My Dead Organ is when we don’t write the things your favourite band member’s ego wants to read and band bang you’re dead oh how the rumours are fed. Oh, what did you expect? Is it all upon my ugly head? Always so easily led. My Dead Organ is when we’re guilty and whatever we do it’s never enough to keep that ego fed. My Dead Organ is when we’re guilty of not helping your favourite musician’s career curve go up up up and all the way to page 27 of the NME next to that bloke with the hat who found god this week (oh and that Hard-fi lot) and why aren’t we on XFM yet? Must be because that Organ live review wasn’t big enough oh and awfully bad bad way they write those damn unhelpful reviews, yes that must be it, it’s that damn ugly Organ wot held us back in’it  – yeah, that’s it, they just can’t write, must be their fault – After all they said we were good last month so it can’t be us coming over hill.  

My Dead Organ is when we don’t make all their dreams come true in line with the demands of their ever inflating ego, or their manager’s mobile twitching, or their label’s desperation – hang on, have they got a deal? No? Oh, should have put them on the cover, that must be our fault as well, yes, blame those ugly black hearted Organ people, can’t be the band’s fault, after all “we’re a band and we’re good, it said so last month in that beautiful Organ and they’re always right aren’t they?” Or maybe it’s the band’s confused PR person’s infuriation deemed fit to yell or maybe the plugger, oh, no no no, it’s the monster Organ coming over the hill, it’s a monster, it’s a monster....  

My Dead Organ is their frustration with every tiny little thing. My Dead Organ is when reality crows and they discover those Camden streets aren’t paved with the gold that their small town imaginations led them to believe. It’s two years now and they can’t seem to get any good gigs and they haven’t made a penny and they’ll have to go home soon and it will all be the fault of My Dead Organ. Well who else could be to blame? No no, surely not the band and the way they do things, no no no, not the manger or the plugging or the PR or the colour of their socks, it’s not the band or the band’s people, no no no, everyone else is to blame and the Organ feature should have been bigger and that live review where those damn ugly Organs said we were good, that really didn’t help, that must have put the A&R men off. Oh yes everyone says avoid being in Organ. My Dead Organ is where it all turns in to ugly lashing beetlejuice hatred and a barrage of vile one-eyed personal e.mail bile where once it was an embarrassingly over enthusiastic thank you thank you please let me suck on your beautiful big Organ. Your reviews are so good and here’s another beer even though we didn’t actually ask you if you wanted it and oh slurp slurp slurp you’re the only one who understands us and please get us a support slot and play us on the radio and review is again please please please and slurp slurp slurp and it’s all your fault, and those damn reviews and playing us on the radio, that radio play just held us back and we were warned by all those other bands - you know, the ones who were on page 27 of the NME last year, you know the ones, oh I forget their names, they were played on XFM once, they were the next big thing this time last year and you didn’t do enough for them either, what were their names again?  

My Dead Organ is when it’s so so amusing to find how a band’s opinion changes depending on where their career is or isn’t at. My Dead Organ is when the management need someone to blame and no, hang on, it’s ok, your favourite band are now getting coverage everywhere else, that guy from the glossy magazine promised to come to the next gig. Not that we ever said anything bad, no no no, but now you see things have changed and the once reasonable pleasant people now have big big egos and they’re starting to panic a little and whoooooo, they’ ve had 4Ks and ten lines in Kerrang and so really they are clearly now a very very important band and they should at least be on the front cover of Organ and hey you really suck for not covering us enough and my how ugly your dead Organ has become and we always thought so. Yeah, it’s your fault we only got 4Ks and only ten lines and yeah we always thought your ugly Organ was dead and all our mates in bands who didn’t quite get anywhere say so toooooo. 

My Dead Organ is where we watch how a band (or their now jittery can’t book a decent gig manager or their now over stretched label) tell us how wonderful Organ is when we write something that boosts their ego and helps their ‘career’. How when we write something that helps inflate their self importance (and gives them a quote to go scuttling like rats to their photocopies and websites to shout about), My Dead Organ is when we watch the same band come back a few months later and spit vitriol at the now very My Dead Organ that they once thought to be such a wonderful thing to suck on. My Dead Organ, the once beautifully suckable thing they thought they should demand to be on the front cover of. My Dead Organ that is now obviously nothing more than a badly written piece of career destroying poison that must be raged against. We don’t need to be in your awful Organ now and you never had anything good to say anyway and the reviews you wrote were always clueless and wrong and clearly holding us back and all the bands you cover in Organ are never very good, not like us and when we’re big we’ll have you taken out or at least write a song about you.... All my mates in bands who never got anywhere and all their managers who never made any money out of them, they all say the same, and that bloke from the venue that never pays the bands who you Organ people argued with, they all say it’s your fault and you smell and my dad is going to bash your dad and you’re a monster you’re a monster a one eyed monster and I’m going to tell my manager and he’ll call you on his shinny new mobile phone and call you nasty names oh and we’ve written a new song called My Dead Organ.  

