HELLO OPERATOR!

THESONGS JACK WHITE TAUGHT US

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING

Theories, rants, etc.

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REAL GONE

A True Hearted Woman Passionate voice of folk song,

TIME MACHINE

APRIL 1955 …Fats Domino turns shame to triumph

Who spoofed who?

Throw back the veil of rock-related ignorance, as nagging queries are resolved

Dub And Bass With My Headphones, Man

Win! Princely cans from Trojan Jamaica and Meters Music

John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra

Fusion began when Miles said the time was right. It ended when a wall of silence proved unsurpassable

Standing On The Edge

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO

Old Friends, The Blues…

Reunited at last, Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder hail the genius of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

AFTER NINE YEARS, SIGUR RÓS RETURN TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING FOR LP EIGHT

Songs of freedom: Sigur Rós (singer Jónsi, )

ALICE COOPER

The Nightmare man talks Detroit, Lou Reed and the beast inside

JAPAN’S UNKNOWABLE AVANT-ROCK ENIGMAS LES RALLIZES DÉNUDÉS BREAK COVER!

“Unique, unworldly”: Les Rallizes Dénudés’ Takashi Mizutani with

Keith Richards

The Rolling Stone kneels at the altar of The Best Of Little Walter (Chess, 1958)

FROM SILICON VALLEY TO THE NASHVILLE MESS AROUND – MEET MOLLY TUTTLE , ROOTS PRODIGY

“Gillian Welch made the whole studio smell good!”

THE ROCK’N’ROLL GOSPEL OF SARAH BROWN, VIA STEVIE WONDER , ROXY MUSIC, PINK FLOYD AND SIMPLE MINDS

SINGING HAS been Sarah Brown’s day job since

MOJO PLAYLIST

Git down! With the month’s finest soul-punk, jangle and Afro-choogle

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

Broadway babe turned blues teen with a bottle on her flipping-off finger, she lived fast ’til Prince put her right. Now, at 72, she sees clearer than ever. “John Lee Hooker was so cool at this age,” says Bonnie Raitt

THE BON G SHOW+.

THIRTY YEARS A RECORDING CONCERN, CYPRESS HILL’S STONER SAMPLEDELIA HAS SURVIVED MORE THAN CHANGING TRENDS IN RAP – TRY A BULLET IN THE BACK. SO WHAT’S KEPT THIS BROTHERHOOD TOGETHER – ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES ONLY BARELY – AND IN THE GAME? “WE’RE MORE THAN JUST A HIP-HOP BAND,” THEY TELL ANDY COWAN.

Diamond In The Rough

A VISIONARY SINGER-SONGWRITER IT TOOK THE WORLD 40 YEARS TO RECOGNISE, WHO QUIT MUSIC TO TREK BRITAIN IN A HORSEDRAWN CARAVAN, AND QUIT AGAIN TO RETREAT INTO DECADES OF DOMESTIC SECLUSION, Vashti Bunyan IS SHROUDED IN MYTH AND PICTURESQUE LEGEND. BUT AS HER EXTRAORDINARY NEW MEMOIR REVEALS, THAT’S ONLY THE HALF OF IT. “I KNOW WHERE THE TRAUMA LIVES,” SHE TELLS Andrew Male.

THE SPECTACULAR BIRTH OF MUDHONEY, 1988

Rejected from more professional outfits, Seattle’s most unruly garage punks spontaneously came into being – and rashly invaded the stage. Bringing degeneracy, chaos and statement-ofintent Touch Me I’m Sick, of course they were going to be bigger than new labelmates Nirvana. “It was really a magical coming together,” say the band and friends in this excerpt from the updated edition of Keith Cameron’s Mudhoney: The Sound And The Fury From Seattle, “kinda how a rock band should be…”

