― Tom, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Michael Bourke, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― jel, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Pihkal Boy, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Uncut is better - has better writers and an overall less stuffy outlook. They need to cut down the amount of 'Americana' though, and they seem to fall for any singer songwriter who comes along (Slaid Cleaves, Eileen Rose, Jim White -no thanks). We could do without coverage of Neil Young's every fart, too. That said, I have to say it's great as Mr. Jones the esteemed editor and doyen of rock journos is a neighbour and we use the same fish and chip shop. OK - no more namedropping in future.
― Dr. C, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Uncut covers more of what I like but in a True Path Of Rebel Rock way I find increasingly rubbish. Too much mythology, not enough insight.
― Andy, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Omar, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally C, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Take the March issue for example. Though it has a disturbing amount of space devoted to ELP and a wretch inducingly hideous front cover, there is a really fantastic article on the Pixies by David Cavanagh. It is worth buying just for that, though I did feel embarassed buying it.
― Nicole, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― alex thomson, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Duane Zarakov, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― D.Zarakov, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tom, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
But on other occasions when covering people I like, Mojo pull it off magnificently. The Gainsbourg piece was the last such example.
Tom and Dr C are right about Uncut, I think. Half the time it's fascinating (Reynolds's Kid A thinkpiece, Paul Morley's everlasting way with the language, Chris Roberts making even the hackwork of the film soundtracks roundup read as though he's taking the utmost pleasure from the whole thing), but often you feel as though those involved should get out a little more and stop thinking Americana and singer-songwriters are, like, timeless and worth covering in perpetuity. It's all Jonesy's fault, of course. I could rerun some of Taylor Parkes's jokes about Jones spending most of his spare time roaming the prairie but actually knowing so little that he thought a Jimmy Nail track was by Mark Eitzel, etc., but you've probably got the idea.
I think there'd be a consensus round here about who the good and the bad Uncut writers are. And the bad ones would be those who would fit best into Mojo.
― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Whatever I may have thought of Mojo, I've never considered it to be nauseatingly smug and self-satisfied as Q is. Q, after all, is edited by the sort of people who jack it all in to write scripts for EastEnders.
Anyway let me spring to the defence of Allan Jones. I think it's to his credit that he's managed to put together so many interesting writers (Penman, McDonald, Morley, Stubbs, Roberts) on one journal. For that we should let him have the odd Waylon Jennings interview.
Does anyone else find Nigel "5 stars" Williamson as unintentionally funny as I do. Is there an artist or genre that this man does NOT like? He seems to give everything from Spooky Tooth to Sade the same cheerily favourable review.
― Dr. C, Friday, 9 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
"Anyway let me spring to the defence of Allan Jones."
Oh, I wasn't trying to criticise him - I think even the MM writers who took the piss had a respect for him, and an admiration for him; he wrote hardly at all for the Maker in his last few years there, and he was probably wise to adopt a background role, but he's clearly the sort of person who knows how to hold the thing together (more than he actually knew the music it was covering by then), and he mercifully steered it away from dumbed-down discourse, tacky features and flagwaving during his last 3 years there (when such things were already a disease over at the NME). Jones was the sort of editor whose importance you didn't realise until he left; the speed of the MM's decline immediately after his departure in March 97 proves that, and I'm ultimately prepared to forgive him however many dodgy things he may like. Reynolds excepted, you've listed all the "good" Uncut writers I was thinking of.
"Does anyone else find Nigel '5 stars' Williamson as unintentionally funny as I do"
He was the sort of "bad" Uncut writer I was thinking of. Dreadfully gushing writing and horribly retrogressive tastes for the most part. Uncut's bland dadrock downside.
― Robin Carmody, Friday, 9 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Question: How come all the obsessive mags like this come out of the U.K.? Are there ANY American mags that cover music in the manner of a Mojo? I honestly can't think of one. Somebody point me in the right direction.
― Mark Richardson, Saturday, 10 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nicole, Saturday, 10 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
DUD!!!
― Marcos, Monday, 12 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Monday, 12 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― mark emsley, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mark, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― scott p., Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― George Gosset, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But the long historical pieces I do find useful, especially when regarding acts/artists about whose history I feel I ought to know more, e.g. Patto or ELO.
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― desmond abladey, Monday, 22 May 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
As great as The Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Neil Young are, there is still a limit to how much new stuff you are able to dig out about them.
