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Arthur Lee (March 7th 1945 - August 3  2006) was the enigmatic, highly influential and sometimes rather volatile leader, frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the legendary/pioneering  Los Angeles psychedelic band Love. Love were best known for the critically revered ground breaking 1967 album, Forever Changes. Lee was often been compared to Syd Barrett, indeed Barrett, early on in the brief pop star phase of his life, freely let it be known that Love was an influence on his band, Pink Floyd. Love were an influence on a lot of people, you may not have known Arthur Lee or Love, but his music will have reached you via his influence on many of your favourite bands.

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, Weapons, 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
SHADY BARD – Three Songs – This is just right, three mellow, warm, beautifully soothing songs, simple yet clever and with more than enough to invite you deeper in to the delicious melancholy with every repeat play (I’ve had it on repeat keeping me company for most of the evening now). Crafted delicate songs that sway in a gentle emotional uplifting in a quietly magnificent way. Three songs to make you feel good even when faced with environmental catastrophe and shooting at the sun, shine on, shine on. Warm strings and organic indie folkness, handcrafted beauty and hope and torch songs and uplifting and kind of Calexico and the brilliant I Like Trains  - just quietly beautiful and everything that’s good about everything ever – yes, just very very special, make the effort, you’ll be thankful you did. www.shadybard.co.uk or www.myspace.com/shadybard

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CROWNED GLORY – Path To Glory - They start off like they want to be Saxon, then they morph in to early Maiden, very very NWOBHM and all 1981 and pretty good at doing it. We’ll leave you to decide if that’s a good thing or not, if you do then there’s nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, here’s the link that takes you to the other side, me? I love that NWOBHM stuff, something not quite hitting the spot here, little more Krokus when I want Trespass – www.crownedgloryuk.com

GOOBLER – Pretty professional well crafted well made Tom Petty, Kinks style middle of the road pop /soft rock should you want it – www.myspace.com/gooblar

ATIKUS – Panacea – Pretty much a standard crunchy melodic modern metal outfit, kind of Breed 77 style melody and crunchy brutality. Six tracks, London band, they’re pretty good/technical competent at doing something we’ve all heard quite a few times already. I need to be challenged a little more, this is far too easy to pigeon-hole, sounds like far too many things we’ve heard far too many times while the biog waffles on about how fresh new and un-pigeonholeable they are. There could well be a decent modern metal band somewhere in here if they just had the guts to take a few musical risks – if there wasn’t a potentially good band threatening to break out of this tedium then we wouldn’t bother with this review - www.atikus.co.uk

Last week's demo of the week - SHILOE

Previous demo's of the week -THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE / BATTLEWITCH / THE FLESH HAPPENING / VESSELS / BLACK JACKSON / INNER RAGE / ALLERGO / BROOKE / CARTRIDGE / PERHAPS CONTRAPTION / THE PROCESS VOID

WHORES WHORES WHORES -  Unicorn (Seduction) - Abrasive scream fest of blistering hardboiled stabbing screaming bloody noise and a band who clearly understand that power of restraint and hell-bound politeness before the come back to administer the next sharp edged beating, ah no, they’ve done away with the light and shade now, it’s all jumping up and down and abrasive violence and rabbit punches and Locust style creative tantrum and scream yell screeeeam scream yell.. Oh, hang on we’ve hit a beautiful (brief) dreamy mellow bit, the smog and swinging baseball bats with nails have gone and it’s love and peace and waterfalls and arrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhh, aarhhhhhhhhhhh woo, GET OFF ME, GET OFF ME! Arrghhhhhhhhhhh, relentless scream bloody gore and more tantrum thrashing and Botch and scream and notoriously incendiary and ten tracks that fly by in a screaming bout that only lasts seventeen minutes – no standing about, no ref stepping in, just blazing noise and clever off-kilter violence and The Locust and furiously chaotic relentless sonic onslaughts and can I go sit down now please? Excellent noise, put in on again, it’s not a matter of improving the world, it’s just about clever satisfying challenging noise that saves us once more from all the peck peck peck.... more, now, put it on again please! Whores Whores Whores are an explosive quartet from Leeds, you can find them here – www.whoreswhoreswhores.tk or here – www.seductionrecords.co.uk and throughout history millions of people have been able to connect to god without wires. 

