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...
by akindell | Mar 25, 2024 | The MOJO Interview
Mojo INTERVIEW Lemmy Speed kills… but not when you have the constitution of a warthog and you’re the Lewis gun of the bass guitar. Cue tales of Sid Vicious, Hendrix and… The Nolans from Motörhead legend Lemmy in this archive interview from 2011 Motörhead frontman Ian...
by kschwarz | Feb 29, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo Presents Blood + Fire In 1976, reggae was peaking – creatively aflame, and with its biggest star poised for global stardom, fuelled by the positive protest of Rastaman Vibration. But with a General Election due and domestic bloodshed rampant, Bob Marley was drawn...
by kschwarz | Feb 26, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo The List The 50 Best Reggae Albums Ever! From ska to dub, Bob Marley to Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. MOJO selects the greatest reggae albums of all time. Words by Pat Gilbert and MOJO staff FOR A SMALL CARIBBEAN ISLAND, Jamaica has had an extraordinary influence on...
by kschwarz | Feb 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Time Machine September 1972… The Harder They Come hits the big screen Words by Fred Dellar Guns fever! (main) Jimmy Cliff as Ivan Martin, hero of The Harder They Come film poster Reggae Movie Opens” ran the NME headline to a news item that announced, “Jamaica’s...
by kschwarz | Feb 26, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo Presents The Madness Of King Dub Was Lee “Scratch” Perry – reggae’s wildest producer, alchemist of sound and “God’s Scientist” – authentically mad? Or was it an act to deflect gangsters and journos? A vibration from a higher plane of existence? And would Perry...
by kschwarz | Feb 23, 2024 | MOJO Presents
Mojo Presents Razor’s Edge Imposing, outspoken messenger of black defiance, tragic Peter Tosh was reggae’s outlaw – no wonder he found an ally in Keith Richards. But his refusal to kowtow came with a cost – to his career, his health and his peace of mind. “Peter was...
