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...

RAGGED GLORIES • MOJO PRESENTS LOW, BIG THIEF, 15 EPIC JAMES FROM TY SEGALL, STEPHEN KURT VILE, DINOSAUR JR, MALKMUS AND MORE!

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

Theories, rants, etc.

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Kink Arthur’s Return • Ray, Dave and Mick get the rounds in for their post-Imperial reissue and its radio play. Plus, more new music talk!

LIZ FRASER AND BERNARD BUTLER MEET FOLK APOSTLE SAM LEE FOR ‘OLD WOW’…

GIMME FIVE… INSTRUMENTALS WITH LYRICS TACKED ON

RESURGENT PROG-FOLK PSALMIST BILL FAY TRAVELS DEEPER INTO THE SILENCE.

FACT SHEET

ALSO WORKING

ANGEL OLSEN • Self-reinventing dramatist of song talks synth-pop, mundaneity and too much information.

OLSEN’S OVATIONS

MADNESS BRING THEIR EARLY-DAYS ORAL HISTORY BEFORE WE WAS WE. BUT WHY NOW?

Taylor Hawkins • Foo Fighter/solo rocker hails The Beatles’Red and Blue (Apple,1973)

Bass smashing time • A revelatory London Calling reissue reveals unseen pics, secret thoughts and the exact moment when Simmo smashed it up…

SELF PORTRAIT RICHARD DAWSON • The Northeast balladeer in his own words and by his own hand.

XYLOURIS WHITE : THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN THE DIRTY THREE, FUGAZI AND THE ARCHANGEL OF CRETE!

HARDCORE HERO TURNS POWERPOP AUTEUR – JOIN YOUNG GUV’S TEENAGE FANCLUB

MOJO PLAYLIST • Hit the deck! It’s the months best folk, rave and anti-Trump jazz.

THE LEGACY

Double Life • Ric Ocasek , prime mover of The Cars, left us on September 25. David Fricke remembers “a compelling set of contradictions.”

Strange Boy • Songwriter of pain and catharsis Daniel Johnston died on September 11.

THE LEGACY

Robert Hunter • The Grateful Dead’s poet-in-residence BORN 1941

Larry Wallis • Hairy and loud BORN 1949

THEY ALSO SERVED

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • The fallen friends, the lethal addictions, the eight-day coma that drained him of music – the Dark Lord with the Voice Of Doom has survived them all. Stranger still? His rich late bloom of creativity. “I always wanted greatness,” says Mark Lanegan.

WE’RE NOT WORTHY • Depeche’s Dave Gahan on a walker of the walk.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • The dark stuff: Lanegan under the lens.

MARK’S ENTRIES • Keith Cameron picks three peak Lanegan albums.

She’s The Boss • Betty Wright is the unsung heroine of '70s soul, the Miami-born belter of the classic Clean Up Woman who launched her own label and turned bad luck in love into grist for the mill. And in 2019, she’s still going strong, getting her share. “We cried all the way to the bank,” she assures Geoff Brown.

Wright stuff • Four of Betty’s best.

IF YOU WANT BLOOD • TWELVE MONTHS OF TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY FED INTO LET IT BLEED, THE ALBUM THAT CONFIRMED THE ROLLING STONES' GREATNESS. AS A DELUXE REISSUE IS RELEASED, PHOTOGRAPHER ETHAN RUSSELL UNPICKS 1969 IN RARE AND UNSEEN SHOTS FROM OLYMPIC, LOS ANGELES, HYDE...