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2

THE LOW LOWS – Fire On The Bright Sky (Monotreme) – There’s this warm reassuring glow, or is it a hum? It’s a glowing hum, whatever it is, it’s warm and inviting and just very very easy on the soul. I first found the Low Lows one fine night whist out there surfing for those sounds that we know are out there if we look, they pulled me in and downloads were downloaded and played on the radio and burnt off tracks placed in the special treasure box. Came as no shock whatsoever when our favourite label announced they were to release the album over on this side of the Atlantic – Monotreme strike again. The Low lows have that same understated magic that makes us love Thee More Shallows so much and the production here is just so so perfect, it’s that 2.00am warm summer nightness again. Listening to the Athens GA trio is like siting outback in the quiet of the night (while the rest of the world is sleeping) watching and listening to the insects glow and hum – not right there in front of you, out in the distance somewhere, just out of reach, kind of like gloworms somewhere out there hard to focus on in the starlight. Deliciously dreamy and glowing in a wonderfully understated Galaxie 500 alt.country kind of way. Walls of gentle dissonance and country narcosis and soothing gentle caressing white noise beauty and steal guitars and Tindersticks and Yo Lo Tango and a radiantly slow rolling panorama that makes you so sure all is right. An almost distant sound, a stark warm caressing beautiful sound, a rather unique and rather special sound, and blue enough to float in. Beautiful.And then jsut when you think you have a handle on it there's The Russian Ending.  www.thelowlows.net / www.monotremerecords.com – out in the UK on September 18th 

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FILTHY HABITS – No Sympathy – Scathing angry shouty, badly recorded (just right, just how it should be) raw, puss-drenched old school DIY angry shouty messy splattered to the walls anarcho hardcore crust punk for people who love to lose themselves in the almost nostalgic always glorious sound of Discharge and Conflict and Seventeen Stitches and unsavoury, unwashed, righteously good things like that (and sentences that go on far too long). Excellent, packed with organic protein and dirty filth wholesome punk rock goodness – nine songs including a Discharge cover (Fight Back) and just what you need in these watered down shopping mall Hot Topic times... Stay away from this band, you’ll hate them, they’re not good for you, your mummy wouldn’t like you listening to them, stick with those nice bands with the pretty haircuts, the ones you see on TV, the ones the glossy magazines say it’s OK to like. Ban this filth, I thought we had this punk rock thing all cleaned up and sanitised and in line and behaving now – what next? People spitting and swearing and questioning authority? This in not what we want – go listen to that nice bands Angels and Whatever, you know, that one that that nice boy from Blink 182 started? And where are Good Charlotte when we need them? www.filthyhabits.tk

SHOTGUN MONDAY – Read, Compare, Adjust (Modern Radio) - Shotgun Monday are a rather clever, raw, tense and melodically edgy frantic thing, a band for people who lust after that slightly lost (here in the middle of 2006) lurching hardcore sound fine bands like Helmet, Scissormen, Rosa Mota or Fugazi cultivated back there then in the last bit of the last century. Shotgun Monday are not one of those instant bands, they’re maybe not going to demand your attention straight away, you may want to hang around and take the time to let the sound and feel of Shotgun Monday seep in to your head though, let them peck away, let their dynamic sound get inside your head, let them get their edgy discordant cultivated hooks in and you will find they have a little extra all of their own  The frenetic angular guitar work is deceptively manic, it’s a slightly filthy slightly gritty, and rather relentlessly urgent sound. Classic intelligent alternative American post-hardcore guitar rock at it’s very best. Plenty of twists and turns, satisfying amount of dark-edged light and shade, give it time, it’s well worth it. www.myspace.com/shotgunmonday

