Available to order now, in the new issue of MOJO, we immerse ourselves in the alternative universe of the original Genesis frontman, solo one-off and thinking-person’s musical maverick, Peter Gabriel.
In an exclusive interview, Gabriel reflects on what he’s learned from his extraordinary career, shines a light on new album o\i, and chews over his plans for the future. “I like the idea of following your nose…” he tells MOJO’s Mark Blake over bowls of homemade soup and cups of strong builder’s tea.
Plus! Peter has handpicked songs for an exclusive covermount CD featuring classics, live tracks, mouthwatering rarities and fascinating collaborations.
Also in the issue: the best albums of 2026 unveiled in our bumper review of The Year; The Animals uncaged; R.E.M.’s darkest, and finest hours; going dotty for Angine De Poitrine; Steve Diggle’sBuzzcocks odyssey; The Womack Sisters’ soul dynasty. Plus: Love, Morphine; Shane MacGowan;10cc; Judy Collins; The Rezillos; Ryley Walker; Pretty Things; The Cramps; Gram Parsons’ sci-fi movie; and more!
The new issue of MOJO is in UK shops from Tuesday 10th November
Little Grandad release their debut album “Speak Softly, Son” produced by Kev Jones (Wunderhorse).
Just a few months after launching their debut tracks, the London four-piece waste no time at all, taking rare, precious days off the road to put down their debut album.
The band has made quick work of creating a buzz since forming just over a year ago. Gigging relentlessly and picking up new fans everywhere they play. It’s a story as old as time.
Their songs sound like a sort of Venn diagram of rust-belt Americana, Brooklyn-informed slacker-rock, and warm yet ramshackle British indie guitar rock. It also sounds nothing like those things. It’s chaotic, teeters on the brink of collapse, but somehow hangs together. It’s properly exciting because you can’t put your finger on what it is, and neither can they.
“Speak Softly, Son” is a timely approximation of where Little Grandad are at, and an excellent advertisement for those live shows. Here’s where the story really starts…
‘Speak Softly, Son’, released January 22nd 2026 on Communion Records.
Uncut Magazine’s ultimate Review Of The Year is here!
2026’s 80 Best New Albums, 30 Best Reissues, best films, music books and documentaries – plus a spectacular 15 track Class Of 2026 CD starring Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts, Bill Callahan, Boards Of Canada, Lambchop, JuliaJacklin, Lucinda Williams, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom and more!
We take a deep dive into Paul McCartney’s intense 2026 and there’s new chats with Phoebe Bridgers, Mick Jagger,Ian McCulloch, Courtney Love, Flea, Kevin Morby, Courtney Barnett and The Tubs. Print copies come with stunning McCartney Collector’s cover and a giant, fold out Maccazine brimming with the very finest Macca facts…
Plus: on tour with Led Zeppelin, Sparklehorse hymned, Jason Isbell and Drive-By Truckers reunite, StevenWilson’s prog horror opus, Peter Gabriel’s full moon fevers, Billy Bragg & Wilco return to Mermaid Avenue, unheard Coltrane, Rush’s Neil Peart remembered, Bob Dylan’s tempestuous ’76, Madra Salach break-out, Record Store Day Black Friday essentials, Asha Pulthi, some Dead arcana and more!
Editors release their 8th studio album, “Surface, Echo and Sound”, via Play It Again Sam. Following on from 2022’s EBM, a collaboration with electronic producer Benjamin John Power, aka Blanck Mass, on “Surface, Echo and Sound”, Editors have found themselves somewhere new entirely. When the band regrouped in summer 2025 to work on a follow-up, after three albums written and recorded very much as in-the-studio projects, Editors felt they wanted to go back to a more natural approach, something that harked back to their earliest days, sat in a practice room in Stafford, facing each other as they worked through songs together.
Like on last year’s solo record “There is Nothing In The Dark That Isn’t There In The Light”, frontman Tom Smith took a similar stripped back, acoustic-based approach to the new Editors material, bringing a selection of songs to the band for them to play together, trying different things out, and seeing where they went. In terms of creating the record, “It was a very productive summer,” says Smith. “The sun was out for the most part, we were in greenest Gloucestershire, not far from where I live, on this innocuous little industrial estate – it was pretty much the opposite of being in Berghain!”
Everything But The Girl have announced ‘Blue Reservoir’, their eleventh studio album, set for release on February 19, 2027 via Buzzin’ Fly and Virgin Music Group. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have also shared the first single, ‘Young and Dumb’, alongside a music video directed by Edward Bishop from a treatment by the duo.
Inspired by the pair’s return to live performance in 2025, a long-running sold-out residency at Hackney’s 300-capacity MOTH Club. It moves away from the electronica of their 2023 comeback album ‘Fuse’ and leans into some of their earliest influences. “There was an intensity and simplicity to the MOTH shows that took us back to how we started out,” Thorn said. “Direct, rooted in guitar and voice, a few extra colours.”
Watt bought a Spanish nylon-string guitar in January 2026 to write and perform on. “It is the sound of so much of the music I first connected with growing up, and I’d never actually owned one,” he said. “It became quite an emotional springboard for me. I found a voice I thought I’d lost.” Nine of the ten songs were written on guitar and one on piano, with six sets of lyrics by Thorn, three by Watt and one co-write.
‘Blue Reservoir’ was recorded largely live at RAK Studios in London over ten days in July 2026, with Rex Horan on double bass and Evan Jenkins on drums. Percussion comes from Fabio de Oliveira, son of Bosco de Oliveira, who played on the duo’s 1984 debut ‘Eden’, while their son Blake Watt guests on two songs. The album was mixed by Bruno Ellingham and mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road.
