The black-and-white film playing across the “M”-shaped screen at the back of the stage shows Dave Gahan and Martin Gore in Grim Reaper hoods, playing a Seventh Seal-style chess game in the video for ...

In 1981 Nico, former Fellini muse, Warhol superstar and voice of The Velvet Underground, was washed up, addicted to heroin and living in Manchester. Singing sombre lullabies for the dead, she clawed ...

In 1985, the Manic Street Preachers had their first rehearsal and wrote their first song, Aftermath, about the miners’ strike. How does it feel to be on the cusp of 40 years’ active service, asks MOJO ...

Anyone who has been coming to Glastonbury for a period of time will have noticed the shifting social demographic and diminishing political bent of the event formerly known as the Glastonbury CND ...

Draped in white, with a peroxide-white mane, Anohni floats onto the stage. Behind her plays luminous video of tropical fish and stunted coral, with a group of musicians in the shadows – strings, reeds ...

Here, the three surviving members of The Kinks, Ray, his brother Dave and drummer Mick Avory, discuss the making of one of their most seminal songs, Waterloo Sunset… READ MORE: Ray Davies interviewed: ...

Out this week, Chicago sonic scientists’ chemistry remains on first album in almost nine years. Read MOJO's review and the ...

Remembering Soft Cell's Dave Ball, who has died aged 66. In 2021, Ball spoke to MOJO about his partnership with Marc Almond ...

Billy Bragg: You were an 11-year-old schoolboy when Lonnie Donegan's Rock Island Line hit the charts. How did you get access to this new guitar-based music? Van Morrison: The guitar wasn’t really that ...

The Specials’ recording career came to a violent end when the ska-punk wizards' guitarist, Roddy “Radiation” Byers, was unable to play the haunting chords in their swansong hit Ghost Town, according ...

Following collaborations with Elton John and Joni Mitchell, eleven-times Grammy winner Brandi Carlile enchants on her eighth ...

This week, however, Deal releases her first ever solo album Nobody Loves You More. Although informed by the loss of her parents, it’s a glorious, life-affirming synthesis of swooning pop and ...