Month: December 2024

New MOJO Magazine With THE ROLLING STONES

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30 December 2024

Fifty-five years on, THE ROLLING STONES’ epochal Let It Bleed album is
under the spotlight in this new MOJO issue. Plus the triumphs and tragedies
of the band’s watershed 1969: Brian’s death, Altamont, Honky Tonk Women
and more.


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Also in the issue: The Doors with amazing unseen pics with exclusive
commentary from John Densmore and Robby Krieger; the dawn of
Thin Lizzy.

A 2025 music preview starring Ringo Starr, Lana Del Rey, ELO and Led Zeppelin; the extraordinary story of America’s Horse With No Name. Jean-Michel Jarre, Charles Mingus, Manic Street Preachers, Lijadu Sisters, John Grant, Laura Nyro, Billy J Kramer, Bob Neuwirth, The Weather Station, Dory Previn, tributes to Phil Lesh, Quincy Jones, Shel Talmy and more.

This month’s Free CD is named A Man Of Wealth And Taste: The Brian Jones Companion. Includes tracks by Lucinda Williams, Elmore James, Nico, Ravi Shankar, Howlin’ Wolf, The Master Musicians Of Joujouka, and others.

You can purchase a copy and let it
be sent to your home. Info here.

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British LA LA CHOIRS Cause Goosebumps With Epic Cover Of ‘FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK’

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

29 December 2024

I know Xmas is over, although Santa is still around. But I came across this recent epic perfomance of The Pogues‘ timeless classic Fairytale Of New York by La La Choirs in
the cathedral in Exeter (UK) a couple of days ago.

Goosebumps.
Glorious.
Hallelujah.

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS – Imperishable Rockers Drop New Album ‘SO LONELY IN HEAVEN’ On 17 Jan 2025

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Coming up

29 December 2024

You can’t accuse THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS of laziness during their long career. They released 30+ studio albums and 50+ live LPs since their birth in 1980. Besides that their Dutch orchestrator Edward Ka-Spel found the time to record 60, yes sixty, solo albums.

And TLPD have no intention to rest on their laurels. They canned another
longplayer, named it SO LONELY IN HEAVEN and drop it on 17th January.

Creation: “‘So Lonely in Heaven’ is the second album by The Legendary Pink Dots
since the World stopped for a Global Pandemic. With members scattered across
three countries and two continents, our guilty confession is that quite a few Air 1
Miles were consumed in its creation. Ideas were spun across Cyberspace for months,
but the magic happened collectively in small spaces with the tape running.”


Photo: Michael Mcgrath

Message: “The machine is everything we are. It sees everything, hears everything, knows everything and feeds, speeds, drinks us down, spits us out – we lost control of it at the instant
of its conception. You may cough, curse and die, but the machine will resurrect you without the flaws, at your peak, smiling from a screen, bidding someone in a lonely room to join you.

It’s an invitation from Heaven, where anyone can be anything they want to be, but it’s a Nation of One. You’ll be everything we are. You’ll be a shadow of yourself. You’ll repeat yourself – endlessly. You’ll be desperate for some kind of explanation. You’ll be lonely. So very lonely.”

Check out the 4 tracks
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– Everything On The Moon –


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GANG OF FOUR – Farewell Tour Dates In North America 2025

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British post-punk legends GANG OF FOUR released their
trailblazing, highly influential debut LP Entertainment!
on 25 September 1979, 45 years ago.

The sublime debut single.

To celebrate the anniversary, the band played some gigs in the UK recently with
3 original members. Singer Jon King, drummer Hugo Burnham, David Pajo now on
guitar instead of the unfortunate Andy Gill, the innovative riff engine of GOF,
who passed away 4 years ago, aged 64, and bassist Gail Greenwood


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They also did some concerts in North America
and return next year for a bigger farewell cruise.

Press statement: “2025 will be the 45th anniversary of the release of Entertainment! in the US, and will be our final year as a band. It’s been wonderful, but all things must end. We want to go out with a bang and celebrate with our fans and friends. So, on what will be our last US tour, we’ll play two sets at each show: ‘Entertainment!” from start to finish in the first, and the best of the rest in the second. Come and join in, it’ll be a blast!”

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BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 30 In 2025

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28 December 2024

Band: OASIS

Album: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Their 2nd one. The best-selling
album of the 90s in the UK.

