The latest issue of MOJO features a world exclusive interview with Jarvis Cocker’s comeback kings (and queen) of ’90s pop, Pulp. The band give us the lowdown on Glasto, Jacko, controversy, contrarian genius and – surprise! – their brilliant new album.
Also in the issue: Pink Floyd – Live At Pompeii dug up, dusted off; Nick Drake – unheard and unseen; Alison Krauss’s bluegrass odyssey; Smokey Robinson reinvents soul; New York Dolls’ David Johansen remembered. Plus: Sparks; Thom Yorke; Irma Thomas; Dire Straits; Peter Murphy; Small Faces; Billy Nomates; Chip Taylor; Viagra Boys; Hüsker Dü; The Blockheads; Ready Steady Go!’s TV revolution; all back to Billy Idol’s; and more!
THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Pulp: Forty Odd Years. Live, rare and unreleased tracks from the vast expanse of their career, 1982 to 2025, curated by Cocker and Co. Features killer versions of Common People, Babies, Sheffield: Sex City, His ’N’ Hers, The Trees and more!
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INSIDE MOJO 379...
PULP: The oddball outsiders of Britpop reconvene for their first interview in 23 years. To be discussed: failure, success, Glasto, Jacko, and much more – not least the most spectacular of comeback albums.
PINK FLOYD: Set the controls for the heart of the volcano! The Floyd’s seismic Pompeii gig is finally an album: Nick Mason and remastering maestro Steven Wilson go with the flow.
SMOKEY ROBINSON: On the eve of a long-awaited UK tour, the Motown Miracle-worker revisits one of his greatest, most seductive albums, A Quiet Storm, and the “languid intimacy” that recharged his career.
ALISON KRAUSS: “The ambassador of Olde America” – as Robert Plant calls her – on a life in bluegrass, Ringo, O Brother… and the secret folk skills of Def Leppard!
DAVID JOHANSEN: Good times galore in a disappearing Manhattan, as street punks, glam superstars and Kris Needs fondly remember the shapeshifting frontman of the New York Dolls.
BILLY NOMATES: Bristol’s indefatigable post-punk pop star reveals how to make friends (including Strangler Hugh Cornwell) and influence people, through the toughest of times.
SPARKS: A home visit to the Mael brothers in Beverly Hills as, six decades in, their unique take on art-pop goes from strength to strength: “We’re always full-bore with whatever we’re doing.”
READY STEADY GO!: Behind the scenes at the show that revolutionised rock’n’roll TV in Britain. “We were young,” its makers tells us. “We thought we could do anything!”
REVIEWED: Dire Straits / Thom Yorke / Small Faces / Suzanne Vega / Alan Sparhawk / Marianne Faithfull / Jenny Hval / Arcade Fire / Julee Cruise / Lucius / Peter Capaldi / Deerhoof / Lonnie Liston Smith / Sunflower Bean / Car Seat Headrest / Youssou N’Dour / Jeff Bridges / Little Feat / Bon Iver / Peter Doherty / Simple Minds / Femi Kuti / Valerie June / Ida
PLUS! Nick Drake – unheard tracks, unseen pics! / Bob Mould on the beginning and end of Hüsker Dü / Bauhaus’s Peter Murphy – confessions of a vampire! / Viagra Boys are Rising (hem, hem) / Chip Taylor checks in / The Blockheads hunker down / Irma Thomas soldiers on / Farewell, Brian James, Roy Ayers, Angie Stone, Jesse Colin Young… / How To Buy… Drone / All back to Billy Idol’s! / And more!