Mojo – June 2019

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
The Boss’s new album, Western Stars, is a deep delve into his multi-layered America. David Fricke mines his Bruce encounters to explore its long gestation and epic sounds. Loyal E Streeters Steve Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren fill out the picture.

MADONNA
World rhythms, gun laws, the Book Of Revelations: it’s all go in La Ciccone’s MOJO Interview. “I did a dance to Baba O’Riley,” she informs a startled Danny Eccleston.

THE RACONTEURS
Jack White relaxes with his buds in Nashville’s greatest supergroup since Dolly, Linda and Emmylou. And Third Man turns 10 with typical brouhaha.

P. P. A R N O L D
In the ’60s, she coulda been a contender. Now the Anglo-US Queen of the Mods is having a second wind. “I made a lot of bad decisions,” she tells Tom Doyle.

IDLES
The angry, heartfelt music of Britain’s most fervently followed band is catching on abroad. MOJO’s Mr Cameron goes to Washington for a hell of a filibuster.

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
Fifty years on from Trout Mask Replica – the weird album’s weird album – MOJO finds its cast nearly recovered: “There was so much hell emotionally.”

JANE’S ADDICTION
When Hollywood’s funky grunge alchemists made 1990’s Ritual De Lo Habitual, they poured in all the drugs, sex and pain that fit. No wonder it finished them.