Mojo Nixon’s Annual SXSW Party Goes on Without Him, as a Last Testimonial to the Rocker-DJ’s Wild Mayhem
variety.comHolly Gleason Mojo Nixon has left this earth, but he hadn’t quite left the building, when it came to Austin’s Continental Club hosting one last edition of his annual “Mojo’s Mayhem” gathering Saturday during South by Southwest, serving as a sort of raucous memorial six weeks after his untimely exit.
There was a moment when they might’ve needed Crisco to get one more person onstage for the “You Can’t Kill Me” finale of the supposedly final Mayhem.
Worlds collided as Jello Biafra, Dan Baird, John Doe, Jon Dee Graham, members of the Beat Farmers, Exene Cervenka, Jon Langford, Dash Rip Rock’s Bill Davis and Eric “Roscoe” Ambel joined Nixon’s blazing barroom backup band, the Toad Liquors, for the conclusion to a raging set.
Trying to explain iconoclastic raving blues/alt-roots punk turned SiriusXM radio host Mojo Nixon to most people is an act of futility.
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