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…

the Waterboys • ABANDONMENT AND LOVE LOST. RARE. LIVE. 1986-1989

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

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Theories, rants, etc. • MOJO welcomes correspondence for publication. Write to us at: MOJO, H Bauer Publishing, The Lantern, 75 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PL. E-mail to: mojoreaders@bauermedia.co.uk

Rebirth Of The Ghoul! • Punkabilly legends The Cramps pour the Gravest Gravy. But what's next, and what have Henry Rollins & Ian MacKaye got to do with it?

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN RETURN WITH NEW MUSIC, 12 YEARS ON

ALSO WORKING

Kevin Rowland • Dexys’ soul visionary talks fathers, jazz and being less uptight these days.

Ian Gillan • Deep Purple's leather-lunged rock god screams for Chuck Berry (Pye International, 1963).

THE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN CENTER FOR AMERICAN MUSIC IS OPEN!

JAZZ BASS ETERNAL RON CARTER IS STILL LEARNING

RON: THE JEWELS • Three servings of Carter virtuosity.

Screaming Targets • New book The Beatles By Jim Marshall reveals the madness and pathos of The Beatles’ on-stage sign-off.

INTRODUCING ELLIE O'NEILL, A WOMAN OF HEART AND MIND

MUDHONEY + DIRTY THREE + GOD = FANCY WEAPON!

MOJO PLAYLIST • Attention! For the month's acoustic splendour, Spectropunk and Marvin covers.

THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Patti Smith's right-hand man, visionary Nuggets curator and the storied producer of stealth classics tells his tale and imparts his wisdom. “You have to be open to what the future reveals,” says Lenny Kaye, “and then ride that pony.”

WE'RE NOT WORTHY • Patti Smith on her simpatico six-stringer.

A LIFE IN PICTURES • Len through a lens: Kaye down the years.

KAYE'S CATALOGUE • The three sides of Lenny,

WORLD OF ECHO • FIFTY YEARS AGO, REGGAE'S DUB REVOLUTION HIT TOP GEAR, OPENING A PANDORA'S BOX OF SONIC INVENTION. BUT AS DAVID KATZ RELATES FROM HIS NEW BOOK ON THE PHENOMENON, 1976 WAS BUT ONE CHAPTER IN THE GENRE'S FASCINATING FLOWERING, AS LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY, KING TUBBY AND MORE TURNED THE RECORDING STUDIO INTO A CRAZY PLAYGROUND: “THIS IS A NEW SOUND! AH MADNESS THIS!”

DEPTH CHARGES • FIVE KEY DUB ALBUMS FROM 1976. YOUR SELECTOR: DAVID KATZ.

RebeLlious JukEbox • Fifty years since the birth of The Fall, we're still measuring the fallout. Surveying the band's first furious phase, 1976-1983, what are we to make of Mark E Smith, the communist hippy who liked Genesis? Or the tarot readings, whimsical sackings and romantic entanglements? What else can Smith's fellow travellers reveal? “You were in the thick of this maelstrom of weirdness,” they tell Ian Harrison.

Gramme Central • The Fall's first five and a half albums. Trapped inside the pentagram: Ian Harrison.

MOJO PRESENTS • Building on the career-high Bleeds, WEDNESDAY take their passionate cocktail of ‘90s indie and classic country to the world this summer. ‘It’ guitarist MJ Lenderman is no longer embedded,...