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ORGAN #192 > JAN 25th 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon
WE'LL KEEP ON BUILDING THESE SHIPS...
And the survey says bang bang you’re dead, music is a contact sport and freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Black is the absence of colour said the man on the radio talking about a very white beetle that will make my paper even whiter and you know who or what. Why the hell don’t bands get out and gig when you release their music? I don’t understand bands sometimes. Not that they were going to crush the white beetle, just learn from the science of the fungus loving thing. Black is my favourite colour, so much colour in there if you really look and auditions in rubber gloves, hinges fixed on gates.  When did Biffy Clyro turn in to the Foo Fighters? Oh dear, stoop to feed the crows, some scraps, already cold, they were never that good but oh dear Biffy foo.. Don’t give me no have-a-go heroes either, hang on hang on, I got something to say here. We’ve been doing this Organ thing for far too long now, we’ve seen a million things come and go, a million people shout the odds and tells how wrong we are (only to have them come back three years later to tell us how we were right after all, always so amusing) , it is still all about the excitement and passion of the really good music that’s out there waiting to be found... So much good music out there if you can be bothered go find, of course you could just stick with the ‘outrage’ of those same jeans for four days now. . 
IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME?
This is it! VOODOO LATIN JAZZ METAL!!! COMBO DE LA MUERTE,  Slayer and The Priest and look at that! W.A.S.P!!!! All done serious Latino lounge jazz stylee, I’m not going to tell you anymore about it, work of genius! Here’s the link, our new favourite band – www.myspace.com/combodelamuerte

GALLOWS are to play the following shows: Manchester Roadhouse March 2, Glasgow Barfly 3, Birmingham Bar Academy 4, Cardiff Barfly 5, London 100 Club 6. They'll be supported by Aussie crew The Scare. I saw in my local supermarket that Kerrang have them on the front cover at the UK’s best new band this week – how long ago did we review that demo and tell you that? The things you see in the NottingHill Sainsbury’s, Razorlight are always in there buying tea and biscuits, Shawn Wright Phillips in full training kit looking like a shifty shoplifter kid, that woman with pink hair from Lush. 

HATEBREED have lined up a second batch of UK and Irish shows, to fill the gaps that their brief sold-out November run failed to cover.   The Connecticut-based band, who received stellar reviews for last August’s “Supremacy” album, have lined up the following shows; Mon 16th Apr - Dublin Ambassador Theatre, Wed 18th Apr - Exeter Lemon Grove, Thu 19th Apr - Northampton Soundhaus, Fri 20th Apr - Colchester Arts Centre, Sat 21st Apr - Liverpool Academy 2, Sun 22nd Apr - Oxford Zodiac, Mon 23rd Apr - Brighton Concorde 2, Tue 24th Apr - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms, Wed 25th Apr - Stoke Sugarmill, Thu 26th Apr - Newport TJ’s  Tickets are on sale now, from box offices and all usual agents, priced £12.50.  You can also buy online at www.aloud.com and www.gigsandtours.com.

THINGS TO GET SHOUTING  ABOUT? 
DoN'T even think about it... 
 
John on the phone......
R.I.P. BRENT LILES, former bass player with Social Distortion and Agent Orange  “He was killed riding his bike on the street, he was such a sweetie!!! I will miss him much” Ginger Coyote (Punk Globe) - www.punkglobe.com

PELICAN and THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES are teaming up for a full UK tour. The dates are: Southampton Joiners April 14, Birmingham Barfly 15, Glasgow ABC II 16, Manchester Satan's  Hollow 17, Leeds Cockpit 18, London Islington Academy 19, Brighton Audio 20. 

HEAVEN AND HELL have confirmed that they will only be playing songs from the Dio era of Black Sabbath on their upcoming world tour. The band - vocalist Ronnie James Dio, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Vinny Appice - will put together their live show from the 'Heaven And Hell', 'Mob Rules' and 'Dehumanizer' albums, plus three new songs written and recorded for the upcoming compilation album 'Black Sabbath: The Dio Years'. Is there a better Sabbath album than Heaven And Hell?

