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.

THE MEANING OF WITHIN

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

Theories, rants, etc.

In The Name Of Love • Legendary Motown songwriter Lamont Dozier left us on 8 August.

WELCOME BACK LOST SOUL PHENOMENON LEWIS TAYLOR

JOHN CALE BRINGS HIS FIRST NEW LP IN A DECADE

LEE FIELDS • North Carolina’s soul survivor talks intuition, corn liquor and absent friends.

ECO-FRIENDLY VINYL? COMPOSTABLE VINYL? PREPARE YOUR TURNTABLES

Beth Orton • The folktronicist hymns Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On (Tamla, 1971).

PUB ROCK GODHEAD BAR NONE, MICKEY JUPP RETURNS FOR ONE MORE ROUND

Secrets Of The Dead C90 Scrolls • Artist Mark A. Rodriguez curates every Grateful Dead bootleg tape ever? A new book explains how and why.

INTRODUCING SOUL SCION LEAH WELLER. DON’T CALL HER THE MOD-DAUGHTER!

MOJO PLAYLIST • Strap in for the month’s best indie-beat, psych-jazz and R&B.

BIG JOANIE, JOYFULLY DECOLONISING LONDON’S DIY PUNK SCENE

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • In Blur, he was the anti-Britpop fifth column, tortured and explosive. Yet a new memoir, and a new group with his life partner, find him closing in on self-respect. “I’ve been a slow developer,” concedes Graham Coxon.

REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT • From joints in the depature lounge to mayhem on the bus, the last years of JOE STRUMMER were a chaotic, uproarious reiteration of his rock’n’roll code. Along for the ride: a maverick new band, The Mescaleros. Lurking in the backgrounds The Clash, and a momentous legacy to honour and challenge. Twenty years after his death, Pat Gilbert rounds up the gang to salute Strummer’s last stand. “He made you feel invincible,” they remember. Photograph: Birian Rasic

MOJO PRESENTS • Patrolling the treacherous interzone between mundanity and profundity, DRY CLEANING unleash a second album that mixes Tories and tortoises, metal and ambient, comedy and catharsis. Looks like quitting the day jobs might pay off after all. “We’ve got a lot of friends who ask, ‘What happened, what’s the secret?’” they tell LAURA SNAPES.

♠ HERE ♥ BE ♣ MÖNSTERS • In 2022, the biggest, littlest band in 70s rock celebrate 50 years of monster riffs and eerie mythology, and a chemistry as volatile as Spinal Tap’s. Godzilla, Nosferatu, Death, Patti Smith and J.K. Rowling all loom large in the tall tale of BLUE ÖYSTER CULT - the band that had the lot: the licks, the leathers, the lyrics and the light show.“ We were not going to mess around,” they teil MAT SNÖW.

LIFE AFTER DEATH • With the tragedy that consumed his family in July 2015, everything changed for NICK CAVE, inhislifeandhiswork. Inthisextract from a stunningly candid series of interviews with writer SEÁN O’HAGAN published this month, he recalls the “spirits and demons” that blew through Ghosteen, the sturm und drang of the Mick/Blixa Bad Seeds, and glimpses a future where grief looms in more manageable proportions. “Sometimes I try to bring to mind what Arthur has given to me, not just when he was alive but in his absence, too.”

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