The MOJO Record Club

This week as the MOJO Record Club's Andrew Male and MOJO Associate Editor Jenny Bulley discuss new albums from Cassandra Jenkins and Sturgill Simpson's new alter ego Johnny Blue Skies. You wait forever for an expansive genre-expanding album of personal revelation and then two come along at once.    Tracklisting: Petco, written by Cassandra Jenkins from ‘My Light My Destroyer', released b...

The Lankum polymath discusses the beefed-up drone of the Lankum sound, the awesome power of repetition, folk as time travel, and delves deep into his wild youth and his love of the Subhumans and folk-punk Laureate, Patrik Fitzgerald.  Tracklisting: (cover of D.K. Gavan’s) Rocky Road To Dublin, from the 2023 EP, Live In Dublin, Written by D.K. Gavin, arranged by Lankum and released on Rough Tr...

Peter Buck rocks up to talk about R.E.M., Laura Nyro, pandemic life and his new collaboration with Luke Haines.  Tracklisting: 1.   The British Army on LSD, from the album, All the Kids are Super Bummed Out, by Luke Haines and Peter Buck, released by Cherry Red Records 2.   Eli’s Coming, by Laura Nero, (eternally beguiling and cryptic 1968 LP), Eli And The Thirteenth Confe...

A new music special, as the MOJO Record Club’s Andrew Male and John Mulvey dig into a couple of key new releases from Beth Gibbons and Michael Head. A Scousadelic Krapp’s Last Tape, anyone?  1. Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band 'Shirl's Ghost, released on Modern Sky 2. Beth Gibbons 'Lost Changes' released on Domino Records

Richard Hawley’s visit to The MOJO Record Club continues, as he goes deeper into The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark, The Byrds, Gram Parsons, the wildness of bluegrass, the secret origins of country-rock, and his father’s connection to Hendrix! Tracklisting: Dillard and Clark, ‘Out on The Side’, written by Gene Clark , released on A&M Records

The MOJO Record Club with Richard Hawley  Richard Hawley takes The MOJO Record Club on a journey from the mean streets of Sheffield to the bluegrass badlands of Dillard & Clark, via detours to the Lincolnshire Riviera and Asteroid City. What was Scott Walker better at – pool or darts? Tracklisting: 1.    Richard Hawley ‘Prism In Jeans’, written by Richard Hawley and release...

Andrew Male and John Mulvey dig into a couple of their favourite new releases from Shabaka Hutchings and Myriam Gendron. For all your ambient jazz flute needs – and more…   Tracklist:  1. I’ll Do Whatever You Want, featuring André 3000, Floating Points and Laraaji, written by Shabaka Hutchings and released on Impulse! Records 2.  Long Way Home, written by Miriam Gendron and released...

The MOJO Record Club with Richard Thompson   The captain of British folk-rock sails into the MOJO Record Club to discuss his new album, Ship To Shore, Donald Trump, his love for Doc Watson & The Watson Family, Liege & Lief and “BLOODBATHS OF LUST”! Tracklist:  1.  Singapore Sadie, written by Richard Thompson and released on New West Records 2.  Your Long Journey, writte...

The MOJO Record Club podcast welcomes the brilliant Australian multi-tasker Oren Ambarchi to our ranks, for a wide-ranging chat about David Behrman, Paul McCartney and AMM, Jim O’Rourke,10cc, and the karaoke secrets of the global avant-garde elite! Plus Andrew Male and John Mulvey dig into new releases by Oisin Leech and Cassie Kinoshi. Tracklisting: 1.  Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and And...

The Waterboys’ Mike Scott joins The MOJO Record Club to explore his Whole Of The Moon era, revisit John Lennon’s Imagine, deconstruct Dancing In The Dark, and tell us about recording with Bob Dylan. Plus new releases from Brittany Howard and Gerycz Powers Rolin. Every precious dream and vision underneath the stars! Tracklisting: 1.  The Waterboys ‘This is the Sea’, written by Mike Scott and r...

Season Two of the MOJO Record Club kicks off with a righteous first guest: Joe Talbot of IDLES, who tells Andrew Male about TANGK, Timber Timbre, Lee Moses, Bill Callahan, The Pharcyde, Van Morrison, Traams, The Smiths and much more. Plus new albums from The Smile and House Band, and “a sinister raconteur with a dagger…” TRACKLISTING: IDLES 'Grace' written by IDLES and released on Partizan Records...

Peter Buck rocks up to talk about R.E.M., Laura Nyro, pandemic life and his new collaboration with Luke Haines. Plus Andrew, John and the usual animal menagerie wax lyrical about new releases by the Arctic Monkeys and Oren Ambarchi… Talk about the passions! Tracklisting:   1.   The British Army on LSD, from the album, All the Kids are Super Bummed Out, by Luke Haines and Peter Buck,...

A tour of rock’s meaner alleyways, courtesy of our guest Tim Burgess and the scuzz-opera of his secret hero, Armand Schaubroeck. Plus Andrew Male and Ian Harrison draw Tim into a cul-de-sac with new releases from Weyes Blood and Horse Lords. Street hassle obligatory! Tracklisting: 1. Tim Burgess, Sure Enough, written by Tim Burgess and released on Bella Union Records. 2.Armand Schaubroeck Steals,...

