys Are Back

Marvel again at the swashbuckling heart, soul and guts of Phil Lynott and “the squadron” at their peak. New box set features all seven nights of the shows that made up their landmark live LP.

Myths & Heroes

As the Japanese band’s mystery erodes, their psychedelic power intensifies.

Country Matters

Well-heeled ’60s folkie and his chums boldly go where few had gone before.

Lunar Notes

This month’s subterranean treat: irrepressible garage punk from rural Oregon.

Robyn Hitchcock

The Egyptian, Soft Boy and presiding spirit of English psychedelia.

HOW TO BUY

10 Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians Gotta Let

Ram Packed

Heavyweight, meticulously researched examination of a newly solo ex-Beatle throws up new findings.