Let it Snow, Let it Blow, Let it ROCK

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Mojo

What’s up sexy beasts! Welcome to the winter wonderland! Hope you’re all managing to stay safe and sane, unfazed and untazed this holiday season.

Not only can’t we believe it’s mid-December, we can’t believe that this month marks the one-year anniversary of our last official release, “Summer’s End“! Not that we’ve been idle by any means – we’ve uploaded several new songs to our SoundCloud page this year, and are in the middle of recording a killer cover of Gowan’s “A Criminal Mind” at the moment. We also just got done upgrading software and refining studio techniques to make the final versions sound the best they can! Look for official releases in the coming months!

In the meantime, enjoy our gift to you — free streaming and limited time MP3 download of the “Summer’s End” EP and any other goodies you can find at https://mojosarmy.com/music. For high quality versions, check out our BandCamp page. Support Mojo’s Army!

PS If you’re looking for some one-of-a-kind presents for youself or a rock lover on your list, visit our store at Zazzle (you know you want that skull hoodie)

Horns high rockers! All the best to you and yours this holiday season!

Keep rockin,
Mojo \m/ \m/

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How Pick-y Are You?

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Mojo

My favorite guitar pick is one I grabbed for free at a trade show booth. Had I known at the time, I probably would have kept walking…

When I started learning guitar a few years ago, I collected picks wherever I went: club shows, trade shows, guitar stores. At first I didn’t know how different they were, and once I did I wanted to try them all!

At some point early on I found myself using a pick I had grabbed at MacWorld from the RiffWorks booth, a white Dunlop-style pick that just felt right to me. I’ve used one now on nearly every one of my recordings. I got a couple of them that first day, and then made sure to visit that booth the following year at MacWorld to grab a few more. After that, they no longer had a booth there and since I had several picks in my possession I didn’t think about it any more. Till recently.

Realizing that they wouldn’t last forever, I went on a hunt for a similar pick. It’s right between the Dunlop Tortex yellow & green, and nothing I found felt like it. I even did a full-flight test of a series of different picks at my local music shop, Marin Music Center, with the assistance of the the owner, the ever-helpful Jesse Harms, but without finding one quite like it.

Turns out that though it feels like Tortex, it’s actually a similar plastic called Delrin, and though it’s .05 thicker than the yellow Dunlop it’s slightly more flexible. Nothing else will do for me at the moment, which is kind of a problem!

I decided to go back to the source and order a bag of them from Riffworks to last me as long as possible. Luckily they still had some in stock, so now I have what I hope is a lifetime supply! For the bass I use the green Dunlop Tortex or a nylon Fender Heavy but for my Black Betty nothing else will do!

Are you this picky about your picks?

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Announcement from Mojo’s Army

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Mojo

Dear Rockers, don’t read too much into this:

I am taking our debut album “It’s Hard” off iTunes and Amazon at the end of this month. Up till now, direct sales have covered the expense. But with the recent 250% jump in Tunecore renewal pricing, it doesn’t make sense for us to renew the subscription — not with so many other distribution methods available to us at low or no charge: Soundcloud, last.fm, Grooveshark, Bandcamp, etc.

In fact, correct me if I’m wrong, but I think we as music listeners are streaming more than we’re buying. YouTube, Pandora, internet radio stations, all add up to it simply not making sense for us to distribute via iTunes for now. When the other albums (Sex and Candy, Summer’s End) are up for renewal next year they’ll come down too…

In other words, if you want to support us by buying high quality versions of the original “It’s Hard” you have just two weeks left!

After that, you’ll still be able to stream and download MP3s of selected songs from the album at the sites mentioned above, and of course at mojosarmy.com. In the meantime, we’re still attempting to get songs placed in films and video games, putting songs on Soundcloud and working on some other stuff behind the scenes as we move into our annual summer slowdown.

But don’t worry, there will be more music. Oh yes, there will…

Stay sexy!
Mojo

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