by kschwarz | Jun 6, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE A farewell to London Billie Holiday’s last official London gig was on 14th February, 1954 at the Flamingo Club. Fred Dellar remembers a magical evening. Words by Andrew Perry Billie Holiday records her penultimate album ‘Lady in Satin’ at the...
by kschwarz | Jun 5, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Perfect Example The key band in hardcore punk’s mutation into alternative rock, Hüsker Dü lit a fire in all-comers before drugs, jealousy and major labels joined to topple them. It’s a final, unbearable irony that a revelatory release of their exciting...
by kschwarz | May 2, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Into The Black Out of the early-’80s post-punk scene burst The The’s Matt Johnson – crown prince of chartbound angst – and his blazingly intense poly-pop manifesto, Soul Mining. In this article from 2014, he relived the passion, the pain, and that piano...
by kschwarz | May 1, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Interstellar Overdrive 1974 was the year George Clinton’s P-Funk philosophy went overground, taking the psychedelic black rock of Funkadelic and the horn-heavy dance grooves of Parliament into the charts, onto the stage, into the Whitehouse, up to outer...
by kschwarz | May 2, 2024 | The MOJO Interview
Mojo FEATURE REPLACE HEADLINE From the ill-fated The Flowers Of Romance to The Slits, she defined post-punk before withdrawing into family life. “If you’ve got nothing to say for 20 years, do something else,” said Viv Albertine in this MOJO interview from August 2014...