ENJOY THE SILENCE

OUT OF THE DECADE THAT TASTE FORGOT CAME A WORK OF TIMELESS BEAUTY: TALK TALK’S SPIRIT OF EDEN. FROM A NEW BOOK ABOUT THE BAND AND THEIR ENIGMATIC FRONTMAN MARK HOLLIS, AUTHOR BEN WARDLE TELLS HOW DARK SARCASM, FAMILY TR AGEDY AND AN ALMOST FANATIC AL MINIMALISM GAVE RISE TO A LEGEND…

DARK STAR

MARC BOLAN PRANCED INTO 1972 ON THE BACK OF A STRING OF HITS. BUT AS METAL GURU AND THE SLIDER SHOT T. REX TO INSANE NEW LEVELS, A COCKTAIL OF COGNAC AND COCAINE, PLUS PREMONITIONS OF DEATH AND DISASTER, WERE SPECTRES AT THE FEAST. WOULD HE END THE YEAR IN ONE PIECE? “EVERYTHING MARC DID SPOKE OF INSECURITY,” DISCOVERS MARK PAYTRESS

BOOGIE WONDERLAND!

TEN GEMS FROM PEAK REXMANIA, PLUCKED FROM THE UPCOMING T. REX: 1972 BOX SET.

MOJO PRESENTS

DORMANT FOR OVER A DECADE, PORCUPINE TREE ARE BACK, IN DEFIANCE OF THE ‘P’ WORD’S “KISS OF DEATH”. BUT WITH MAINMAN STEVEN WILSON’S SONIC SKILLS IN SUCH DEMAND AMONG PROG’S NABOBS, COULD THEIR CATHOLIC AND ENGAGING NEW ALBUM ALSO BE THEIR LAST? “ THERE’S NO GUARANTEES,” THEY TELL TOM DOYLE

“They Were Being Very GENEROUS”

Robert Fripp on Porcupine Tree, and Wilson’s iconic remixes

ALL MY COLOURS

ONCE IT WAS BLOOD RED AND SNOW WHITE. NOW SULPHUR YELLOW AND ELECTRIC BLUE. THE LIVERY CHANGES BUT ONE THING DOESN’T: JACK WHITE DOES NOTHING BY HALVES. TOUTING NOT ONE NEW ALBUM BUT TWO, HE INVITES MOJO TO HIS XANADU TO TALK FASTING, TROLLING AND CELL PHONES, JACKO, MACCA AND THE STONES. AND THE QUESTION IS ASKED: IS THIS REALLY A BETTER, STRONGER, NICER JACK WHITE? “EVERYTHING I’M DOING RIGHT NOW IS ALL REBIRTH,” HE TELLS GR AYSON HAVER CURRIN.

Dreadlocks in moonlight

Reggae veteran and Massive Attack collaborator meets UK dub don in Ramsgate for a modern roots masterclass.

“I’ve got through all the tribulations.”

Horace Andy and Adrian Sherwood talk to Simon McEwen

Feel like going home

Philly’s wandering minstrel returns to his roots on epic ninth album

Is This It

Isle Of Wight band get off the chaise longue to release debut.

Tillman Schmillman

Alternate reality Hollywood explored via high-definition orchestral manoeuvres

FOLK

Oysterband ★★★★ Read The Sky RUNNING MAN RECORDS.

Distance Learning

Dublin quintet explore heart and home on third album

ELECTRONICA

Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales ★★★★ Consumed In Key

EXTENDED PLAY

We wear short shorts Bob Mould: he thinks

Remains of the day

Bi-coastal lo-fi pioneers’ troubled 1999 swan song, belatedly improved by the deluxe reissue treatment.

“Nigel didn’t know my name…”

Bob Nastanovich speaks to Stevie Chick

World Of Echo

Ultra-rare recordings from a Croatian-American folk guitarist who unites the sounds of east and west.

Preacher, leader, sidewinder

The varied career of a British soul-jazz one-off finds a new home.

Tortoise

Chicago post-rock ’s first family. Prepare to shell out, warns John Mulvey

HOW TO BUY

10 Tortoise The Catastrophist THRILL JOCKEY, 2016 You

Meet the folks

Brilliantly candid memoir from the youngest of the Wainwright- McGarrigles

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