Mojo - The Music Magazine

MOJO was born as a print magazine, back when they launched such things, in the autumnal mists of October, 1993. Originally it was going to be called PRACTICAL BEEKEEPING, but good sense (and lawyers) intervened*.

Its original team had been involved in the launch of Q Magazine in the previous decade, but MOJO's rubric immediately differed. While Q surveyed the contemporary pop-culture landscape, taking the temperature of pop and fitting music into a world that contained film, television, celebrity and the like, MOJO was always about music pure and simple. Since its first issue it has championed music old and new that appeared likely to one day acquire the epithet "timeless". Always we've favoured the mavericks, divas, loonies and shitkickers, the lost classics and ambitious opuses, over the fads, starlets and best-sellers pored over by other magazines.

In other words, we like to think it's the music magazine you go to when you've grown out of all the others.

The roll-call of MOJO editors includes Paul du Noyer (1993-1995), Mat Snow (1995-1999), Paul Trynka (1999-2001) and Pat Gilbert (2002-2003). The current incumbent is Phil Alexander. Its influential staff and contributors have included Lloyd Bradley, Greil Marcus, Jim Marshall, Dave Marsh, Sylvie Simmons, Victor Bockris, Jim Irvin, Steve Fawcett, Mark Ellen, David Hepworth, Keith Cameron, Henry Diltz, Barney Hoskins, Joel Selvin, Nick Kent, Ben Edmonds, John Harris, Barry Miles, Charles Shaar Murray, David Cavanagh, Phil Sutcliffe, Robert Hilburn, Kevin Westenberg and many other legendary icons of the music magazine racket.

In 2001, MOJO first launched mojo4music.com (why such a rubbish URL? It's a long story) and in September 2003 it celebrated its 10th anniversary by morphing itself into a digital radio station, broadcasting via Freeview Channel 721, Sky Channel 0182, and online, if you're on a PC.

Since October 1993, Mojo has profiled hundreds of artists and reviewed over 10,000 albums. In that time we've encountered music that made our souls melt and some that made our stomachs turn, but our guiding principle has never wavered. We chop through the jungle of novelty (and indeed, the novelty of "jungle") seeking the source: the essence of soul or genius that makes music, of whatever genre, endure.

*Oh alright, this is a fib.

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