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ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING

Stranded Man

Chris Bailey, frontman of Brisbane anti-heroes The Saints, left us on April 9

JUNE 1985 …Marillion rule the charts!

Teaching old prog news tricks: : Fish gets

Did Joey pilfer from Noddy?

Your music-related queries answered, and rock enigmas solved, courtesy of the MOJO think tank

Power Move On ’Em

Win! A pair of Q Acoustics M20 HD wireless speakers

Greg Norton and Hüsker Dü

Serendipity, food retail and punk brought them together. But smack and the big time drove them apart…

Both Ends Burning

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO

IDAHO INDIE-STARGAZERS BUILT TO SPILL GO BRAZILIAN FOR LP 10

A Brazil wind: Built To Spill do the

DARLENE LOVE

The singer with The Blossoms, The Crystals and more talks Elvis, Lethal Weapon and Phil Spector

Brian Jackson

Gil Scott-Heron’s collaborator and more salutes Clifford Brown & Max Roach (EmArcy, 1954)

ROLL UP! FOR WEED BY GEORGE AND OTHER ROCK TOKERS

GEORGE HARRISON – or, actually, the estate of

STILL RIGHTEOUS, ALMOST-STONE GUITAR GENIUS HARVEY MANDEL PLAYS ON

Heatseaker: Harvey Mandel keeps it on the level,

FIFTY YEARS ON, THE INSPIRATIONAL SECOND COMING OF URAL THOMAS, PORTLAND’S PILLAR OF SOUL

Trunk load of faith: Ural Thomas packs up

L.A. BAROQUE POP AUTEUR ALEX IZENBERG FEASTS ON LARKS’ TONGUES!

IT’S ONE AM in Los Angeles and Alex

MOJO PLAYLIST

Time for the month’s best garage fuzz, folk-dub

FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS, MANY OF YOU WILL HAVE FELT PART OF A MOJO CLUB.

MOJO MEMBERSHIP AT GREATMAGAZINES.CO.UK/MOJO A N scattered across

Think you know Robert Fripp? Then who is this mohawked imp in a tutu, who performs pas de deux on YouTube and says he “hated” K ing Crimson? And what was that about The Damned!? “I do believe I mooned them...”

Kevin Westenberg, Alamy O PENING THE DOOR OF HIS

TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN’

Too punk for Muscle Shoals. Too country for most other places. Too drunk, too often. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS have forged on through lifestyle meltdowns, line-up turmoil and (at least) three divorces to deliver their uniquely lyrical blend of Southern Americana. Their fuel? Tough love for their homeland and cast-iron belief in their songs. "We had to be all in", they tell ANDY FYFE.

WARNING! ADULC MACERiAL

CONTRACTUALLY AND SPIRITUALLY FREE FROM THE MOTOWN MACHINE, HOLED UP WITH TWO SWITCHED-ON BOFFINS AND THEIR MEGASYNTHESIZER, SCEVIE WONDER TURNED 21 WITH AN EXPLOSIVE BOUNTY OF SONGS AND TWO INCREDIBLE ALBUMSIN A SEISMIC 1972: MUSIC OF MY MIND AND TALKING BOOK. "IT WAS LIKE KRAKATOA!" HEARSBILLDEMAIN.

Amongst the vines and coyote dens of north Kentucky, JOA N SHELLEY’s graceful, folk-adjacent songs take shape, but think twice before imagining her a pedlar of winsome pastoralia. Seven albums in, her feel for life’s nuance is fuller than ever. “I don’t want to be fooled by the romance,” she tells JOHN MULV EY.

THE THIRD SONG ON JOAN SHELLEY’S NEW ALBUM

SOME VELVET MORNING

New light on the dawn of THE VEIVET UIUERABOUIU is shed by lost demos found among the effects of the late Lou Reed who would have been 80 this year. MOJO digs the folk roots and formative years of a rock'n'roll hero, with help from Laurie Anderson, producer-archivist Don Fleming and more. "People are going to be blown away," they promise UIMIIUDCKHSOR

C86 LAYS THE FOUNDATION OF INDIE POP

Compiling PRIMAL SCREAM, THE WEDDING PRESENT and HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – plus THE SHOP ASSISTANTS, BOGSHED, THE PASTELS and 16 more –a mail order NME cassette in May ’86 gave an aural snapshot of the UK indie nation. But as well as love, its mix of fey jangle and caustic confrontation also provoked disdain. As a new book tracks down those who were on it and where life took them next, the protagonists return to the scene of the crime. “The whole thing was completely hapless,” they remember. “No one wanted to be known as a ‘C86 band’…”

LOVING THE ALLEN

50 YEARS AGO, DAV I D BOWIE RELEASED THE ALBUM THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE AND COUNTLESS OTHERS. A VOLLEY OF FEBRILE SONGS THAT TRASHED THE BOUNDARIES OF ROCK AND POP, A RIOT OF MAD IDEAS AND OUTRAGEOUS GEAR, THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS INVENTED A NEW KIND OF ROCK STAR – MAYBE, FOR SOME, AN ENTIRELY NEW WAY OF BEING. OVER 16 PAGES, BOWIE’S CLOSEST COLLABORATORS TELL MOJO ALL: “ZIGGY HAD TO BE SELF-CONFIDENT, STRANGE, UNUSUAL, DIFFERENT, ALIEN AND VERY TALENTED…”

Sparking Joy

Grief and light combine to potent effect on singer-songwriter’s sixth album

“It was a bit Fleetwood Mac…”

Angel Olsen talks to Victoria Segal

Roots radicals

Back together in one room, songs flowing, Wilco determine to reshape country.

Ray Of Light

The first new music in 13 years from the former Cocteau Twin

JAZZ

Flock ★★★★ Flock STRUT. CD/DL/LP Five heavyweights of

From Her To Eternity

The Nashville indie rocker’s deep soul mining strikes gold

WORLD

Vieux Farka Touré ★★★★ Les Racines WORLD CIRCUIT.

Barnstorming

Mavis met Levon over at his place. Sylvie Simmons feels the love on newly released live recording

FILTER ALBUMS EXTRA

Brandon Coleman ★★★ Interstellar Black Space BRAINFEEDER. CD/DL/LP

EXTENDED PLAY

Electricity And Lust Matador’s Revisionist History podcast (Spotify)

Jungle warfare

It’s early 1982, Mick wants a funky double, Topper’s off his nut and Joe’s about to do a bunk. Herald the valedictor y Combat Rock, now with extras.

Smell the magic

Finally, a Stones live album with blood and guts reveals them in their prime.

Tango master’s breakout

Towards the end of his life, tango giant Astor Piazzolla gave it everything he had.

FILTER REISSUES

The guitarist’s solo musical explorations away from King Crimson documented over 32 discs.

REISSUES EXTRA

Elton John ★★★★★ Madman Across The Water

Firmament Record

This month’s totem of power for the worthy – Chicago future-funk faster than a speeding bullet

Soul Jazz Compilations

The sounds of the universe, expertly curated.

Raising Sand

The man who gave us Millie, Bob, Traffic, Roxy, Grace, Nick et al looks back on a life spent in shorts and flip-flops.