Rolling Stone said: “What’s the Story is more than a natural progression, it’s
a bold leap forward that displays significant musical and personal growth.”

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Band: RADIOHEAD

Album: The Bends
Their second LP. It peaked at
#7 in the UK and #88 in the US.

NME wrote: “Radiohead clearly resolved to make an album
so stunning it would make people forget their own name,
never mind ‘Creep’.”

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Artist: PJ HARVEY

Album: To Bring You My Love
Her 3rd one. #12 in the UK.

The Independent (British newspaper): “Harvey’s performance makes the record stand out from its peers. A threatening, nightmarish creature. Imagine Siouxsie and the Bad Seeds”

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Band: BLACK GRAPE
Featuring 2 Happy Mondays.
Bez and Shaun Ryder.

Album: It’s Great When You’re Straight…
Their debut longplayer. No. 1 in the UK.

VOX (British music monthly): “Black Grape buzz with the
life-affirming, innovative, fuck-you spirit of true rock’n’roll”.

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Artist: TRICKY

Album: Maxinquaye
The debut of former
Massive Attack member.

Q (British music monthly): “A highly inventive and intoxicating collection.
With this debut, Tricky proves himself to be more challenging and eclectic
than his peers”.

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Band: PULP

Album: Different Class
The 5th one of the Sheffield, led by Jarvis Cocker.
No. 1 in the UK, No. 44 in the USA.

Melody Maker (former British weekly): “Bloody essential. The album’s title
alone announces that Cocker’s broadened his scope, has another axe to grind:
social
antagonism.”

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Band: LEFTFIELD

Album: LEFTISM
London-based duo’s
debut LP.

NME said: “There’s a scope and spirit, an energy and a madness to ‘Leftism’ which’ll
make it one of the few dance derived that’ll stay up there, bouncing around in the great
echo chamber of futurity for years.

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Band: GARBAGE

Album: Garbage
The Scottish/American team’s 1st one.
No. 1 in the UK, No. 20 in the US.

AllMusic: “Garbage’s self-titled debut has all the trappings of alternative rock, off-kilter arrangements, occasional bursts of noise, a female singer with a thin, airy voice but it
comes off as pop, thanks to the glossy production courtesy of drummer Butch Vig.”

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Band: THE SMASHING PUMKINGS

Album: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
3rd longplayer, a double one. No. 1 in the US, and the UK.

Time USA said: “The group’s most ambitious and accomplished work yet. One gets the feeling that the band charged ahead on gut instincts; the sheer scope of the album (28 songs) didn’t allow for second-guessing or contrivance.”

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Band: THE CHARLATANS

Album: THE CHARLATANS
Their 4th LP. #1 in the UK.

NME wrote: “It feels unequivocally like a statement of intent. With the various
influences, the band was capable of absorbing the sensibility wholesale, while
leaving the incriminating specifics alone.”

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YOUNG KNIVES – British Indie Rock Brothers Present Their 6th Album ‘LANDFILL’ On 24 January 2025

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Coming up

28 December 2024

Band: YOUNG KNIVES
Who: British indie rock brothers
Henry Dartnall and Thomas Bonsu-Dartnall.
Alive and kickin’ since 1998.

New album: LANDFILL
Their 6th. It’ll land on 24 January 2025.

Press info: Four years have passed since Young Knives’ last studio outing – 2020’s aggressive and philosophical look at humanity’s propensity for hyper-violence, Barbarians – and during this time the band have taken a step to consider the changing of the world around them, their place in it, and the sometimes-futile pursuit of controlling what it is that we leave behind when we’re gone.

Music fans will pick-up on the tongue-in-cheek use of the word “landfill” as an album title from a band that emerged during the post-indie-rock-revival of the 00s. But rather than dwelling on the derogatory landfill stick that has sometimes comes to beat them, Young Knives instead use this coming phase of their career to contemplate the nature of existence and how best to catalogue it through song.

As lead singer and guitarist Henry Dartnall puts it, “it’s a record is about letting things
go before they are taken from you, including the carefully curated images of ourselves.
Embracing everything the world throws at you and not taking it to heart.”


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Lead single: DISSOLUTION

“This song is kind of dumb. The words are about the dissolution of the ego or ego death; a thing that appears in eastern religions and was written about in Joseph Campbell’s “A Hero’s Journey”. It’s the refocusing of your attention on the part of you that never becomes yesterday and can never become tomorrow, or something like that. ”

UK TOUR 2025

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