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ORGAN #196 > FEB 22nd 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon
SECRETS AND CONTRADICTIONS AND DOING IT OUR WAY - WEEK BY WEEK
A Secret Society? We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day, the future is already here, just unevenly distributed. Too much toast is smearing, no bad thing, far better than having the same jeans on for days and and and don’t come here accusing us of typing one handed whilst listening to difficult jazz and I did it and it’s over and I feel bad, typing like the grains in an hour glass. Take a good hard look for the very last time, who’s slow to finish and quick to start? Poor little boy kicked out at the world and lights will ignite your bones, pick up the receiver, we’ll make you a believer, thou shalt not quote me happy, come spread your wings... Did you work out the secret yet? 

Now we haven’t shouted about George for a few weeks, don’t mean we’ve lost interest, far from it – where are all you zine people and too-cool scenester punks and so called hardcore bands when one of your family needs you? Go and help fellow zine maker and all round punkscene contributor GEORGE TABB, George has been contributing to underground culture via the pages of things like Maximum Rock ‘N Roll and the New York punk/zine scene for years, he’s a hero, he’s one of our own, he needs you - some things are far more important that music, links to him via his picture. Go shout about his situation while he’s still breathing, shame the US government in to action – he’s a big part of the underground/punk/zine family, come on people, shout for George Tabb, he would if it was you. 

Have you checked out THE SMEARS yet? 
 

IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME?
TERROR are to play the following shows: Southampton Nexus May 2, Swansea Sin City 3, Plymouth White Rabbit 4, Wolverhampton Canal Club 5, London Islington Academy 6.

Chris Cornell has now officially left Audioslave. He'll now concentrate on his new solo album, 'Carry On', which is due out in May via Suretone/Interscope. Audioslave are not expected to carry on.

Members of Neurosis, Peeping Tom and Red Sparowes have started a new project called The (Fallen) Black Deer. But they're currently looking for a suitable singer. Interested? For full details, go to www.myspace.com/thefallenblackdeer.

SONIC YOUTH DON'T LOOK BACK, NEITHER DO SLINT - I bet someone used a similar headline this time last year. Sonic Youth have been confirmed to appear at this year's series of 'Don't Look Back' events – you know, the gigs where bands play one of their seminal albums in its entirety at venues in London. Also confirmed are Slint and House Of Love, dates as follows, tickets available now:
22 Aug: Slint - 'Spiderland', Koko
31 Aug: Sonic Youth - 'Daydream Nation', Roundhouse
13 Sep: House Of Love - 'The House Of Love', Koko
 

THINGS TO GET SHOUTING  ABOUT? 
The Low Lows return to Europe this week to play the 'Music In Mind' Festival in Belgium, followed by a 3-week tour of mainland Europe and the UK . There will be a gorgeous new 2-track single, Elizabeth Pier, out at the end of March. Below is a list of their tour dates. Unfortunately, the Newcastle show has just been cancelled, so please don’t turn up at the venue if you were hoping to see them there.

The wonderfully talented French filmmaker Vincent Moon, who made Barzin’s ‘ Leaving Time’ video, (and also worked with the National and Jamie Liddell) is also becoming very well-known for his ‘takeaway shows’, in which he films bands who are visiting Paris, often in unusual and unconventional settings around the city. The results are posted on his Blogtheque website or
 if you’d rather read it all in French

In November, during the last Low Lows Tour, he filmed two segments by The Low Lows, one in which they stroll into an elegant old Parisian bar and perform a new song, ‘Black Bees’, and another in which they spontaneously invade a city bus with an acoustic rendition of ‘Dear Flies, Love Spider’ that even has the passengers getting in on the act!. The results are captivating. If you look carefully you will se a small cameo by Barzin, who held the mic for them. 

You can also catch the Low Lows’ Dear Flies Love Spiders video on ORGAN TV again next week 

The Low Lows tour dates:

February
23rd  - Music In Mind Festival, Concertgebouw, Bruges ( Belgium ) 
24th  -  Emporium Galorium, Rouen (France) http://www.emporium-galorium.com 
25th -   Duyster Radio Program, Studio Brussel, Brussels ( Belgium )   recording radio session for future broadcast 
26th -   private party, Paris (France) 
27th -   Le Tryptique, Paris (France) 
28th -   d:qliq, Luxembourg City (Luxembourg) 
March 
3rd -  Hühnermanhattan, Halle/Saale (Germany) 
5th - Amsterdam (Netherlands) VPRO Radio session recording
7th -  London , The Luminaire 
8th -  Voodoo Lounge, Plymouth 
9th -   Yorkshire House, Lancaster 
11th -  Tunnels, Aberdeen 
12th -  Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh 
14th -  City Screen Basement Bar, York 
15th -  The Adelphi, Hull 
16th -  The Albert, Brighton 

More Low Lows news from www.monotremerecords.com or www.myspace.com/monotremerecords
 
John on the phone......

