Mojo Magazine: Classic Or Dud

(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..

I think that's Uncut, didn't Select go away a long time ago?

Oh yeah. Uncut. Opps.

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)

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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.

^^^ oh maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

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

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...

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.