MASTODON have been confirmed as support Tool on their upcoming UK tour. The dates are Manchester MEN November 25, Glasgow SECC 25, London Wembley Arena 27, Cardiff International Arena 30, Nottingham Arena December 1.

Unfortunately  HUNDRED REASONS have postponed their October UK tour. Singer, Colin Doran has been complaining of hoarseness and pain in his throat since before HR played in Japan in early September. He took a week off from rehearsal and it seemed to be a lot better, but since he returned to the studio last week it's actually been a lot worse. Having seen a specialist this week it appears Colin has nodes on his vocal chords, which if left unchecked could leave him unable to sing permanently. A spokesperson called Dani said “Canceling or postponing shows is something the band never do lightly, having only ever done so on a handful of occasions over the last six years. The dates are being rescheduled and new dates / details of what to do with existing tickets will be announced as soon as possible”.

DEFTONES ANNOUNCE LONDON SHOW - they will play a one-off show in London on 12 Oct at Electric Ballroom in Camden. Tickets go on sale on Friday. The band release a new album, 'Saturday Night Wrist', which features guest appearances from System Of A Down's Serj Tankian and Giant Drag's Annie Hardy, on 30 Oct. 
 

Oct 5th Seattle at LOFI w/Stolen babies & Awsome 
Oct 6th Olympia at The Clipper w/Stolen Babies 
Oct 7th Portland at Someday Lounge w/ Stolen Babies 
Oct 9th Radio Live on KUSF, San Francisco 
Oct 11th San Francisco at Hemlock Tavern w/ S.B. 
Oct 14th Los Angeles at Bar Sinster w/Stolen Babies 

Thanks for being our friend! Love, DAE

If you haven’t unraveled the multiple delights of Degenerate Art Ensemble yet then you really are missing out on something rather good, no really, one of the finest musical experiences you can have More info at http://www.DegenerateArtEnsemble.com
 

John on the phone......

Whoooooo, I tell you who was on the phone this week, telling us we have a bad attitude because we didn't give them and their albums good reviews and how they'd advertise with us if we did and how they never have this problem with "bigger magazines" and how they had heard from several labels that we have a bad attitude - too damn right we have a bad attitude, if your music isn't good enough then you can't buy a good review, you're mistaking us for the music business x

ORGAN ON YOUR RADIO @ RESONANCE 104.4FM - NOW IT'S WEEKLY! - every Sunday night, 10.30pm, one hour of us on the radio. X

The new year long series of ORGAN TV  is on your screens in the UK right now. Every   Wednesday evening, 10.30pm  on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY 173. And now due to the fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY 883 at 11.30pm.

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, Zero Ciper, Cats And Cats And Cats, 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

LEAVE THE CAPITAL – beautifully strong explosions in the sky, people have been talking about this very fine five piece band from Cardiff for a little while now (and we’ve be watching and waiting to see what would emerge when they finally thought it right). Rather than rushing headlong in to the maelstrom, the five of them have been cleverly refining and crafting their rather beautiful, rather powerful, rather delicate sound. Keeping out of the light until they were ready to stand up and do it their way – seems they spent time building it, like a whole ship out of matchsticks (out in a watershed) and now they’re ready to be explored, ready to leave. It’s a swooning delicate sometimes sparkly sound, slow and creamy and deliciously moody and laced with slowdives and emotive coldlight and little details that delight.  Prone to the occasional outburst of quiet restrained cleverly reigned-in post-rock noise - strong strong songs though, don’t let that first taste fool you, there’s real depth and substance here, not just another set of Mogwai post-textures. Matchstick really does get inside and set your sails - those infectious lines will be coming out of your mouth before the daylight appears – children stand up, children put your hands up in the air – and it won’t be the first and it won’t be the last, there’s lots of ships to build here. They have that drama of Doves, there’s more to hold on to though, more detail in there with the beauty of Sigor Ros and yes, Explosions In The Sky (you have to be special to have Explosions name dropped in one of our reviews). Leave The Capital are a five piece from Cardiff, the important thing is that they have songs that will stay with you. www.myspace.com/leavethecapital

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THE APPARATUS – blustery solid indie rock, the kind of thing bands like Novacaine did back in the 90’s. They’re pretty good at it should that kind of thing get your motor all fired up (it doesn't for me but hey, they do it well, here's the link). www.myspace.com/theapparatus

Last week's demo of the week - GRAVANZIA  / CHET

Previous demo's of the week LADY PROMISE / FTSE100 / STEAL GANDHI / ALL DARK MORNINGS / SHADY BARD / SHILOE / THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE / BATTLEWITCH / THE FLESH HAPPENING / VESSELS / BLACK JACKSON / INNER RAGE / ALLERGO / BROOKE / CARTRIDGE / PERHAPS CONTRAPTION / THE PROCESS VOID

