Mojo Magazine: Classic Or Dud

Ugh, sorry

Note that US newsstand copies no longer have the CDs, only way you can get them in the US is with a print subscription.

Completely missed that Beatles avant-garde CD. Going to have to buy it second hand now, it looks great.

This was the last one I bought on the strength of the CD https://www.discogs.com/release/15945258-Various-Escape-From-Reality-15-Baroque-N-Roll-Art-Rock-Fandangos

The Smiths cover posted above is now in shops so i've just bought my second copy of Mojo in 5 days

Mojo is the only mag that I still persist with, my wife used to get a copy sent to her workplace for years too.

I do enjoy reading it although if I'm honest, it's probably out of habit really as the subscriptions are very cheap and nowadays I live nowhere near decent newsagents. I don't have all of them but I've been buying it since the beginning and have a bunch stacked away in a Kallax shelf that I can reach for. I dug out an issue the other day that was made when Blur were recording The Great Escape.

I suppose they're akin to the back catalogue departments of record companies, and can keep knocking out articles about heritage acts and only filter through newer bands that they feel are in keeping with the general aesthetic rather than worrying about having to write about more modern, off-brand trends.

there's a smiths cover every year, a beatles cover probably every 6 months

(seemingly)

I think people still share the cd on pirate bay regularly.

I get a digital subscription and the music is not included, unlike The Wire.

Sometimes, when flicking through this at the big supermarket, the CD will fall off into my trolley and only be discovered once I have left the shop.

dardnest thing....

Last time that happened was the Grateful Dead live CD.

I tried that with the Bob Dylan "Blonde on Blonde"

#WhatThese2LPSOfficer?

#notreally

I think people still share the cd on pirate bay regularly.

Someone has been posting the monthly PDFs of the magazine to usenet since 2015. Also, they're very easy to find on slsk, just search on "mojo 2023 pdf" (or whatever year). You can find many other mags on slsk the same way.

30th anniversary edition out now

"THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is Buried Treasures – a compendium of tracks from the secret classic albums uncovered by MOJO’s Buried Treasures column. Features The Prisoners, R.J. McMahon, Joe Meek, Nic Jones, Connie Converse, The Beau Brummels, Third World War and more!"

didn't actually pick up a copy because the contents didn't look great, Dylan, oasis... probably more

It’s a rather self indulgent issue. Includes a short article for each year of the magazine’s existence featuring the usual suspects among a bunch of articles on how great the magazine is and has been. The cover disc is pretty good though.

yeah enjoyed teh cd. Still don't have it all elsewhere which just ain't it.
Don't know why I don't have Third World War
& hadn't heard of that closing folk track.

I keep buying magazines that I don't read all of and still intend to. Mainly reading books and not keeping up with what I'm picking up there either. May be reading more tahn I did last year still though not sure.

They've announced that starting with this 30th anniversary issue, the CDs will once again be available on international newsstand copies.

my experience of working on magazines when they achieve eg their 30th is that everyone (justifably) sees it as a good excuse for a little holiday

hence all the reprinting of ancient content: it doesn't need re-copyreading or re-proofing so we have time pat ourselves properly on the back for longevity and general amazeballsness

I'm still waiting on mine.

It's in the shops, but.

Rolling Stones and a cd of "old weird blues"

https://images.bauerhosting.com/marketing/sites/16/2023/10/MOJO-361-cover-Rolling-Stones.jpg?auto=format&w=1200&q=80

Disappointing that "Bob Dylan's Secret Treasures" isn't a revelation that he's been burying caches of gold along the stops of the never-ending tour for dedicated fans to find after he's passed.

was kinda hoping the people who regularly get Mojo would update this thread on every new issue, save me having to make a special trip to whsmiths every month (or whs as it is now)

anyway, i think december's cd was a roundup of the year, featuring nobody that i can remember, and january's, which is in the shops now, is another Heavy Nuggets volume

I get the digital version which does not come with the cds or even a download, which I somewhat regret. I’m generally not a fan of the new stuff Mojo champions but I liked the heavy nuggets series in the past and other historical trawls.

(December was a Beatles cover, Jan is Stevie wonder

i could just post this and then have to remember to click it once a month
https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/latest-issues/ )

Doesn't sound completely terrible xps

THIS MONTH’S COVERMOUNT CD is The Best Of 2023. Features tracks from MOJO’s favourite albums, by artists including: Lankum; Everything But The Girl; Rickie Lee Jones; The Coral; Wilco; Grian Chatten; Julie Byrne; Young Fathers and more!

Last act calculated to outrage the Mojo core reader on name alone

Still very “chuffed” the album I made the art for won Mojo’s Best Electronic Album Of The Year. Been reading this magazine for 20 something years, I think.

Congrats!

Thanks!

It's a great album (and cover).

Still think of James Holden as a progressive/trance DJ so didn't realise he was now making albums like this

Thanks, groovypanda.
His albums have morphed and progressed over the last few releases. Check out his Animal Spirits project if you haven't. It was a huge honor and surprise to be asked to contribute since I've been a fan of his recordings for a while.
As for the artwork - I also made a 12 page booklet that comes with the vinyl and cd (and pdf with Bandcamp digi) versions of the album.

It's a lovely sleeve, Captain - congrats!

I'm obliged to mention that someone Out There is posting most/all of the Mojo CD comps to alt.binaries.sounds.lossless.rock. If you know what that is, you'll know how to find them.

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.

sucks so bad that as a digital subscriber I don't have access to the CDs.

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.

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!

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.

Greatt article! Gotta go back and listen to the album

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.

Yeah Mojo and The Wire have just completely disappeared around here, haven't seen an issue in bookstores or newsstands for many, many months.

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.

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.

yeah it was very insightful. I love autodidacts

[xp by which I mean when he reread it at 40 he found it to be a sad book]

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.

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.

Have yet to hear anyone (other than Mugger) speak fondly of Ginn.

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.

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

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)

*lost

I know it's the wrong mag, but Select has a cover mount of Can Live tracks this month..