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 28th FEB -10.30pm on OPEN ACCESS 2 via SKY 173 so you probably missed it, but but but you still have time to catch the repeat that's  on OPEN ACCESS 1 via SKY 883 on Sunday 4th March at 11.30pm

THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS.... 

1: TIME.SPACE.REPEAT. - Joy 
2: THE TRUDY - Lost Summer of Love 
3: CARDIACS - Day Is Gone 
4: THE BLACK KEYS - Your Touch 
5: DRESDEN DOLLS - Backstabber 
6: THE LOW LOWS - Dear Flies Love Spiders 
7: SILVERY - Devil In The Detail 
8: ASSDROIDS - Daft Crunk 

NEXT WEEK expect, oh I don't know what you can expect, let's just kick those rat-bastards  and put our own people in charge. We have nothing to lose except fun and the joy of watching... That and the words of the good Doctor

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
Like 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
DEATH LIST FIVE – Don’t Be A Little Bitch - Slicing straight in here direct from Syracuse New York with some kind of delightfully messy shouty simplistic chainsaw-riffing US style punkoid hardcore crust-metal road accident of a sound -  s delightfully D.I.Y affair. Raging noise and screaming vocals, raw as hell guitars, blistering cheese-wire riffs, speed-punk for fans of things like those Stupids or D.R.I or a million circle-pit splating Misfit things from way back there when things were done this (right) way. Songs that are over before you’ve time to blink (or think), excellently messy, beautifully raw, a glorious old school hardcore mess.  D L Five sound like one of those bands you would have found early on on a nine band skate-fest bill at the Hammersmith Clarendon or the Birmingham Mermaid circa ’86 (this is what we want Ratty! None of your Alexisonfire bulshit). This is so raw and barbed, I just know I’m going to cut myself on the edge of the disc and get involved in some nasty blood poisoning incident that’s gonna land me in out patients early next week. I love it! Turn it up, play it again - screaming bloody punk rock gore and shouting and swearing and sounding like they just set up and recorded live while the engineer was still hiding in the pub next door – proper DIY punk rock, I love it, you’ll probably hate it, go get it anyway, it’ll do you good  – www.myspace.com/dlfive

DEMO OF THE WEEK 2
BITCH SLAP BARBIE – Five Finger F#@% You – Oh yes, the DL5 warmed us up nicely for the bitch slap. Now then officer, that Death List Five road accident with all the splattered pizza and the screaming bloody gore we were telling you about just then, we got several unreliable witnesses who’ll swear blind it was Bitch Slap Barbie who ran them straight off the road and in to that wall. From St Louis Missouri -two girls, two boys and more old school DIY street punk.  Vocals from the girls – Gita and Lisa Bitch (Lisa also handles guitars), rhythm section nailed down by Tony D’Fish (drums) and The Butcher (on bass). Vintage punk rock in your face attitude – think Ramones, Plasmatics, Retching Red, The Gits, classic US punk rock. Gloriously messy once more - fast, low-slung, in-your-face old school proper punk rock, a gloriously obnoxious swearathon, raw as hell, infectiously good for you, just how it should be - good for your soul DIY punk rock  – www.myspace.com/bitchslapbarbie

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EATEN BY TIGERS – Now this is a pleasing experience, early moves from the instrumental four piece from Leeds - three warm lush tracks, three explosions in the sky. Eaten By Tigers do the delicately dramatic instrumental post-rock thing rather well, beautifully played, warmly paced, serenely explosive when it needs to be. The one big draw back here is that although this is extremely pleasant and enjoyable, we’ve heard it all before - probably heard it more that a few too many times in the last six months. Eaten By Tigers have made a fine start here, now they need to build on their beauty and clear ambition with something that has a little more identity, we need something new from our instrumental post-rock bands.- fine start and a welcome demo, now give us more please, give is something we haven’t already encountered. Eaten By Tigers are clearly capable of a lot more, this is a fine start, this is very hopeful – www.myspace.com/eatenbytigers

Last week's demo of the week - There wasn't one damn you, why does there always have to be one? 

