10 August 2026
On 10 August 1963, the 13 year-old Little Stevie Wonder started a three week run
at No.1 on the US singles chart with Fingertips Pt. 2, making him the youngest singer
to top the charts.
10 August 2026
Reznor loves The Cure everyday of the week.
10 August 2026
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Band: THE DURUTTI COLUMN
Who: Post-punk project of Manchester-born, experimental singer-songwriter-guitarist Vincent Gerard “Vini” Reilly (now 72). The band’s name refers to the Durruti Column,
an anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War, named after Buenaventura Durruti.
Album: RENASCENT.
His 28th.
Press info: “This album marks the long-awaited return of legendary
Manchester outfit The Durutti Column, their first new studio album
in over 15 years.
Around the guitar work of Vini Reilly, the album plays between sonic atmospherics and structure: warm ambient washes, piano, beats and guest vocal turns by a new generation (Caoilfhionn Rose). Both contemporary and otherworldly.”
MOJO magazine writes: “Listening to the music of Vini Reilly is a process of divine adjustment, a blissful adaptation to a unique sonic environment that feels simultaneously of the past and future but never the present.
Renascent combines luminescent indie pastoralism with ghostly flamenco shadows
and vocal samples that summon dancefloor ghosts of the Haçienda, but also push
forward into new realms with the juddering Afro-futurism of Your Shadow At Evening
and the Beckettian unravelling of Scammer.”
TUTV: This is a soothing, ambient Eno-like soundtrack for a melodramatic movie.
Reilly offers cinematic, dreamy soundscapes, rather than conventional song structures.
His singular, crystalline, finger-picking guitar playing style commands the aural tone throughout.
7 out of the 11 tracks are instrumentals. Caoilfhionn Rose sings on 3, Lucas Elliot
on one, and Reilly stirs with vulnerable vocals on the album’s best piece, the wondrous musing Scammer. Give Renascent a couple of spins, once you’re connected with The Durutti Column‘s imaginative and blue-sky world, you’ll enjoy a very gratifying record.
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10 August 2026
Last week, 60 years ago, THE BEATLES released their magnum opus
Revolver. MOJO goes back for a detailed exploration of the LP.
Also in this issue: Johnny Marr, David Bowie, Kate & Anna McGarrigle; Joy Division,
Flamin’ Groovies; Mike D; Queen; The Mary Wallopers; Steven Wilson; The Afghan Whigs; Wishbone Ash; The Tubs; The Cure, and many more
You can order a copy and let it be sent to your home. Info HERE.
This month’s Free CD, named Spread The Word!: The Soul Of The Beatles features Fifteen bangers the Beatles were digging in 1965. Little Richard, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Patti Labelle, Wilson Pickett, Larry Williams and more!
Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer day somewhere in history
9 August 2026
On 9 August 1986, today 40 years ago, the champions of rock bombast
QUEEN played the historic site of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, East England,
in front of 120,000 fans. It was the final date of that year’s tour and their
career.
Historic concert.
Reveries for the laziest day of the week
9 August 2026
Artist: BRANDON FLOWERS
Who: The charismatic Californian
frontman of The Killers
Track: TIGER’S BLOOD
Newest single from his 3rd solo album,
named Thrasher, out on August 21st.
The LP is recorded in Nashville, the mecca of country music, with some renowned
country musicians. Rooted in his formative childhood years in the small town of Nephi, Utah, the timeless sonic approach proves to be the ideal home for Flowers’ most personal and vulnerable songwriting yet.
TUTV: An avid Springsteen-esque flow and Flowers’ distinctive
romantic touch induces melancholic sentimentality.
“Last thing that I heard/ You were doing okay. I still smile when I remember us in younger days/ The things that we can’t explain/ Roll on like a runaway train/ Into the fire and out of the frame/ Wild and gone like a runaway train.”
9 August 2026
Californian rock vets THE MOUTAIN GOATS are
on a hearty roll on their brand new nostalgic LP,
their 24th, baptized DAYS.
They will promote it in October in the UK and Europe.
5th October, Helsinki, Finland – Kuudes Linja *
7th October, Stockholm, Sweden – Nalen *
8th October, Oslo, Norway – Vulkan Arena *
10th October, Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpehuset *
11th Oct Berlin, DE – Metropol
13th October, Ghent, Belgium – De Centrale *
14th October, Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenberg *
16th October, Manchester, UK – Albert Hall #
18th October, Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street #
19th October, Glasgow, UK – Barrowland Ballroom #
21st October, London, UK – Hackney Church #
23rd October, Bristol, UK – Bristol Beacon #
* with Craig Finn
# with Craig Finn and the Band of Forgiveness
DAYS
Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer day somewhere in history
8 August 2026
The photo session for the cover of THE BEATLES 11th LP ABBEY ROAD took
place on the crossing outside Abbey Road studios in London, on 8 August 1969.
Photographer Iain McMillan, balanced on a step-ladder in the middle of the road took six shots of John, Ringo, Paul, and George walking across the zebra crossing while a policeman held up the traffic. The band then returned to the studio and recorded overdubs on ‘The End’, ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ and ‘Oh! Darling’.