NEW WU TANG READY - The Wu Tang Clan are back with a new studio album, there first since 2001. It is due to come out this summer, via the Universal Music imprint of Steve Rifkind, who released the outfit's debut album via his Loud label. All nine Clan members appear on the new long player, including the late Ol Dirty Bastard, who will make a post-humous appearance on one track. Another track, 'Life Changes', is a tribute to the late rapper, who died in 2004, of course.

'GIRLS GOT THE BLUES' is a brand new one day Music event to be held in Manchester on 6th May 2007 celebrating the best in Female fronted bands with an emphasis, but not exclusively, on blues based music. “This is the 1st event of it's type to be held in Manchester, possibly the 1st in the UK. All of a sudden there is a plethora of Girls picking up guitars and rediscovering the musical heritage that is the Blues, whether it be in the style of the Delta or more of a Stevie Ray Vaughan vibe, and following right the way through to Country blues. 'Girls Got The Blues' stated aim is to highlight and showcase this amazing talent.  We hope this will become an annual event” 
www.myspace.com/girlsgottheblues

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, who split up in 2000, are to re-form later in the year, the band will reunite for this year's Coachella Festival. Meantime, former RATM/current Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello is to release his first album under The Nightwatchman name. It's to be called 'One Man Revolution' and comes out in late April.

THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES have posted an alternative version of 'Another Drinking Song' at www.myspace.com/themightymightybosstones

BAD BRAINS are to release their new album in the Spring, through Megaforce. It's been produced by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch.
 

SPIRITWO has her debut single out on ORG on FEBRUARY 19th 

CURSIVE will support Forward, Russia on the following dates: February 27th OXFORD, Zodiac, 28th LONDON, Koko (NME Awards show) March 2nd  SOUTHAMPTON, University 3rd BRIGHTON, Concorde 2, 4th BRISTOL, Bierkeller, 5th STOKE, Sugarmill, 6th LEEDS, Metropolitan University Cursive release new single 'Big Bang' (from their Happy Happy album) to coincide with their tour. www.cursivearmy.com  / www.saddle-creek.com

DEADLEE ANNOUNCES GAY HIP HOP TOUR - LA based rapper Deadlee, unusual in the hip hop community by being openly gay, has announced he will headline what he reckons is the first ever hip hop tour featuring exclusively gay, lesbian or bisexual artists. Going by the name HomoRevolution Tour, Deadlee, real name Joseph Lee, hopes the venture might change opinions within a community traditionally perceived as being pretty homophobic.

Lee told AllHipHop.com: "The HomoRevolution Tour is a direct challenge to the old status quo in hip hop. Times are changing and if openly gay rappers aren't invited then we are kicking the door in - and inviting ourselves... we are taking the mic. It's our turn too".

Possibly in a bid to ensure column inches for the tour, Lee has been dissing some of the hip hop genre's biggest names for their past homophobia (which is probably justified) while publicly questioning their sexuality (probably less so). Lee: "Eminem was called out for his juvenile, hateful approach to homosexuality, especially in his song 'Criminal. He was the biggest rapper at the time and if he used the same song as a diss to Blacks or Latinos, he would probably be dead. Eminem likes to pick on the 'weak' but gay[z] ain’t weak and he might be a fag himself. He knew all the subcultures in that song".

Meanwhile on 50 Cent, who once told Playboy "I don't like gay people around me, because I'm not comfortable with what their thoughts are", Lee continued: "Fuck him. I don't like ignorant bitches around me, so he can suck my gun. He is a classic man who had homo-feelings and chooses to lash out because he is afraid he might act out on his true feelings. 50 Cent has deep rooted homosexual tendencies". (CMU)

The HomoRevolution Tour kicks off in San Diego on 29 Mar.
 


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 
 


ORGAN TV - WEDNESDAY 24th JAN -10.30pm on OPEN ACCESS 2 via SKY 173 repeated on OPEN ACCESS  via SKY 883 on Sunday 28st Jan 

THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS.... 

