I am planning to say “Hey, it’s Chester”, every time I enter a room from now on. The Brother Wallace LP is a good one

Seen the new @mojomagazine.bsky.social yet? Interesting wee snippet on Mavis (and Dylan) in Jeff Tweedy's Elvis Costello interview.

Oh, yes.

There’s a new @mojomagazine.bsky.social in the shops today. No spoilers, but Joni is on the cover and I talk Musical Youth, Françoise Hardy, Brother Wallace, Tamikrest, Analog Africa … and here’s a pic of Hutchie with Dutchie.

What Anita forgets to say is that everything I know about writing I learnt from her, but chivalry prevents me from telling you when that was …

Been waiting for the chance to make that joke on the platform it deserves for 44 years. Unfortunately for Mojo, I got finally got it

Hope you enjoy their tale - the upcoming Needle Mythology album is going to surprise a lot of people

20 pages of pub rock! Different times.
Oasis! Not so different really

Remarkably, it’s the 30th anniversary of me joining the @mojomagazine.bsky.social team (I’m not just for Christmas), so this month I got busy with Musical Youth, Brother Wallace, Tamikrest, Analog Africa and Françoise Hardy - and that’s only about 2% of an extremely packed issue …

I’ve heard a rumour that comp does quite well. Shouldn’t be too long until all is revealed

Good news, but still sending hugs because … well, why the hell not?

A few years earlier …

Have since seen there was a later, corrected update. Always reassuring to know somebody was awake in the office after 4.30

Am I missing a joke here by not being from Liverpool? Feel free to point at me and laugh ...

Happy birthday to the one and only. Any excuse to get the records out and immerse myself in...

You go to Valencia during the build-up to St Joseph's Day (March 19), you are not likely to get any sleep - it's firecracker season

This is how I find out I've been sacked?

Didn't reach Crouch End. How do I know? Picked up some annuals from the 1950s and 1960s for £2.50 a pop

It’s Oor Wullie’s 90th birthday today. Wonder what that makes PC Murdoch …

The Womack Sisters - You Went Away Too Long (OFFICIAL AUDIO) YouTube video by DaptoneRecords

Tell you what I'm really, really excited about right now youtu.be/sa4_o4r9nq0?...

It’s really something. Hope you are seeing it on a huge screen with the volume up loud

Epic lives up to its name and, lawdy, are Ronnie Tutt and James Burton just phenomenal in the TCB Band. Not often you can say “worth seeing for the drumming” about a film

Just a note to say that if you're ever approached by a @mojomagazine.bsky.social writer on Facebook/X promising to cover your music/band/record label for "a modest fee" THIS IS A SCAM. MOJO and its writers would never do this but many a clever scam account does.

@mojomagazine.bsky.social is compiling a guide to buying Analog Africa albums. I don’t want to get the result wrong, and only one vote currently separates first and second places - so send me your what and a few words why and let’s make this definitive …

Thank you!

I love the story but I don’t know if I believe a word of it … I have no evidence to suggest it’s not true though, so I may as well print the legend

Yes! I’m finding it tough to narrow this down to a Top 10. So if you had to persuade me to pick just one of those two, how would you do it?

Both have got to be contenders for the Top 10 - so if I got tough and demanded you persuade me to choose one or the other, how would you do it?

The Analog Africa label has spent 20 years bringing us African scream contests, cosmic sounds of Cape Verde, Brazilian western soundtracks and Beninese vodou, now @mojomagazine.bsky.social wants to know your pick of their releases. Hit me with the what and the why and let's make this definitive.