My Dead Organ is bang bang your dead, always so easily led...  

Oh look, a new exciting pile of music, what was your name again? 

GERTRUDE, HOOKER, ONE MORE KISS

GERTRUDE
“Gertrude are yours to celebrate, this is brilliant, don’t miss out, we’ve got a million albums in
here in Organland, very few become treasured possessions like this will.” ORGAN

“They got an agenda! They got a manifesto! Oh no! They're Riot Grrrls! If we mention Huggy Bear, Kleenex, The Slits or Delta 5, you'll probably guess what we're talking about. The only thing that stops this being an absolutely brilliant record is the fact that it f**king JUMPS all over the place. Unless it's not jumping and it's meant to sound like this. In which case it's amazing!.” NME

HOOKER
“…Hooker are Manchester’s special little secret. You’re going to dig lead singer Zoe. Last month, polysexual rock den Club Motherfucker – where Bloc Party, Whirlwind Heat and The Killers have played – had punk three-piece Hooker on twice; they’re that good.” THE FACE
“…Hooker, you see, feature a lead vocalist with the most amazing voice… a voice that covers every dynamic, every emotion, every volume…we honestly can’t rave about it enough. On top of that the songs, quite simply, are wonderful. This is one band that has to be seen to believed – do it!” THIS IS FAKE DIY REVIEW

ONE MORE KISS
“Speaking Dirty English has all the resounding notes of pop hit, and a driving rhythm to boot… One More Kiss are an incredibly exciting band. At an early stage in their career they already have a sound and style that can demolish their revivals and leave listeners breathless. Whether this translates into chart success, I think is only a matter of time.” 
HIGH AND MIGHTY MAGAZINE 
“... a frantic lo-fi Kate Bush with a little Sonic Youth fuel in there to give it some  edge.”
ORGAN 

Doors: 7:30pm, First band on at 8pm, £5/£4.....  “Hope to see you all there, fighting in the corner of DIY acts everywhere....”  Nat (Saucy Lil’Tart)

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MARS VOLTA NAME ALBUM - The Mars Volta are to call their new album 'Amputechture'. Expect a release later in the year.

POISON THE WELL QUIT LABEL  - Or were they dropped? Does anyone care? Poison The Well have left Atlantic Records, and are looking for a new deal. Get Marty on the phone, sign more screamo, get me nemo. In the meantime, their version of The Smashing Pumpkins' 'Soma' has been posted at www.myspace.com/poisonthewell
 

How? What? Where? ORGAN TV enjoyed a short run and caused a big stir on Sky back in 2003 – we just went out and did what people said couldn’t be done, we stuck our necks out (again) and proved it can be done and that Music TV can be done our way. and it doesn't have to be the same bands and more of those self-imposing airhead presenters and .  And now, because we've proved it can be done we’ve been invited back for more. 

Now you know our musical policy, you know what we do and what we like and what we’re about – you know what to expect on ORGAN TV, you know you can expect the unexpected (this may be on Sky but hey, totally on our terms and done our way and if you don't like it tough). It can be done and it’s happening right now - Music TV from us. 

Cutting edge music, exciting videos, alternatives. Want to get your material on? We want to see what you’ve got – it has to be broadcast quality, it can be DIY, you CAN make exciting videos on a very very small budget. Get your DVDs (video tapes if you must) in to us and we promise to have a look. We want exciting videos, we want video that hold us right through, we want different videos. We don’t want the same old crap they show on the other channels, we don’t want all those safe predictable videos they already show everywhere else, the ones that have you hitting the remote half way through – time to shake things up a little more. 

BANDS - GET YOUR VIDEOS IN

Video makers, film makers, animators, anybody doing anything interesting – we want eye candy, we want your creativity, we want your one minute documentaries, your 20 second bursts (or five minute bursts) of animation we want all kinds of bites running between the band videos – send in your creativity or point us to places like My Space or You Tube.   The only rules we have are our rules (and a few of those broadcast rules, oh and the no HARD-Fi rule but hey you knew that...). We make no promises to anyone other than to check out everything and chase you if we want to use what you have... 