CULT OF LUNA - Leave Me Here (Earache) 
IRVING - Jen Nothing Matters To Me  (Eenie Meenie)
AMON TOBIN - Verbal (Ninja Tune)
THE LOW LOWS - Dear Flies Love Spiders  (Monotreme)
EPHEL DUATH - The Passage (Earache)
TANGAROA - Vietnamese Killing Queens (Anti Culture)
MUNICIPAL WASTE - Unleash The Bastards (Earache)

Now that's what I call music TV. 

Want to get your video on? Well all you need to do is make us aware of what you have, send
us a link to your video on MySpace or You Tube or wherever, or a VHS or a DVD and if you have something that we want to broadcast then we'll chase you for a master broadcast format and wallop, sorted 

DEMO TIME
FOUR LETTER FRIENDLike we already said - we shall no longer be reviewing a million demos, we're just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more time for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective, when we tell you it's goood then it really is goooooooood

DEMO OF THE WEEK

FOUR LETTER FRIEND – Four And Twenty Blackbirds - You know, this may sound like the laziest of lazy lists (the sort you read in a million substandard reviews written by wannabe NME student journos drowning in their own festering sound) another of those damn lists that tiresome small-time bands try and throw at us via their tedious biogs or their uninspiring My Space pages - this may sound like just another lazy list, and hey, nobody likes a freak with another list and bloody hands are made for shaking, this is not just a pastime and someone has to realise there’s another side to see. 

Whisper it about, let rumours rise and fall, we know what this is all about, even if you can’t see it yet, choose life and high velocity for this time around Four Letter Friend really do manage to sound like Soundgarden and Radiohead both at the same time and not only that, they manage to put it off completely. A massive Queens Of The Stone Age sound, that modern heavy rock thing, big and brooding and full of swagger, alive with knowing confidence, a sound that bursts right in and demands undivided attention. There’s a million bands out there who’ll claim they sound like this, a million goodhearted small time (hobby) bands briefly living the dream, they’ll peak with a third on the bill on a Tuesday night in rainy Camden - to which they’ll bring a coach load of their mates to cheer them on and no one from London will even notice they and their noisy mates came and went (besides the promoter and the barman with the money from the night, “can you bring a coach? Yeah, great, we’ll book you, yeah, the guy from Kerrang is always in and the record companies, yeah yeah, bring fans and that will impress them) strictly third division at best, bands trying to sound vaguely like their record collections - dead bands walking so put all your guns away, no need to be wasting good bullets on them. 

Four Letter Friend (from London) have a sound and style (and indeed an attitude) that suggests they may well have what it takes to be a name on the list of others. Of course we haven’t seen them live, and I have nothing to go on but these four extremely well recorded impressive tracks and words about good demos have a habit of turning around and kicking you in the teeth when you get along to a gig – hang on though it isn’t just me, others have come in to ask who I’m listening too, coming in with words about subtle bits of math rock and Made In Mexico and Arab On Radar, and how Four Letter Friend sound like they’re from some vast canyon in America. Four Letter Friend are already miles ahead of the hobby bands, the imitators and the wannabes, they’re already shaping up for some giant killing and they could well be in the big league very soon (if they can back this up live and they can back it up with more material as strong as these four slices). www.fourletterfriend.com / www.myspace.com/fourletterfriend

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HERZOGA – This is good toooooooo, we are now officially on a roll, we are motoring this cold sunny Thursday morning, we are we are we are, we’ve done with undercover, contact and switch the other. “We’re a powerful ‘wrong pop’ trio from Stoke” say Herzoga, and indeed they are, straight out of the Potteries with some rather sharp wrong pop. “What is wrong pop mummy?” “I don’t know sonny boy, eat your greens and sit home on your sofa in the house and watch some TV sport”. Waiting, waiting, wrong pop sounds good – clever, quirky in a moody new wave brooding smoldering kind of way, Taking Heads without getting all wacky and look at us aren’t we arty about it. A band who want to be different, stay tuned now – www.myspace.com/herzogaband

DEATHSTAR PREVIEW – They sound (and look) like they’d fit in perfectly with the current crop of glossy magazine radio/video channel emo/indie/pretty boy American pop rock indie disco pop-rock bands, you know the ones I mean, those band like The Thingies or The Whoever hthey're called or... They’re actually from London. Heavy bass lines and tailored hair, synth crunch and infectious bite, The Cure meets some Emo poop or other and if they get the breaks they could be neon pink massive (or at least half way up the second stage at Reading and all over the NME in 2008), I think they’d like us to say they’re all 21st Century Rock n’ Roll and right, I’m out of here, this does nothing much for us, they have their sound and their packaging and everything else together, if it sounds like your thing then they do it very well indeed and you'd do well to check them out -  www.deathstarpreview.com
 

