MOJO

Launched in 1993, MOJO celebrates the stories of music's all-time greats. It does this through expertly written, insightful features and exclusive, in-depth interviews. MOJO also finds and recommends new music of quality and integrity, so if you want to read about the classics of now and tomorrow, it is definitely the music magazine for you. As founding editor Paul Du Noyer put it, MOJO has ""the sensibilities of a fanzine and the design values of Vogue."" It's lovingly put together every month by music fanatics with huge knowledge, who share your passion. And because they have unrivalled contacts in the music industry, they bring you the kind of access, news and expertise you won't find anywhere else.

THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

BOOGIE CHILDREN • ZZ TOP LIT TLE FEAT CANNED HEAT R.L. BURNSIDE STEPHEN MALKMUS JOHN LEE HOOKER & MORE

ALL BACK TO MY PLACE • THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...

Theories, rants, etc. • MOJO welcomes correspondence for publication. Write to us at: MOJO, H Bauer Publishing, The Lantern, 75 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PL . E-mail to: mojoreaders@bauermedia.co.uk

Where Do We Go Now? • The first Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds album for five years is coming in 2024. Cue grump, energy and beauty...

Jazz sax seer Kamasi Washington reboots for album five

Brother Wayne reconvenes the MC5 for new LP and tour!

Mike Scott brings a This Is The Sea mega-box

Faces vault opens for unheard outtakes galore

On film! The life of psychedelic polymath John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins

GUITARIST’S GUITARIST ALBERT LEE TALKS CLAPTON, EMMYLOU, THE EVERLYS AND MORE!

Run Paint Run Run • Captain Beefhear t’s art, exhibited! Gary Lucas remembers Don Van Vliet – the man and his brushwork.

KALI MALONE AND THE DANGEROUS BUSINESS OF BEING AN AVANT-GARDE CHURCH ORGANIST

CHRISSIE HYNDE’S RIGHTHAND MAN CRANKS UP A GARAGE PUNK FRENZY WITH HIS LORDSHIP

MOJO PLAYLIST • Tune in! For the month’s best guitars, grooves and ambient flute.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • A Grammy-winning powerhouse with a Southern gothic back story, she put A labama Shakes on ice to blaze her own genre-bending trail, jamming with Macca, Prince and, um, Thunderbitch. What’s she learned? “Soul bands party hardest,” says Brittany Howard.

ROCK IN A HARD PLACE • FIFTY YEARS AGO, FROM DOWN UNDER’S HARDEST SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS, ROSE AC DC, ATAVISTIC RIFF-PURVEYORS PAR EXCELLENCE. LOOKING BACK ON THEIR BIRTH AND EARLY STRUGGLES, SYLVIE SIMMONS FINDS A BAND – AND A SINGER – WHO STUCK TO THEIR GUNS, AND THEIR MONUMENTAL SOUND, THROUGH GOOD TIMES AND BAD, ON THE ROAD TO A DEFINING CATASTROPHE, KNOWING THE ONE TRUTH THAT MATTERED: “ROCK’N’ROLL WAS WHAT MADE PEOPLE HAPPY.”

BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB RE-OPENS FOR BUSINESS • In 1996, in defiance of a US government blockade, Ry Cooder led a recording party to Havana to bring together Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer and other “old-time cats” of Cuban music, who came together for a last bolero that echoed across the world. Cut in just six days, and named for a pre-revolutionary members club, the album was a global hit in ’97 before it was brought to the screen by Wim Wenders in 1999. “We had authenticity,” recall players and other principals. “We knew that something incredible was happening.”

DIFFERENT DRUMMER • JIM GORDON WAS AMONG THE MOST GIF TED AND ADMIRED MUSICIANS OF HIS AGE, THE KING MIDAS OF GROOVES. BUT WHEN HE DIED IN MARCH THIS YEAR, HE WAS ALMOST SOLELY KNOWN AS THE TORMENTED KILLER OF HIS OWN MOTHER. IN THIS EXTRACT FROM A STARTLING NEW BIOGRAPHY, JOEL SELVIN MEASURES HIS GENIUS AND LOCATES A FATEFUL TURNING POINT IN HIS STORY: “VOICES IN HIS HEAD THAT HAD BEEN MURMURS WERE GROWING LOUDER…”

REBEL REBEL • From Bowie to...