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Kings of Nawlins "fonk" go it alone. Cue incurable itch in sacroiliac.
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 12:31 PM GMT 04/11/2009 3 Comments
MOJO's James McNair welcomes Halloween with a selection of music to scare your pants off.
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 12:30 PM GMT 28/10/2009 13 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 3:33 PM GMT 12/10/2009 35 Comments
How good was the late Les Paul's namesake axe? The best, argues MOJO's Mat Snow.
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 9:48 AM GMT 12/10/2009 11 Comments
As Hendrix, Tupac and Jeff Buckley have proven, death is no impediment to a hit album...
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 05/10/2009 0 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 4:56 PM GMT 25/09/2009 3 Comments
Kraftwerk headlined Britain's barmiest festival - 6 this year. Martin Aston gets in the spirit.
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 12:30 PM GMT 18/09/2009 0 Comments
The Horrors and The Slits throw art-rock dweebfest in a forest in Essex!
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 2:17 PM GMT 09/09/2009 0 Comments
Legendary chanteuse Juliette Gréco sticks it up your landfill indie. "Ooh la la," says Kieron Tyler.
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:47 AM GMT 14/08/2009 0 Comments
Will our favourite bands please STOP re-forming? MOJO's David Sheppard salutes the hold-outs.
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 07/08/2009 0 Comments
MOJO celebrates moon landing week with XI classic 'n' crazy tunes about space...
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:02 AM GMT 21/07/2009 0 Comments
Norway's outdoorsy rockfest is "remarkably clean", writes Fujiya & Miyagi's David Best...
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 3:36 PM GMT 09/07/2009 0 Comments
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Blur pull their fat out of the fire. Art Brut come good. Danny Eccleston waves his flag.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 4:37 PM GMT 29/06/2009 0 Comments
Danny Eccleston was going to write about some other bands. Then he saw Bruce Springsteen.
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 12:45 PM GMT 28/06/2009 0 Comments
There are over 150,000 stories in the tented city, and this is just Danny Eccleston's.
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 11:50 AM GMT 27/06/2009 0 Comments
Forget Eurovision. SPOT Festival is the best advert for Scandiwegian music, reckons Kieron Tyler.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 3:52 PM GMT 02/06/2009 0 Comments
Supermarkets have banned the Manics' record cover. Cue a brief history of sleeve censorship...
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 5:16 PM GMT 28/05/2009 0 Comments
How best to navigate your way through the weird and wonderful world of Warp Records!
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:19 AM GMT 21/05/2009 0 Comments
Because, as Pat Gilbert discovers, there's life beyond Glastonbury...
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 5:25 PM GMT 01/05/2009 0 Comments
The folk legend is 90. MOJO's Phil Sutcliffe hails a prophet in his own land.
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 23/04/2009 17 Comments
MOJO's Sylvie Simmons reports from Metallica's pre-Hall Of Fame "High School Reunion".
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:00 AM GMT 09/04/2009 0 Comments
What's so bad about marijuana? And where would music be without it? By Bill DeMain
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 5:37 PM GMT 02/04/2009 2 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 4:42 PM GMT 27/03/2009 31 Comments
"What have we done to deserve Limp Bizkit... again!?" wonders MOJO's Danny Eccleston.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 5:19 PM GMT 06/03/2009 25 Comments
Yet another mistake by the lake, as Ron Asheton's Stooges are overlooked once more.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 11:05 AM GMT 04/03/2009 16 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 4:44 PM GMT 25/02/2009 35 Comments
So Elvis Costello has a talk show. But where are its teeth, wonders MOJO’s David Sheppard?
