John Mulvey
@johnmulvey.bsky.social
Editor, MOJO. Ex-Editor, Uncut/Ex-Deputy Editor, NME. Jams etc. http://mojo4music.com
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Want the one you *can* have: it’s a new @mojomagazine.bsky.social, with The Smiths on the cover and a meaty Review Of 2025 inside. Lots to get into in a moment, but it's available now here www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-january... 1/3
Has MOJO bought the Daily Mail? (That would be good for many reasons)
Apologies for the Daily Mail link, but for those of us who are fans of The Incredible String Band, this is pretty wild.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
As it's Neil Young's 80th, here's maybe my favourite clip of him in action. Not a solo thing, weirdly, but the CSNY torching of Down By The River at Celebration Big Sur. The face-off with Stills is for the ages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNnM...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - "Down By The River" (Big Sur CA 1969)
YouTube video by Philtration
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November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
As it's Neil Young's 80th, here's maybe my favourite clip of him in action. Not a solo thing, weirdly, but the CSNY torching of Down By The River at Celebration Big Sur. The face-off with Stills is for the ages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNnM...
Bit tired of the "Terrible man who everyone knows is a terrible man turns out to be a terrible man after all; nothing happens" news cycle at this late date.
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Bit tired of the "Terrible man who everyone knows is a terrible man turns out to be a terrible man after all; nothing happens" news cycle at this late date.
"I was just a little Deadhead..."
important! first tape (that i've seen) of gillian welch & dave rawlings doing "wharf rat," rawlings nominally singing lead (but with lotsa welch), recorded a few weeks ago in glasgow. drive.google.com/file/d/1ibZW...
also, an incomplete video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YOQ... #deadfreaksunite
also, an incomplete video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YOQ... #deadfreaksunite
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
"I was just a little Deadhead..."
It's a new Bill Callahan song, with a new Bill Callahan album to come. "I've been living too long in my head..."
billcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/my-day...
billcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/my-day...
My Days of 58, by Bill Callahan
12 track album
billcallahan.bandcamp.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's a new Bill Callahan song, with a new Bill Callahan album to come. "I've been living too long in my head..."
billcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/my-day...
billcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/my-day...
The new @mojomagazine.bsky.social out now: Smiths, Stones, Floyd, CMAT, Van, Jarvis, Hüsker Dü & Sugar, Dion, Mulatu Astatke, Manics, Sly, Nick Drake, Ten Years After, D'Angelo, SLF, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Snocaps, Horsegirl, Jacob Alon, Steven Wilson, Chris Dreja & - don't worry! - a bit of Weller
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The new @mojomagazine.bsky.social out now: Smiths, Stones, Floyd, CMAT, Van, Jarvis, Hüsker Dü & Sugar, Dion, Mulatu Astatke, Manics, Sly, Nick Drake, Ten Years After, D'Angelo, SLF, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Snocaps, Horsegirl, Jacob Alon, Steven Wilson, Chris Dreja & - don't worry! - a bit of Weller
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I, too, would like people to know I have read a book
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I, too, would like people to know I have read a book
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Want the one you *can* have: it’s a new @mojomagazine.bsky.social, with The Smiths on the cover and a meaty Review Of 2025 inside. Lots to get into in a moment, but it's available now here www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-january... 1/3
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Want the one you *can* have: it’s a new @mojomagazine.bsky.social, with The Smiths on the cover and a meaty Review Of 2025 inside. Lots to get into in a moment, but it's available now here www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-january... 1/3
The new Noura Mint Seymali album is out today and it's one of my favourites of the year. Listen here: noura-mint-seymali.bandcamp.com/album/yenbett
Yenbett, by Noura Mint Seymali
15 track album
noura-mint-seymali.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The new Noura Mint Seymali album is out today and it's one of my favourites of the year. Listen here: noura-mint-seymali.bandcamp.com/album/yenbett
Want the one you *can* have: it’s a new @mojomagazine.bsky.social, with The Smiths on the cover and a meaty Review Of 2025 inside. Lots to get into in a moment, but it's available now here www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-january... 1/3
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Want the one you *can* have: it’s a new @mojomagazine.bsky.social, with The Smiths on the cover and a meaty Review Of 2025 inside. Lots to get into in a moment, but it's available now here www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-january... 1/3
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So much of the centrist approach to politics has devolved into "How do we trick people into supporting us like the right has done?" where talking sincerely about policies that might help ordinary people's lives is for naïve schmucks who don't understand the glorious theatre of it all
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
So much of the centrist approach to politics has devolved into "How do we trick people into supporting us like the right has done?" where talking sincerely about policies that might help ordinary people's lives is for naïve schmucks who don't understand the glorious theatre of it all
Waking up here in a better world than we went to sleep in.