“Let’s be brilliant!” Punk paragon Gina Birch is the latest star to join the MOJO Record Club, with tales of Raincoats, Hangovers and a musical revelation via food poisoning. Then Jenny Bulley joins Andrew Male to unpack the new David Bowie box, discover a lost treasure of outlaw country, and sample some fresh Turkish psych... Release the Anatolian Dragon! Tracklisting: 1. Gina Birch, Wish I Was Y...

Andrew Male and the team reassemble for a trip into the liminal zone in search of 2022’s hidden musical treasures. Heavy vegetables, good dust and coffee shop riot grrls guaranteed! Tracklisting:   1.  Broken Eyes by Plosivs, released on Swami Records 2.  Feline, by Mart Avi, self-released on Bandcamp 3.  This is Rolling Mills Are Burning Down by Jake Xerses Fussell released on...

All the hits and more, as Andrew Male revisits a few highlights of our podcast so far with Thurston Moore, Miki Berenyi, Robyn Hitchcock, Alabaster DePlume, Gina Birch, Tim Burgess, Barry Adamson and the MOJO gang. Your one-stop soul-cleansing music podcast destination!

From Liverpool with Love! MOJO’s Album Of The Year winner Michael Head joins Andrew Male to reveal how Forever Changes forever changed Shack, The Pale Fountains and The Red Elastic Band. Plus Iggy Pop, Jeff Parker, Miles & Gil, Matt Monro and, as usual, much more. Tracklisting: 1. Fluke, song and lyrics by Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band, from Dear Scott on the Modern Sky UK label 2. A...

There’s uncooked haggis on the rider and compelling stories galore, as the excellent novelist Ian Rankin joins Andrew Male and Keith Cameron to hymn the fairy tales for hard men of Jackie Leven. Plus a trip into the darkened teenage bedrooms of The Murder Capital, and a reckoning with the eternal challenges of John Cale. From Fife to The Waste Land, and all stops in between. Tracklisting: 1. My Sp...

Direct from Ardent Studios in Memphis, Big Star’s Jody Stephens brings a neglected Texan treasure to the MOJO Record Club. But why has Willis Alan Ramsey still not released a follow-up, 51 years later? And what new releases are Andrew Male and John Mulvey excited about in spite of themselves? Tracklisting: 1. Willis Alan Ramsey, Boy from Oklahoma, written by Willis Alan Ramsey and originally relea...

The MOJO Record Club with Natalie Merchant Natalie Merchant reveals her spectacular Nico, Marlene Dietrich and Ray Davies impressions, as she rolls up at the club to discuss Chelsea Girl, “medieval torture”, stealing eight-tracks and much more. Plus Andrew Male and Danny Eccleston pore over the new Depeche Mode album and an amazing Kinks “psychic download”! Tracklisting:   1.  Come On, A...

Live from New Orleans and “the jazz side of life”, Rickie Lee Jones joins the MOJO Record Club – not just to discuss Van Morrison’s Veedon Fleece, but to sing us a fair portion of it! Plus Andrew Male and Jenny Bulley on the latest new releases from Bill Orcutt and Jana Horn. Let’s improvise! Tracklisting: 1. Just in Time, by Comden & Green, performed by Rickie Lee Jones and released on BMG, M...

Let’s make this one precious: Kevin Rowland joins the MOJO Record Club to discuss Dexys past and present and the enduring genius of Van Morrison. Plus Andrew Male and Chris Catchpole tackle new releases by Tinariwen and BC Camplight... “It ain’t why, why, why, it just is!” Tracklisting:   1.  I’m Going to Get Free, written by Kevin Rowland and released on the 100 Percent label 2.  C...

The MOJO Record Club decamps to Toyah and Robert Fripp’s kitchen to remember lockdown rock-outs, revisit Bowie’s liminal zones in Berlin and Milton Keynes, and discover the surprising connections between King Crimson and The Shaggs! Plus new albums from Bob Dylan and Califone. Tracklisting: 1. 'Supermen', written by David Bowie, and originally released on Mercury Records in 1970 2. 'My Pal Foot Fo...

The MOJO Record Club takes a road trip into the Dirty South with the Drive-By Truckers’ Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood. From Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Athens, Georgia, in the company of The Glands, Hall & Oates, Todd Rundgren and more. Plus onwards to Northern Ghana and mid-Wales to review the best new albums! Tracklisting: 1. Where The Devil Don’t Stay, by The Drive-By Truckers, written by M...

Composer producer and all-round musical polymath Jim O’Rourke joins host Andrew Male and MOJO Editor John Mulvey to discuss his recent score for Kyle Armstrong’s Hands That Bind and one of his favourite LPs, Jaco Pastorius’ 1981 jazz fusion masterpiece, Word Of Mouth. Plus, we delve into some of the week's best new releases from Kieran Hebden & William Tyler and the spellbinding new album from...