Last week's demo of the week - ALSATIAN / THE VIPERS

Previous demo's of the week - LILY GREEN / THE VELCROS / MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI / FANTAPLASTIC / CLUB LE SHARK / THEY DIED TOO YOUNG / INVASION / OPHELIA TORAH / THE MERLIN BIRD / LEAVE THE CAPITAL / GRAVANZIA / CHET / 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

'NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK……
ALBUM OF THE WEEK

HOLLY THROSBY – Under The Town (Woo Me!) - Sometimes something is just so so right. The sun came out just as the first delicate textures of Holly’s opening song introduced themselves, it was cold and winter dull, there was snow and I was falling in to one of those why bother kind of moods. Then Holly started to sing of millponds and arrows and apple red things, her music began to glow and the sun came out and the warmth came in. And now it’s early spring bright and colours are glowing and there’s a lazy black cat stretched out in the radiant warmth of the morning sun, colours jumping off her back, this album is just so so right. Under The Town is a beautiful piece of work, a wonderful collection of songs - glowing torch songs, sparse songs, beautifully detailed songs, songs to hold you together when you’re coming undone, songs to put air in your lungs and do what there is to be done. Holly Throsby is from New South Wales, her songs are sparse and delicate, they’re clever, and the attention to details brings them in to so much life. The words jump out and grab, her words delight. Thoughtful quiet singer songwriter songs orchestrated with the rich detail of piano, bouzouki, clarinet, cello, violin  - strong and alive and crisp. Even when there’s darkness and the hint of turmoil she’s still full of so much glowing poignant intimate hope and Davenda Banhart/Viking Moses brightness. Hope, even in the longing for darkness and the downs and the intimacy, breathy hope and warmth even in the loss and yearning. Sometimes an album is just so so right - this is beautiful, perfect, something to wrap yourself in for months and months. www.hollythrosby.com

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2

MINSK – The Ritual Fires Of Abandonment (Relapse) – According the Wikipedia (and this handy press release), the Belarusian city of Minsk was formed during the last Ice Age by water flowing from melting ice caps. “Where there’s ice there’s fire”.  I see why they chose to open the press release in that way, Wikipedia may as well have been talking about the band and their profoundly powerful hypnotic sound. Layers of restrained percussion, banks of slow moving guitars, chanted vocals, shamanistic calls, Mescaline sunrises, eruptions of molten-hot power, passion, aggression and mostly brooding brooding brooding rhythm. Sculpted post-rock noise and slowly uncoiling musical violence, searing slow-motion melodies, spiritual vocal ruminations. Opening with a thirteen minute forty-eight second slice of restrained boiling delirium and building on those foundations to take on whole mountain rides of power and doom and sacred fire rituals, this is a massive sound. The Ritual is searing and volcanic and thundering  with all kinds of giant erupting magma gushing things. Minsk have delivered an astonishing album, an album that will have a lasting impact on all who dare approach it - and if you can stick around with the hypnotic intensity right the way through to the final fifteen minute epic that is Ceremony Ex Stasis.... whooooooosh. Seriously heavy, innovatively heavy.  www.thesoundofminsk.com / www.myspace.com/minsk / www.relapse.com
 

