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 by Dead Oceans Jupiter's Faeries, written by Sturgill Simpson, from Passage de Desir, recording under his new iden...
Jul 22, 2024•21 min•Season 2Ep. 10
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 Trade Records Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart, written by Patrick Fitzgerald and originally released on Pete St...
Jul 15, 2024•29 min•Season 2Ep. 9
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 Confession, released by Columbia
Jul 01, 2024•45 min•Season 2Ep. 8
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
Jun 03, 2024•24 min•Season 2Ep. 7
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
May 27, 2024•22 min•Season 2Ep. 6
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 released on BMG Records 2. Richard Hawley, ‘Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow’, written by Richard Hawley and released on BMG Records...
May 25, 2024•43 min•Season 2Ep. 5
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, written by A.D. Watson*, Rosa Lee Watson and released one Folkway Records in 1963 3. The Train that Carried my Girl from Town, writ...
May 02, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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 on Thrill Jockey in the UK
May 02, 2024•22 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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 Andreas Werliin ‘Tre’ from the album, Ghosted II, released on Drag City Records 2. David Behrman ‘Leapday Nig...
Mar 27, 2024•52 min•Season 2Ep. 3
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 released on Chrysalis Records 2. John Lennon ‘Oh My Love’, written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and released...
Feb 23, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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 IDLES 'Dancer' written by IDLES and released on Partizan Records 'Timber Timbre 'I Get Low' written...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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, Father Michael Loves Sister Jennifer, from the album, I Came to Visit but Decided to Stay, written b...
Sep 16, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 Mike Cooley and released by New West Records 2. I Can See My House From Here, by The Glands, from the...
Sep 16, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 24
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 Paradise Of Bachelors 4. Barely Woke by Moor Mother with Wolf Weston, released on Anti...
Sep 16, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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!
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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, released by Cherry Red Records 2. Eli’s Coming, by Laura Nero, (eternally beguiling and cryptic 1968 LP), Eli And The ...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 Julie Byrne and finally discover what "chord-cheating" means. Tracklisting: 1. ‘A Man's Mind Will P...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 26
The Coral’s James Skelly helps Andrew Male and Chris Catchpole “explore the spaces between the sun and the shadows”. To be explored, specifically: Cillian Murphy and Bela Lugosi; Phil Spector and Celine Dion; and elusive butterfly and self-proclaimed “all-out pain” Bob Lind. Oh, and new ones by Sparklehorse and our old friend Alabaster DePlume, too! TRACKLIST 1. That’s Where She Belongs, by The Coral, written by James Skelly and released on Run On Records 2. Elusive Butterfly, by Bob Lind, writt...
Sep 16, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 30
From his Massachusetts attic studio Lloyd Cole ponders music celebrity golf tournaments, tells us the best way to insult a musician and talks to Andrew Male and Jenny Bully about his love for Joan As Police Woman’s 2006 debut LP, Real Life. Plus, new albums by Mudhoney and Everything But The Girl, stray cat noises, the joy of small dogs and the middle-aged wit and melancholy at the heart of Gen X music. Tracklisting: 1. Wolves, written and performed by Lloyd Cole and released on the earMUSIC lab...
Sep 16, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 20
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 House Is Not A Motel written by Arthur Lee, performed by Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band, f...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 13
We head back to a hot London summer at the end of the hippy era, as Jethro Tull’s “Nureyev with a flute” Ian Anderson talks vividly about Roy Harper, folk versus rock, musicians versus the music biz, and much more. Plus Andrew Male and Danny Eccleston dig MOJO’s compilation of unheard Stax demos, and yet more great Arthur Russell finds. Tracklisting: 1. Locomotive Breath from Aqualung originally released on the Chrysalis label in 1971 2. In A beautiful rambling Mess, from Come Out Fighting Gengh...
Sep 16, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 25
The Mojo Record Club with Robert Forster Robert Forster waxes lyrical on Roberta Flack, Leonard Cohen, Samuel Beckett and the necessity of pretension. But where, ask Andrew Male and Ian Harrison, do The Go-Betweens sit on the prog/post-punk spectrum? Tracklisting: 1. Tender Years, written by Robert Forster and released on Tapete Records 2. This is The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, written by Ewan McColl and arranged and conducted by William Fischer and sung by Roberta Flack, and released on A...
Sep 16, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Pauline Black brings radical optimism to the MOJO Record Club, as she reveals the folk roots of The Selecter, and the liberating brilliance of Pentangle’s Basket Of Light. Then stick around for new releases, as Andrew Male and John Mulvey explore the latest records from Arooj Aftab and Lana Del Rey. Bongwater comparisons, anyone? Tracklisting: 1. Human Algebra, from the Human Algebra album, written by Pauline Black and released on DMF records 2. Light Flight, (the theme music for the BBC’s first...
Sep 16, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 19
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, Modern Recordings 2. Weasel, written and performed by Rickie Lee Jones Live from her Living Room (You...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 21
What’s on the flipside of a CD? Yo La Tengo’s Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan are the latest inductees to the MOJO Record Club, sharing their love of Bob Marley and The Clean with Andrew Male. Then stick around for a trip deep into Bob Dylan’s archives… Baby, follow us down! Tracklisting: 1. Aselestine, by Yo La Tengo, written by Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley and released on Matador Records 2. Concrete Jungle, by Bob Marley, released on Island Records 3. In the Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul, by...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake is our latest inductee to the MOJO Record Club, bringing with him the astonishing Quebec by Ween. Plus Andrew Male and John Mulvey dig into Neil Young’s long-awaited Chrome Dreams, and the final album by the incendiary trumpeter and composer jaimie branch. Tracklisting: 1. Back To The Light, written by Norman Blake, and released on the bands own label, PeMa 2. It’s Gonna Be A Long Night, written and arranged by Ween and released on Sanctuary Records 3. Among His Tr...
Sep 16, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 29
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 Foot', composed by Dorothy Wiggin, arranged by The Shaggs and originally released on Third World Recor...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Mogwai’s spaceship-hunting Stuart Braithwaite is Andrew Male’s latest guest, bringing with him a mighty audio “massage of the soul”. Plus MOJO Associate Editor Jenny Bulley, new records by Bill Callahan and Lucretia Dalt, and some ambient rabbits. It’s a trip! Tracklisting: 1. Ritchie Sacramento, by Mogwai, written by Mogwai and released on Rock Action Records 2. Sleep’s Dopesmoker from 2003 written by Sleep and released on Tee Pee Records 3. Coyotes, by Bill Callahan, written by Bill Callahan a...
Sep 16, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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. Caravan, written by Van Morrison and performed live at at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, Californian May 1973 with The Cal...
Sep 16, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 22
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, Aphrodite, featuring Abena Koomson-Davis of Resistance Revival Chorus 2. These Days, sung by Nico, written by Jack...
Sep 16, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 18
