MOJO

MOJO is a well-known music magazine that was first launched by Emap and has been published monthly in the UK by Bauer since January 2008. The magazine was created to meet the growing demand for classic rock music, inspired by the success of the magazine Q. The inaugural issue was released on October 15, 1993, featuring Bob Dylan and John Lennon on the cover, reflecting its classic rock focus. MOJO is celebrated for its thorough exploration of both mainstream and niche musical artists, influencing other publications like Blender and Uncut. Esteemed music critics such as Charles Shaar Murray, Greil Marcus, Nick Kent, and Jon Savage have contributed to its content. The magazine's founding editor was Paul Du Noyer, followed by notable successors like Mat Snow, Paul Trynka, and Pat Gilbert.

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Bob Weir Live Review: *30 CHARACTER SUM UP*

5 days ago | mojo4music.com | John Mulvey

A night of symphonic Grateful Dead jams in LondonBobby Weir & The Wolf BrosIn 1963, a couple of years before he joined the band that would become the Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh was an aspiring composer, working on a piece called Foci that required four orchestras – 123 players and four conductors – to be performed.
Neil Young - Talkin To The Trees Review: Veteran rocker rages against the world

2 weeks ago | mojo4music.com | Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Backed by a new band, Neil rails against the times on 46th studio album. Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts - Talkin To The Trees★★★★REPRISEOld age has galvanised Neil Young, spurring the singer-songwriter into creative overdrive. Talkin To The Trees, his 46th proper studio album, appears amidst a flood of archival releases, films, and tours.
Little Simz - Lotus Reviewed: Raw, traumatised and brilliant

3 weeks ago | mojo4music.com | Stevie Chick

London rap polymath comes out fighting on sixth album. Little Simz★★★★AWALHer 2024 Glastonbury triumph suggested Little Simz’s sixth album should’ve been a victory lap, but_Lotus_ finds her reeling from trauma. It opens with Thief, aimed at a confidant turned traitor (suggesting her legal claim against producer Inflo), its distilled anger suggesting you should endeavour to avoid Simz’s bad books. Though no other track here rages as fiercely, emotions remain raw throughout.
Pulp – More reviewed: Britpop misfits’ first album in 24 years is one of their best

3 weeks ago | mojo4music.com | John Mulvey

Class reunion: Jarvis Cocker and co. deliver a career high with eighth LP. Pulp★★★★ROUGH TRADEThe rhyming of “vicars” and “knickers” and a reference to Ingmar Bergman swiftly prove that at least one of Pulp’s idiosyncratic missions – loosely, to make existential crisis out of bedroom farce, or bedroom farce out of existential crisis – remains intact on this hearteningly fine comeback album.
Ty Segall – Possession Reviewed: Prolific garage rocker locates his inner Beatle

1 month ago | mojo4music.com | John Mulvey

Hyper-productive Californian becomes a Glam rock Lennon on his 17th - and best? - album. Ty Segal★★★★DRAG CITYOne minute and two seconds into The Beatles’ She Loves You, there’s a vocal punctuation that sends music off on a whole new trajectory: the Fabs united, as a collective Little Richard, letting out an ecstatic “woo!” (or perhaps an “ooh!”: what do you hear?). It’s pop’s capacity for joy, energy, spontaneity and boundless possibilities articulated in a split second.
Matt Berninger - Get Sunk Reviewed: The National singer takes an emotional deep dive on second solo album

1 month ago | mojo4music.com | Tom Doyle

The National frontman sails through different waters on follow-up to 2020’s Serpentine Prison. Matt Berninger★★★★BOOK/CONCORDFollowing the release of his debut solo record Serpentine Prison in 2020, Matt Berninger suffered a depressive slump that made the recording of the two subsequent National albums a testing period in which his bandmates helped to thaw him out of his frozen state.
Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles Reviewed: Low’s bereaved singer finds community in folk

1 month ago | mojo4music.com | John Mulvey

Sparkhawk enlists Duluth locals on his second album following the death of Mimi Parker. Alan Sparhawk★★★★SUB POP“There’s a running joke in our town,” Alan Sparhawk told a German reporter in 2011. “It says you can’t make a record in Duluth without a banjo on it.
Simple Minds Live Reviewed: Jim Kerr and co. bring the Big Music to LA

1 month ago | mojo4music.com | Dave DiMartino

Simple Minds provide a dazzling pop spectacular on their biggest US tour since the ‘80s. Simple MindsIt’s been a term in usage since the early ‘80s, and the band even gave us an album with that very title years later, but Simple Minds play the Big Music unlike few others. It is vividly on display at the KIA Forum in Los Angeles during this, the fourth show of the U.S. leg of their 2025 Alive And Kicking tour, and it sounds bigger and, surprisingly, better than ever.
Paul Weller To Release Brand New Covers Album!

1 month ago | mojo4music.com | Chris Catchpole

Featuring Noel Gallagher and Robert Plant, Find El Dorado is out in JulyPaul Weller will release a brand-new covers album in July, his second following 2004’s Studio 150. Find El Dorado features contributions from Noel Gallagher, Robert Plant, Declan O’Rourke and more, and will be released July 25 on Polydor.
Evan Dando: “You’re such a wimp when you’re a junkie.”

1 month ago | mojo4music.com | Ian Harrison

The Lemonheads’ leader on wasting time wasted, old pals Oasis, his forthcoming memoir and the first new Lemonheads album in almost twenty years. There have been silences, addiction, and photo portraits where Evan Dando looked very sad and sorry in his eyes. But as last year’s live gigs proved, however hard he’s been through the ringer he’s still able to soar when drawing on such past triumphs as 1992’s It’s A Shame About Ray and 1996’s Car Button Cloth.