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TYPE O NEGATIVE – Dead Again (SPV) – Seventh studio album and to be brutally frankly lime flavoured honest about the whole thing, I couldn’t really give a fig one way or the other about a new Type O release. The new album (silly title) has been on the pile waiting for attention for a few weeks now and I finally got around to unenthusiastically throwing it on today. I was kind of expecting more of the same, well at least the same and they've been churning out in their own moody gothy way for the latter part of their productive life. No, hang on! What’s this? Type O are kicking it in a rather unexpected way, they got a bit of that Brooklyn hardcore back in to their dark-blooded their veins, hopefully they’re not sinking back in to those dubious lyrics of the early days, doesn’t sound like they are. Still distinctively Type O, kind of Danzig flavoured, maybe a bit of Misfits (hey I saw this great all girl Misfits covers band, Miss Fits – name of the year if you ask me, better than Cheap Chick don’t you think), I was kind of expecting another load of moody goth food and Friday 13th horror movie junk, and yeah there is some of that (and you legions of goths waiting for this are going to be morbidly happy when you hear it), but hey, there goes a charging old school Sabbath gallop of a riff and hey, I’m rather impressed.  Type O never sounded so good. Moody goth laced with all kinds of journeys down side streets when before they kind of stuck to the main roads and the obvious routes. Plenty of metallic maliciousness and self contemptuous cynicism, right now they’re sounding blackly psychedelic and Mr Steele is screaming about his soul being on fire (anyone remember that fine English band Dreamgrinder?). Epic melancholia and yes, more of that love-weirdness and right now Pete is getting all mellow and Elton John goes bars and blackness on us - Pete Steel and his morbid sense of mischief, ... Stop press, Type O Negative drop great album shock, would three albums of the week be stretching things?  Released in the UK on March 13th. www.typeonegative.com

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE – The Corpse Of Thought (OC) – I’m going to stick this in the album section, I don’t know, the lines are blurred these days – is it a six track EP? A very professional looking demo? A mini album? A bird, a plane? This is an extremely good looking well put together well packaged six track CD and once again the Manchester band seem to be doing it themselves. Once again the Manchester band seem to be doing it rather well. Heavier than last time, meaner, more anger, more everything. This is impressively good progress, not that they weren’t impressive before. Girl fronted tough dark-edged powerful colourful (nu) metal (no! come back, ignore that nu bit or the goth metal thing I really should throw in but won’t in case you get that wrong idea), Obsessive Compulsive are good, they’re passionate, they have attitude and they have a lot of class and they get out there and do it rather than sitting on their arses thinking the world owes them a break. We like everything about Obsessive Compulsive, they still have their glammy/punky edge so don’t go getting on your worry beads out. O.C are probably playing in a town near you any day now, they’re one of the hardest working bands out there, hey do things right and with this six tracker they really do demand your attention - www.obsessivecompulsiveband.com

IN LIARS WE TRUST – In Liars We Trust (Foss Face) – Politically charged angry question throwing issue flagging old school (proper) punk rock. And damn fine music as well. They’re from LA, they don’t like their government or the war on terrorism or the political system or the oil industry, they don’t like a lot of things (and rightly so). They do like to reach out and provoke thought and learn and education and communicate and question, they have a positive outlook. “In Liars We Trust is our outlet to express how we feel about the current state of affairs through music”. In Liars are a rather fine female fronted old school Crass/early Vice Squad/Dead Boys kind of band. Josi from Piss Ants is in there, so is Foss Face himself, In Liars are a positive creative front line punk band and a positive way in which to point accusing defiant fingers at the insanity of the system and those in power. Hey look, they’d be good if they were just singing about beer, parties and fast cars, they’d be good without the political statement and the intent, the fact that hay have that anger and intent just adds to the positive delight – well worth checking out - www.foss-face.comwww.myspace.com/inliarswetrust

MORNING BRIDE – Lea Valley Delta Blues (Letterbox) - Delta blues and finely refined alt.country from eh.... Hackney, East London. Crafted, potent vocals, two girls, three boys – oh hang on, the girls are from the North Eastern United States, the boys from English seaside towns, that makes a little more sense then. Amity has a gloriously beautiful voice – an angel-voiced front for the balladeering country quartet. Well worth checking out if alt-country blues is your thing – www.letterbox.com / www.morningbride.co.uk