THE OVERDOGS – Pawnshop Masterpiece (Zero Youth) Pretty much standard issue decent quality satisfying enough fast pace raucous raw driving low budget US drunk punk. Fifth album from the Springfield band, and they sound like a Springfield band, apparently the Springfield Newsletter was not amused with their foul language controversy. This Springfield is Laciede County (isn’t there a place called Springfield in every County in the UsofA), wonder if that’s where Bart lives? The Overdose are OK, at least it’s not shopping mall product pushing Hot Topic style ‘punk’ bulshit. www.theoverdogs.com

VICE SQUAD – Defiant (S.O.S) - Polished and slick, and rather 80’s/90’s sounding slightly melodic well played metal that’s thankfully scuzzed and punked up more than a little by Becky’s raw voice and hints of anger and kicking out and yes, her ageing defiance. Not quite how you want Vice Squad to be musically, more for fans of Warlock or maybe middle period Girlschool, still, Becky retains some of the original Vice Squad defiance as she kicks at authority and systems and apathy and yeah, oh bondage, up yours  – www.sosrecords.us

CAMERA – Ashes And Dim Light (My kung Fu) - Polite squeaky clean adult friendly rock, a slicker smoother Stereophonics, actually in comparison Stereophnoics are Slayer (and Keane are Motorhead on very bad drugs and preaching very dark revolution) – do what you will with that brief bit of information, I feel like I’ve been drinking coffee with seven sugars, here’s the link, they’re from North Wales, I hung around for three tracks, I can’t stand those Stereophonics, if this polite musical unadventure sounds like you’re thing then what the hell are you doing on the Organ site anyway? There’s the link, off you go (hey, I was in a good mood, I told you about it, I didn’t have to, you’ve got the link, stop complaining, I could have just thrown it in the corner and waited for them to get big enough for me to sell it on ebay for three pound twenty plus postage)  – www.cameratheband.com
 

Last week's album of the week - WEAPONS / THE SOUND MOVEMENT Previous album's of the week -PINK MOUNTAIN / YOU AND THE ATOM BOMB / VIKING MOSES / 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)

Ifew weeks ago (See SchNEWS 550) SchNews mentioned that Bono's company Elevation Partners had bought up Pentagon-puppet Pandemic Studios, makers of such eco-people-friendly computer games as Mercenaries 2:World in Flames and Full Spectrum Warrior. Because there was a joke or two in the article it seems many people didn't believe it and thought it a spoof - clinging on to that rosy-tinted Live Aid do-gooder image no doubt. Well...it was true. And it seems he still hasn't found what he's looking for, but is wide awake in America when it comes to one desire... more cash.

In another ethic-lite money-making investment, Bono-head's California-based venture capital firm has now bunged around $300m to Forbes, the US business magazine which is frequently described as the 'bible of capitalism'. Meanwhile, having nailed his true colours to the mast finally, Bono is obviously not fussed about the bad press from switching U2's financial affairs from Ireland to Amsterdam in a massive tax evasion manoeuvre. Nice work, comrade, lets hope it's a beautiful day when your stock finally goes... pop.

DEAD DISCO – Automatic (Fierce Panda) proper real throwaway pop music with substance - the antidote, this is how it should be, why is pop music such a synthesised sanitised over polish soulless thing? Why can’t it be like this? Gloriously throwaway in the best of ways, 15 megabites of pop art fame and Blondie and The Rapture and Bananarama and The Bangles and contagious hand claps and synth pop indie dayglo lipstick and three girls from Leeds armed with b-side indie anthems to put on repeat play – www.myspace.com/deaddiscohq

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THE KULL – God Knows How (City Silenced) – Scuzzy, urgent, dense, hard-rocking, instant, angry beast of a single, dirty punkoid edge – Queens Of The Stone Age, Gaye Bykers on Acid, Crazyhead, that kind of thing, lists can sometime explain it easiest - www.thekull.com

Last week's single of the week - THE BLACK TULIPS

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

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