ANTI PRODUCT are on tour right now: Glasgow Oran Mor 20th July (with Marky Ramone), Dumfries Wickerman Festival (Acoustic Stage) 21, Dumfries Wickerman Festival (Headline, Main Stage) 21 (with Marky Ramone), Derby Rock 'N' Blues Festival 28, Stockton Riverside Frenzy Festival August 3th, York Cert 18 4th, Newcastle Gosforth Gathering 5th. 

CROFEST CANCELLED - Crofest, the indoor festival that we told you about only last week, the festival that was due to happen at the rather tiny Crobar in deepest central London on July 22/23, has been cancelled. This is due to circumstances beyond the organisers' control.

THE SLITS RETURN WITH EP - The first new music from The Slits in, oh, ages, will be released later this year. Founder members Ari Up and Tessa Pollitt have reformed the group, and they will release 'The Revenge Of The Killer Slits EP' on 17th Oct via SAF Records.

LAMB OF GOD SUPPORT SLAYER - The post-thrash metalcore sound of Lamb Of God will be rocking arenas around the UK later this year when the US band promote new album 'Sacrament' by supporting Slayer on their Unholy Alliance Chapter II tour. The dates are as follows: 30 Oct: Cardiff Arena, 1 Nov: Birmingham NEC, 2 Nov: Glasgow SECC, 3 Nov: Manchester  Arena, 19 Nov: London  Brixton Academy, 20 Nov: London  Brixton Academy

John on the phone......

ORGAN ON YOUR RADIO @ RESONANCE 104.4FM - NOW IT'S WEEKLY! - See, even they've noticed "An oasis of subversion within a desert of corporate ass-rimming; a place to hear tomorrow's music today" NME (shame they don't cover the music themselves though) X

What's it all about? Simple, just good music, and the art of good video making...  Same musical policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just handy signposts, as long as the music and video making has that X factor - expect a healthy eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post rock, post punk, post man pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever..... music and creativity for the open minded 

(and if you think your video should be on then shout in our direction) 

Music TV done ORGAN style 

Coming up in the next few weeks things such as Mastodon, Liars, Colt, MC Lars, Trencher, High On Fire, Tiger Force, 65Daysofstatic, Spit Like This, Gene Serene, Hafdis Huld, Against Me, Soviettes, Amon Tobin, Deerhoof and who knows who or what.... 

DEMO OF THE WEEK
THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE – This Suicide Is Costing me Money - I don’t think they waited for that release date, I think they just broke out. On the run from whoever they need to be on the run from - the Coney hatch or the man in the black car (who was after the toe-cutter) or maybe some high security cuckoo nest and all tooled up with some razor edge urgency and some fast road-racing  shape-shifting music that has urgent place tooooo get to and no time to wait for no laws. So you want me to pin it down for you? Why, why does it have to be pinned down? Melodically violent heavy punk rock for people who like it sliced with menace and a love of things that pick over the bones of the situation – maybe a hint of Ministry and Eyehategod and Killing Joke in there with all the swooping and the menace and the Slayer riffs that are circling around waiting for the dust to settle so they can move in and pick those bones clean. Heavy riffage, locked on riffs and that nasty Creaming Jesus/Amebix edge. Ah yes, we like, now do we try to saw through the cuffs or out leg before it gets to the end? www.rampton-altpro.net

DEMO OF THE WEEK 2
BATTLEWITCH – Fyredroyde – They sound so so 1981, none more NWOBHM and Mythra and Witchfynde and Quartz and AIIZ and Witchfinder General and Aragorn! Can you hear that tolling of the bell calling you to thee last Sabbath? I’m having a Bingley Hall Brain Damaging Heavy Metal Barn Dance flashback and Vardis will be on in a minute, White Spirit have just played, and yes, this is what we want – metal, PROPER METAL! Battlewitch sound exactly like a band called Battlewitch should sound (and they unashamedly sing of witches born a thousand years before the dawn of time). This sounds like it should be a gloriously obscure seven inch on Neat Records. Proper classic real metal, real NWOBHM done authentically right. Spot on in every way – www.battlewitch.co.uk

Last week's demo of the week - THE FLESH HAPPENING

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

PINK MOUNTAIN – Pink Mountain (Frenetic) – How good is this album? Who are Pink Mountain anyway? Where did this come from? All recorded in a two two day sessions over in Oakland (California) so it seems. A supergroup of sorts and featuring some of San Francisco/Portland’s finest progressive improvisers. Let’s do some name-checking while that man screams and the sax screeches and the heavy free-form jazz-thrash churns and the voice yells “No” over and over, “No (Yeah)” and the heavy jazz-prog (controlled) chaos churns up the bottom and that pond-weed and the planktom and oh yes... Roll call time: we’ve got Kyle Bruckmann of the mighty Lozenge (as well as a Cheer Accident/Bobby Conn collaborator) here (just the mention of Lozenge should be enough for you), Sam Coomes, singer/instrumentalist with Quasi, John Shlurba - guitarist/bassist with Eskimo, Molecule and Spezza Rotto, then there’s Gino Robair, he’s played drums with John Zorn, Tom Waits, Thinking Fellows Union Local 282, Otomo Yoshihide, and there’s Scott Rosenberg the saxophone/composer who heads several groups including the Skronktet West and Red and The Exiles Big Band – we have some serious people here and that is very much reflected in the high quality and the never obvious creativity. The Pink Mountain sound is heavy and rather intense, always very very listenable though, complex but never too hard-boiled to be anything other than enjoyable. A torrent of pronk flavoured oboe and jazzy sax and electric guitar and oscillating electronics and rather crazed (never intrusive) vocals. Did I say it was chaotic? It’s not, it’s never chaotic, this is totally control and there is restraint, it may improvised but these are very coherent pieces/songs. A fine album indeed, rather different and rather compelling and something to get lost in time and time again.... recommended. www.freneticrecords.com

