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The UK magazine Mojo loves to look back as it looks forward, so it's probably no surprise that its Mojo Honours, the reader-generated awards given out last night, were led by Duffy's "Mercy," a cauldron of throwbacks that flounced away with the evening's Song Of The Year Award. In addition to a few cursory nods in the direction of new-ish music (Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! won Best Album, while Led Zeppelin got the Best Live Act nod for its one show earlier this year), a bunch of seemingly interchangeable laurels went to Mojo staples. More »

Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who's contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Mojo: More »

Ring the alarm, bang a gong, let the dogs out: Mojo's list of the 50 best albums of the year is the first (that we've seen) to be headed up by Radiohead's In Rainbows! Keeping it the realest! Mojo sure didn't forget all that Radiohead has done for us, unlike all those other ingrates topping LCD Soundsystem or the Arcade Fire, neither of whom could change a dirty diaper, let alone everything about music. The full list is after the jump, but first our thoughts on the only honest list of '07 so far.

THE GOOD: Yay Robert Wyatt, PJ Harvey, LCD, Grinderman, etc. etc. (Maura would like to put in a special "yay" for Edwyn Collins as well, all the way down at No. 47.)
THE BAD: Look, it's all our old friends from every other 2007 year-end list, but at least Mojo spices things up with some cops to their aged audience in the form of Nick Lowe, Joni Mitchell, Linda Thompson, Kevin Ayers, etc.
THE WHAAA?: Pissed Jeans kinda stick out like a thumb with a big ol' purple blood blister in this company. Also a special "really, them?" award goes to the Cinematic Orchestra for still doggedly slogging away on whatever's left of the trip-hop circuit.

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