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2
I LOVE POLAND – ILP (Denial) - This is really rather good, they’re from Leeds, they have this certain sense of texture, a warm dusty analogue take that probably comes from old keyboards and things that make you dance dance dance to the radio. They sound like they obsess over old broken fragile temperamental stnths, the sort you find unloved in second hand shops with broken hearts and gaffa tape bandages, the sort that create those sparse soundscapes  – the bedsit textures of Joy Division. The band prefer to talk of Mark Almond and kitchen sink drama and glam rock and camp electro disco, sounds more like Joy Division (without ever being another clone) to me (I can’t hear the glam), lighter in tone, sweeter taste, sounds wonderful – sounds bleak and sleazy and a little in need of a wash and brush-up, sound dirty, tastes of forbidden things. They’re a duo, there’s a delicious sparseness and space to breath and drum boxes but they don’t really sound like a duo – they do sound like a full band, alright, they sound Pet Shop Boys in a bathroom when you probably shouldn’t look too closely in to what they’re doing. This is very very good – tales of integrity and the death of England and the lack of social disorder and imposters and they sound like some long lost treasure from 1979, something off that Some Bizarre album and this is very very very good – I love I Love Poland. www.ilovepoland.org

oh look, we've been busy and those Cats have taken up all our ear time so so so not much else to check out this week but hey....

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AGE OF CHAOS – Portobello Knuckle Fighter (A.O.C) – No messing, ready for a ruck, in your gnarled and scared messed up face, old school shouty London streetpunk. More Sid Vicious and Ronnie Biggs doing time until he done a bunk than Johnny Lydon art attacks. Real Professionals (yeah, capital P), they could only be from Landen town. Swearing and Oi and Rejects and Upstarts (what yer gonna do?) and www.age-of-chaos.co.uk is where you go for more.

SANCTORUM - The Heavens Shall Burn (Rising) – Debut album from the UK band, they’re very very good at what is a standard issue technically proficient brutal/melodic/extreme thrash metal sound. All done rather well and abrassively powerful and all that, but hey, come on - they’re as faceless as their name, surely there’s already been 37 thrash metal bands called Sanctsomethingorother already? All extremely professional and brutal and crunchy. Melodic bits when you need them, epic when it needs to be, relentlessly powerful and it’s pretty hard to fault what they’re doing and it’s all very predictable (and wrapped in cliched forgettable artwork that kind of warns you before you get there) and I’ve had enough and I’m going to leave it with you and go find a band who aren’t content to sound like a very good version of things already heard too many times.  www.sanctorom.co.uk / www.risingrecords.co.uk

LOVEMAT – The Fearless Hairdays Of Youth (Disturbia) - They’re from up North, they do that poppy punky slightly glammy garage rock thing that tastes of Turbonegro and bits of Hanoi Rocks and The Damned. They have a finger print (and a swagger) of their own and that brass, along with the healthy pop edge, for some reason gives them a Zutons (with a rocket up their arse) feel - maybe more Rocket From The Crypt in their with that adolescent energy that Zutons adultness. A youthful energy that explains the fine album title and “five best friends in the early stages of adulthood, messing around with ideas and having a great tome releasing their debut album on their own label. Isn’t that what it’s all about?” yes it is - www.lovemat.com
 

Last week's album of the week - HOLY SMOKES  / GALLOWS Previous album's of the week - SICBAY / THE LOST PATROL BAND / SQUAREPUSHER / HATEBREED / YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE! / OPTIMIST CLUB  / THE MINOR LEAGUES / WHORES WHORES WHORES / THE LOW LOWS / WEAPONS / THE SOUND MOVEMENT / PINK MOUNTAIN / YOU AND THE ATOM BOMB / VIKING MOSES / MOTORHEAD / THE WEEGS / JOHNNY CASH / TRIGGERMAN / FRESHKILLS / THE DEATH SET / ABOUT / DODDODO /

“This circle is vicious
Spoken by the hand
It is the storm
That brought me in

Hallelujah
Hallelujah” *

Sometimes music makes me think in plain words. Sometimes I am unable to resist the urge to move or dance, and sometimes, it takes me to places where I’ve never been, where I see places and things in my mind. Tom Waits’ songs, for example, always give me good visuals. Sad drunken lost souls sharing stories in sleazy hotel rooms, where the neon is blinking and buzzing through the window, and the odor of damp garbage is wafting up from the squalid, dank alleyway nearby. You know, things like that. Song noir, I call it. Okay - I just made that up on the spot. I don’t really call it song noir.  When I listen to Delta Blues, I sometimes wonder if reincarnation is in fact, possible, because I can feel the music so profoundly - I absolutely know it. And while I am listening, it’s as if I’ve been transported to that space in time Did I live then too? I suppose I’ll never know. 

There is music out there, that brings me to a place I’ve never ever been, and strangely enough, the setting in my head, is always surreal in the sense that it is usually dark and dreary, as if set inside tintype photo. That, or I am astride a swayback nag, clip-clopping through some strange sepia-toned woods. The colors are always grays and browns, with hints of promise. I am not sure exactly where this music takes me. Somewhere into the recesses of my soul is where. 

