It's January so we have one of those extremely good New Year offers on @mojomagazine.bsky.social subscriptions running at the moment. Three issues for just £3. If you've been thinking about subscribing (or resubscribing) for a while, now's the time. www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-magazin...

This is excellent. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Two new Shabaka tracks this morning. A Future Untold - youtu.be/I9YvEtEVlqY Marwa The Mountain - youtu.be/VkV4FsZi-i8

The Lowdown is so good, not least because it makes me want to play JJ Cale all day.

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

RIP Bob Weir. Very grateful I saw this last summer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw6h...

Feel inclined to blow your mind? Try the new @mojomagazine.bsky.social, with a headspinning Small Faces cover story, and an exclusive, ultra-collectible Small Faces CD to go with it. Order a copy here: www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-march-2.... More info on a classic MOJO coming up... 1/3

Good morning from The Black Crowes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v-l...

New auction up for the gold disc Steve Albini got from BPI for PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me hitting the mark in ‘93. Please pass the word to any PJH fans. The auction runs until 4:30 PM (eastern) Thursday January 22, 2026. www.stevealbiniscloset.com/auction

Feel inclined to blow your mind? Try the new @mojomagazine.bsky.social, with a headspinning Small Faces cover story, and an exclusive, ultra-collectible Small Faces CD to go with it. Order a copy here: www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-march-2.... More info on a classic MOJO coming up... 1/3

Bonnie "Prince" Billy, They Keep Trying To Find You. Back from Nashville and deep in his Louisville community. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4gk...

Hey 2026, this is good: I See Poseurs Every Day by shall we call them a supergroup Winged Wheel (Whitney Johnson/Cory Plump/Matthew J. Rolin/Steve Shelley/Lonnie Slack/Fred Thomas)... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyBm...

Quick note that I will be writing a "How To Buy" for MOJO magazine on Thee Oh Sees. BUT I NEED YOUR HELP! What is your fave rave Oh Sees/Osees/OCS LP, and why? Pls share far and wide. Here's one of mine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVcn...

I made a 2025 playlist for @thenewcue.bsky.social. The New Year’s Eve path to Incredible Bliss… open.spotify.com/playlist/6mm...

First hike in a while to the Fairport Convention house in Little Hadham. Wonder if the boarded up bit is where the truck crashed into Swarbrick’s bedroom?

41 albums I really liked in 2025, listed and linked here now (all but one on Bandcamp I think), plus extras. Still believe that every year is a great year for music if you know where to look for the stuff that'll suit your tastes, and how to circumnavigate the stuff that'll annoy you.

Rest in peace Ken Downie, The Black Dog. warprecords.bandcamp.com/album/bytes?...

41 albums I really liked in 2025, listed and linked here now (all but one on Bandcamp I think), plus extras. Still believe that every year is a great year for music if you know where to look for the stuff that'll suit your tastes, and how to circumnavigate the stuff that'll annoy you.

My Brian Wilson memorial for @mojomagazine.bsky.social is now online. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...

My Brian Wilson memorial for @mojomagazine.bsky.social is now online. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...

Time for a thread of my favourite records from 2025. Might go on a bit. Not in order, but Bitchin Bajas' Inland See is maybe the album I played most in the past 12 months (along with the boot of their show in Glob in October) 1/ bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/inland...

MOJO’s next how to buy is on Osees. Reply below to tell us what your favourite album from John Dwyer and co. is and why and we’ll print the best responses in a future issue 👇👇👇

My thirtysomethingth Stereolab gig was a wonderful one. Melodie Is A Wound one of their great songs already, plus Peng 33 for the Sausage Machine vets.

My thirtysomethingth Stereolab gig was a wonderful one. Melodie Is A Wound one of their great songs already, plus Peng 33 for the Sausage Machine vets.

Seconded.

Excellent news for SML heads.

The Billy Woods verse on Dogeared by Armand Hammer is maybe my favourite piece of writing of 2026. "I dreamt of boats loose from their moorings..." armandhammer.bandcamp.com/track/dogear...

Apologies for the Christmas marketing hassle, but we've a genuinely good offer running right now: Subscribe to @mojomagazine.bsky.social and get six issues for £19.99. Print magazines forever! (Not forgetting digital access to MOJO issues as part of the deal) www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-magazine

You will be visited by 3 (three) spirits

Rewatching Nomadland to clean Train Dreams out of my head.

New Shane Parish is as good as you'd hope. Not just because it's conceptually so beautiful - a project in how the fundaments of a music are not always what you think they are? - but because Autechre Guitar exists as great music regardless of the backstory/provenance.

I hate this England team. If the Baz project was to save test cricket, they’ve failed; no one outside committed fans still have a clue who Duckett etc are. What they have done is alienate actual test cricket fans by playing consistently like morons.

Good list.

@patthomashistorian.bsky.social Is that Glenn Hughes' place?

Sixty years ago today at the first public Acid Test in San Jose, a San Francisco band known as The Warlocks made their first appearance under their new name The Grateful Dead.

"In this age of grand delusion..." How about a new @mojomagazine.bsky.social, with Bowie on the cover, to mark Station To Station turning 50? Wild new insights in Grayson Haver Currin's fine cover story, heading up a stacked last issue of 2025. www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-februar... 1/3

“Absolutely extraordinary…” Cameron Winter, the leader of fêted Brooklyn band Geese, literally stuns the audience at Camden’s Roundhouse with knockout solo piano show. MOJO’s Danny Eccleston just about manages to stay on his feet...

Does anyone here rate Earth?

Top 5 Side 1, Track 1s: Sex, Drive By, Open, Aether, Body.

“The noise comes at you like a wall – not just trouser-flapping but hair-raising, skull-gripping.” My Bloody Valentine bring an arena-sized sonic assault to Wembley. MOJO’s Danny Eccleston gets his fillings rattled and his senses scrambled...

I wrote about a couple of excellent gigs by Tortoise and SML @intlanthem.bsky.social www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...

I wrote about a couple of excellent gigs by Tortoise and SML @intlanthem.bsky.social www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

Just went to a Tortoise matinee. James Elkington subbing for Jeff Parker but still great. No photos but I’ll try and write something about this and Thursday’s SML show in the next day or two.

Terrific Danny Eccleston review of Radiohead's first night in London. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...

Finally got to see SML at the Church Of Sound in Clapton, and they were every bit as good as hoped. Crazy to think how many great records these five musicians have been a critical part of these past three or four years.

This is much better on the radio than the TV, not least because I like this England team more when I can't see the Barmy Army.

Finally got to see SML at the Church Of Sound in Clapton, and they were every bit as good as hoped. Crazy to think how many great records these five musicians have been a critical part of these past three or four years.