SEAGULL STRANGE – Better Angels Of Our Nature (Shifty Disco) – Some kind of big bold slick indie pop band with a lush synth undercurrent, formed out of the ashes of some band that got dropped by some major or other, ah sheeeese, that sounds awfully cynical of me doesn’t it? Yeah it does, and this rabbit know what’s coming for it, they kind of bring it out in me. I’ve tried and tried to get in to Seagull Strange, maybe that feeling that they’re trying tooooooo hard to be “eccentric” stops me connecting with them. Things somehow don’t quite sound natural. You and me waiting here for love’s sick disease and the senseless destruction of someone’s magical creation, we’ve all been there so what’s to tell. Hey look, if you like R.E.M melodies, Moby’s restraint and sitting here quietly trying to find something good to say and here it is coming to get yer... Hey look, I really tried, if you like those 80’s melodies of R.E.M with an edge of eccentric Englishness then I leave you to go investigate – www.seagullstrange.com

THE AGENCY – Turn (Perch) - Another one of those bratty American emo singers who needs to be taken out back and have the My Chemical Romance beaten out of him. Oh look, members of Dashboard Confessional and Seville, why do they want to be in side projects that sound just like the bands they’re in already? Ok I got the facts, The Agency did it first, they split years ago, they’ve been on and off since ’95, this is their third release, they’re back again, so what? If you care then they do it as well as any of the current crop of American (or South Wales) bands, their better moments  - like the rather good indie pop lish/lushness of Found – point towards jawbreaker or Ben Folds, if any of that interests you then here’s the link and hey, check your hair, it’s a little out of place there – www.perchrecords.com
 
Last week's album of the week - BLACK ELK

Previous album's of the week NUM 9 / SHORT SHARP SHOCK / DEATHSKULLS / FUCKED UP / INTRONAUT / MICROWAVES / RONDELLUS / DUSTIN’S BAR MIZVAH / CRIME IN CHOIR / THE RUBY SUNS / THE SIEGFRIED SASSOON / DON CABALLERO / REIGNS / STREET DOGS / ME FIRST AND AND THE GIMME GIMMES / ALEUCHATISTAS / BLUT AUS NORD / CATS AND CATS AND CATS / I LOVE POLAND / HOLY SMOKES  / GALLOWS / SICBAY / THE LOST PATROL BAND / SQUAREPUSHER

terrorists!! mice!! prostitutes!!
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF WEASEL WALTER

Thursday, January 25, 2007 
new shit and news 
Current mood:  chipper 
Things don't slow down here. They can't - we might all be dead tomorrow.  Now is the time.

Weasel Walter quartet's "revolt music" cd still available. Buy it you  f**kers! you know you need it. Coming up next on ugEX is the long feared complete studio recordings by To Live And Shave In L.A. 2! yes . . . they said it couldn't be done. well, f**k them - it's out on march 1st, 2007. 78 minutes of insane brutal prog with an eight page booklet crammed with art, photos and liner notes. You'll freak. It's LSD made out of plastic. Also out around early march will be my "early years" comp on savage land. The birth of the brutal, y'all. This spring will be jam packed with excitement from me. In February xbxrx heads to Mexico for four shows, then I fly out to the east coast with bassist Damon Smith for a bunch of shows with folks like Henry Kaiser, Marshall Allen, Marc Edwards, Lisle Ellis, Elliott Levin, Mario Rechtern, Marco Eneidi and Mary Halvorson.  There will be a shitload of local gigs in Feb, including one with the massive Marco Eneidi Orchestra and a guest hit with Mochipet. March will have a few more local ones before I leave on a 3 week tour with Lair Of The Minotaur of the U.S. totally metal. April will see the release of the new xbxrx record "wars" on Polyvinyl. We will be on tour throughout the year and, surprise, I have switched to bass and Michael, the original "gop" era drummer returns to the fold. Imagine that? May will be about recovery and maybe some other surprises before Lair Of The Minotaur leaves for Europe in June. My hope this year is to get the Weasel Walter Sextet into the studio for a total blowout. A new Luttenbachers record will hit the shelves this winter, although the DVD might be on hold for a while due to circumstances beyond my control. whew. 

