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New MOJO Issue With Cover Stars THE BEATLES

Posted on by JL

22 June 2025

Sixty years ago, THE BEATLES hit new highs, metaphorically and literally, and took their music to another level with 1965 LP Help! MOJO focuses on that album in this new issue.


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Also in this issue: Black Sabbath’s Last Stand; life as a Banshee (and Mr Siouxsie Sioux)
by Budgie; Bruce Springsteen’s lost albums unearthed; Herbie Hancock’s highlights reel;
soul survivor Carla Thomas.

Plus: Tropicália; Wet Leg; Rick Wakeman; English Teacher; Dylan ’65; unseen Blur; Charlie Musselwhite; Gina Birch; ABC’s The Lexicon Of Love; Cabaret Voltaire after Richard Kirk, All Back To… all of The Kinks’ an much more.

The free CD is named Feed Your Head: The Second Course. 15 Mind-altering classics
by Otis Redding, The Fall, John Prine, Love, Bert Jansch, The Orb, Charlie Parker and more.

You can purchase a copy and have it sent straight to your home. Info here.

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New UNCUT Magazine Issue Out With Cover Star BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Posted on by JL

19 June 2025

Next Friday, June 27th, BRUCE SPRINGTEEN releases TRACKS II: THE LOST ALBUMS.
A big box set compilation that serves as a follow-up to his 1998 box set Tracks, featuring previously unreleased songs recorded between 1983 and 2018. The collection is organized into seven thematic albums, each showcasing rare and archival material from various sessions throughout Springsteen’s career. UNCUT gets into it in detail.

Also articles on Neil Young, Wet Leg, Sade, War, Blondie,
John Fogerty, Billy Idol, Wilko Johnson, Caroline and more.

New album reviews of Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, Mark Stewart, The New Eves, Ben LaMar Gay, Rebecca Shiffman, Murry Hammond, Shelley Burgon, His Lordship, Mike Polizze, archive releases by The B-52s, Jackie O Motherfucker, Mickey Newbury and Miles Davis; Iggy Pop live; and more.

This month’s Free CD is named ‘Hopes And Dreams’ featuring
15 new tracks with Gwenno, Alice Cooper, US Girls, Gina Birchs
and many more.

You can purchase a copy and let it have sent to your home. Info HERE.

UNCUT Magazine Presents The Ultimate Music Guide to LOU REED

Posted on by JL

25 May 2025

English glossy music monthly UNCUT presents another Ultimate Music Guide.
This time the late genial LOU REED is the focus of attention.

This 148-page deluxe edition celebrates 60 years of Lou’s mature songwriting.
Whether it was the influential sedition of his early work, his unexpected rebirth as
a pop star via the intervention of David Bowie, the adversarial, unexplained soundworld
of Metal Machine Music, through to Lulu, his album with Metallica and his last ambient works, his was a career to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Outside of the music there was clearly a lot going on. For all Laurie Anderson’s efforts
to posthumously rehabilitate Reed as a dog lover, Tai chi master and amateur watch repairer, loving partner, family member and electronics whiz, we’re still compelled
by the jaggedness of the man. The horrifying onstage schtick. The interviews that
make your blood run cold. It’s rage-filled, often misanthropic and it’s complicated.

These days, Lou’s archives (his tapes, his doo wop records, college accreditations, and clippings archive; his swords, but not his hats) are in the special collections department of New York Public Library. One of the most interesting artefacts to be discovered, however, may have been one of the first, found behind Lou’s work desk.

You can purchase a copy and have it sent to your home. Info HERE.

WAVES OF FEAR
(One of my Reed’s favs)

New MOJO Issue With QUEEN – Timeless Masterstroke ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ Turns 50 This Year

Posted on by JL

28 March 2025

QUEEN‘s monumental masterstroke BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY was released on 31 October 1975. Almost 50 years ago. It was the main single of their grand A Night At The Opera opus.

The band’s guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor talk in this month’s issue about the sonic step-changes of rock’s most daring and varied band.

Also in the issue: Sex Pistols’ Jones, Cook and Matlock on their live reincarnation; inside the songwriting symbiosis of Lennon and McCartney; The Pogues’ superb album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash at 40; Dionne Warwick on the hits (and writs) that define her career; Low’s Alan Sparhawk rebuilds after tragedy and much more.

You can purchase a copy and have it sent to your home. Info HERE.

Picture This – AMYL & THE SNIFFERS On ROLLING STONE AU/NZ COVER

Posted on by JL

28 March 2025

Australian punk rock turbo AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS are as hot
as ever, after last year’s pyrotechnics album Cartoon Darkness.

After appearing on several magazine covers this past year, Rolling Stone is now featuring them on its new AU/NZ issue. Amyl doesn’t really looks like, well, the Amyl we all know and love. Right?

New UNCUT Issue With Cover Stars THE SMALL FACES

Posted on by JL

27 March 2025

This month’s UNCUT issue shines the spotlight on British
mod-pop-rock legends SMALL FACES (1965–1969, 1975–1978).

1968 was a year of extremes for the band, from hit singles
and a career-defining album Odgen’s Nut Gone Flake to
a final, on-stage bust-up.

But while the bonds between them were strained by internal tensions
and external dramas, the music Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagen
and Kenney Jones made in their final months together pointed tantalizingly
in bold, new directions.

Also features on Lou Reed, Bootsy Collins, Radiohead, Suzanne
Vega, Belly, David Johanson, new album reviews, and much more.

This month’s Free CD is exclusive Small Faces one
with alternative mixes, raritie,s and live cuts.

You can purchase a copy and have it sent to your home. Info HERE.


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New UNCUT MAGAZINE Comes With A Free CD Compiled By WILCO’s JEFF TWEEDY

Posted on by JL

6 February 2025

Jeffy Tweedy, maestro of WILCO have compiled another spectacular CD
for Uncut titled: Noisy Ghosts, hooked around their upcoming 20th anniversary
edition of their fifth A Ghost Is Born anniversary edition.


Tweedy about that album: “This record isn’t like any other record we’d done before.
That’s the sort of thing I value in my own record collection. Those are the records that
are the most unique. I was already doing some cut-up techniques and free writing and
things like that, which I really enjoyed.

I discovered that I liked the stuff that I didn’t think about more than the stuff that
I did think about. With the sessions for Ghost, I was trying to find ways to extend
that to the band and get everybody else to buy into it.”


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Also features on Jefferson Airplane, Throwing Muses, The Zombies, David Lynch
and more. You can order a copy and let it sent to your home address. Info here.

WILCO TOUR

UNCUT Website