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 11:37 AM GMT 11/02/2009 19 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 3:27 PM GMT 06/02/2009 2 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 10:32 AM GMT 03/02/2009 4 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 5:28 PM GMT 28/01/2009 9 Comments
The MC5er on why The Funk Brothers were America’s greatest band…
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 5:02 PM GMT 23/01/2009 1 Comments
In 1969 we had John Bonham. Today we have Lars Ulrich. Bad swop, says Mat Snow.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 10:49 AM GMT 21/01/2009 71 Comments
The new gen of music games are sounding a widdly-widdly death knell for rock’n’roll.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:48 PM GMT 06/01/2009 20 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 22/12/2008 0 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:15 PM GMT 19/12/2008 6 Comments
Plagiarism, legal lunacy, or just a case of two useless applications of one duh-obvious idea?
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:38 PM GMT 12/12/2008 11 Comments
Excitement, hits, bum notes, heckling: the spirit of rock’n’roll preserved in aspic.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 11:44 AM GMT 05/12/2008 48 Comments
Puddle Of Mudd? Toad The Wet Sprocket? Boy Raised By Chimps? Martin Aston referees.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 PM GMT 26/11/2008 61 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 3:12 PM GMT 06/11/2008 38 Comments
Or why MTV’s Disappear Here documentary has some lessons for us all.
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 3:53 PM GMT 04/11/2008 1 Comments
Forty-six years on, Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s Monster Mash is still the world’s Halloween anthem.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 31/10/2008 5 Comments
The Clash’s Revolution Rock DVD storyboards the end of the dream, argues Phil Alexander.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 1:07 PM GMT 28/10/2008 1 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 5:00 PM GMT 27/10/2008 16 Comments
Save us from pop music academies and the bland career musos they churn out!
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 3:57 PM GMT 02/10/2008 7 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 10:35 AM GMT 26/09/2008 6 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 03/09/2008 5 Comments
Jerry Levitan, the Canuck kid who interviewed Lennon in ’69, tells his tale…
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 11:30 AM GMT 21/08/2008 4 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 12:33 PM GMT 18/07/2008 5 Comments
How a classic song can make or break a Presidential candidate, by MOJO’s Bill DeMain.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 11:31 AM GMT 11/07/2008 1 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 5:03 PM GMT 07/07/2008 1 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 10:57 AM GMT 04/07/2008 1 Comments
A White Panther and a sober Scream make for the gig of a lifetime, says Kris Needs
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 4:11 PM GMT 30/06/2008 0 Comments
Earl Brutus frontman and rock’n’roll lifer, eulogised by MOJO’s Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 8:00 AM GMT 26/06/2008 4 Comments
Danny Eccleston watches the world’s biggest art-rock band tread the road less travelled
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 1:46 PM GMT 25/06/2008 4 Comments
MOJO’s Kieron Tyler reports from SPOT, an altogether nicer kind of rock festival.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:45 PM GMT 24/06/2008 0 Comments
Sunday’s apocalyptic comeback set was witnessed by MOJO’s Danny Eccleston.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 9:54 AM GMT 24/06/2008 6 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 1:51 PM GMT 20/06/2008 4 Comments
Specials legend Jerry Dammers on the debt he owes the architect of ska, Prince Buster…
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:13 PM GMT 21/05/2008 0 Comments
Fujiya & Miyagi make hometown hay; Black Mountain groove like golems.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 4:58 PM GMT 19/05/2008 1 Comments
The Hold Steady preview new album at MOJO’s Great Escape show. Relax, it rules.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 5:50 PM GMT 18/05/2008 1 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 11:10 AM GMT 12/05/2008 1 Comments
"CD-R? schmeeD-R!" MOJO's Stevie Chick mourns the passing of the humble cassette tape.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 9:59 AM GMT 25/04/2008 5 Comments
Well-loved record shops are closing all over the world. Time to fight back, says David Katz.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 5:07 PM GMT 14/04/2008 38 Comments
David Best, from Brightonian electro-rockers Fujiya & Miyagi, pays tribute to the late Neu! nabob.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:26 PM GMT 11/04/2008 0 Comments
MOJO reports from his emotional UK finale at The Royal Albert Hall
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 5:47 PM GMT 03/04/2008 10 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 11:51 AM GMT 01/04/2008 9 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 4:49 PM GMT 25/03/2008 20 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 23/03/2008 7 Comments
"Where have all the innovative guitarists gone?" wonders MOJO's David Sheppard.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 11:36 AM GMT 19/03/2008 14 Comments
The final day’s play! Scroobius Pip and Kitty, Daisy And Lewis scoop honours.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 1:00 PM GMT 17/03/2008 1 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 3:12 PM GMT 16/03/2008 1 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 3:44 PM GMT 14/03/2008 2 Comments
Phil Alexander’s worm’s eye view. Today starring The Slits, The Dicks and Sylvie Simmons!
