THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

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DEAD ROOTS

THE GRATEFUL DEAD SONGBOOK

Theories, rants, etc.

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Touched By Your Presence

Clem Burke, Blondie’s drumming powerhouse and livewire motivator for 50 years, left us on April 6.

Avant-Garage Rocker

Pere Ubu’s sui generis wellspring David Thomas left us on April 23.

JUNE 1963 …Girl Groups Take Over

The hit-man and her: (clockwise from main pic)

Who rocked – in a senior capacity?

Mopping up the charts: (clockwise from above left)

Funky Eardrums

Win! ‘O’ Edition MKII Noise Cancelling Headphones from Orange.

Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl

The fortuitous meeting of the folk revival’s power couple – and, 33 years later, their tragic end.

When Life Gives You Lemonheads

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO

MAGIC MOMENTS: A SIX-DISC BOX SET OF DOC POMUS DEMOS IS COMING

Medicine heads: (left) Doc Pomus sings at the

JUSTIN HAYWARD

The Moody Blues singer talks his old band, cover versions and Clifford T. Ward.

Anton Newcombe

The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s leader screams for PiL’s Second Edition (Virgin, 1980).

AFTER 66 YEARS ROCKING… THE SEARCHERS CALL IT QUITS AT GLASTONBURY

T HEY CAME into being as a skiffle

POST-HARDCORE MAVERICKS SHUDDER TO THINK RE-IGNITE

Think again: Shudder To Think in 1995 (from

DIG YOUR OWN HOLE – IT’S CANADA’S SAMPLADELIC FOLKIES, FOXWARREN!

“This could be our last kick at the

MEET ABEL SELAOCOE, BRINGING TOWNSHIP SPIRIT TO BACH AND JAZZ

“THE SITUATION you’re born into shouldn’t define how

MOJO PLAYLIST

Listen up for the best power pop, reggae

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

Keeping The Stranglers afloat, defying punks and prudes, despite losing “bitter” Hugh, “genius” Dave and a year on heroin, has taught Jean-Jacques Burnel a thing or two about rock’n’roll: “It’s not dyeing your hair with Just For Men.”

song of the magician

Fifty years since his tragic overdose, tim buckley remains the patron saint of musicians who risk everything to unlock transcendence, a quest encapsulated in his audacious mid-career masterpiece, Starsailor. Turning his back on fame and fortune, leaning into the unknown, was where he was lost but also found. "It was like he came into possession of his muse," discovers grayson haver currin

THE MAGICAL WORLD OF THE ROCHES

Harmonising New Jersey siblings with a punk name, The Roches had been signed up by Paul Simon but wouldn’t co-operate. Then Robert Fripp saw them in 1978 and was blown away. A major-label deal and critical adoration promised the big time, but attempts to smooth off their edges and unwise support slots meant a breakthrough was not to be. “Nothing superfluous had to be added to The Roches, because they are The Roches,” they reflect. “I can’t believe we did what we did.”

THEY DON'T MAKE THEM LIKE YOU ANY MORE

THIRTY YEARS SINCE HIS DEATH IN JUNE 1995,

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

Sixty years ago, the CRATEFUL DEAD embarked on a mission that would freak out label bosses, exasperate producers, and turn on millions to the infinite possibilities of improvised psychedelic rock. DAVID FRIČKE heads back to 1960s San Francisco, and uncovers the method and madness behind the band's wildest musical phase. "The Grateful Dead is an anarchy." their accomplices reveal. "And that was good and bad."

PRESENTS

This month will see MJ LENDERMAN at a venue near you, bearing the crafty, heartfelt songs of his Manning Fireworks breakthrough. But while the future’s bright for indie-Americana’s handsome new hero, his musical path is largely unmapped. “I think I’ll always end up sounding ‘me’,” he assures ANDY FYFE

it’s just rock’n’roll

A 14-PAGE CELEBRATION

Extra dimensions

Experimental groop switch on again with their first new album in 15 years. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Hawaii.

“It is optimistic and empowering.”

Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier speak to Victoria Segal.

Little Simz

Little Simz: brilliance is always within her reach.

Sweet freedom

Former Go-Between lets his imagination run wild

Sweet surrender

Jungle’s J Lloyd and Lydia Kitto make sweet (and strange) music together.

Fab gadgets

Garage rocker becomes Glam Lennon… Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Evergreen

Backed by a new band, the rocker rages against the world as he keeps the home fires burning.

Pulp

Just can’t get enough: Pulp feel the farce.

EXPERIMENTAL

Daniel Bachman ★★★★ Moving Through Light BANDCAMP. DL

ALSO RELEASED

Jungle Boogie ★★★★ Cease & Desist

Matt Berninger

★★★★ Coming up for air: Matt Berninger is

AMERICANA

Ben De La Cour ★★★★ New Roses JULLIAN.

ALSO RELEASED

Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ ★★★★ Room

State of wonder

Freed from lockdown, the Belfast cowboy remembers to be in the moment.

Ecce homo

Reissued separately with attendant B-sides, dubs and extended mixes, the chief Buzzcock’s transgressive electropop years revisited.

Orbital

Golden brown: Orbital’s Phil and Paul Hartnoll glow

Force of nature

The late Daptone Queen’s 2005 album still resonates, says Lois Wilson.

Crucible sounds

Some locations have a peculiar chemistry that brings forth something unexpected. For example, Zimbabwe in the 1970s.

Sufjan Stevens

Parental guidance: Sufjan Stevens is profoundly human on

Now And Zen

This month’s rediscovered jewel: tantric jazz for the avant-garde.

Various

Synths you’ve been gone: John Howard tunes in

Gregory Isaacs

Reggae’s Cool Ruler, by Simon McEwen.

Land of Nod

Remastered anniversary edition of Slade’s brilliant depiction of their own rise and demise.

FILTER BOOKS

Bowie Odyssey 75 ★★★★ Simon Goddard OMNIBUS PRESS.

Uneven pathway

A chimerical film attempts to build a world about a band that built their own.