A BYRDS COMPANION

Jingle Jangle Mornings

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

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

Ramblin’ Man

The Allman Brothers Band’s guitar great Dickey Betts left us on April 18

JUNE 1981 …Motörhead reach their peak

The need for speed: Motörhead wide awake at

Who based songs on a film?

Let us answer your nagging rock questions and resolve your musical doubts.

All Round Sounds

Win! An Evoke all-in-one home music system.

Jennifer Herrema and Royal Trux

It began in a warehouse in Washington DC. The end? “A total holy fucking shit-show.”

Theories, rants, etc.

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Ostend Blues

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO

JOHNNY CASH SINGS AGAIN! ON UNHEARD DEMOS REBUILT BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Black celebration: Johnny Cash in 1987; (inset) new

PAT METHENY, JAZZ GUITAR MASTER, PRESENTS LP 55

String theory: Pat Metheny gets under the tones

John Grant

Michigan’s human synthesizer talks lava, famous friends and loving 1970s AOR.

Cherie Currie

The Runaways singer genuflects before David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs (RCA Victor, 1974).

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS PLAY 69 LOVE SONGS IN FULL!

“I ’M JUST waking up, so if I

FROM POP TO BLUES, AND DYLAN TO BOWIE, DANA GILLESPIE RESTS HER CASE

Lady stardust: Dana Gillespie with David Bowie, May

GHOSTS, FAMINE ROADS AND BOB DYLAN’S BASSIST: ENTER THE DREAMWORLD OF OISÍN LEECH

Freedom to roam: Oisín Leech is drawn to

MEET AIRCOOLED, THE BRITPOP AND TECHNO VETS RECHANNELLING THEIR ENERGIES INTO A KRAUT-FUNK PARTY

“THE GREATEST Kraut-gospel-funk party album ever,” promised MOJO

MOJO PLAYLIST

Listen up! For the month’s garage howls, thrill-themes and goth-pop.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

The Roots’ Renaissance Man of Rhythm on Fallon, Sly, Amy, addiction (to vinyl), Pete Townshend’s J Dilla fetish, and what makes him run so hard, so fast. “You don’t figure out what’s next,” says Questlove. “You just do it.”

NO STRANGER AM I

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD sang some of the 1960s' most luminous sides but struggled, like many, in an era that refused to accept or even acknowledge her sexuality. In a chapter from his new book about the profound influence of LGBTQ people on music and culture, from Little Richard to Sylvester, JON SAVAGE tracks her trials, and her triumphs. "I want to sing songs that are real," she said. "This is my hard fight."

LOVE & VIOLINS

Instrumental rock that touches the heavens and plumbs the abyss - such is the métier of the DIRTY THREE. Four decades on their unique path, juggling side-hustles with Nick Cave, Cat Power and more, the Aussie trio reconvene to pursue "the foreign and terrifying and unknown" with Coltrane and Stravinsky in their sights. "Admittedly, that's putting a big bar up," they grant VICTORIA SEGAL

MOJO PRESENTS

Seeking “classic song structure through a weird foggy filter,” JESSICA PRATT explores the Stygian corners of her mind amid a deep, hypnotic hush. One question: are you ready for the singersongwriter who finds Leonard Cohen upbeat? “There are definitely no happy endings,” she tells TED KESSLER.

CRASHING BY DESIGN

ADDICTION, ALIENATION, OBSOLESCENCE-IN THE '80s, PETE TOWNSHEND WAS FIGHTING ON MULTIPLE FRONTS. AS KEY SOLO WORKS ARE RE-RELEASED HE REFLECTS ON A DECADE OF CRISIS, AND AN INTRIGUINGLY UNRESOLVED FUTURE, IN WHICH ROGER DALTREY MAY STILL PLAY A PART. "THE WHO ARE NOT DONE YET," HE WARNS MARK BLAKE

THE BIRTH OF BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

Forming against a backdrop of ME and a college music course, Glasgow’s Belle And Sebastian released their remarkable first two albums in a six-month, no-prisoners-taken charge. Inspired by Radio 2 and Lawrence of Felt, here was a masterplan that meant no interviews, and press shots with papier-mâché nuns in place of the band. “If people want to know who this band is,” the group recall of their mindset, “they’re gonna have to work to find out.”

LEARNING TO FLY

Sixty years ago, David Crosby, Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn bonded over a love of folk music and The Beatles. With Michael Clarke and Chris Hillman, they became THE BYRDS. What followed - jealousy, schism and divergent paths to equally wondrous music - has never erased the chiming folk-rock sound of the original band. "The five of us had a magic," discovers GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN.

“HE IS AS REAL AS IT GETS”

NOEL GALLAGHER on the uncompromising Paul Weller: “He thinks most of us do the same old same old and get away with it.”

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

PAUL WELLER – you can’t say he’s not full of surprises. Here he is, nearing 66, letting co-writers into his hermetic world – from Suggs to Noel Gallagher. And here again, embarking on a fledgling movie career. Meanwhile, he’s getting giddy about unlikely new enthusiasms. Whatever next – leather trousers? “I’ve got to say, man, Billie Eilish is fucking great,” he tells a startled WILL HODGKINSON.

THICK AS THIEVES

10 ace Weller collabs presaging the tag-teaming of 66,

“DO TUBE STATION!”

He won’t. But you’ll hear some of these on Weller’s current tour…

Good morning, captain

Fairport maestro sailing once more for sadder shores on nineteenth solo LP.

Urban legend

Hawley’s tenth takes its name from a Sheffield term of endearment.

Trick of the light

Speedy follow-up to 2023’s Mercy dazzles slowly

Roots revival

Actor and producer unite for a haunting excavation of the past. 

JAZZ

Jake Long ★★★★ City Swamp NEW SOIL. CD/DL/LP

Doing it for the kids

Hardcore lullabies from the Louisville all-stars.

FOLK

Angeline, Cohen And Jon ★★★★ Grace Will Lead

Let’s do it again

Miraculous comeback album from long-lost gospel group following rediscovery of their 1975 debut.

EXTENDED PLAY

Rise again: The Fall (from left) Marc Riley,

Stardust memories

The mother of all rock’n’roll fantasies is given the all-encompassing deluxe box set treatment. He stooped to conquer, says Mark Paytress.

That’s heaven to me

Four-LP vinyl reissue of the 1994 set profiling the soul and gospel label co-owned by Sam Cooke

Stinging lessons

Iron Curtain guitars trained to swarm and attack.

Stoned Gas

From rock obscuria’s dumper: boxing-gloved, Stoogean lunacy from late-’60s Toronto.

The Durutti Column

Factory Records’ other legendary group.

Anger is an energy

The revolutionary life and times of a Riot Grrrl instigator.

Gimme some roof

The much-bootlegged Beatles coda, restored and officially returned to the screen.