Question: How come all the obsessive mags like this come out of the U.K.? Are there ANY American mags that cover music in the manner of a Mojo? I honestly can't think of one. Somebody point me in the right direction.
― Mark Richardson, Saturday, 10 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nicole, Saturday, 10 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
DUD!!!
― Marcos, Monday, 12 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Monday, 12 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― mark emsley, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mark, Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― scott p., Wednesday, 23 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― George Gosset, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But the long historical pieces I do find useful, especially when regarding acts/artists about whose history I feel I ought to know more, e.g. Patto or ELO.
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― desmond abladey, Monday, 22 May 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
As great as The Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Neil Young are, there is still a limit to how much new stuff you are able to dig out about them.
Which makes Mojo more interesting because they aren't afraid to do a feature on Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Moody Blues, The Animals, Pete Seeger or David Crosby instead.
Plus Mojo does actually attempt to turn their (mainly 30-40-50 something) readers into more recent stuff too, that is, recent stuff that Mojo finds good (and the Mojo staff has a considerably broader taste in recent music compared to the Americana crazed Uncut staff)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 22 May 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Stevie Chick does get some good bands in Mojo(and Kerrang too).I suppose having read Mojo for years now ive read about every band they cover. If they stopped repeating themselves and covered some more obscure acts I either haven't read much about/or heard of, i might buy. Then again would that sell?
Its time they gave Parliament/Funkadelic a front cover and just devoted the entire magazine to them and all the spin offs. That would make great reading.
Someone should write a really good pfunk book.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 22 May 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
(I speak from the perspective of someone who for two years unsuccessfully lobbied U***t to give Todd Rundgren the front cover and 30 pages inside)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link
4-5 Public EnemyEvens Beastie Boys7-4 Outkast 2-1 Eminem4-1 Wu Tang Clan (Up from 5-1)8-1 Jay Z 12-1 50 Cent (down from 8-1)15-1 Run DMC/LL Cool J40-1 Dizzee Rascal50-1 bar
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Odds to appear on the front cover
Wire 20-1Throwing Muses 40-1The Stranglers 75-1Underworld 100-1King Crimson 200-1Killing Joke 250-1The Associates 400-1The Chameleons 500-1Rush 1000-1Porcupine Tree 10,000-1
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Nick Hornby - evens
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Again that's the problem about funk/hip-hop fans. Your extreme intolerance towards anything that is not funk/hip-hop/R&B related.
Mojo have never devoted their entire magazine to one single genre, and never will. They have done funk specials, and they will again. They have also done hip-hop specials, and the likelyness of Mojo putting Public Enemy on their front page is way bigger than the likeliness of Mixmag or Kingsize putting Coldplay on their front page. Who who is the most intolerant here?
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Daddy you're a fool to cry....
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:15 (eighteen years ago) link
weirdly, i wouldn't have thought that would be a tough pitch there - isn't paul lester a huge Todd fan?
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:15 (eighteen years ago) link
As for Todd Rundgren, you would have been more likely to succeed with Mojo. Select usually prefer "safe" cover stories.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:19 (eighteen years ago) link
You couldn't get a huger Todd fan than PL. But neither of us was able to get past Jonesey Customs...
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link
And, btw. they have yet to make a "Mind Games" special, a "Tug Of War" special, a "Flowers In The Dirt" special or a "Cloud Nine" special. All of those were way better albums than "Plastic Ono Band".
There is an inhouse rule in Select that if they are ever to do a cover story of a more obscure act, it will always have to be some Americana act. :)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Where is Duke Ellingham Swing Band band?
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:28 (eighteen years ago) link
But I guess they are sort of too narrow for the Mojo readership. Whenever they do keyboard based 80s music they do something a bit broader and more commercial.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Samuel KB Amphong (Dada), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 09:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Feb was Wings, including a compilation called Jet
Mar is The North Will Rise Again with a compilation of Manchester bands and liam on the cover. didn't entice me to buy it.
― koogs, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:16 (three months ago) link
sucks so bad that as a digital subscriber I don't have access to the CDs.
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:16 (three months ago) link
Must have been in another thread that I posted this, but it also sucks that Mojo and Uncut seem to have largely disappeared around here. Between a nearby killer newsstand and the local Barnes & Noble I was always able to pick these up, but I haven't seen a new issue of either in many months.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:18 (three months ago) link
supermarket stocks mojo so i do notice when they change. anyway the new one.
Jun 2024
Kate Bush – The Early Years is this month’s cover story. Everything from her early demos through Wuthering Heights to Never For Ever. Plus! An insider relives the incredible Tour Of Life. Also in the issue: The Yardbirds – the whole story; Scott Walker’s Climate Of Hunter at 40; Beth Gibbons returns; Tangerine Dream’s synth madness; Labi Siffre – famous at last. And: Crowded House; Curtis Mayfield; Anita Pallenberg; Steve Harley; Nirvana; Leyla McCalla; Richard Thompson; Lou Reed; Buzzcocks; Minutemen.
THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is MOJO WORKING!: 15 slices of raucous, raving, rumbustious British R&B by The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, Graham Bond, Cyril Davies, Geno Washington, Alexis Korner and more!
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 11:35 (one month ago) link
I wrote the Minutemen story - 4-page oral history on the making of Double Nickels, with new/unpublished interviews with Mike Watt, Bob Mould, Kira Roessler, Joe Baiza, Joe Carducci, Ray Farrell and David Fricke.
Buy magazines, they rule.
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 13:58 (one month ago) link
Greatt article! Gotta go back and listen to the album
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 14:30 (one month ago) link
Haven't read it in age, but I was at an airport, saw it and thought now is the time. Enjoyed all of it, but especially the Minutemen article - nice work stevie! Quite moving tbh.
― woof, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 14:37 (one month ago) link
Yeah Mojo and The Wire have just completely disappeared around here, haven't seen an issue in bookstores or newsstands for many, many months.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:10 (one month ago) link
For me it's that I don't really go into newsagents much any more - I never see it to think about buying it. Anyway, just subscribed.
― woof, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:17 (one month ago) link
Ah thanks Boring and Woof! Have interviewed Mike W a number of ties and he never fails to leave me verklempt - the thing about thinking Ulysses was a happy, exciting book until rereading it when he was 40 ("The book didn't change, but I had") hit me hard on this one.
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:17 (one month ago) link
yeah it was very insightful. I love autodidacts
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:26 (one month ago) link
[xp by which I mean when he reread it at 40 he found it to be a sad book]
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:33 (one month ago) link
Wonderful. I was actually hoping for this earlier this month when I played through all of their records after seeing so many people on social media commemorate D. Boon's birthday on April 1. Still frustrating that Mike Watt was never able to release an uncut remastered edition of Double Nickels - he definitely tried but I guess Greg Ginn blew him off.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:33 (one month ago) link
Have yet to hear anyone (other than Mugger) speak fondly of Ginn.
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:52 (one month ago) link
How did other bands get their masters back? Offer Ginn a lot of money or go through the courts? Money something I assume Watt and others don't have.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 20:21 (one month ago) link
Mojo is absolutely killing it as of late. I know rock is dead and all but it's kind of wild that there's no American magazine left that's going to put Pearl Jam on a cover in 2024
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 20:26 (one month ago) link
xp I think you just need to get some solid lawyers to confront SST and Ginn rolls over. A couple of catches: doesn't work if the band members can't agree to terms and clear the way for lawyers to move forward (see Hüsker Dü) and even if Ginn concedes, he hasn't done shit to properly maintain or store the masters, so even though you get back the rights, the physical masters may be lose (see Meat Puppets)
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 20:29 (one month ago) link
*lost
I know it's the wrong mag, but Select has a cover mount of Can Live tracks this month..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:21 (one month ago) link
I think that's Uncut, didn't Select go away a long time ago?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:24 (one month ago) link
Oh yeah. Uncut. Opps.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:13 (one month ago) link
― birdistheword, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 3:29 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i spoke with this directly with terry katzman about the husker du stuff (terry ran reflex records for the huskers) before he died, they did have lawyers - the same lawyers that dino jr. and meat puppets used i think he said -- but the husker contract was different and had some more onerous language in it that they could not overcome. the band was actually all fairly united (at least as united as huskers get) and behind the project. ginn does not just roll over by any means.
so they could do the savage young du boxset, because that was largely based on terry's tapes and pre-sst. the original plan was to work with numero on a reissue series of the entire catalog - i think he said the idea was to have sets where it would be a remastered album then another disc of outtakes and/or live performances of that era.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:22 (one month ago) link
^^^ oh maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:31 (one month ago) link
yeah it's a tragedy that it never happened and now that Terry is gone it never will, he had so much energy to make it happen he cared way more about that band than the members did
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:41 (one month ago) link
Yeah, the impression Bob gave me last time I interviewed him is that they had lawyers, they'd approached Ginn, but that it was just too hard, and in the end he's just written it all off as a lost cause. It's such a shame.
SST seem to have bumped up their vinyl represses over the last couple of years, but I don't see them doing any deluxe reissues with outtakes, etc, and that's a shame. I remember telling Carducci when I was researching my Flag book that it was a tragedy they weren't celebrating the back catalog that way, and that the CDs didn't sound great and could do with a remaster at the very least, but he argued that they sound fine. Still...
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:44 (one month ago) link
Interesting and very sad. I was going by that interview Grant did where he claimed Bob was asking for too much control and too big of a share of the catalog in order to get it away from SST, but I guess a lot happened after that bump in the road.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 20:56 (one month ago) link
https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/latest-issues/mojo-368-july-2024-paul-weller/
Weller cover, Byrds related cover cd
― koogs, Saturday, 18 May 2024 18:49 (two weeks ago) link