Mojo (UK) - 1 Jan 2026
“The Rolling Stones ain’t gonna end just because a guitar player dies or leaves.”
THE SMITHS
THE BEST OF 2025
DION
THE ROLLING STONES
MULATU ASTATKE
SUGAR
Andreea Dumata
Bob Mehr
Mark Blake
D’ANGELO
NEW ALBUMS
FIELD MUSIC AT 20
STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK
REEL-TO-REEL TAPE
HELLO GOODBYE
SCREEN
JAKE BURNS
REAL GONE
REISSUES
ALL BACK TO MY PLACE
BOOKS
ASK MOJO
ALL BACK TO MY PLACE
Gruff Rhys
IN 2025 VAN MORRISON TURNED 80, MADE
We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.
I dreamt about you last night
We’re bloody marvellous!
Everything’s seen at its best in the dark
Why can’t you learn from my mistakes?
The dream is gone
My usual self is a very unusual self
You need somebody to love you
The Black Messiah
The Black Messiah
Definitive D’Angelo, in five.
Geto Heaven Part Two
Unshaken
Untitled (How Does It Feel)
1000 Deaths
ROLLING! THE REEL-TO-REEL TAPE REVIVAL STARTS HERE
Don Henley
Amos Milburn
Susan Fassbender
The Chats
Bo Diddley
Jake Burns
CELEBRATE 20 YEARS! AND EXPLAIN THEIR DOORS TRIBUTE BAND…
Robert Forster
THIS MONTH’S MANE ATTRACTION: POST-NOISE MINIMALISTS HORSEGIRL
FACT SHEET
TRANCE OUT WITH NEW INDIE-FOLK HIGH-FLYER, JACOB ALON
The month’s best live communion, low-riding ska and rock gigantism.
FACT SHEET
KEY TRACKS
WHAT’S THE COLOUR OF TIME? THE STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK KNOW
Hittin’ the SAC – in triplicate.
Juvenile delinquent-turned-rock’n’roll original, he navigated hard drugs, Buddy’s plane crash and a crazed Phil Spector to enjoy multiple reinventions. The constant? “If I pick up a guitar and play, it’s just Dion music,” says Dion.
Stevie Van Zandt on an icon of cool.
A LIIFE IN PIICTURES
A LIIFE IN PIICTURES
BRONX CHEER!
CUTS AND BRUISES
CUTS AND BRUISES
Approaching the last shows of his final tour, the 81-year-old MULATU ASTATKE could be forgiven for planning to put his feet up. But for the esteemed inventor of Ethio-jazz, the habit of innovation dies hard. “My greatest achievement is still coming up,” h
Approaching the last shows of his final tour, the 81-year-old MULATU ASTATKE could be forgiven for planning to put his feet up. But for the esteemed inventor of Ethio-jazz, the habit of innovation dies hard. “My greatest achievement is still coming up,” h
EASTERN PROMISE
“Ultimately, It’s About How I Dislike Myself”
NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY & BITCHIN BAJAS
EMMA POLLOCK
LOADED HONEY
JONATHAN RICHMAN
PANDA BEAR
JASON ISBELL
MANIC STREET PREACHERS
BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY
GEESE
BON IVER
JACOB ALON
CATE LE BON
DAVID BYRNE
HORSEGIRL
SAINT ETIENNE
BAXTER DURY
EDDIE CHACON
MIDLAKE
MOGWAI
VAN MORRISON
“It’s About Transcending The Mundane”
“It’s About Transcending The Mundane”
ALAN SPARHAWK WITH TRAMPLED BY TURTLES
CASS McCOMBS
RICH(ARD) DAWSON
MARK PRITCHARD/ THOM YORKE
EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY
ROBERT PLANT WITH SUZI DIAN
JEFF TWEEDY
MAVIS STAPLES
LITTLE SIMZ
PAUL WELLER
“It’s A Reminder Of The Power Of Richey’s Lyrics”
THE SHORTLIST
“It Was Like Some Crazy Manifestation”
THE SHORTLIST
“It’s The Way I Make Sense Out Of My Life”
“It’s The Way I Make Sense Out Of My Life”
2025 THE BEST REISSUES OF
“Nick Was Operating At A Higher Level”
“THE BEST THING I’VE HEARD ALL YEAR!”
