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.
MOJO INTO TOMORROW • 15 tracks hand-picked by weller
ALL BACK TO MY PLACE • THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING…
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Theories, rants, etc. • MOJO welcomes correspondence for publication.
Time And Grace • The Jeff Buckley biopic is go, with use of his music and diaries. Director Orian Williams promises a love letter to a life too short.
BOBBY GILLESPIE AND JEHNNY BETH PARTNER UP FOR DEEP SOUL HEARTACHE ON UTOPIAN ASHES
GIMME FIVE… LAUGHS ON RECORD
MANIC STREET PREACHERS EXPLORE INTERNAL GALAXIES ON ROXYESQUE ALBUM NUMBER 14
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TRANSGENDER PUNK PIONEER JAYNE COUNTY SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT
JAYNE TALES • County’s bounty
PEGGY SEEGER • The folk eminence talks luck, love and ridiculousness.
POST-PUNK! HIP-HOP! SLEAZE! KHRUANGBIN AND IDRIS ELBA TELL ALL ABOUT MACCA’S NEW REMIX LP
LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE • The blues and soul late bloomer hails Al Green’s 1972 classic Love And Happiness.
HAIL DECLAN O’ROURKE, MASTER STORYTELLER AND OVERNIGHT SENSATION – AT LAST!
A WALK ON GUILDED SPLINTERS WITH THE MYSTERINES
MOJO PLAYLIST • Plug in! For the month’s best exotica, maestro guitars and electro.
THE MOJO INTERVIEW • Sidewoman, shredder, superstar – St. Vincent is the 21st century transformer whose new album throws funky ’70s shapes while singing of her jailbird dad. But what else lies behind her many masks? “I could be anybody today,” admits Annie Clark.
WE’RE NOT WORTHY • Who is Annie Clark? Even David Byrne’s unsure.
A LIFE IN PICTURES • Visions of St. Vincent: Clark on camera.
ANNIE’S SONGS • St. Vincent: three steps to artpop heaven by Victoria Segal.
MDOU MOCTAR is the next-gen Desert Blues wiz with the Prince-like energy and film star charisma. But the Nigerien’s axe pyrotechnics might never have ignited without some bicycle brake cables and a sardine tin. “What’s this word, ‘psychedelic’?” he asks DAVID HUTCHEON.
DUNE BUDDIES • Mdou Moctar’s Desert Blues lineage…
THE WELLER EDIT! • TASTEMAKER, CURATOR, ENTHUSIAST: THREE QUALITIES OF THE PERFECT MOJO GUEST EDITOR. AND AS PAUL WELLER REMINDS US, HE’S BEEN A READER FROM THE START. “IT’S AN HONOUR,” HE SAYS. “AND I’VE HAD A CHANCE TO PUT EVERYTHING I LIKE IN IT.”
Four The hard Way • Out of death and loss and coke and smack, four men on the songwriting jags of their lives came together to put their names to a band: Crosbg, Stills, Aash & young. And now, with a new edition brimming with revealing outtakes, it’s Déjà Vu all over again. “It’s a miracle that we made such a great record, frankly,” they tell Sglvie Simmons.
Harmong Rockets • Five killer outtakes from the upcoming, bumper Déjà Vu, I selected by Sglvie Simmons.
WORSE THINGS HARREN AT SEA • A decade ago’ THE CORAL hit a reef, in a perfect storm of financial and mental health crises. Miraculously, they stayed afloat and in 2021 the Weller-approved Wirral-ites celebrate their Silver Jubilee with Coral Island, their...