by kschwarz | Apr 30, 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,” says Viv Albertine, who did just that… Words: Mark Paytress...
by kschwarz | Apr 29, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE The Rolling Stones Live Review Stones roll back the years as The Hackney Diamonds tour kicks off in Houston, Texas. Words by Andrew Dansby The Rolling Stones NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas, April 28, 2024 Before a riff has rung out, the opening night of the...
by kschwarz | Apr 26, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Welcome To The Freak Sh0w Emerging from the US punk underground, they unwittingly became MTV’s alternative rock poster boys before alienating their entire audience and collapsing in a pool of their own vitriol. In 2015, eighteen years on from their last...
by kschwarz | Apr 17, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE The Real Amy Winehouse: “Her intelligence astounded me…” The recent film biopic Back To Black has drawn criticism for its uneven portrait of troubled singer Amy Winehouse. MOJO’s Tom Doyle spoke to those closest to Amy to discover the real story of the...
by akindell | Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Mojo FEATURE The Outlaw How do you survive five decades of sheer rock’n’roll excess? “No one here gets out alive, so why think about it?” snarled an unrepentant Lemmy in 2011. And so, Motörhead’s eternal champion of immoderation, guides us through a life of clamorous...
by akindell | Mar 25, 2024 | The MOJO Interview
Mojo FEATURE The Outlaw How do you survive five decades of sheer rock’n’roll excess? “No one here gets out alive, so why think about it?” snarled an unrepentant Lemmy in 2011. And so, Motörhead’s eternal champion of immoderation, guides us through a life of clamorous...
by akindell | Mar 25, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Thrash Of The Titans The caustic antidote to big hair and spandex, thrash metal took Metallica from El Cerrito to Castle Donington and beyond, while unleashing an army of snarling, streetwise insurgents. As Hetfield, Ulrich and Co. readied another assault...
by akindell | Mar 25, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo FEATURE Welcome To The Freak Sh0w Emerging from the US punk underground, they unwittingly became MTV’s alternative rock poster boys before alienating their entire audience and collapsing in a pool of their own vitriol. In 2015, eighteen years on from their last...
by akindell | Mar 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Mojo Eyewitness Anthrax and Public Enemy bring the noise Anthrax were thrash metallers who loved hardcore hip hop. When they joined fellow New Yorkers Public Enemy on vinyl, rock and rap met with explosive results. Then they took it on the road… Bring The Illinois:...
by akindell | Mar 25, 2024 | The MOJO Interview
Mojo INTERVIEW Alice Cooper He’s the shock-rock pioneer who flirted with death, onstage and off, before “a miracle” intervened. “I’m going to play Alice Cooper every night,” said Vincent Furnier in 2017. “But I don’t have to be him.” Hey Stoopid: Alice Cooper on the...