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...
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...
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...