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2

YOU AND THE ATOM BOMB – Shake Shake hello?! (Sink And Stove) That springy bendy very English, rather gentle soft caressing eccentric pop sound that gets all delicately obtuse and even more bendy as you journey in. You And The Atom Bomb are from Bristol, they share girl-boy vocals and talk of skronk pop and they sound like the much missed Buntychunks and bits of the mellow end of Ring and bits of Cardiacs and mathy bits and all so happy and joyous and gleeful – gleeful tunes, gleeful words and gleeful time changes and just upliftingly good and right and waiting there for you, all seven fine tracks  – www.youmeandtheatombomb.com

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VALLENT THORR – Legend Of The World (Volcom) – More metal, no, more hard rock, heavy rock, this is heavy rock. They're from the USofA and they sounds like a slightly Clutch/Black Flag flavoured take on Thin Lizzy or Ted Nugent or Shakin’ Street or Blue Oyster Cult for Hellacopters fans everywhere. Brought to you via the power of the mighty riff. You’re probably too far ahead (or too far behind) to love this. I like their heavy rock gospel - and their anger. I like their anger, another set of Americans not quite so happy with their government and false information and the system and the upcoming microchip-the-people programme and... see heavy rocker with bite and thought, who would’ve thunk it. www.valuentthorr.com / www.volcoment.com

DEAD TO ME – Cuban Ballerina (Fat Wreck) – Some people from One Man Army and Western Addiction with a side project that pretty much sounds like a lot of that Fat Wreck standard issue melodic punk-pop (and indeed a lot like the bands they’re already in). Not sure what the point in sounding pretty much the same as so many others actually is (seems awfully un-punk rock to me). Still, they do their chosen thing rather well and if the thought of yet another band following the punk-pop blueprint excites you then Dead To Me are worth checking out. www.fatwreck.de
 

Last week's album of the week - VIKING MOSES Previous album's of the week - MOTORHEAD / THE WEEGS / JOHNNY CASH / TRIGGERMAN / FRESHKILLS / 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)

What's On? Check out out Party and Protest guide at
www.schnews.org.uk/pap/guide.htm - it's updated every week, has sections on regular events, local events, protest camps and more...
 

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PISKIE SITS – What is The Point? (Wrath) – He and his band sound more like a sunburnt US slackers from the early 90’s (Sebadoh, Buffalo Tom, Pavement, lots of mellow Sun pop things). Seems he’s a postman from Wakefield – they sound like classic slackers, lazy (in a positive way) drums, an almost nostalgic sound, I’m trying to stay way out of nostalgia this week, I’m trying to clean it all out, I kind of like this, it is like sitting around on a beach or a sunny street corner or.... no worries, who need a point. www.piskiesirs.co.uk

SCARAMANGA SIX – Baggage (Wrath) – Now we like Scaramanga Six (you know that already), sometimes when they really hit the spot we like them and lots, other times they come with baggage and have to be handled with care and then sometimes... Well sometime they can kind of miss the spot and you need to shuffle away and hope no one notices that you championed them last time (and the time before that). A new single from the next album then (an album to be called Kiss Of Death so it seems), they don’t hang around in the land of the Six (and we have no idea about the things that they go through). Far more the indie Queen than Muse have ever been this time around, or maybe the indie ELO is closer to the mark? The Six are very Northern, defiantly Northern and besides the line where they rhyme baggage with I’m a total cabbage, this new single is rather fine. Could well be the best thing from the Six yet – yes indeed, they’ve rode that storm once more (and scurried around like raptor rodents). Slightly proggy in a retro pop kind of way and bulging with overblown pomposity – yes indeed, very very indie-ELO in a very good way (and a bit of Abba via a very northern Yorkshire pub), and there ain’t nothing wrong. Meanwhile over there on the b-side there’s magma and flow and even more slightly strange northern pomp pop and no, there ain’t nothing wrong, there ain’t nothing wrong. And once again the rather different, slightly unique sound of the Six has rode the storm and hit the spot. The Six are different, we like them.  www.thescaramangasix.com

OCEANSIZE – Music For A Nurse (Beggars Banquet) – Manchester’s Oceansize at their most epic and expansive. Uplifting and glorious, kind of like a glitch-free 65Days gliding around the dark side of the moon in a most uplifting all encompassing, gliding, mellow and deliciously confident kind of way. Another track from the recent Everyone In To Position album, not the most adventurous thing you’ll ever hear but hey, good enough for right now. No idea about the other tracks on he single, this is just a slightly annoying one track promo thing that labels like to send out for review. Oceansize b-sides are always worth checking out though. – www.oceansize.co.uk

Last week's single of the week - PATCHWORK GRACE

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

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