Which makes Mojo more interesting because they aren't afraid to do a feature on Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Moody Blues, The Animals, Pete Seeger or David Crosby instead.
Plus Mojo does actually attempt to turn their (mainly 30-40-50 something) readers into more recent stuff too, that is, recent stuff that Mojo finds good (and the Mojo staff has a considerably broader taste in recent music compared to the Americana crazed Uncut staff)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 22 May 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Stevie Chick does get some good bands in Mojo(and Kerrang too).I suppose having read Mojo for years now ive read about every band they cover. If they stopped repeating themselves and covered some more obscure acts I either haven't read much about/or heard of, i might buy. Then again would that sell?
Its time they gave Parliament/Funkadelic a front cover and just devoted the entire magazine to them and all the spin offs. That would make great reading.
Someone should write a really good pfunk book.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 22 May 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
(I speak from the perspective of someone who for two years unsuccessfully lobbied U***t to give Todd Rundgren the front cover and 30 pages inside)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link
4-5 Public EnemyEvens Beastie Boys7-4 Outkast 2-1 Eminem4-1 Wu Tang Clan (Up from 5-1)8-1 Jay Z 12-1 50 Cent (down from 8-1)15-1 Run DMC/LL Cool J40-1 Dizzee Rascal50-1 bar
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Odds to appear on the front cover
Wire 20-1Throwing Muses 40-1The Stranglers 75-1Underworld 100-1King Crimson 200-1Killing Joke 250-1The Associates 400-1The Chameleons 500-1Rush 1000-1Porcupine Tree 10,000-1
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Nick Hornby - evens
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:45 (eighteen years ago) link
I tried that with the Bob Dylan "Blonde on Blonde"
#WhatThese2LPSOfficer?
#notreally
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
I think people still share the cd on pirate bay regularly.
Someone has been posting the monthly PDFs of the magazine to usenet since 2015. Also, they're very easy to find on slsk, just search on "mojo 2023 pdf" (or whatever year). You can find many other mags on slsk the same way.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 17 August 2023 07:31 (one year ago) link
30th anniversary edition out now
"THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Buried Treasures – a compendium of tracks from the secret classic albums uncovered by MOJO’s Buried Treasures column. Features The Prisoners, R.J. McMahon, Joe Meek, Nic Jones, Connie Converse, The Beau Brummels, Third World War and more!"
didn't actually pick up a copy because the contents didn't look great, Dylan, oasis... probably more
― koogs, Sunday, 24 September 2023 13:42 (one year ago) link
It’s a rather self indulgent issue. Includes a short article for each year of the magazine’s existence featuring the usual suspects among a bunch of articles on how great the magazine is and has been. The cover disc is pretty good though.
― treefell, Sunday, 24 September 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
yeah enjoyed teh cd. Still don't have it all elsewhere which just ain't it.Don't know why I don't have Third World War& hadn't heard of that closing folk track.
I keep buying magazines that I don't read all of and still intend to. Mainly reading books and not keeping up with what I'm picking up there either. May be reading more tahn I did last year still though not sure.
― Stevo, Sunday, 24 September 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
They've announced that starting with this 30th anniversary issue, the CDs will once again be available on international newsstand copies.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 September 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
my experience of working on magazines when they achieve eg their 30th is that everyone (justifably) sees it as a good excuse for a little holiday
hence all the reprinting of ancient content: it doesn't need re-copyreading or re-proofing so we have time pat ourselves properly on the back for longevity and general amazeballsness
― mark s, Sunday, 24 September 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
I'm still waiting on mine.
It's in the shops, but.
― Mark G, Monday, 25 September 2023 06:36 (one year ago) link
Rolling Stones and a cd of "old weird blues"
https://images.bauerhosting.com/marketing/sites/16/2023/10/MOJO-361-cover-Rolling-Stones.jpg?auto=format&w=1200&q=80
― koogs, Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
Disappointing that "Bob Dylan's Secret Treasures" isn't a revelation that he's been burying caches of gold along the stops of the never-ending tour for dedicated fans to find after he's passed.
