by mojo | Aug 11, 2025 | MOJO Presents
BLACK COUNTRY ROCK From a home in England’s West Midlands, to Knebworth and Live Aid with Led Zep and back, via fame, fortune, tragedy and musical resurrection – ROBERT PLANT’s come full circle. A new album with local heroes Saving Grace exemplifies his hard rock...
by mojo | Aug 11, 2025 | MOJO Presents
THE ROAD WARRIOR 1975 was JONI MITCHELL’s roller-coaster year: 12 months of romance and heartbreak, adventure and retreat, cocaine and Rolling Thunder. And in the middle of it, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, her doubling-down on jazz rhythms, exotic melodies and...
by mojo | Aug 11, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Found! Woody Guthrie’s Home Tapes And Lost Songs Home comforts: Woody Guthrie’s voice is still out there. It’s 75 years since Woody Guthrie taped the songs on the newly released Woody At Home Vol. 1 & 2. Included are 22 previously unheard recordings made by just...
by mojo | Aug 6, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE From Here To Eternity Sixty years ago, the Grateful Dead embarked on a mission that would freak out label bosses, exasperate producers, and turn on millions to the infinite possibilities of improvised psychedelic rock. David Fricke heads back to 1960s San...
by mojo | Aug 6, 2025 | 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 mojo | Aug 5, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo REMEMBERS “He didn’t see himself as the guy who missed out…” Although best remembered for turning down the offer of fronting Led Zeppelin, Terry Reid was a vocalist of rare talent, heralded by none other than Aretha Franklin among others. MOJO pays tribute to the...
by mojo | Jul 31, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE MEANNESS IN THIS WORLD NEBRASKA was a lo-fi fever dream populated by conflicted cops and serial killers, the lost and the lonely. The desperate characters haunting its grooves came amid a dramatic evolution in Springsteen’s writing style and his view of...
by mojo | Jul 31, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE SONG OF THE MAGICIAN Fifty years since his tragic overdose, Tim Buckley remains the patron saint of musicians who risk everything to unlock transcendence, a quest encapsulated in his audacious mid-career masterpiece, Starsailor. Turning his back on fame...
by mojo | Jul 28, 2025 | The MOJO Interview
Mojo FEATURE The Proposition It’s been an odyssey from the heroin addiction and on-stage violence of The Birthday Party to life as a nine-to-five songwriter with The a Seeds. In 2004, with his roll-ups, cups of tea, family life, a film in production and one of the...
by mojo | Jul 25, 2025 | MOJO Presents
Mojo REMEMBERING OZZY Inside Ozzy Osbourne’s First-Ever Solo Gig On September 12, 1980, at Glasgow’s Apollo, Ozzy Osbourne played his first official solo show after being kicked out of Black Sabbath. MOJO’s James McNair was down the front to witness the Second Coming...