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 4:56 PM GMT 13/03/2008 6 Comments
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 3:59 PM GMT 07/03/2008 10 Comments
Magical “ethnic” recordings discovered in label’s ancient archive. Damon Albarn rejoices!
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 5:54 PM GMT 03/03/2008 1 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:15 PM GMT 29/02/2008 2 Comments
"But I'm drowning in eight hours of Fun House sessions!" wails MOJO’s Stevie Chick.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 11:46 AM GMT 21/02/2008 5 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 2:05 PM GMT 14/02/2008 5 Comments
Blur’s Alex James used to be a pop star. Now he’s a ubiquitous, self-promoting windbag.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 4:12 PM GMT 11/02/2008 1 Comments
Has the solo Moz ever rivalled his former band? Danny Eccleston reckons so...
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 11:30 AM GMT 08/02/2008 6 Comments
Is it Old Shep? Something by The Smiths? Hell, no! Bill DeMain knows it's Gloomy Sunday.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 11:50 AM GMT 01/02/2008 7 Comments
MOJO’s Phil Sutcliffe is tired of hearing morons chatter through gigs.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 2:51 PM GMT 25/01/2008 8 Comments
Mersey pop needs to shape up, or Liverpool needs to find a new USP.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 10:05 AM GMT 18/01/2008 5 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 11:04 AM GMT 11/01/2008 54 Comments
It's not loud enough, and what about a light show, wonders MOJO's Mat Snow?
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:35 PM GMT 03/01/2008 13 Comments
David Brewis salutes the venerable indie label in an exclusive semi-celebrity blog.
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 3:46 PM GMT 31/12/2007 2 Comments
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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 2:30 PM GMT 19/11/2007 12 Comments
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M For Montreal is Canada's SXSW. MOJO's Andy Fyfe reports from the festival frontline...
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:38 PM GMT 09/11/2007 2 Comments
MOJO’s Danny Eccleston used to think it was records. Now he thinks it’s gigs...
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 4:11 PM GMT 19/10/2007 2 Comments
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 4:37 PM GMT 26/07/2007 4 Comments
Posted by chris at 3:43 PM GMT 30/09/2006 0 Comments
Posted by MOJO at 10:45 AM GMT 01/03/2006 4 Comments
Just saw a great band from Tokyo called Marble She
Anonymous at 8:08 PM 06/11/2009
Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians OCD for the e
Hugh Macpherson at 9:26 PM 03/11/2009
What about the Stranglers’ "Waltzinblack" or "Fyt"
etienne at 11:30 AM 02/11/2009
"Live" albums can cheat. Consider "Live and Danger
thegenuineseer at 8:52 PM 31/10/2009
rage against the machine is the best band in the w
morgan s. doonbuggy at 9:32 PM 30/10/2009
TrurgyFug at 11:58 AM 29/10/2009
Great article as for me. It would be great to read
StephanJade at 12:10 PM 25/10/2009
Anonymous at 7:49 PM 17/10/2009
The mid-seventies reconstituted VdGG produced an a
Ian Rowley at 1:21 PM 13/10/2009
Seriously? Meg White? Anyone who should know abou
Mike at 2:13 AM 12/10/2009
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