― blatherskite, Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:57 (one year ago) link
was kinda hoping the people who regularly get Mojo would update this thread on every new issue, save me having to make a special trip to whsmiths every month (or whs as it is now)
anyway, i think december's cd was a roundup of the year, featuring nobody that i can remember, and january's, which is in the shops now, is another Heavy Nuggets volume
― koogs, Sunday, 24 December 2023 17:02 (ten months ago) link
I get the digital version which does not come with the cds or even a download, which I somewhat regret. I’m generally not a fan of the new stuff Mojo champions but I liked the heavy nuggets series in the past and other historical trawls.
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 24 December 2023 17:26 (ten months ago) link
(December was a Beatles cover, Jan is Stevie wonder
i could just post this and then have to remember to click it once a monthhttps://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/latest-issues/ )
― koogs, Sunday, 24 December 2023 17:49 (ten months ago) link
Doesn't sound completely terrible xps
THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is The Best Of 2023. Features tracks from MOJO’s favourite albums, by artists including: Lankum; Everything But The Girl; Rickie Lee Jones; The Coral; Wilco; Grian Chatten; Julie Byrne; Young Fathers and more!
― groovypanda, Sunday, 24 December 2023 17:59 (ten months ago) link
Last act calculated to outrage the Mojo core reader on name alone
― bae (sic), Sunday, 24 December 2023 18:16 (ten months ago) link
Still very “chuffed” the album I made the art for won Mojo’s Best Electronic Album Of The Year. Been reading this magazine for 20 something years, I think.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 25 December 2023 00:34 (ten months ago) link
Congrats!
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 25 December 2023 02:19 (ten months ago) link
Thanks!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 25 December 2023 08:09 (ten months ago) link
It's a great album (and cover).Still think of James Holden as a progressive/trance DJ so didn't realise he was now making albums like this
― groovypanda, Monday, 25 December 2023 11:25 (ten months ago) link
Thanks, groovypanda.His albums have morphed and progressed over the last few releases. Check out his Animal Spirits project if you haven't. It was a huge honor and surprise to be asked to contribute since I've been a fan of his recordings for a while.As for the artwork - I also made a 12 page booklet that comes with the vinyl and cd (and pdf with Bandcamp digi) versions of the album.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 25 December 2023 11:48 (ten months ago) link
It's a lovely sleeve, Captain - congrats!
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Monday, 25 December 2023 13:23 (ten months ago) link
I'm obliged to mention that someone Out There is posting most/all of the Mojo CD comps to alt.binaries.sounds.lossless.rock. If you know what that is, you'll know how to find them.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 27 January 2024 03:40 (nine months ago) link
Feb was Wings, including a compilation called Jet
Mar is The North Will Rise Again with a compilation of Manchester bands and liam on the cover. didn't entice me to buy it.
― koogs, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:16 (eight months ago) link
sucks so bad that as a digital subscriber I don't have access to the CDs.
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:16 (eight months ago) link
Must have been in another thread that I posted this, but it also sucks that Mojo and Uncut seem to have largely disappeared around here. Between a nearby killer newsstand and the local Barnes & Noble I was always able to pick these up, but I haven't seen a new issue of either in many months.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:18 (eight months ago) link
supermarket stocks mojo so i do notice when they change. anyway the new one.
Jun 2024
Kate Bush – The Early Years is this month’s cover story. Everything from her early demos through Wuthering Heights to Never For Ever. Plus! An insider relives the incredible Tour Of Life. Also in the issue: The Yardbirds – the whole story; Scott Walker’s Climate Of Hunter at 40; Beth Gibbons returns; Tangerine Dream’s synth madness; Labi Siffre – famous at last. And: Crowded House; Curtis Mayfield; Anita Pallenberg; Steve Harley; Nirvana; Leyla McCalla; Richard Thompson; Lou Reed; Buzzcocks; Minutemen.
THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is MOJO WORKING!: 15 slices of raucous, raving, rumbustious British R&B by The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, Graham Bond, Cyril Davies, Geno Washington, Alexis Korner and more!
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 11:35 (six months ago) link
I wrote the Minutemen story - 4-page oral history on the making of Double Nickels, with new/unpublished interviews with Mike Watt, Bob Mould, Kira Roessler, Joe Baiza, Joe Carducci, Ray Farrell and David Fricke.
Buy magazines, they rule.
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 13:58 (six months ago) link
Greatt article! Gotta go back and listen to the album
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 14:30 (six months ago) link
Haven't read it in age, but I was at an airport, saw it and thought now is the time. Enjoyed all of it, but especially the Minutemen article - nice work stevie! Quite moving tbh.
