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…

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

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WHAT GOES ON! • THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO

Save Magic! • Five key tracks from the latest Joni motherlode.

THE POGUES TOAST 40 YEARS OF RED ROSES FOR ME – WITH HELP FROM FONTAINES D.C. AND MANY MORE!

GIMME FIVE… SONGS ABOUT PETTY CRIME

OUT OF MEMPHIS, TAV FALCO’S PANTHER BURNS RISE AGAIN

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Julian Casablancas • The Strokes/Voidz mainman talks entitlement, respect and Arctic Monkeys.

LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE

THE SHOCKING RETURN OF… LONE JUSTICE!

SKA SURVIVOR RHODA DAKAR KEEPS ON JUMPING

RHODA RUNNERS • All-star Dakar, times three.

TEEN GUITAR PRODIGY MUIREANN BRADLEY SINGS THE ANCIENT LOCKDOWN BLUES

GET LIT WITH INDIE-ROCK SQUARE PEGS ENGLISH TEACHER!

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THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Negotiating fame, the f(olk)-word, then the “dark nightmare” of LA, emerging into motherhood and renewed self-possession, she’s the songwriting seeker plumbing the depths of the psyche, and refusing to curry favour. “I wouldn’t wish meeting me on anybody,” says Laura Marling.

LAURA IN ORDER • The pick of Marling’s mature works, by Victoria Segal.

NEW YORK STATE OF MINDS • Fifty years since their instigation, and 10 since the passing of their last original member, the RAMONES’ rock’n’roll revolution maintains a living legacy. But was there ever a more unlikely success story? KRIS NEEDS returns to the birth of the band, unravelling a tale of blood, toil, tears, sweat, more blood, heroin, OCD, dumb genius and perfect timing: “They ignited the powder keg that was waiting to be ignited.”

RAMONES: THE MOVIE!? • With an errant star and warring estates, will this Brudders biopic ever get made? KRIS NEEDS investigates.

The UNQUIET AMERICAN • In 1974 RANDY NEWMAN - the agent provocateur of singer-songwriters - unleashed his greatest provocation: a barb that speared racist bigotry and liberal hypocrisy alike. In a chapter from his in-depth new Newman biography, Robert Hilburn unpacks the complex genesis of Good Old Boys and its speaking-the-unspeakable anthem, Rednecks: "He knew the song was going to upset people-to put it mildly-but it’s how he saw the world."

THE NEWMAN LEAGUE • Racists, rotters and rogues: agallery of, er, unusual Randy narrators. Lined up by Andrew Male.

MOJO PRESENTS • An American indie rock supergroup that’s into “failure”, “risks” and “things sounding fuckedup”? Featuring members of Pavement, Dirty Three and, er, Zwan? That’ll be THE HARD QUARTET, masters of creativity on the fly and makers of the ‘Old Man Record Of 2024’. “We’re pushing all our chips in!” they tell ANDREW PERRY.

A HARD ROAD • Four previous intersections of The Hard Quartet, by Andrew Perry.

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