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Andrew Male A MOJO magazine luminary, Andrew is now also the presenter of the MOJO Record Club podcast. For this issue he dissected Springsteen’s Brilliant Disguise, and played his 8-track really fucking loud for the Steve Albini How To Buy… He lives in London with his dog, Nico, and two cats, Klaus and Sir Thomas Browne. David Katz David had a musical epiphany when he experienced Jack Ruby’s mind-blowing soundsystem in his native San Francisco, aged 17. Author of People Funny Boy: The Genius Of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Solid Foundation: An Oral History Of Reggae, Katz’s lengthy chin-wag with Burning Spear appears on page 52. Tom Sheehan A music photographer since 1975, Tom was excited to shoot Danny Thompson (page 28) for MOJO this month: “a great man with a fantastic sense of humour”.…

Andrew Male A MOJO magazine luminary, Andrew is now also the presenter of the MOJO Record Club podcast. For this issue he dissected Springsteen’s Brilliant Disguise, and played his 8-track really fucking loud for the Steve Albini How To Buy… He lives in London with his dog, Nico, and two cats, Klaus and Sir Thomas Browne. David Katz David had a musical epiphany when he experienced Jack Ruby’s mind-blowing soundsystem in his native San Francisco, aged 17. Author of People Funny Boy: The Genius Of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Solid Foundation: An Oral History Of Reggae, Katz’s lengthy chin-wag with Burning Spear appears on page 52. Tom Sheehan A music photographer since 1975, Tom was excited to shoot Danny Thompson (page 28) for MOJO this month: “a great man with…

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS, AS YOU MAY HAVE SPOTTED, A master of many things. But as we celebrate his rousing, poignant, empathetic understanding of North America, its landscape and communities, its culture and people, one key Bruce skill can be overlooked – his ability to channel pure, unbridled rock’n’roll joy. He might be the heroic bard of the dispossessed, but he’s also a connoisseur of ancient goofy dance crazes, of classic R&B, blues, country and proto-rock platters. A walking, jive-talking, Watusi-dancing human encyclopaedia of great American music. This is the music we’ve gathered together for Cover Me: The Springsteen Songbook. We’ve pored over nearly 50 years of Bruce and E Street Band setlists and chosen 15 songs that have cropped up time and again in their live shows. Some of them are…

Bret McKenzie CONCHORD FLYING SOLO What music are you currently grooving to? Cate Le Bon’s Pompeii. A few years ago, she came through Wellington and borrowed a keyboard off me, that’s how I learned about her music. Also, Sad Hunk by Bahamas, and Steve Gunn, particularly New Moon from The Unseen In Between. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? I have two – the first one is Songs From The Front Lawn by The Front Lawn, a quite experimental, really cool New Zealand band from the ’80s. The other one is Bob Dylan, Blood On The Tracks. He was on a roll! What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? The soundtrack to Breakin’ 2: Electric Booglaoo – on cassette, in 1984. I got it for…

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN IS, AS YOU MAY HAVE SPOTTED, A master of many things. But as we celebrate his rousing, poignant, empathetic understanding of North America, its landscape and communities, its culture and people, one key Bruce skill can be overlooked – his ability to channel pure, unbridled rock’n’roll joy. He might be the heroic bard of the dispossessed, but he’s also a connoisseur of ancient goofy dance crazes, of classic R&B, blues, country and proto-rock platters. A walking, jive-talking, Watusi-dancing human encyclopaedia of great American music. This is the music we’ve gathered together for Cover Me: The Springsteen Songbook. We’ve pored over nearly 50 years of Bruce and E Street Band setlists and chosen 15 songs that have cropped up time and again in their live shows. Some of them…

Bret McKenzie CONCHORD FLYING SOLO What music are you currently grooving to? Cate Le Bon’s Pompeii. A few years ago, she came through Wellington and borrowed a keyboard off me, that’s how I learned about her music. Also, Sad Hunk by Bahamas, and Steve Gunn, particularly New Moon from The Unseen In Between. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? I have two – the first one is Songs From The Front Lawn by The Front Lawn, a quite experimental, really cool New Zealand band from the ’80s. The other one is Bob Dylan, Blood On The Tracks. He was on a roll! What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? The soundtrack to Breakin’ 2: Electric Booglaoo – on cassette,…