MOJO Bar - Music for the people

Tweet White Lies arrive as possibly the first hyped band of 2009. This debut arrives fully formed with widescreen choruses of stadium dimensions. It’s all shamelessly Joy Divisionesque with Ian Curtis phrasing and Hooky Bass lines. Imagine the The Editors but on a cocktail of performance enhancing drugs. Same building blocks, much stronger result. So [...]

Tweet Franz Ferdinand do appear to have misplaced the zeitgeist that they held so firmly, only letting go long enough to pick up an award or two in their first cosmic year at the head of an irresistble post punk revival. It would appear however that we did resist. There is nothing within as struttingly brilliant [...]

Tweet This is animal collectives ninth studio album (which was news to me), but it would seem from digging into their past a little, that it is their most ‘Pop’ to date. More used to emmitting long, avant garde soundscapes rather than what’s to be found on offer here. This is easily accesible without being obvious. [...]

Tweet In the 80′s & 90′s drinks were made from a whole variety of sticky liqueurs. You know the ones all the colours of the rainbow usually with the word Crème in front of their names. They could be mixed in any order & quantity with juice in a tall glass to produce the same [...]

Tweet Some months ago I wrote on this very website about those albums you buy, that you listen to once or twice through, don’t really get, and then discard telling everyone who’ll listen that they are terrible. Later though, you are forced to eat your words over a massive six course banquet that you can [...]

Tweet Now that the dust has settled on another Christmas, enough time has elapsed for us to discuss the accusation made by many, that the X-Factor has ruined or in some way devalued the haloed battle for the United Kingdoms Christmas number 1.  The argument runs thus, that by having the Television show reach its [...]

Tweet Saxophones. That’s the thing I’ll take from my couple of weeks with Day and age. Saxophones. And not just any saxophones. These are ABC, Wham style brass orgies. With 2004 debut hot fuss, The Killers had worn their 80′s anglophile influences clearly enough on the tops of their sleeves but this is more like [...]

Tweet Josh Rouse is one of those talented souls destined to forever play the fringes. He’s been a constant on Mojo playlists since the early part of this decade but our constant championing  has made little difference. He has a similar work ethic to Ryan Adams, writing and recording seemingly constantly and throwing out smooth [...]

Tweet Just how selfish are music fans? I was flicking through the pages of one of the more sensible music mag’s that adorn the walls of the newsagents of this land when I alighted upon a readers letter. Within this letter were the complaints of an ‘Avid Elbow fan’. I paraphrase his argument thus ‘I’ve [...]

Tweet After finally getting annoyed enough by Stephen Patrick Morrissey to terminate The Smiths at the height of their powers in 1987, Johnny Marr has roamed the planet looking for a suitable berth for both he and his jangling axe to call home. He became guitarist for hire, lending his talents to Talking Heads, The The, [...]