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Alysse Gafkjen Alysse is a US portrait photographer

BOOGIE CHILDREN

ZZ TOP LIT TLE FEAT CANNED HEAT R.L. BURNSIDE STEPHEN MALKMUS JOHN LEE HOOKER & MORE

Theories, rants, etc.

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Where Do We Go Now?

2024 THE ESSENTIAL PREVIEW ALBUMS

Jazz sax seer Kamasi Washington reboots for album five

2024 THE ESSENTIAL PREVIEW ALBUMS

Brother Wayne reconvenes the MC5 for new LP and tour!

Heavyweight champion: Wayne Kramer is ready for showtime.

Mike Scott brings a This Is The Sea mega-box

2024 THE ESSENTIAL PREVIEW REISSUES

Faces vault opens for unheard outtakes galore

Cheers!: Faces (from left) Ronnie Lane, Ronnie Wood,

On film! The life of psychedelic polymath John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins

2024 THE ESSENTIAL PREVIEW FILMS AND BOOKS

GUITARIST’S GUITARIST ALBERT LEE TALKS CLAPTON, EMMYLOU, THE EVERLYS AND MORE!

Fretting away: guitar virtuoso Albert Lee earns his

Run Paint Run Run

Captain Beefhear t’s art, exhibited! Gary Lucas remembers Don Van Vliet – the man and his brushwork

KALI MALONE AND THE DANGEROUS BUSINESS OF BEING AN AVANT-GARDE CHURCH ORGANIST

Cold comfort: Kali Malone – “music feels like

CHRISSIE HYNDE’S RIGHTHAND MAN CRANKS UP A GARAGE PUNK FRENZY WITH HIS LORDSHIP

Noble pursuit: His Lordship’s James Walbourne (left) and

MOJO PLAYLIST

Tune in! For the month’s best guitars, grooves and ambient flute.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

A Grammy-winning powerhouse with a Southern gothic back story, she put A labama Shakes on ice to blaze her own genre-bending trail, jamming with Macca, Prince and, um, Thunderbitch. What’s she learned? “Soul bands party hardest,” says Brittany Howard.

ROCK IN A HARD PLACE

FIFTY YEARS AGO, FROM DOWN UNDER’S HARDEST SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS, ROSE AC DC, ATAVISTIC RIFF-PURVEYORS PAR EXCELLENCE. LOOKING BACK ON THEIR BIRTH AND EARLY STRUGGLES, SYLVIE SIMMONS FINDS A BAND – AND A SINGER – WHO STUCK TO THEIR GUNS, AND THEIR MONUMENTAL SOUND, THROUGH GOOD TIMES AND BAD, ON THE ROAD TO A DEFINING CATASTROPHE, KNOWING THE ONE TRUTH THAT MATTERED: “ROCK’N’ROLL WAS WHAT MADE PEOPLE HAPPY.”

BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB RE-OPENS FOR BUSINESS

In 1996, in defiance of a US government blockade, Ry Cooder led a recording party to Havana to bring together Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer and other “old-time cats” of Cuban music, who came together for a last bolero that echoed across the world. Cut in just six days, and named for a pre-revolutionary members club, the album was a global hit in ’97 before it was brought to the screen by Wim Wenders in 1999. “We had authenticity,” recall players and other principals. “We knew that something incredible was happening.”

DIFFERENT DRUMMER

JIM GORDON WAS AMONG THE MOST GIF TED AND ADMIRED MUSICIANS OF HIS AGE, THE KING MIDAS OF GROOVES. BUT WHEN HE DIED IN MARCH THIS YEAR, HE WAS ALMOST SOLELY KNOWN AS THE TORMENTED KILLER OF HIS OWN MOTHER. IN THIS EXTRACT FROM A STARTLING NEW BIOGRAPHY, JOEL SELVIN MEASURES HIS GENIUS AND LOCATES A FATEFUL TURNING POINT IN HIS STORY: “VOICES IN HIS HEAD THAT HAD BEEN MURMURS WERE GROWING LOUDER…”

REBEL REBEL

From Bowie to Bolshie, Motown to the Miners’ Strike, the Army to Americana and beyond, for 40 years BILLY BR AGG’s songs have rooted for the underdog – in matters of the hear t as well as the state. A fixture on the front line, he’s also a sitting duck for haters. Luckily, he’s used to the gunfire. “As long as you know you’re not a fascist , an antisemite or a misog ynist , you can grit your teeth and get on with it,” he tells WILL HODGKINSON.

MOJO PRESENTS

From teenage guitar prodig y in The Coral, to master singer-songwriter, via shifts for Arctic Monkeys and production for Michael Head, BILL RYDER-JONES has packed a lot into his 40 years. But there’s a lot more to unpack, too, beginning with the childhood tragedy that’s defined his life and music ever since. “I’d spent years screaming into the void,” he tells DORIAN LYNSKEY

Sense of WONDER

Join MOJO as we leaf through the chapters of his life and work, his visions and melodies, and shake your head in Wonder…

The magic cord

Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker pull through tragedy with their eleventh album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Bartosz Kosowski.

“It’s true the dogs in Portland have better lives than the people.”

Corin Tucker speaks to Victoria Segal.

Emotional rescue

More triumphant songs of defeat and desperation from Wirral wonder

Marika Hackman

Fresh breath: Marika Hackman’s Big Sigh is overflowing

Sweet sorrow

Confessional box or jukebox? The former Super Furry Animal’s latest is a bit of both

Conchúr White

FILTER ALBUMS Flower power: Conchúr White’s debut has

JAZZ

Ambrose Akinmusire ★★★★ Owl Song NONESUCH. CD/DL/LP Trumpeter’s

EXPERIMENTAL

Amor Muere ★★★★ A Time To Love, A

The kids are alright

Beloved punk pioneers’ fifth album (created with a little help from their alien friend) reworked with bonus tracks and more

If I had a hammer

The revered second album by the New York-born composer, historian and master of the hammered dulcimer.

Yes

Affirmative action: Steven Wilson’s remix of 1971’s The

The Seeds

In a field of their own: The Seeds

Donovan

★★★★ A Gift From A Flower To A

Royal flush

Playing a handful of winning albums by the Queen of Soul.

The American Analog Set

Quiet riot: The American Analog Set (Andrew Kenny,

Magick Father

Rediscovered this month from rock’s MIA list, Gong’s arch-trickster gets real.

The Necks

Piano. Bass. Drums. Infinite possibilities.

HOW TO BUY

10 The Necks The Boys WILD SOUND, 1998 You

Rise of the guardian

The first biography of The Beatles’ loyal roadie, bodyguard and factotum

FILTER BOOKS

Padlocks: Living With Sid And Nancy ★★★★ Den

FILTER SCREEN

In The Court Of The Crimson King: King

REAL GONE

He sawed and conquered: Vernon Dudley BowhayNowell, early Bonzos

JANUARY 1965 …Them explode onto the charts

Van Morrison, Pat McAuley, Jackie McAuley, Billy Harrison,

Who re-recorded their songs?

Let us solve all rock conundrums and join the dots of music obscuria.

Derek Forbes and Simple Minds

It began in Glasgow with stunned audiences, and soon the gold Daimler pulled up. Then differences spoiled the alchemy.