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1 week ago | 
mojo4music.com | Ian Harrison
With new album More. recently announced, MOJO looks back over Jarvis Cocker and co.’s long playing excursions to date. While many fans may have first become aware of them with the dazzling, Britpop-era double-header of 1994’s His’N’Hers and the peerless Different Class in 1995, Pulp’s history stretches much further back.
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1 month ago | 
mojo4music.com | Ian Harrison
Remembering Scott Walker, MOJO returns to a West London bookshop and an atypically illuminating encounter with one of the most enigmatic figures in music. In 2013, existential enigma Scott Walker returned with a staggering new album, Bish Bosch. A dense, at times almost impenetrable, hybrid of rock and classical composition with wildly divergent themes, it was an album that demanded - and rewarded - concentrated listening.
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1 month ago | 
mojo4music.com | Ian Harrison
Remembering Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, MOJO revisits a classic, brain-scrambling encounter with the high priest of dub. Was Lee “Scratch” Perry – inventor of reggae, alchemist of sound, “God’s Scientist” – authentically crackers? Or was it an act to deflect gangsters and journalists? Or a vibration from a higher plane of existence? In 2019 – as he revealed more than usual in a brilliant new album Rainford – MOJO wondered if Scratch would deign to explain himself?
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1 month ago | 
mojo4music.com | Ian Harrison
The Big Lebowski star unveils his great lost album!Jeff Bridges’ film career has, of course, taken in such essential movies as The Last Picture Show and The Big Lebowski. But he’s also a musician of long standing - see his T Bone Burnett-produced solo LP from 2011, and more - which brings us to one of Record Store Day 2025’s most intriguing releases.
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1 month ago | 
mojo4music.com | Ian Harrison
Memorex For The Krakens! MOJO’s 10-track Mark E. Smith and The Fall mix-tape, for any occasion!1. Industrial Estate(from Live At The Witch Trials, 1979)Poetically-illuminated, scraping northern English punk gravel about the indignity of labour. Why he’s saying “yeah, yeah”? The sound of rubbish in bracken, glimpsed through wire fences. 2. Fiery Jack(from Totale’s Turns, 1979)Medieval demon-gargoyle meets speeding alco-rockabilly, amid the slathering-on of deep heat treatment.
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2 months ago | 
shorturl.at | Ian Harrison
On 2 November, 1979 Marianne Faithfull’s acclaimed comeback LP, Broken English, was released. AS THE SEVENTIES DREW TO A CLOSE, THE ROLLING STONES WERE IN NEW YORK mixing their next big-seller Emotional Rescue, with some partying with Stevie Wonder and, in Ron Wood’s case, sharing a stage with Bob Marley in California thrown in. Few were thinking of their old, infamous friend from the sixties Marianne Faithfull.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
mojo4music.com | Ian Harrison
Seven years on from Mark E Smith’s death, MOJO revisits one of our last encounters with The Fall’s autocratic genius. For over four decades, The Fall’s leader Mark E Smith opened art-rock fissures in reality, passed merciless judgment on his enemies and led his legendary group to the edge of destruction, repeatedly. “It’s a constant state of battle,” he told MOJO's Ian Harrison in 2018. In remembrance of one of music's true one-offs, we've revisited the encounter in full...
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
shorturl.at | Ian Harrison
Seven years on from Mark E. Smith’s death, MOJO revisits one of our last encounters with The Fall’s autocratic genius. For over four decades, The Fall’s leader Mark E. Smith opened art-rock fissures in reality, passed merciless judgment on his enemies and led his legendary group to the edge of destruction, repeatedly. “It’s a constant state of battle,” he told MOJO's Ian Harrison in 2016. In remembrance of one of music's true one-offs, we've revisited the encounter in full...
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
mojo4music.com | Ian Harrison
Jeff Lynne speaks to MOJO’s about ELO’s farewell show next year, but promises more new music to come. Of all the gigs to see in 2025 one bittersweet experience will be the final show ever by Electric Light Orchestra. Part of the BST concert series at London’s Hyde Park, the famous ELO flying saucer will land one last time on July 13 for the climax of the world jaunt aptly-named The Over And Out Tour.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
mojo4music.com | Ian Harrison
James Dean Bradfield speaks to MOJO about the Manics’ as-yet-untitled fifteenth album. In 1985, the Manic Street Preachers had their first rehearsal and wrote their first song, Aftermath, about the miners’ strike. How does it feel to be on the cusp of 40 years’ active service, asks MOJO, when checking in with James Dean Bradfield?
