In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Mojo

• Beat SURRENDER!
  15 Mod And Northern Soul Floorfillers
• ALL BACK TO MY PLACE
  THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…
• Coup De Grace
  An officially endorsed Jeff Buckley documentary is finally here. But how full is the picture?
• KING JAMMY
  The reggae producer and dub master talks King Tubby, dancehall rivalry and the Sleng Teng rhythm.
• SWEDE LEAVES
  Three tree, grass and stone gasses.
• Red Dirt Boogie Brother
  Unsung guitar hero Jesse Ed Davis is saluted in an exhibition and tribute show. But who was he? Famous friends tell all.
• MOJO PLAYLIST
  Listen up! For the month’s best soul, braindance and balladry.
• THE MOJO INTERVIEW
  Indie pioneer with the effervescent Orange Juice, wrangler of words and caustic wit, he survived major-label meltdowns and near-fatal brain injury to rebuild himself as a songwriter. Amazingly, the fruits are still ripening. “The possibilities are endless!” insists Edwyn Collins.
• IN A NUTSHELL
  A trio of Collins classics.
• THE TRIPPING POINT
  SIXTY YEARS AGO, A SONIC REVOLUTION WAS AFOOT, PALPABLE IN STRANGE NEW RECORDS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC, THE BEATLES AND THE WHO JOINED BY THE SYNDICATS AND THE SILKIE AS GUITAR FEEDBACK, DRUGGY FLOK AND SURGING SOUL BATTLED KEN DODD AND THE SEEKERS FOR CULTURAL ASCENDANCY. ENJOY IT ALL IN MOJO’S LIST OF 20 SUBVERSIVE SINGLES FROM 1965. "WELCOME TO THE YEAR POP WEIRD," SAYS JON SAVAGE.
• MOJO PRESENTS
  Who else sounds like a mash-up of Hüsker Dü and Richard Thompson, and writes about their mother’s death with unexpected and discomfiting candour? Only THE TUBS – Britain’s fast-rising alt-rock “primitives”. But what rewards can they dream of in music’s Age Of Austerity? “Twelve grand a year,” is all they ask of JIM WIRTH.
• ORDER OF THE BATH
  The Tubs’ four favourite records, as dictated to Jim Wirth.
• NEVER TEAR US APART
  From unlikely, far-flung beginnings, INXS rose to conquer the world, enamouring Springsteen, the Stones and Chrissie Hynde before singer Michael Hutchence’s tragic demise. A reissue of their watershed Listen Like Thieves reveals a Swiss Army band, joined at the hip, but MOJO finds some wounds still raw. “We floundered for years,” they tell JOHN AIZLEWOOD.
• WHAT YOU NEED
  INXS: between the hits, selected
• STARR QUALITY
  FOR SEVEN DECADES, THE WORDS HAS LOVED RINGO STARR, THE BEATLE WHO SEEMED REMUSED YET UNALTERED BY MINDBLOWING WITH THE MUSIC THAT STARTED IT ALL, IN A LIVERPOOL CINEMA IN THE 1940s. TIME TO TALK COUNTRY, THE BEATLES' DEMISE, SOLO SUCCESS, AND A LIFELONG AFFINITY WITH AMERICA. " WHO KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE SO HUGE?" HE ASKS TOM DOYLE.
• "RINGO FOR PRESIDENT? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY!"
  WHILE SPRINTING PAST ON HIS BREAKNECK GOT BACK TOUR, PAUL McCARTNEY ANSWERED SOME OF MOJO’s QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS BEATLE PAL.
• DONOVAN CATCHES THE WIND
  Attuned to Aquarian frequencies and on a mission to marry jazz, blues, folk and pop with bardic poetry, DONOVAN LEITCH’s late ’60s were golden. But after hits galore in Britain and America, encounters with the Fabs and the Maharishi, and a pre-ordained love affair, the dawning ’70s demanded a rethink. “The amount we did was phenomenal,” recall the singer and his merry band. “We’d done all we set out to do. We’d invaded pop culture.”
• KEEP ON PUSHING
  A 20-PAGE CELEBRATION
• “He Was Always A Bit Apart From The Crowd”
  From Chuck Berry to 66 with OG Jam guitarist STEVE BROOKES.
• “There’s Always A Strong Melody”
  Strings maven HANNAH PEEL gets inside Weller’s songcraft.
• “I Look At Paul And Think, There’s A Way To Do This”
  BILLY BRAGG on relatability, artistry, The Jam and beyond.
• CONFESSIONS OF A SONGWRITER
  Fifty great tunes, and then some, in every shape and size, and still there’s no rest for PAUL WELLER. On a break at the end of another solo album campaign and a tour that showcased Jam and Style Council classics, he reflects on the inspiration and obsession that power him forward. “It makes you think, Are you in control of this thing? Or is it in control of you?” he tells DANNY ECCLESTON.
• “He Seems Amazed By The Beauty Of Life”
  Guitar foil STEVE CRADOCK on “batshit crazy” Weller’s ever-changing Moogs.
• “Paul Was Listening To A Lot Of Kenny Burrell”
  TSC’s MICK TALBOT on jazz, Brad Pitt and Weller’s broadening palette.
• The good son
  Former ’90s pop star turns Chacon the existentialist on third solo soul LP. Finding the sunbreaks on the darkest days: Andrew Male.
• “I always want to strip things down to gløgg.”
  Eddie Chacon speaks to Andrew Male.
• New day rising
  New Zealand singer-songwriter’s fourth album seeks illumination.
• Jumpin’ Jack Kerouac
  Nouveau beatnik finds her killer outfit.
• The last waltz
  Iconic French octogenarian’s first new album in five years.
• Domestic science
  Folk art visionary probes family dynamics.
• Spirits rejoice
  Jeff Tweedy’s second straight masterpiece, from June 2004, celebrates its 20th anniversary with 9-CD and 2-LP box set variations.
• “You want to discover something you didn’t know you could say.”
  Jeff Tweedy speaks to Bob Mehr.
• Time for a cool sharp harp
  The future king of the kora arrives on the scene.
• Small is beautiful
  Limited runs of classic albums designed to be special.
• I’m With Cupid
  Freed from limbo: golden songs, mysticism and Ronnie Wood protesting “then my bottom dropped off”.
• Quincy Jones
  Q, the music: his own albums and soundtracks.
• Jazz warriors
  The music of Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Max Roach – with Abbey Lincoln as the breakout star – in this African Cold War thriller.
• Bang bang
  The first instalment of Cheryl Sarkisian’s turbulent life story: the music years.
• Great American Song Man
  Hitmaker to the stars Richard Perry left us on December 24.
• Who put songs in brackets?
  Let us answer your rock-related questions and resolve musical argument.
• Orange-y Boom
  Win! Amps and headphones from the guv’nors of volume.
• Guy Chadwick and The House Of Love
  It began with hard-won experience and bracing indie lift-off. But when he lost heart, disappointment won out.