We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Waking up here in a better world than we went to sleep in.
Really excellent writing by @hutchie.bsky.social about a fine and timely new Mavis Staples record. Gillian Welch still appeared stunned that Staples had covered her song when she played Hard Times in London last week.
“Staples’ work is incomplete as long as the world continues to promote leaders too dumb to understand the message - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐”
Mavis Staples continues to set the world to rights with one of the best albums of her 75-year career. Read MOJO’s 5/5 review and the tracklisting in full...
Mavis Staples continues to set the world to rights with one of the best albums of her 75-year career. Read MOJO’s 5/5 review and the tracklisting in full...
Mavis Staples Sad And Beautiful World Review
1960s icon and voice of the Civil Rights movement still setting the world to rights with one of the best albums of her 75-year career.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Really excellent writing by @hutchie.bsky.social about a fine and timely new Mavis Staples record. Gillian Welch still appeared stunned that Staples had covered her song when she played Hard Times in London last week.
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So long, Donna Jean ... 😭
November 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
So long, Donna Jean ... 😭
I'll fight, I'll fight, I'll fight...
On this day in 1996, @wilcohq.bsky.social released their second album, Being There. A sprawling set of alt-country, ragged-assed Stones boogies and questing, less generic pieces like Misunderstood, see where it landed in MOJO editor @johnmulvey.bsky.social’s pick of Wilco’s best albums...
Wilco's Best Albums Ranked
MOJO charts the long-playing progress of Jeff Tweedy and co. 10. Kicking Television 9. Cruel Country 8. Wilco (The Album) 7. Ode to Joy
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October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'll fight, I'll fight, I'll fight...
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MOJO’s next How To Buy guide is on The Isley Brothers. Reply to let us know what your favourite albums from Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly are and why and we’ll print the best responses in a future issue 👇
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
MOJO’s next How To Buy guide is on The Isley Brothers. Reply to let us know what your favourite albums from Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly are and why and we’ll print the best responses in a future issue 👇
Feels like Perseverance Flow has been playing uninterrupted in my head all night, and I'm fine with that.
Natural Information Society, about 25 minutes into tonight’s 50-minute Perseverance Flow. Incredible.
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Feels like Perseverance Flow has been playing uninterrupted in my head all night, and I'm fine with that.
This is my favourite thing on Blue Sky at the moment and it really deserves more followers.
Ok, so the aim is to use every single tube station on the TFL map, (The Croydon tram can get fucked) whether I hit in or out and then visit the closest pub for a quick half. Unless I’ve miscounted there are 422 to visit. Here we go
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is my favourite thing on Blue Sky at the moment and it really deserves more followers.
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Natural Information Society tonight
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Natural Information Society tonight
Natural Information Society, about 25 minutes into tonight’s 50-minute Perseverance Flow. Incredible.
October 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Natural Information Society, about 25 minutes into tonight’s 50-minute Perseverance Flow. Incredible.
I know a lot of people have already recommended this (thanks for the tips) but this Cosmic Tones Research Trio record is a beauty. mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, by The Cosmic Tones Research Trio
8 track album
mississippirecords.bandcamp.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I know a lot of people have already recommended this (thanks for the tips) but this Cosmic Tones Research Trio record is a beauty. mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
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I reviewed Gillian Welch & David Rawlings' first London show in 14 years. Pretty good. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Live Review
The ruling couple of Americana’s exquisite, two-set show proves well worth the wait at their first London appearance since 2011. Read MOJO's review in full.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I reviewed Gillian Welch & David Rawlings' first London show in 14 years. Pretty good. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
I reviewed Gillian Welch & David Rawlings' first London show in 14 years. Pretty good. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Live Review
The ruling couple of Americana’s exquisite, two-set show proves well worth the wait at their first London appearance since 2011. Read MOJO's review in full.
www.mojo4music.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I reviewed Gillian Welch & David Rawlings' first London show in 14 years. Pretty good. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
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First Welch & Rawlings Lond show for 14 years. Will write about it properly tomorrow but we got China Doll and, at the end of Wrecking Ball, a hint of Bird Song.
October 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
First Welch & Rawlings Lond show for 14 years. Will write about it properly tomorrow but we got China Doll and, at the end of Wrecking Ball, a hint of Bird Song.
First Welch & Rawlings Lond show for 14 years. Will write about it properly tomorrow but we got China Doll and, at the end of Wrecking Ball, a hint of Bird Song.
October 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
First Welch & Rawlings Lond show for 14 years. Will write about it properly tomorrow but we got China Doll and, at the end of Wrecking Ball, a hint of Bird Song.