The tracklist reads: ‘Forward’, ‘Scala’, ‘Young and Dumb’, ‘Do What You Can’, ‘Christmas Gone’, ‘Courage Mon Brave’, ‘The Round and Round’, ‘Fork in the Road’, ‘Good Hope’ and ‘The Great Unknown’.
‘Blue Reservoir’ the new album by Everything But The Girl is released on 19.02.27
DIIV released a new album, “ZIRP!”, today via Fantasy. DIIV’s fifth studio album earlier this week they shared its fourth single, “Dare Me,” They also announced some 2027 tour dates.
On their fifth album “ZIRP!”, DIIV emphatically and ecstatically embrace the underground pedigree and the pop instinct that have anchored the band like magnetic poles for the better part of their career—smashing them together in pursuit of a sound that pre-empts any notion that Zachary Cole Smith, Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield and Ben Newman have ever been playing between worlds. Put more simply, on “ZIRP!” DIIV answer the simple questions that so many bands can’t: What would it mean to grow up? And glow up, too?
For as long as they’ve been making music, DIIV have been victims of a world without the vocabulary to describe their willingness to braid the harshness of genres like shoegaze and grunge with mellifluous and memorable pop melody. Over the years, the world has caught up with them, with artists like Slayyyter, Eartheater and Turnstile forcing old-guard gatekeepers to find new ways to describe this gleeful disregard for old-fashioned scene designations and genre tags.
DIIV had previously announced the album to fans via a hotline number. Then they officially announced the album and shared its first single, “The Fountain,” the band shared its second single, “Kid,” via a music video.
British producer A. G. Cook (Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX) produced “ZIRP!” and says in a press release: “It was in the spirit of destroying and rebuilding their demos, Screamadelica-style, into a finished product, but that hybrid, half-remix approach felt completely wrong to me.”
The producer says, “it was in the spirit of destroying & rebuilding their demos, Screamadelica-style, into a finished product, but that hybrid, half-remix approach felt completely wrong to me.” Instead, he became a professor of DIIV studies, attending the band’s shows and forming a unified theory of where the band needed to go next. “I became a bit obsessed with their live sound, and insisted on recording live drums before most of the songs were even finished. We spent a lot of time recording intricate guitar parts with specific guitar pedals, and as little time as possible doing anything on a computer, at least by my standards,” he says. “After a few rounds of that, ZIRP! emerged as a concept, and a sort of utopian, dystopian mantra. For me it became a vehicle to push the band into new territory.”
Cook adds: “I became a bit obsessed with their live sound, and insisted on recording live drums before most of the songs were even finished. We spent a lot of time recording intricate guitar parts with specific guitar pedals, and as little time as possible doing anything on a computer, at least by my standards. After a few rounds of that, “ZIRP!” emerged as a concept, and a sort of utopian, dystopian mantra. For me it became a vehicle to push the band into new territory.”
“ZIRP!” is the follow-up to 2024’s “Frog in Boiling Water”. It was one of our best Albums of 2024
In 2025 DIIV shared a new song, “Return of Youth,” via a music video filmed in the remains of frontman Zachary Cole Smith’s house, which burned down in January that year during the Los Angeles fires.
DIIV is Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield, Ben Newman, and Zachary Cole Smith. “Frog in Boiling Water” was the follow-up to “Deceiver”, which came out in 2019 via Captured Tracks.
Stephen Wilson Jr. is an American country-rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter known for blending Americana, outlaw country, and grunge influences into a style he calls “Death Cab for Country.” A former Golden Gloves boxing finalist and food scientist, he began as lead guitarist for AutoVaughn before becoming a Nashville songwriter for artists like Tim McGraw and Old Dominion. His critically acclaimed debut album søn of dad (2023), inspired by his late father, earned him a CMA New Artist nomination, followed by the covers EP “Blankets” and his charting single “Gary” (2026).
Stephen Wilson Jr.’s journey from the hollers of southern Indiana to Nashville, Tenn. has been a winding road that’s taken many detours: He’s been an Indiana State Golden Gloves boxing championship finalist, a scientist, and a lead guitarist and songwriter in an indie rock band. In 2016, he ditched his laboratory 9-to-5 and signed a publishing deal with BMG Nashville where his alchemic songcraft immediately made waves, leading to cuts from Caitlyn Smith, Old Dominion, Tim McGraw, Sixpence None the Richer, Leigh Nash and more. 2023 proved to be Wilson Jr.’s breakthrough year, signing with Big Loud Records and releasing his critically-acclaimed debut double album “søn of dad:” a triumphant, genre-spanning set of 22 songs dedicated to his late father and given to the world on the five-year anniversary of his passing.
In 2024, Stephen’s star grew as he made his network television debut on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, followed by performances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s #LateShowMeMusic series and Later…withJools Holland.Ahead of the one-year anniversary of “søn of dad”, Wilson Jr. was also profiled in an extensive feature for CBS Saturday Morning, and last year, he released a deluxe edition of the album which featured a moving interpretation of “Stand By Me” that has been streamed tens of millions of times.
Last November, he earned his first CMA Award nomination for New Artist of the Year and played twice on the broadcast – a moving performance of his song “Took A Walk” from the film The Long Walk with Shaboozey and a star-making rendition of “Stand By Me.” To close out the year, he released new single “Gary,” which he debuted on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and is currently climbing the country radio charts.
Fresh off his first ACM Award win for Visual Media of the Year for the video for his song “Cuckoo,” Stephen is currently in the midst of his Gary The Torch Tour headline tour that extends through December across the US and Europe/UK. This year, he shared the stage with Dave Matthews Band at The Gorge Amphitheatre and Brandi Carlile for 3 nights at Red Rocks.
