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 mojo | May 24, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo The List Rock’s most legendary stars reveal the 60 greatest Bob Dylan songs of all time To celebrate Bob Dylan’s birthday, a galaxy of stars choose their favourite ever Dylan tracks. Picking a favourite Bob Dylan song is in many ways an impossible task....
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 1, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Jane’s Addiction O.D. with Ritual De Lo Habitual They’d freaked out the squares with 1988’s Nothing’s Shocking, but Perry Farrell’s alt-rock diabolists went mainstream in 1990 with their epic, carnal second album and its nagging hit Been Caught Stealing....
by kschwarz | May 1, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo INTERVIEW THE RIGHT STUFF Back in April 2019, Keith Richards, MOJO’s fourth ever Guest Editor, was 75 (just) and a walking, riffing advert for keeping young at heart, bursting to talk stimulants, electromagnetism and Talk Is Cheap, the solo album that shocked...
