MOJO June 2021

INCLUDING BLACK PUMAS, P.P. ARNOLD, RICHARD HAWLEY, DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS + A PAUL WELLER RARITY! IT’S A TRICKY JOB BEING GUEST EDITOR OF MOJO, AS David Bowie, Tom Waits, Noel Gallagher and Keith Richards have all found out over the years. The role requires great stature, an awe-inspiring body of work, and a serious appetite for the music of others – the latter not always a given among rock legends. Paul Weller, though, is an impeccably qualified candidate. Over the past few years especially, his own dynamic productivity has been matched by an insatiable drive to discover new sounds. “Music has been my most reliable friend – and I am blessed with many great friends,” he tells us this month. “Music’s a spiritual force, it covers so much ground: as…

INCLUDING BLACK PUMAS, P.P. ARNOLD, RICHARD HAWLEY, DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS + A PAUL WELLER RARITY! IT’S A TRICKY JOB BEING GUEST EDITOR OF MOJO, AS David Bowie, Tom Waits, Noel Gallagher and Keith Richards have all found out over the years. The role requires great stature, an awe-inspiring body of work, and a serious appetite for the music of others – the latter not always a given among rock legends. Paul Weller, though, is an impeccably qualified candidate. Over the past few years especially, his own dynamic productivity has been matched by an insatiable drive to discover new sounds. “Music has been my most reliable friend – and I am blessed with many great friends,” he tells us this month. “Music’s a spiritual force, it covers so much…

Sharon Van Etten STAGE AND SCREEN STAR What music are you currently grooving to? Adriana McCassim’s debut EP Quiet Sides. [She] reminds me of my younger self. She worked as an intern at a management company, learned how to record herself and others, as well as thriving on constant motion, inspired by heartbreak, yet feeling rooted in self-awareness and contemplation. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk. Makes me miss playing with my band and embracing the flaws of live feels. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? Elastica’s first album. I was 14. I bought this at a Sam Goody at the mall, on cassette, the summer we were driving cross-country from New Jersey to drop my brother off at college in…

Sharon Van Etten STAGE AND SCREEN STAR What music are you currently grooving to? Adriana McCassim’s debut EP Quiet Sides. [She] reminds me of my younger self. She worked as an intern at a management company, learned how to record herself and others, as well as thriving on constant motion, inspired by heartbreak, yet feeling rooted in self-awareness and contemplation. What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk. Makes me miss playing with my band and embracing the flaws of live feels. What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? Elastica’s first album. I was 14. I bought this at a Sam Goody at the mall, on cassette, the summer we were driving cross-country from New Jersey to…

E-mail to: mojoreaders@bauermedia.co.uk HELLO DEAR READERS, it is a great pleasure to be asked to edit this particular issue of our favourite music mag. An honour, too. MOJO has consistently brought us incredible features on our favourite artists and introduced new ones too. I, like many, remember buying the first issue with John’n’Bob, and haven’t ever stopped. Regardless of who’s on the cover, I know there’ll be something of interest to me. With some of the greatest music writers around, MOJO is always quality and with no other agenda than to bring you all this fantastic music, month after month, year after year. I also wanna mention the brilliant Art Director Wags – maybe someone you don’t know, but he’s the brain behind creatively putting this mag together month after month and that’s…

FOR JEFF Buckley’s mother Mary Guibert, meeting actor Reeve Carney meant there was no doubt who’d play her son in a new biopic. “They were introduced and… it’s not just that Reeve looks exactly like Jeff, but he sounds exactly like Jeff,” says Orian Williams, the producer and director of the just announced Everybody Here Wants You. “When he sings, you really think it’s him. Mary watched him and said, ‘Yeah, that’s my son.’” Bagging Carney, a respected Broadway actor and musician who co-stars in Ridley Scott’s forthcoming movie House Of Gucci, was one of the more serendipitous twists in Guibert’s tortuous 13-year mission to bring her son’s life to the big screen. The story began a decade or so after Buckley mysteriously drowned in the Mississippi River on May 29,…