MOJO PLAYLIST

Listen up! For the month’s blues, dub and Arabic rave.

1 NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS WILD GOD

Cave gets the old gang – plus Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood – together for a rousing return to the environs of Jubilee Street. “HERE WE GO!” Find it: streaming services

2 BOB DYLAN WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE

Blue? Don’t know where to go? How about Fort Lauderdale, where His Bobness restarted The Rough & Rowdy Ways tour by grafting his 1971 classic onto the tune of Puttin’ On The Ritz. Super duper! Find it: YouTube

3 THE SPECIALS FAMILY WHEN A LIGHT GOES OUT

Lynval Golding’s dubby reggae tribute to Terry Hall and John Bradbury, with help from Sir Horace Gentleman.

Find it: YouTube

4 JOHN GRANT THE CHILD CATCHER

Grant goes hyper-Vangelis with a glacial loss-of-self fear-reverie that shifts to anthemic soft-rock. Find it: streaming services

5 SARAH BROWN AMAZING GRACE

Supplication in the dark from Simple Minds’ gospel division, bringing a shudder of Arthur Russell’s deep-vibrato weirdness. Find it: streaming services

6 SLASH FEAT. BRIAN JOHNSON KILLING FLOOR

AC/DC singer and GN’R guitarist revisit the abattoir to cover Howlin’ Wolf’s cornerstone. Find it: YouTube

7 USE KNIFE PTOLEMAIC (ZOË McPHERSON REMIX)

Belgian/Iraqi outfit, much dug by MOJO at March’s ace Leiden festival Peel Slowly And See, take Arab sounds into the chemical rave. Find it: Peace Carnival EP/streaming services

8 DIRTY THREE LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING I

Busy month for Warren Ellis: a Bad Seeds album and his power trio’s first in 12 years. Free jazz drums, guitar sputter, frenzied violin; a heroic return.

Find it: streaming services

9 STEVE CONTE WE LIKE IT

Co-written with XTC’s Andy Partridge, the ex-New York Doll glam rocks a lament to sanitised living, with a nod to Ball Of Confusion.

Find it: streaming services

10 NIAMH REGAN MADONNA

The Irish singer-songwriter picks through memories untethered by loss, with a tremor of psychedelic folk.

Find it: streaming services