Launched in 1993, MOJO celebrates the stories of music's all-time greats. It does this through expertly written, insightful features and exclusive, in-depth interviews. MOJO also finds and recommends new music of quality and integrity, so if you want to read about the classics of now and tomorrow, it is definitely the music magazine for you. As founding editor Paul Du Noyer put it, MOJO has ""the sensibilities of a fanzine and the design values of Vogue."" It's lovingly put together every month by music fanatics with huge knowledge, who share your passion. And because they have unrivalled contacts in the music industry, they bring you the kind of access, news and expertise you won't find anywhere else.
THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...
BURIED TREASURES • 15 key tracks From the greatest albums you'd l never heard
ALL BACK TO YOUR PLACE • MOJO READERS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...
Theories, rants, etc.
Life House Everlasting • Finally, The Who’s legendary, abandoned 1971 concept piece is built! Townshend explains all.
KRIST NOVOSELIC CRACKS OPEN THE NEW NIRVANA BOX SET
THE BLACK KEYS READY STAR- STUDDED “PARTY RECORD”
Bernie Taupin • The songwriter on his memoir, getting stoned with Lennon and Marley, and a new record with Elton.
STEVE COOGAN, CRIME FICTION AND US TV? IT’S MOJO IN POPULAR CULTURE!
Lucinda Williams
MEDWAY GARAGE-MODS THE PRISONERS BUST OUT, AGAIN!
THE GREAT SPIRITUAL POWER OF JEREMY DUTCHER , RADICAL VOICE OF INDIGENOUS CANADA
MOJO PLAYLIST • The month’s dub funk, racy pagans and fresh soul.
2023’S BREAKOUT STAR OF UNDERGROUND RAP UNMASKED: BILLY WOODS!
THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Born poor on the side of a mountain, she’s the country mogul who’s only now, at 77, learning to rock. Another of those surprises she keeps on springing? “I just go where my heart leads,” says Dolly Parton.
ACROSS RHE GREAT DIVIDE • ROBBIE ROBERTSON was an artist who bridged spheres: between roots and rock, sound and vision, Canada and the States, techno and his Native American heritage... His work with Dylan and The Band will stand for the ages, but his polymathic probing produced deeply fascinating work throughout his life. "He had a presence that felt totally fearless," discovers GRAYSON HAVER GURRIN.
ROBERTSON'S JAMS • Fifteen Robbie landmarks - as tunesmith, guitarist, lyricist and, occasionally, even singer.
SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIFE • Legends and divas, prophets and pioneers, lovers and fighters: MOJO magazine’s 30th birthday is a time to celebrate the pantheon of artists (and their works) that have won our hearts and blown our minds since 1993. Turn, then, for 30 stories from 30 years in 30 pages: happy and sad, quiet and loud, rock and roll, all of them monuments to music’s vast scope and potential for transcendence. That’s what we call a party…
Who will be the enduring stars of MOJO in 2053? We pick 30 key artists to sustain us through the next 30 years.
The men from uncles • Jeff Tweedy’s Chicago mob make some surprising new connections on their thir teenth album. By John Mulvey. Illustration by Quinton Winter.
“Wilco’s an unpopular pop band.”
Spear of destiny • Returning to his singer-songwriter roots, Stevens offers glimpses into the loves and losses that have shaped him.
Allison Russell
Return to Oz • A 50th anniversary reinvention that’s as necessary as it is timely – says Waters.
Songs in the key of love • The Chicago soul polymath’s deeply touching third album.
WORLD
Irreversible Entanglements
FOLK
New dimensions • The third album from Jack Cooper’s fluid alias aims to make “something that no one has heard...