MOJO 380 – July 2025: Oasis

 As the kings of ’90s rock return, MOJO gets set for the summer’s shows by celebrating the 50 Greatest Songs of Oasis: from Cigarettes & Alcohol to Half The World Away, Wonderwall to The Shock Of The Lightning, hymned by the magazine’s best writers. Also in this issue: Grateful Dead at 60 – their psychedelic pinnacle by David Fricke; The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques Burnel on ruck’n’roll; Tim Buckley’s astral journey; Rory Gallagher remembered. Plus: Clem Burke; MJ Lenderman; Gregory Isaacs; The Roches; Justin Hayward; Stereolab; Peggy Seeger; Pete Shelley; Bennie Maupin; The Lemonheads; Doc Pomus; The Searchers; Shudder To Think; and all back to John Lydon’s!

THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Dead Roots: The Grateful Dead Songbook. A selection of the blues, bluegrass, soul, country and rock’n’roll that inspired San Francisco’s psychedelic adventurers. Starring Jimmy Reed, Johnny Cash, Bobby Bland, Judy Collins, Elizabeth Cotton, Tampa Red and more!