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IF YOU’VE BEEN READING MOJO FOR A while, you’ll hopefully understand that the magazine shouldn’t be judged on its cover alone. Our Br uce Springsteen stor y this month is a work of great love and scholarship, a showcase for the MOJO hive mind in action as we reconsider the highlights of Springsteen’s career, and manoeuvre a few more obscure cuts into his canon. But what you’ll find deeper in this issue is ever y bit as important.

A reggae legend and a fine new Chicano R&B group inter viewed, for instance. A remarkable ambient jazz album and a long-lost soul classic – featuring Hendrix! – in reviews. A r ummage through the rock rarities in a playboy’s closet. How To Buy hardcore’s most uncompromising operator. And a far-out eco-suite hymning the American wilderness in Buried Treasure.

It’s this mission to expand musical horizons – ours as well as yours – that informs a lot of what we do. And it’s also a big part of our latest enterprise – abrand new podcast called The MOJO Record Club. Hosted by our ver y own Andrew Male, the plan is to bring together the MOJO community of musicians, writers and readers ever y fortnight, to share our musical discoveries. Please join us, by subscribing to The MOJO Record Club wherever you listen to podcasts.