A one-page tribute capturing the preacher, prankster, truth-teller, and human tornado that was Mojo Nixon.
“The King of the DJs”
Bruce Springsteen
“A hoot and a half”
Michael McKean
“Nobody on the radio is more pure fun than Mojo Nixon.”
Stephen King
“He personified the rock n roll spirit...”
Lucinda Williams
“If we just lost Mojo Nixon, then this world could use some fixin’”
Patton Oswalt
“Mr. Nixon caught fire in the 1980s...”
New York Times
“Rock-and-roll rebel as well as a jester.”
Washington Post
“College radio staple... MTV.”
LA Times
“Supremely weird yet singular career.”
Rolling Stone
“Funny... but also brilliant.”
Reason
“Truth-telling is a contact sport.”
Variety
“Voice of the doomed, the damned, the weird.”
NYT (1992)
“A bracing tonic in bland times.”
Rolling Stone (1989)
“A serious sense of humor and a good heart.”
Village Voice
“Mojo favors love over war...”
Spin
“Sardonic, sick and smutty songster.”
Detour
“Get immunization shots beforehand.”
Alternative Press
“Not-quite-housebroken German shepherd.”
Chicago Reader
Mojo Nixon was a gleefully unhinged, truth-telling rock-and-roll evangelist—equal parts preacher, prankster, and cultural wrecking ball.