Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
12 March 2026
MODEST MOUSE were conceived in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, and are
currently based in Portland, Oregon. They have released, with changing line-ups,
7 albums, with The Golden Casket from 2021 as their latest.
In 2024 they issued an Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of their 4th longplayer Good News For People Who Love Bad News and toured extensively throughout
2024 and 2025, they even played on a cruise ship.
And they don’t get tired of the road. More dates
for 2026 have just been announced (see below).
Lately at their shows, they’ve been playing an unreleased song called LOOK HOW FAR….
To huge fan demand they have the boisterous banger shared online now. Only 115 seconds long, but you know what the repeat button was invited for.
A storm is gonna come. Watch Swedish punk cuckoos THE HIVES turning a tiny club
into a moshpit with a boiling performance of their breakthrough slam dunk I HATE TO TELL YOU I TOLD YOU SO (almost 300 million streams on Spotify) in New York City in 2012.
Wastefellow (frontman): “The seed for ‘Bob Dylan Was on Pawn Stars in 2010’ was planted
on a bus home, after seeing “A Complete Unknown” at the beginning of last year. While draining the internet for pointless information about and around the film, I discovered Bob Dylan had appeared on Pawn Stars in 2010.
I found this shocking, like an affront to a truth that, while difficult to pin down, I had up until this point felt that I understood about the world. For a moment I was fifteen years old and Bob Dylan was supposed to be mine, and I was never going to live in that world again.”
Pawn Star’s Chumlee got a Bob Dylan LP signed by the legend himself
“Ultimately, its a very serious, stupid, earnest song about getting out of your own head and letting the world around you in. Most of the lyrics were written as myself and Jacque were trying to run up a hill in Cork, and I hope the spirit of finally getting up over that last rise can be heard in the track.”
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TUTV: First things first. Bob Dylan is my all-time favorite singer-songwriter (saw him
live 15 times, I’m not 15 anymore). Damn you Chumlee, you’re not even a Dylan fan,
I deserved that signature.
That said, Really Good Time are manic motherrockers, groovin’ and movin’ like a revved-up bulldozer. Chop. Chop. Chop. They railroad their way through this king-sized, punked-up wallop with pelvis-waggling vim and vigour.
Screwy guitars, battering drum & bass, brusque vocals, and a cocksure chorus. Get out of your straitjacket, jump on your pogo-stick, and twiddle around like a complete unknown, with no direction home, like a rolling stone.
WEATHER REPORT was a jazz-fusion collective formed in New York City in 1970.
The band started as a free improvising group with avant-garde and experimental electronic leanings, but along their path, with changing line-ups, they increasingly
steered towards a funky, edgy sound incorporating elements of R&B and native
music from around the world.
Archives WR
After 14 LPs, the curtain fell in 1986.
Their 6th album, named BLACK MARKET, came out
on 11 March 1976, today 50 years ago. It got raving
press reviews.
AllMusic in retrospect: “While it goes without saying that most Weather Report
albums are transition albums, this diverse record is even more transient than most,
paving the way for WR’s most popular period while retaining the old sense of
adventure.”
When BOB DYLAN inked a deal with Columbia Records back in 1961, many people found the label’s decision to sign a middle-class white boy, styling himself as a careworn blues and folk singer, faintly absurd. Yet within a few years, the young Dylan would be hailed
as a prophet and revolutionise music in ways few could ever have dared to imagine.
His appeal was cemented by his visionary lyrics, and the images and wisdom they contain have given fans and scholars plenty to muse upon for the last 55 years. Meanwhile, music has flowed from him like an unstoppable river, each new phase delivering more timeless classics.
Which is where Bob Dylan Essentials comes in, written by MOJO’s team of experts,
this sumptuous 132-page bookazine is designed to guide you through the maze of
Dylan material out there.
Album by album, shedding new light on Bob’s songcraft and musicianship, and pulling
no punches when it comes to determining what’s indispensable, enjoyable, worth serious investigation or simply warrants a cursory spin.
We also look at Dylan-related films and documentaries,
and recommend the very finest in his literature.
You can purchase a copy and have it sent to your home. Info HERE.
Band: LADYTRON Who: British electro pop act, still with three of their
original members, since 1999, with a hiatus now
and then.
On 20 March 2026 their 8th longplayer,
baptized PARADISES will see the day of light.
Press info: “After over two decades of carving new sonic territory and becoming one
of the touchstone artists of the 2000s, Helen Marnie, Daniel Hunt, and Mia Arroyo of
Ladytron arrive reinvigorated on their much-anticipated eighth studio album.
Blazing with colour, Paradises is Ladytron at their most sleek, most romantic, most urgent, and most psychic – a luminescent collage of tech primitivism, high-priestess disco, spectral soul, and balearic noir. It’s a beach at the end of the world, filled with premonitions, prayers, and incantations.”
The trio have (so far) dropped no less
than 5 tracks out of the LP’s 16.
Last week a new compilation benefit album was released, titled HELP (2), to raise funds
for WAR CHILD UK, a long-term operational organisation that shapes systems that protect and support the well-being of children affected by conflict.
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Wet Leg‘s song on the LP.
A previously unreleased track.
Plot: Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of World War II, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground.
The movie’s soundtrack is composed by Antony Genn and Martin Slattery. Fontaines D.C. frontman GRIAN CHATTEN was invited for two constributions,
including a cover of Massive Attack‘s 1998 top-ranking track ANGEL.
