Sixty years since her first song was released (a cover by Tom Rush) and 50 since the magical Hejira, MOJO presents Joni’s 50 Greatest Songs and tells her origin story, with the help of colleagues and famous fans: “She defies the golden rule of...
Radiohead’s musical wellspring and master of scores on Pixies and Penderecki and the peril of rock cliché: “Spinal Tap is always lurking at the edges.”
On the eve of her final UK shows, Americana’s grand duchess remembers The Hot Band’s heyday, peaking 50 years ago with Luxury Liner: “We were good and greasy!”
Growing in stature with every album, the Midwest’s wistful troubadour is stepping out of his partner’s shadow – while shadows in the past linger in his songs.
As he prepares to revive his early repertoire for UK audiences, Mr MacManus faces an unexpected but insightful interrogator: Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy.
An authentic reggae band forced into novelty corner by an obtuse industry, the survivors of 1983’s “pandemonium” state their case, as early recordings emerge.
“There weren’t many groups that came with their own mythology about flying around the universe in a teapot. Not even The Beatles had that.” Enough said? In January 1973, tea cosy hat crazies Gong left their French communal farmhouse to...