David Eugene Edwards, formerly the foremost songwriter and lyricist of Sixteen Horsepower, has been playing and writing solo, his project called Woven hand for the past several years. Mainly touring in Europe, so I was thrilled when I got wind that he was touring the states.
When I first heard his music on the radio by chance one day, I was pulled in immediately. “Who is this?” and “I must go purchase some right away” were my first reactions. I don’t remember the song, but I remember the banjo, and the feeling that permeated my depths. Was this old music? Or old music re-captured? I had to find out, and I did. Low Estate was my first 16 HP cd purchase. I listened to it again and again. It wasn’t long before I’d decided that David Eugene Edwards’ songs and lyrics were in the ranks of Tom Waits, Nick Cave, et al, and I later came to discover that I wasn’t the only one to lump him into this elite category. Over the years, he has been lumped here many times over, by many people.  The music has been called “from the Old world to another world”, “Bauhaus meets Billy Graham” and “an anathema to Christian music” D.E.E. is a man of strong faith. In his lyrics, he uses scripture indirectly, his strong conviction in his faith to bring his version of truth, the need for redemption and salvation, the darkness of the human soul, the depravity of man, into his music, and he truly believes that the Lord enables him to do what he does, i.e. write music, tour, and bring it to the people, whether it causes them to praise the Lord along with him, or squirm with discomfort for whatever reason, all the while tapping one’s toe, or swaying to the music.  Personally, I find it interesting that I am so completely and utterly drawn to this man’s music, because I have never been of the religious sort. I was not raised in a religious household at all, I have yet to read the bible in full, I don’t believe in original sin, nor do I fear being cast to hell. I am perfectly comfortable in my own spirituality, and the destiny of my soul. My inner peace is intact, thankyouverymuch. With all of that said, DEE delivers when he plays. A skilled musician, he plays a variety of instruments, banjo, bandoleone, concertina… I’ve heard word that and his newest guitar is some 40+ years old. He has an intense presence, barely talks to the audience at all, and what he does, is steeped in Old world, traditional song stylings reminiscent of the deep American south. Appalachia, the Bible belt, but with a dark and moody undertone reeking of fire and brimstone, and maybe some sulfur. Whatever the HELL kind of music it is, I burn for more.

Gwendolyn Witherup

*from Winter Shaker,  a song on Mosaic.

http://www.wovenhand.net
http://www.sixteenhorsepower.net
http://www.16horsepower.com
 

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The new GENE SERENE single - you can here on of the tracks here - www.myspace.com/orgrecords

Last week's single of the week - EINSTELLUNG

Previously - SPIDERBABY / THE VITAMINS / THE GRESHAM FLYERS / THE DRESDEN DOLLS / THE ANSWER / DEAD DISCO / THE BLACK TULIPS / METRO RIOTS / PATCHWORK GRACE / TANGAROA / SHRAG / LOSTPROPHETS / STASI / DOLIUM / SERENA-MANEESH / DECORATION / i LIKE TRAINS / THE OXFAM GLAMOUR MODELS / PSAPP / GREENSPACE
 

PAST ISSUES -

ORGAN 176 - ELLIOT SMITH, JENNIFER TERRAN, CRADLE OF FILTH, HEAVEN 17, LOVE, SUGARCUBES CHET, GRAVANZIA, VANCOUVER DELUXE, HOLY SMOKES, GALLOWS, YO LA TANGO, SKID ROW, UFO, ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, EINSTELLUNG, THE LATE GREATS, ROYAL TREATMENT PLANT, WHEN GRAVITY FAILS, DARTZ, THE TRUDY 

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ORGAN 174 - 

ORGAN 173 - In print, on paper, got get it.

ORGAN 172 - FTSE100, EMPYREAL DESTROYER, SMILEX, SQUAREPUSHER, HATEBREED, ARDENCY, TOURETTES SYNDROME, GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT, THE VITAMINS, THE RESIDENTS, WEDNESDAY 13, JOHN PEEL DAY PLANNED, RIOT COPS GATECRASH FREE PARTY, The INTREPID FOX

ORGAN 171

ORGAN 170 - STEAL GANDHI, ALL DARK MORNINGS, THE AUTHENTICS, OPTIMIST CLUB, ESTRADASPHERE, WOLFGANG BANG, ELECTRONIC, CURSIVE, AGAINST ME, TRANSIT KINGS, TRANSMISSION, DUN 2 DEF, THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS, PHOENIX BODIES, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, THE ANSWER, THOM YORKE....

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ORGAN 165 - THE FLESH HAPPENING, MOTORHEAD, RUSSIAN CIRCLES ,TERROR, THE HUCKSTERS, TANGAROA, SHARP END FIRST, TOUCHSTONE, And just who is MOIST PAULA?

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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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