MOJO magazine - The Velvet Underground subscriber cover (June 2023 - Issue 355)

MOJO magazine - The Velvet Underground subscriber cover (June 2023 - Issue 355)
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THE DUCKS - Remember Neil Young's bar band that would only play in Santa Cruz in 1977, and split after three months? Read on to find out how the new Ducks LP came about
¾ page

DEXYS - Kevin Rowland said he'd lost his appetite for making music. But then in 2021, it came back. Here, he talks about his new album and the ongoing journey of an artistic life
¾ page

ANDREW LAUDER - The legendary A&R man talks about the psych/pub rock/punk '70s, The Stone Roses, and missing the Fabs' last gig
1 page

JULIE TIPPETTS - She was the kohl-eyed faced of the '60s, and then became an improvising jazz singer: 60 years after her first single, Julie Tippetts explains how she got here
1 page

THE TUBS - 1 page

SARABETH TUCEK - ½ page

PAUL SIMONON - The Clash's bass smasher and style icon on reggae roots, punk violence, jail in Greenland and his quirky new album. But why do we never see him at award ceremonies? "I don't want a pat on the back," insists Paul Simonon
6 pages

JUDEE SILL - Junkie, jailbird, genius: tragic Judee Sill loved hard, lived fast and wrote songs like no one else. As a film about her life looks set to hip a whole new audience, friends and lovers help Mojo tell her story. "She liked the edge," they tell Grayson Haver Currin. "She just went over"
6 pages

THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS - Family harmonisers from the Deep South, they sang for Superman, played with Lightnin' Hopkins and met electric Dylan at Newport. Mixing the blues, folk and rock'n'roll, the racially mixed group duly achieved nirvana with 1968's Number 11 US hit Time Has Come Today, an 11-minute acid-soul call-to-arms which declared "my soul has been psychedelicised." Then, the hippy dream faded and the Mob moved in. "We were putting everything into it," the band and their intimates tell Mojo. "We knew it would be remembered for ever"
4 pages

JASON ISBELL's new album combines fears for America with lessons learned from sobriety and Scorsese. Its songs about abortion and activism, bad love and loneliness, have driven him to painful places - but, as he tells Grayson Haver Currin, that's where the real stories are: "What's the point of all this if you're not terrified?"
4 pages

THE BEATLES - In 1963, The Beatles burst forth, a force that remade pop, and Britain, in an instant. Sixty years on, their subversive spirit shines through the maelstrom of incandescent fans, outraged MPs and hyperbolic media. And their records weren't bad, either. John Harris flips his (Beatle) wig all over again
8 pages

BC CAMPLIGHT - Cheer up, Brian Christinzio - it's already happened, and, as BC Camplight, you've likely written a song about it. Death, disease, demons, deportation, dashed romance, and, for this man of the eastern US, unlikely sanctuary in the north of England: "My story is pretty warty," he warns Martin Aston
4 pages

LOU REED & THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - Ten years since he passed, the 50 Greatest Songs of Lou Reed and the revolutionary band he founded are celebrated in Mojo. With contributions from collaborators and fans, plus: Berlin at 50
20 pages

GARY ROSSINGTON, Lynyrd Skynyrd's final keeper of the flame, left us on March 5
1 page

DELE SOSIMI AND EGYPT 80 - He asked to take a solo and the game was afoot. But then a power play went sideways. Dele Sosimi remembers Fela Kuti's Egypt 80
1 page