The newest issue of Mojo features an article about Sgt. Peppers and comes with a CD of various artists covering the whole album. Mojo is pretty on top of this as they have recently given away a free disc of Revolver covers (Uncut recently did one of Highway 61). Needless to say for a free disc attached to an excellent magazine it is worth the price of importation. Most of the artists, I must confess, I have never heard or heard of but these records are a fun and fresh take on amazing albums. Below are two samples from the compilation.
Also for a good time check out Mojo's message boards. They have a ton of interesting topic within their forums and you get a British point of view from the Mojo readership which we rarely are privy to. Some of my favorite topics regarded "bands that represent a city," a store in the U.K called the vinyl solution that specialized in psych albums, "how does one approach GBV," "Could you date someone that doesn't like soul music?", and clever games revolving around music and album covers - like creating a concept album from existing songs. There's hundreds of these pages. So it's geeky, what of it?
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Circulus
Lovely Rita - David Cloud And The Gospel Of Power
3 comments:
i know i'm a mega hater, but is it just me or does it seem Mojo can't go six issues without doing a cover story on the Beatles??? Seriously, there is NOTHING else that we need to hear about Sgt. Pepper's! I know my cries won't be heard, but seriously, am i the only one who finds this boring?
i concur...the biggest problem with mojo and to an extent Uncut is the recycling of very obvious subject matter. Besides the fact that covering Sgt. Pepper is different than covering Revolver, it is still covering the Beatles rather than the 1,000's of bands that never really got their due.
But I think the real reason they are doing it is that they are having trouble selling magazines. If you look at the size of Uncut, it has shrunk by about 1/2 over the last year or so and by covering a band like the beatles you are bound to sell more issues than one of the 1,000's of bands that never got their due.
i hear you, you're right - the magazine biz is a rough place to be right now and publishers are afraid to do anything "outside of the box"--i.e. doing cover stories on bands that tons of people could give a shit about. bummer.
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