John Mulvey
@johnmulvey.bsky.social
Editor, MOJO. Ex-Editor, Uncut/Ex-Deputy Editor, NME. Jams etc. http://mojo4music.com
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I wrote about a couple of excellent gigs by Tortoise and SML @intlanthem.bsky.social www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
Tortoise Live In London Review: Genre-Defying Explorers Return
Chicago’s post-everything masters reassert their powers at first London show in nine years, while LA quintet SML show how much they’ve learned from them.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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...
Tortoise Live In London Review: Genre-Defying Explorers Return
Chicago’s post-everything masters reassert their powers at first London show in nine years, while LA quintet SML show how much they’ve learned from them.
www.mojo4music.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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.
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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.
November 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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...
Radiohead Live In London Review: Uniquely brilliant
Following a series of ever-changing setlists, Thom York and co. bring a crowd-pleasing - almost greatest hits - show to London's O2. Read MOJO's review in full.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Terrific Danny Eccleston review of Radiohead's first night in London. www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
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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.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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.
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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.
Plenty of reasons why The Stone Roses were so much better than the legions of British bands who wanted to be them. But a big one was having a bassist who could hold it together with so much natural funk and drive and absolute joy in his playing. RIP Mani.
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Plenty of reasons why The Stone Roses were so much better than the legions of British bands who wanted to be them. But a big one was having a bassist who could hold it together with so much natural funk and drive and absolute joy in his playing. RIP Mani.
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It’s my turn to do another @mojomagazine.bsky.social How To Buy, and this time we’re going to have a go at 21st Century Neil Young albums – just the new ones, from Silver & Gold to Talkin To The Trees, not the archive stuff. Tell me your favourites – and why – and I’ll print the best comments.
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It’s my turn to do another @mojomagazine.bsky.social How To Buy, and this time we’re going to have a go at 21st Century Neil Young albums – just the new ones, from Silver & Gold to Talkin To The Trees, not the archive stuff. Tell me your favourites – and why – and I’ll print the best comments.
It’s my turn to do another @mojomagazine.bsky.social How To Buy, and this time we’re going to have a go at 21st Century Neil Young albums – just the new ones, from Silver & Gold to Talkin To The Trees, not the archive stuff. Tell me your favourites – and why – and I’ll print the best comments.
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It’s my turn to do another @mojomagazine.bsky.social How To Buy, and this time we’re going to have a go at 21st Century Neil Young albums – just the new ones, from Silver & Gold to Talkin To The Trees, not the archive stuff. Tell me your favourites – and why – and I’ll print the best comments.
Excellent Bob Dylan live review from @hutchie.bsky.social: "it is with regret that MOJO has to confirm not a single cha-cha-cha was performed when the opportunity arose..."
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www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
Bob Dylan Live In Glasgow Review: Rough, rowdy, and ever-changing
Lamplit and loose, Dylan returns to the scene of his '66 electric betrayal for yet another evolution. MOJO's David Hutcheon was there to bear witness.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Excellent Bob Dylan live review from @hutchie.bsky.social: "it is with regret that MOJO has to confirm not a single cha-cha-cha was performed when the opportunity arose..."
www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
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.