Mojo Risin' (Mojo)

Member Name: vicar911

Product:	Mojo
Date:	13/04/01 (28 review reads)
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Advantages: Neat layout, warm intelligent writing.

Disadvantages: Relatively narrow focus.

Mojo is the preferred mag for the more mature and highbrow popular music fan. Unlike, say Q, the coverage of bands like Coldplay and Oasis is restrained, even reluctant. Semi-intellectual Artists like Aimee Mann are actually more popular with Mojo's critics.

In fact Mojo is more at home talking about bands of yesteryear, which is why many of the main features are critics' "Best Ever" polls, or long, loving, but not unhumorous retrospectives on favoured bands such as Steely Dan and the Beach Boys. In that sense it is probably the best magazine out there for music fans with collections mainly rooted in the Seventies and Eighties.

The format of Mojo is typical of its type, with news items in the early pages, followed by features and articles in the main body of the magazine, and reviews in the final third. The actual reviews are intelligent, if occasionally over-effusive, and it is good to see genres like Jazz and Country getting just about equal coverage to rock and pop releases.

Generally Mojo is well laid out, with an abundance of colour, making it a cheery read on a train or plane trip. It's probably not tyhe best magazine to learn everything you need to know about obscure lo-fi bands from Wigan, but if you like comfy mainstream music, it's good fun.

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