What are we lining up? HELLA? DEERHOOF? LITTLE TROPHY? COLT? LIARS? 65DAYSOFSTATIC? BATTLES?  CARDIACS? MASTODON? PLAIDE? HIGH ON FIRE? SIDEARM? YIP-YIP? NEXT LIFE? PRISCILLAS? GENE SERENE? AMON TOBIN? JAGA JAZZIST? MC LARS? HUMAN TOYS? SPIT LIKE THIS? NONE MORE BLACK and who knows what.... 
video links can be sent to organzine @ aol . com
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ORGAN ON YOUR RADIO @ RESONANCE 104.4FM - NOW IT'S WEEKLY! Because writing about music is like dancing about architecture - Organ on the air.. Sean and Marina from Organ present underground music, goings-on from beyond and who knows what. Alternating with the on air duties and styles, one week Marina, the next week Sean. On air every Sunday night, invading your taxi cabs, your bath times and all of your airwaves. One hour every Sunday, kicking off at 10.30pm all over London on proper radio on 104.4FM and all over the world via the web at www.resonancefm.com  Marina brings you  “The Other Rock Show” – The Other Rock is the musical exploration of the avant perverse and complex rock, progressive adventures beyond the safety of 4/4. Sean will be bringing you whatever the hell he wants, who knows?  Composer GYORGY LIGETI Gyorgy Ligeti has died at the age of 83. Ligeti, probably most famous for creating music that was used in the film '2001: A Space Odyssey', was known for his avant garde compositions, which included 'Poeme Symphonique', which is played on 100 metronomes. Ligeti was born in Romania, but to Hungarian parents, and later took Austrian citizenship. During the early years of World War II he studied music in Romania and in Budapest, but was arrested in 1943 because he was Jewish and was sentenced to forced labour for the rest of the conflict. At the end of the war, he returned to Hungary and taught music at the Liszt  Academy. Unrest in that country led the composer to flee to Vienna, where he subsequently settled, and came into contact with avant garde music exponents such as  Stockhausen and Koenig. In 2004 he was awarded Sweden's Polar Music Prize. He is survived by his wife, and one son.

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DEMO OF THE WEEK
VESSELS – Now this band really do stand out, one of those treasures that very occasionally lands here unexpectedly, one of those delights that stops everyone and has us (politely) fighting over who gets to play it on the radio first. They have such a beautifully easy style. Post rock that takes all the time it needs to just unwind in a deceptively clever way and then delicately exploded in just that right uplifting soothing reassuring manner. Vessels are doing all the right things that are needed to be so so right for right here right now (and especially for this sticky summer heat where every action is an effort). That easy glowing flow of Appleseed Cast, the musical demands of Battles or Don Cabellero, the positive beauty and sparkle of 65Days - no glitch here though, flow rather then glitch – 65daysofquietglowingsparkle. It’s like Vessels have naturally absorbed all the best musical things from these golden times and then filtered it all in their own refined and delicate way to come out with something just as equally as fine as all those bands we’ve just mentioned themselves. And when you think it’s just going to be an instrumental thing, the emotional, no not emo, the occasional understated emotional vocals lift you up even more. Look At That Cloud really is like looking at a cloud on a sunny evening – “another wave of electric-blue noctilucent clouds  (NLCs) swept across northern Europe last night.  These mysterious clouds favour high latitudes, but they have been sighted in recent years as far south as Colorado and Utah.  Northern summer is the season for NLCs, so be alert after sunset for sinuous, blue-glowing ripples in the western sky”.Five tracks, its impossible to pick out a favourite. Armed To The Teeth is beautifully quiet in the finest of Thee More Shallows at 2AM kind of ways. Actually there is some restrained delicate glitch in the re-mixed fourth track Happy Accident – ah, this is so so good, so much power and emotion in the delicate restrained, sometimes quiteness is where the real power is and less really is so so much more -  - www.myspace.com/vesselsband

ALSO CHECK OUT
KILLIN ZOE – New Killer Reaction – Hang on, low slung no messing sleeze and glam and biker punk and stomp and Mindwarp and Stooges and AC/DC and Hellacopters and Guns ‘n Roses back at the start and cheap and nasty rock ‘n roll and hang on again, they lost it now. The first slice rocked, these other slices aren't quite so goooood. Hang on again, hang on, hang on, they got it back again now with this fourth slice, I don’t know? Do I like this band? Well do I? Check them out, find out what they’re all about?  Yeah, they rock, hang on, do they? Yeah, I think so, hang on, the door, got to go. Hang on, no, maybe, yeah yeah yeah, maybe? Hang on....  – neal@blueyonder.co.uk 

