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…

SONGS from the COUNTRY HELL

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

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Theories, rants, etc.

The Beat Defender • The Jam’s powerhouse drummer Rick Buckler left us suddenly on February 17. Pat Gilbert pays stunned tribute.

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS SPARK UP AGAIN WITH ALBUM 16

ALSO WORKING

MOJO’S ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO RECORD STORE DAY 2025

DUDE AWAKENING? IT’S JEFF BRIDGES’ RSD RELEASE!

LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE

Alabaster DePlume • The sax improv trickster talks the relentless heart, the creative moment and learning to fall.

Diamond R&B • Atlantic Records celebrates its 75th birthday with a lavish photo book.

JUG BAND VET AND FINGERPICKING PRO JIM KWESKIN KEEPS ON BLOWING

KWESKIN KOLLECTED • Three of Jim’s gems.

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JAZZ-FUNK MAVERICK EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY WEIRDS OUT!

ACHTUNG! THE FALL’S OLD GUARD REASSEMBLE AS HOUSE OF ALL

MOJO PLAYLIST • Tune in! For protest funk, dream reformations and rock noise.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • One of the Last Great Record Men, the ‘Artist’s A&R’ in the Golden Age of Warner Brothers and beyond, counsellor to Prince, Van, Randy, Elliott Smith and more, shares his wisdom. “Producing is hard,” says Lenny Waronker.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Len through a lens::Waronker down the days.

BURBANK STATEMENTS • Three key Waronker productions – by his nibs.

SEX PISTOLS

AmeRiCAN hiSTORY: seX

JAPANESE BREAKFAST • Michelle Zauner is the best-selling author behind the sublime, eclectic indie-pop of JAPANESE BREAKFAST – now featuring new pals Blake Mills, Jim Keltner and Jeff Bridges. With late-blooming fame informed by a traumatic bereavement, she’s in a hurry to create. “I feel like there’s so little time,” she tells DORIAN LYNSKEY.

THE BREAKFAST SERIAL • Michelle Zauner: the sonic story so far, by Dorian Lynskey.

THE BEATLES

HEAD TO HEAD

TEMPERATURE’S RISING

ALAN SPARHAWK

DO THE (SIDE) HUSTLE

DIONNE WARWICK

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW

THE POGUES UNLEASH RUM SODOMY & THE LASH • Out of the saloon bars of early-’80s north London came an unholy union of Irish rebel music and punk, fronted by hard-drinking poet-bard Shane MacGowan. In 1985, The Pogues recorded their masterpiece of romanticism, defiance and defeat with Elvis Costello at the controls. “It was suddenly like the songs sounded huge and full,” recall the principals. “You’d have to say it was awe-inspiring.”

QUEEN

“MY SONGS ARE ALWAYS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS”

“I REMEMBER THINKING, WHAT A SWEET GUY, BUT WHAT A LOSER”

“THERE WAS SO MUCH BLOW”

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

“CARS AND GIRLS WHAT ELSE IS THERE?”

ALL THAT GLITTERS…

“WHEN THEY WENT ON FREDDIE SMELT BLOOD”

MOJO FILTER • YOUR GUIDE TO THE MONTH’S BEST MUSIC

The ties...