thanks,

ww

www.myspace.com/weaselwalter
 

SINGLES
SINGLE OF THE WEEK

GIRL SCOUT HAND GRENADE – They Want You Sedated So You Never See The Truth (Nuclear Goat) - Well the label is based North Branch M.I (wherever the hell that is in the) USA, and the rather violent sounding four piece aren’t big on information or website urls or contact addresses or band names or indeed anything, well their CD cover artwork isn’t anyway. Looks like three males and one female, I don’t know, could be a pretty boy glam fan, I could be wrong though, what does it matter, dicks or breasts they're al lthe same, sounds good and the four of them sound like they’d give you or me a good stomping. Hey look, violent intense brutal violent relentless violent grindcore violence with a yappy math edge and some colourful Trencher/Locust style left field noisecore. No idea what he’s yelling and growling about, sounds rather angry, he’s clearly out of milk and sugar and it’s raining outside and no one else will go to the corner store. Hang on, he is the she, I worked it out now, “the acid throat of Tanya”, no, they’re dishing out twin vocal attack, two lots of yelling and throat ripping Taya is violent front woman, Mike is guitarists/vocalist and you would not want to live next to their practice room. I rather like this – experimental, caustic, brutal and they clearly have an escape plan, I love this! They bring a little extra all of their own, they have a Medulla Nocte edge to them (that’s a compliment, a Medulla edge is always a healthy thing). Time for a websearch and  some more Sherlock style fact finding. Opening track Miasma definitely has a healthy hint of The Locust about it, even more intense though, I’m liking this lots and lots, nurse get my boots, we’re going in for lots more. Hang on, I take it all back, there’s all the contact details waiting for us on the actual disc that was hiding in the player, goddamnit  you bands, there was I searching the CD artwork and cursing your asses. My feet are cold as well, just where the hell are my boots? Just who is going to go out and get the milk anyway? Look, I went surfing so you don’t have to and naturally, just like the rest of the world, they’ve got a My Space page (and MI is Michigan and you probably knew that already didn’t you). www.myspace.com/girlscouthandgrenade
 

Last week's single of the week - ZERO / BEATNIK FILMSTARS

Previously - DAN LA SAC vs SCROOBUIS PIP / FEAR OF MUSIC / THE RUBY SUNS / THE SCHLA LA LAS / THOMAS TANTRUM / DUSTIN’S BAR MITZVAH / SUPERSUCKERS /GIANT PAW / CHROME HOOF/ FRANK TURNER / ESKIMO DISCO / THE RACE / OCTOBER FILE / MOISTBOYZ / THE LOVES / THE EDUCATION / JESUS LICKS / EINSTELLUNG / SPIDERBABY

PLAYLISTS, TOP TENS, THINGS LIKE THAT
SEAN ORGAN  - TOP 10 PLAYLIST THING

This week has mostly been very loud, Organ clan ain’t nothing ta f*** wit, we were here before you, we’ll be here long after you’ve gone

1: WE-TANG vs TOM MORELLO – Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nothing Ta F**k Wit
2: DEAD PREZ vs STATIC X – Hip-Hop
3: PUBLIC ENEMY – What Side You On?
4: FRANK TURNER – Vital Signs 
5: GRINDERMAN – No Pussy Blues 
6: VAN MORRISON – Comfortably Numb 
7: GIRL SCOUT HAND GRENADE – Lost In Poland
8: COMBO DE LA MUERTE – I Wanna Be Somebody
9: COMBO DE LA MUERTE – South Of Heaven 
10: COMBO DE LA MUERTE – Breaking The Law
11: GIRL SCOUT HAND GRENADE - Miasma 
12: NEIL DIAMOND – I Am I Said
13: KILLDOZER – I Am I Said
14: HOLLY THROSBY – Under The Town
15: THE SMEARS – Bring It On
 
 
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Meanwhile over at www.subba-cultcha.com Jeremy is listening to...

The Bronx - The Bronx  (Wichita)
These Arms are Snakes - Easter (Jade Tree)
Converge - No Heroes – (Epitaph)
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth  (Crucial Blast)
Senses Fail - Still Searching  (Vagrant)
Unearth - III: In The Eyes Of Fire (Metal Blade)
Protest The Hero - Kezia (Vagrant)
Underoath - Define The Great Line (Virgin)
Humanzi - Tremors (Fiction)
The Draft - In A Million Pieces (Epitaph)

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Jeremy Chick
Editor In-Chief/Porn Fluffer (thought of the week - my miss-spelling and grammatical errors mean I'm far too busy to care)
 
 
 

 

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