FASHODA CRISIS – More of that energetic slightly hard-edged and mildly brutal Essex indie rock for those alternative Korn/Deftones fans who liked where My Vitriol were going for a while back there. Wires sticking out and the occasional screamo or two with their intelligent adventure and need to challenge and their sense of Muse-ish X factor. More progress, there’s a good band fixing to burst out here, they know it, they’re almost ready to really start demanding your attention... 
www.fashoda-crisis.com

SHELLSHOCK are evolving nicely, far less obvious and far more demanding mix of metal flavoured bruising drum n’bass confrontation now. They sound like a slightly angry band from the Chav infested suburbs of London should sound. Shellshock have been around for quite a while now, they’re always had a little bit of an edge (they’ve played Organ gigs, you don’t get asked to play on Organ bills unless you have something, we’re very picky you know). This latest set of recordings is quite a few steps up in to the next league, not in the premiership yet but hey, going the right way and worth checking out... www.shellshock.tv

Last week's demo of the week - BLACK JACKSON

Previous demo's of the week -INNER RAGE / ALLERGO / BROOKE / CARTRIDGE / PERHAPS CONTRAPTION / THE PROCESS VOID

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 
TRIGGERMAN – Bull By The Horns (Triggerlad) - Avoid those cracks and grab yourself seven black cats, you’re gonna need them all and more for the Triggerman debut album just burst down the door and muscled its way in here demanding your attention (and more). Now we’ve told you lots about these boys from Northern Ireland before, and we’ve warned you about going out in the sun and those giant insects and the wise words of fools. Them raw raw demos had us drooling back there, they’re a little more polished up now, I loved that messy raw (lo-fi) sound, this more ‘professional’ sound takes a moment or two to adjust into, but then I guess most of you will have missed that glorious demo phase phase and this will be a fresh wind blowing through you (when are you gonna listen to us – wise words on deaf ears, go get those demos when we tell you!). Triggerman don’t really sound like anyone else, Triggerman rumble – rumbling preacher rock, stop the bus and flag this one up - a hard rock band with a sound of their own! They all sound like they’re twenty stone and seven foot tall, inch thick bass strings and sledgehammers for drumsticks. Shall we throw you another lazy list and some shortcut signposts? Righteous foot to the floor hard rock that tastes of Kyuss, ZZ Top, Rose Tattoo, Bon Scott, Black Oak Arkansas, Molly Hatchet, Therapy and none of it the fault of the magic eight ball and that salt that got caught in the devil’s eye. They’re from Northern Ireland and you know what, they kind of sound like it  - perfectly reasonable tall tales about walking on the sun and smartest man in the world who knew two and two made five. Triggerman have a locked-on groooooove, a low-end rumble that most bands really would try to touch that sun for – and then there’s the voice, he really does sound like a whisky drinking fire and rage demon preacher of rock from Northern Ireland. It’s relentless, Triggerman have locked on to their sound, no need to mess with it now, no reason why they shouldn’t make another 14 albums just like this one, just like the moon going down for the sun to come up, set ‘em up, drink them down, have some more, go grab yourself some Triggerman  – www.triggerman.co.uk

ALSO CHECK OUT
(HED)P.E – Back To Base (Suburban Noise) - Hey where did all this soul come from? Ragecore for those Sly And The Family moments. Impressively drenched in mellow soul along with a little Bad Brains raggapunk bite and whoo, time to take a fresh look. The best (Hed)P.E album yet and just when you thought the sell by date had been and gone – still a couple of not so hot moments and filer tracks, but hey, impressed when we didn’t really expect to be.... www.hedshop.com

THE AUTOMATIC –  Not Accepted Anywhere (Polydor) - Clearly they’re the new Kaiser Chiefs and the ramming down the throat process has already started and they do have a tendency to flap around like a flock of indie seagulls all screeching and swooping and bombing away, these are still early days though, we haven’t been overfed yet.. I kind of like them, I like that Monster single, yeah yeah, I know, I know, we’ll be as sick of them as we are of Hard-Fi by the time the summer over. They don’t sound like they’ve compromised so much to get to the other side though, it sounds like they mean it a little more – they don’t sound like a band on their fourth name change doing as they told for the latest set of marketing managers. Yeah, I quite like The Automatic, and I just may continue to do so if they don’t get rammed down my throat too much. You know how it is, Cream Eggs are fine for the first dozen or so of the day then you start to feel a little sick of them, then you begin to loath them, then a mere mention of them has you frothing in rage – why do they always ram bands down your throat until your purple and blue and as sick of them as a predicted tied up too tight riot at a cash machine – what’s that coming over the hill? Is it a monster, is it a monster?  www.theautomatic.co.uk

