THE MEANING OF WITHIN

MOJO’S GUIDE TO THE FAB AVANT-GARDE

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

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

Chairman Mo

Music biz titan Mo Ostin left us on July 31.

TIME MACHINE

OCTOBER 1982 …Musical Youth Pass The Dutchie Yard

Who mixed business with music?

Time to address this month’s rock-related questions, whimsies and mysteries.

Keith Morris and Black Flag

It began when Thin Lizzy supported Journey. And ended with no fun and silence.

Theories, rants, etc.

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In The Name Of Love

Legendary Motown songwriter Lamont Dozier left us on 8 August

WELCOME BACK LOST SOUL PHENOMENON LEWIS TAYLOR

Feeling is believing: Lewis Taylor returns to find

JOHN CALE BRINGS HIS FIRST NEW LP IN A DECADE

Cale and hearty: a rejuvenated John Cale in

LEE FIELDS

North Carolina’s soul survivor talks intuition, corn liquor and absent friends.

Beth Orton

The folktronicist hymns Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On (Tamla, 1971).

ECO-FRIENDLY VINYL? COMPOSTABLE VINYL? PREPARE YOUR TURNTABLES

LAST MONTH, Michael Stipe’s Brian Eno-produced 2018 track

PUB ROCK GODHEAD BAR NONE, MICKEY JUPP RETURNS FOR ONE MORE ROUND

The only way is Jupp: Mickey on-stage at

Secrets Of The Dead C90 Scrolls

Artist Mark A. Rodriguez curates every Grateful Dead bootleg tape ever? A new book explains how and why.

INTRODUCING SOUL SCION LEAH WELLER. DON’T CALL HER THE MOD-DAUGHTER!

Flower power: Leah Weller – “I put my

BIG JOANIE, JOYFULLY DECOLONISING LONDON’S DIY PUNK SCENE

“I WAS GETTING interested in black feminism

MOJO PLAYLIST

Strap in for the month’s best indie-beat, psych-jazz and R&B.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW

In Blur , he was the anti-Britpop fifth column, tortured and explosive . Yet a new memoir , and a new group with his life partner , find him closing in on self-respect. “I’ve been a slow developer,” concedes Graham Coxon.

REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT

From joints in the depature lounge to mayhem on the bus, the last years of JOE STRUMMER were a chaotic, uproarious reiteration of his rock’n’roll code. Along for the ride: a maverick new band, The Mescaleros. Lurking in the backgrounds The Clash, and a momentous legacy to honour and challenge. Twenty years after his death, Pat Gilbert rounds up the gang to salute Strummer’s last stand. “He made you feel invincible,” they remember. Photograph: Birian Rasic

MOJO PRESENTS

Patrolling the treacherous interzone between mundanity and profundity, DRY CLEANING unleash a second album that mixes Tories and tortoises, metal and ambient, comedy and catharsis. Looks like quitting the day jobs might pay off after all. “We’ve got a lot of friends who ask, ‘What happened, what’s the secret?’” they tell LAURA SNAPES

♠ HERE ♥ BE ♣ MÖNSTERS

In 2022, the biggest, littlest band in 70s rock celebrate 50 years of monster riffs and eerie mythology, and a chemistry as volatile as Spinal Tap’s. Godzilla, Nosferatu, Death, Patti Smith and J.K. Rowling all loom large in the tall tale of BLUE ÖYSTER CULT - the band that had the lot: the licks, the leathers, the lyrics and the light show. “ We were not going to mess around,” they teil MAT SNÖW

LIFE AFTER DEATH

With the tragedy that consumed his family in July 2015, everything changed for NICK CAVE, inhislifeandhiswork. Inthisextract from a stunningly candid series of interviews with writer SEÁN O’HAGAN published this month, he recalls the “spirits and demons” that blew through Ghosteen, the sturm und drang of the Mick/Blixa Bad Seeds, and glimpses a future where grief looms in more manageable proportions. “Sometimes I try to bring to mind what Arthur has given to me, not just when he was alive but in his absence, too.”

THE SINGULAR ROAD

The collected works of Nick Cave, 2016-2022. JOHN MULVEY stays the course.

GOOD GRIEF

A book about what’s happened to Nick Cave since July 2015 is so much more, finds DANNY ECCLESTON.

THE EQUALS INTEGRATE POP WITH BABY, COME BACK

In 1965, young north London, Jamaica and Guyana met and formed a band predicated on racial equality. Their mix of rock, soul and reggae influences earned them hits including 1968’s mighty Number 1 smash Baby, Come Back, but rocked by a car crash in Germany, and then hit writer EDDY GRANT suffering a heart attack, they split on the cusp of a brave new chapter. “We were friends, having the greatest time,” they recall. “But it was never the same without Eddy.”

MEN O’WAR

Technicolor anachronisms on the casp of the 1990s JELLYFISH were sunshine pop anters with fab gear, fabber harmonies and a beatles-cam-brian Wilson gift for melody. But the cartoon good vibes hid a more complicated story: three classic songwriters iostling for space, and a folatile frontman who would” push people until they broke”. Three decades on, TOM DOYLE an covers the sting in the tale of a band out of time

THE SHOCK OF THE NEW

Jam jars and pencils, sitars and tablas, John Cage and a tin bath – THE BEATLES threw the kitchen sink at Revolver and, in doing so, revolutionised pop. As a new mix and outtakes package exposes the weird roots and wild ambition of its familiar bounty, VICTORIA SEGAL rediscovers a group in the grip of greatness: “Their capabilities had expanded to the extent where they could do anything.”

Earth Mutha

Avant-pop matriarch digs deep into the earth; examines her roots; hatches “biological techno” opus.By Tom Doyle. Illustration by Chris Nurse.

Shine so hard

Ian and Billy’s eleventh offers light in the darkness. By Keith Cameron.

Lift To Experience

The oft-cited ‘new Leonard Cohen’ parks the gloom for mood uplift and sensory joy.

Lust for life

On the other side of heartache, a songwriter finds her richest work. By Grayson Haver Currin.

Lonely Planet

The 74-year-old ambient grandee ruminates on an imperilled globe

Fever Dreams

New Yorkers’ first album in nine years feels the heat.

London’s Burning

Newly released 1970 UK concert film and accompanying soundtrack album show how cool CCR really were.

What Dreams May Come

Stadia, ships, Number 1 hits: the world’s biggest cult band expands.

Wham Bam Thank You Man!

Found! The Louisiana roots rocker who blew Bowie’s mind.

Don Cherry

The legendary jazz trumpeter, arranger and collaborator.

Scarlet Fever

The Lush singer-songwriter’s page-turning tale of love and survival

Thoughts And Prayers

The holy, the horny and the Shrek: a movie about that song and the man who wrote it.