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.

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Ostend Blues • A hoard of unheard Marvin Gaye music has been found in Belgium. Plus! His unreleased jazz recordings.

JOHNNY CASH SINGS AGAIN! ON UNHEARD DEMOS REBUILT BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS

PAT METHENY, JAZZ GUITAR MASTER, PRESENTS LP 55

John Grant • Michigan’s human synthesizer talks lava, famous friends and loving 1970s AOR.

Cherie Currie

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS PLAY 69 LOVE SONGS IN FULL!

FROM POP TO BLUES, AND DYLAN TO BOWIE, DANA GILLESPIE RESTS HER CASE

GHOSTS, FAMINE ROADS AND BOB DYLAN’S BASSIST: ENTER THE DREAMWORLD OF OISÍN LEECH

MOJO PLAYLIST • Listen up! For the month’s garage howls, thrill-themes and goth-pop.

MEET AIRCOOLED, THE BRITPOP AND TECHNO VETS RECHANNELLING THEIR ENERGIES INTO A KRAUT-FUNK PARTY

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • The Roots’ Renaissance Man of Rhythm on Fallon, Sly, Amy, addiction (to vinyl), Pete Townshend’s J Dilla fetish, and what makes him run so hard, so fast. “You don’t figure out what’s next,” says Questlove. “You just do it.”

NO STRANGER AM I • DUSTY SPRINGFIELD sang some of the 1960s' most luminous sides but struggled, like many, in an era that refused to accept or even acknowledge her sexuality. In a chapter from his new book about the profound influence of LGBTQ people on music and culture, from Little Richard to Sylvester, JON SAVAGE tracks her trials, and her triumphs. "I want to sing songs that are real," she said. "This is my hard fight."

LOVE & VIOLINS • Instrumental rock that touches the heavens and plumbs the abyss - such is the métier of the DIRTY THREE. Four decades on their unique path, juggling side-hustles with Nick Cave, Cat Power and more, the Aussie trio reconvene to pursue "the foreign and terrifying and unknown" with Coltrane and Stravinsky in their sights. "Admittedly, that's putting a big bar up," they grant VICTORIA SEGAL.

MOJO PRESENTS • Seeking “classic song structure through a weird foggy filter,” JESSICA PRATT explores the Stygian corners of her mind amid a deep, hypnotic hush. One question: are you ready for the singersongwriter who finds Leonard Cohen upbeat? “There are definitely no happy endings,” she tells TED KESSLER.

CRASHING BY DESIGN • ADDICTION, ALIENATION, OBSOLESCENCE-IN THE '80s, PETE TOWNSHEND WAS FIGHTING ON MULTIPLE FRONTS. AS KEY SOLO WORKS ARE RE-RELEASED HE REFLECTS ON A DECADE OF CRISIS, AND AN INTRIGUINGLY UNRESOLVED FUTURE, IN WHICH ROGER DALTREY MAY STILL PLAY A PART. "THE WHO ARE NOT DONE YET," HE WARNS MARK BLAKE...

THE BIRTH OF BELLE AND SEBASTIAN • Forming against a backdrop of ME and a college music course, Glasgow’s Belle And Sebastian released their remarkable first two albums in a six-month, no-prisoners-taken charge. Inspired by Radio 2 and Lawrence of Felt, here was a masterplan that meant no interviews, and press shots with papier-mâché nuns in place of the band. “If people want to know who this band is,” the group recall of their mindset, “they’re gonna have to work to find out.”

LEARNING TO FLY...