THE OTHER – We Are What We Eat (Fiend Force) - If you like those Misfits and feel the need for  another – www.fiendforce.de

THE ATOMS – Staying True With.... (Stressed) - Wired up bratty harmonised bubblegum 77 girl/boy vocal punk pop of a very Ramones nature, a very very Ramones nature, beat on those brats like they were shouty teenagers from Derby rather than NYC. Hey ho, let’s go. The Atoms may not be the most original band ever, but hey, they are gooooooooooooood for you (should you be in the mood).  www.myspace.com/theatomsuk or www.stressedrecords.co.uk
 

Last week's album of the week - FRESHKILLS Previous album's of the week - THE DEATH SET / ABOUT / DODDODO / THE KNIGHTS OF THE NEW CRUSADE / CARTRIDGE / LEAFCUTTER JOHN / LORDS / IMMUNE / THE UNIT AMA / BEATNIK FILMSTARS / CHAMPION KICKBOXER / THESE MONSTERS / SUNS OF THE THUNDER / TELEVISE / SONIC YOUTH / PSAPP / ENABLERS / SUNN O))) / CATNAP / THE DRESDEN DOLLS / PROUDFLESH / all the past has been deleted (for now)

From: AZTLAN UNDERGROUND Date: Jun 13, 2006 4:18 PM

South Central Farmers June 13, 2006  Greetings!

For the highest readability, start your letter with a short sentence. The Farm is being Bulldozed!  Let's not mourn but continue to fight for its life and the livelihood of the South Central Farmers!  Over 50 arrests have been made, a few demonstrators have suffered blows from batons and the bulldozers were sent in to demolish the blooming crops, indigenous plants and 14 years of love that have been put into the farm. We are continuing to stand strong with tears in our eyes. It is not over yet! The community cannot be defeated. Join us to peacefully protest the police attack on our community. A candlelight vigil will be held tonight at 7:00pm as we have for 21 nights at the Farm. There is police perimeter set up so be respectful of that barrier for your safety and  the safety of the rest of the community. We want safety for our families and the land to be  returned to the community. We are gathered at the corner of 41st St & Long Beach Ave. Los Angeles, CA. -please bring candles and supplies such as water or food to share as we have  been dispossessed. A demonstration at the mayor's house is also being organized simultaneously with the vigil at the Farm. Here's the info: At 7pm tonight we will be gathering at Villaraigosa's house in protest of the actions taken by the state against the community today. Bring banners, instruments, chants and signs. 

Mr. Tezozomoc
South Central Farmers

web: http://www.southcentralfarmers.com or http://www.la.indymedia.org/
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BATTLES LIVE: JULY
13: London, Astoria w/ Animal collective – tickets details
14: Belgium, Dour Festival
15: Berlin, Melt Festival
17: Dublin. Whelans
18: Holland, Alkhof Affaire fest, Nijmegen 
19: Latvia, Riga, Andrejsala
20: Denmark, Aarhus. Fabriken
21: UK. Manchester, Futuresonic Festival
22: UK, Oxford, Truck Festival
23: Paris, Sous La Plage festival

Last week's single of the week - STASI

Previously - DOLIUM / SERENA-MANEESH / DECORATION / i LIKE TRAINS / THE OXFAM GLAMOUR MODELS / PSAPP / GREENSPACE
 

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ORGAN 159 - INNER RAGE, THE GHOSTS, ALPHA DISTRICT, INTEROGATE. ABOUT. DODDODO, DEADSTAR ASSEMBLY, AD AAD AT, ROBIN GUTHRIE, BANG! BANG!, FEU THERESE, CERBERUS SHOAL, HERESY, SERENA-MANEESH, PUNISH THE ATOM, The RampArt Community, GO SPIDERMUM - A gang of anarchist Robin Hood-style thieves, ORGAN TV will be back for more, ORGAN on your radio 

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ORGAN 151 - Out in print now, 40 pages 

ORGAN 150 - NEXT LIFE, CRETIN, HAWNAY TROOF, SYMMETRY, GREENSPACE, DRUGDEALER CHEERLEADER, LAST PARTY, ALEX WARD, BURNT, INTENTION, TRACTOR SEX FATALITY, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, PROUDFLESH, THE GHOSTS, SPEED THEORY, EL TOPO, THE CULT WITH NO NAME, THE PROCESS VOID. 

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