― woof, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 14:37 (six months ago) link
Yeah Mojo and The Wire have just completely disappeared around here, haven't seen an issue in bookstores or newsstands for many, many months.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:10 (six months ago) link
For me it's that I don't really go into newsagents much any more - I never see it to think about buying it. Anyway, just subscribed.
― woof, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:17 (six months ago) link
Ah thanks Boring and Woof! Have interviewed Mike W a number of ties and he never fails to leave me verklempt - the thing about thinking Ulysses was a happy, exciting book until rereading it when he was 40 ("The book didn't change, but I had") hit me hard on this one.
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:17 (six months ago) link
yeah it was very insightful. I love autodidacts
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:26 (six months ago) link
[xp by which I mean when he reread it at 40 he found it to be a sad book]
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:33 (six months ago) link
Wonderful. I was actually hoping for this earlier this month when I played through all of their records after seeing so many people on social media commemorate D. Boon's birthday on April 1. Still frustrating that Mike Watt was never able to release an uncut remastered edition of Double Nickels - he definitely tried but I guess Greg Ginn blew him off.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:33 (six months ago) link
Have yet to hear anyone (other than Mugger) speak fondly of Ginn.
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:52 (six months ago) link
How did other bands get their masters back? Offer Ginn a lot of money or go through the courts? Money something I assume Watt and others don't have.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 20:21 (six months ago) link
Mojo is absolutely killing it as of late. I know rock is dead and all but it's kind of wild that there's no American magazine left that's going to put Pearl Jam on a cover in 2024
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 20:26 (six months ago) link
xp I think you just need to get some solid lawyers to confront SST and Ginn rolls over. A couple of catches: doesn't work if the band members can't agree to terms and clear the way for lawyers to move forward (see Hüsker Dü) and even if Ginn concedes, he hasn't done shit to properly maintain or store the masters, so even though you get back the rights, the physical masters may be lose (see Meat Puppets)
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 20:29 (six months ago) link
*lost
I know it's the wrong mag, but Select has a cover mount of Can Live tracks this month..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:21 (six months ago) link
I think that's Uncut, didn't Select go away a long time ago?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:24 (six months ago) link
Oh yeah. Uncut. Opps.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:13 (five months ago) link
― birdistheword, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 3:29 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i spoke with this directly with terry katzman about the husker du stuff (terry ran reflex records for the huskers) before he died, they did have lawyers - the same lawyers that dino jr. and meat puppets used i think he said -- but the husker contract was different and had some more onerous language in it that they could not overcome. the band was actually all fairly united (at least as united as huskers get) and behind the project. ginn does not just roll over by any means.
so they could do the savage young du boxset, because that was largely based on terry's tapes and pre-sst. the original plan was to work with numero on a reissue series of the entire catalog - i think he said the idea was to have sets where it would be a remastered album then another disc of outtakes and/or live performances of that era.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:22 (five months ago) link
^^^ oh maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:31 (five months ago) link
yeah it's a tragedy that it never happened and now that Terry is gone it never will, he had so much energy to make it happen he cared way more about that band than the members did
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:41 (five months ago) link
Yeah, the impression Bob gave me last time I interviewed him is that they had lawyers, they'd approached Ginn, but that it was just too hard, and in the end he's just written it all off as a lost cause. It's such a shame.
SST seem to have bumped up their vinyl represses over the last couple of years, but I don't see them doing any deluxe reissues with outtakes, etc, and that's a shame. I remember telling Carducci when I was researching my Flag book that it was a tragedy they weren't celebrating the back catalog that way, and that the CDs didn't sound great and could do with a remaster at the very least, but he argued that they sound fine. Still...
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:44 (five months ago) link
Interesting and very sad. I was going by that interview Grant did where he claimed Bob was asking for too much control and too big of a share of the catalog in order to get it away from SST, but I guess a lot happened after that bump in the road.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 20:56 (five months ago) link
https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/latest-issues/mojo-368-july-2024-paul-weller/
Weller cover, Byrds related cover cd
― koogs, Saturday, 18 May 2024 18:49 (five months ago) link
missed one - Fleetwood Mac
https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/latest-issues/mojo-369-august-2024-stevie-nicks/
new one - Nick Cave
https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/latest-issues/mojo-370-september-2024-nick-cave/
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 July 2024 16:36 (three months ago) link