“THE BEST THING I’VE HEARD ALL YEAR!”
ON YOUR MO J O CD THIS MONTH...
I Know It’s Over…
I Know It’s Over…
Songs To Save Your Life
“I Had To Pinch Myself”
“STRANGEWAYS WAS THE SMITHS’ MASTERPIECE”
MOJOFILTER
ALBUMS
REISSUES
SCREEN
BOOKS
Twin’s peak
BACK STORY: WEDNESDAY’S CHILD
Pet Shop Boys
Tom Smith
Various
Ólöf Arnalds ★★★★
Luke Bell
Thee Headcoats
Ed Harcourt
Dust brothers
Jimmy Burns & Soul Message Band
Kirsten Adamson
Jake Owen
Juliana Hatfield
Joshua Hedley ★★★★
Keaton Henson
Thee Headcoatees
Westerman
AVTT/PTTN
Upchuck
The Saints
The hits keep coming
The Dears
Jonny Greenwood
Johnny Clarke
Florence + The Machine
The James Hunter Six ★★★★
Alison Brown & Steve Martin
The Dreaming Spires
Sorry
Hannah Jadagu
Bahamas
Todd Snider
Teen spirit
The Long Decline
Melody’s Echo Chamber
Eater
Danny Brown
Sin city
Cosmic Psychos
Antibalas
Rufus Wainwright
I Was A King
Hania Rani
Wanda Felicia
Theo Croker & Sullivan Fortner
ALSO RELEASED Sebastian Rochford ★★★★
Don Was And The Pan-Detroit Ensemble
Dion
Jerkcurb
The Gnomes ★★★★
SML
Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington
Anthony Moore with AKA & Friends
Beak>
The Equatorial Group
Eve Libertine & Eva Leblanc
Nusantara Beat
Sister Ray Davies
Claire M Singer
Various Fuzzy Lights ★★★★
Yazmin Lacey
‘Admiral’ John Halsey
Sessa
Damien O’Kane & Ron Block
Goblin Band ★★★★
Shine a light
BACK STORY HOME TAPING
“I underestimated it.”
Sigur Rós
Gary Numan
Sister Irene O’Connor
Kate Bush
Jeb Loy Nichols
Buffalo Tom
Cowboy Junkies
Various
Little Feat
Danny Gatton And Funhouse
Tears For Fears
Love, actually
The Cranberries
Everything But The Girl
X-Cetra
Wings
Frankie Goes To Hollywood ★★★★
The Amazing Snakeheads
Fine Young Cannibals
Wynonie Harris
Eternity’s Children
Descendents
Frank Sinatra
The singular Simone
A night like this
Spare the Rod
Zig-Zag Band
Queen
Stiff Little Fingers
Lush
Thompson Twins
Madness
Propaganda
Joanna
Akiko Yano
Various
Mike Westbrook Orchestra
Field Music
Hem
Leila
Joseph Kamaru
Mercyland
COMING NEXT MONTH…
Good fellas?
WHAT WE’VE LEARNT
Alternative For The Masses
Surf’s Up: Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys
Far Above The World: The Time And Space of David Bowie
Creeping Bent: A Leap Into The Void
Rock And Role: The Visionary Songs Of Peter Hammill And Van Der Graaf Generator
Strange Young Alien: Selected Lyrics
The long goodbye
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Big Mama Thornton: I Can’t Be Anyone But Me
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt
Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
A Spaceman Came Travelling
THE LEGACY
Heart Full Of Soul
THE LEGACY
THEY ALSO SERVED
Dave Ball
The Mighty Scaramouche!
ATTENTION COLLECTORS!
TDJ
Steven Wilson
10 Porcupine Tree
4 Steven Wilson
CAST YOUR VOTES…
1 Steven Wilson
NOW DIG THIS
3 Porcupine Tree
5 No-Man
2 Steven Wilson
6 Porcupine Tree
8 Steven Wilson
7 Steven Wilson
9 Bass Communion
Cosmic Slop
CREDITS
Whose voice changed the most?
CONTACTMOJO
ACROSS
King Of Spool
ANSWERS
Leo Lyons and Ten Years After
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