Previous demo's of the week - STRAY BORDERS / FOUR LETTER FRIEND / ALSATIAN / THE VIPERS / 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

' BURN THE GALLOWS...
No gallows were burnt yet this week, and no secret societies were infultrated 
'NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
FRANK TURNER – Sleep Is For The Week (Xtramile) - Vital Signs is the most emotionally satisfying uplifting thing in ages and ages, Vital Signs will just make you/does make us appreciate every little thing – a whole train ride around England without ever leaving your bedroom (just you try listening to it without making videos in your head). This album explains exactly why were still alive and up to our necks in debt and making Organs and, despite all, just how wonderful life is – thank you Frank Turner, you put it all just right. Vital Signs really does stop me every single time. Vital Signs was a single earlier this year and the second track here on this very fine and rather clever/simple/wonderful/inspiring album (yeah yeah, we’re going to gush again, music excites us, things like this are why we do this stupid Organ thing, we got trapped here ages ago, no way out until they cart us off now, if you don’t like the way we gush about things go read one of those ‘proper’ glossy publications that deal with ‘product’ in such a detached way). Frank Turner (once of Million Dead) these days is playing wonderfully inspiring English folk rock for, well for anyone really, but especially for those who’ve done their growing up and living somewhere near the hopes and dreams and defiance and frustration of post-Clash/Crass, post-Thatcher/Blair England/Britain (and how there’s only one way of life and that’s your own and...). Tales of adolescent punk rock and rebelling against whatever you’ve got to rebel against and going to the Red Eye and hanging out with friends and how tempting it sometimes looks to just give in and forget the dream (whatever the hell the dream is?) and go work in the bank like your old school mates who now have big cars and flash houses and who look down their Tory/Nu Labour voting noses at you (in such a envious way) and don’t you ever wish the world would just stop? And how once you’re in, you can’t get out, even if you do want out and and and and and stop the sentence now please. Damn you Frank, every time I think it’s time to pack up this Organ thing your songs are going to be there telling us what a good idea it is to ignore that bill and print just one more issue! 
Shall we start a new paragraph now? Damn, these songs are full of real emotion and real life and real wit and real everything - and all the wood from the trees and the familiar comforts and this really does capture ‘it’. See, punk rock (and dressing like an idiot) really can save lives (making zines and record sleeves and circle pits and singalongs and no you never do quite move along – the attitude is with you for life. The attitude is there in every song he sings (real folk music, music of the people, real music with roots in the land) and yes we really did have a better time than the banker or the butcher or the soldier or sailor or the candlestick maker (and it is hard to keep on fighting the good fight when no one else seems to care and yes, it is worth every minute of the fight). Thirteen acoustic songs, thirteen slices of life and England’s shit and it’s still raining and no one is bothered with the state of play and yes life is wonderful and friends are wonderful and let’s print some more flyers and give them out and you’re never old enough to be jaded and there will always be a floor to sleep on. And how going nowhere slowly is alright really and how friends are worth far more than all the bankers wealth. And he’s right, we do have all the best stories to tell and who cares about the destination, if all you care about is the destination than you’ll miss the journey (you deserve to miss it!). Frank Turner and his guitar (with the help of a few friends with strings and drums and decent cups of tea) has made a truly wonderful album - an album that’s worth far more and leaves you far richer then being a banker being in the black ever could (and we’ll never be finished and sleep is for the week) and yes! Just yes! Thank you Mr Turner, a wonderful collection of heartfelt songs, a wonderful album in every way. 
www.frank-turner.com / www.xtramilerecordings.com

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2
CAR BOMB – Centralia (Relapse) – Now this is extreme, now this is extremely good. Hang on, this is extremely extreme! Like The Locust with far far more meat on their bones and detonating vicious blasts of wildly technical jump about jerky progressive extreme metal violent delight. Jazz inspired blast beats that go off and things (yes you know what we mean), hang on they just evolved it in to warped speed Ruins intensity - this is not for the faint hearted. Relentlessly suffocating musical treats all the way from Long Island NY. A twenty first century schizophrenic disorienting delight, Cardiacs-tight and all over the place with intensely hard-boiled light and shade and solid grey like a hypnotic worm - oh yes, this is heart-stoppingly good, exhaustive and intense.. Dexterity and intensity and delightfully unrelenting and X-factor good. “Mechanistic” they said. Oh yes. Out right now on Relapse records, the extremist of the extreme, what the hell are you waiting for? www.myspace.com/carbomb or www.carbombcult.com or www.relapse.com

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ATHRONE OF KATARSIS – An Eternal Dark Horizon (Candlelight) - What we got here then? Does exactly what it says on the tin. What does it say on the tin? Death metal is what it says on the tin. No mistaking what we’re gonna find waiting inside this here tin m’lord - extreme death metal. The evidence? Black and white cover, long-haired black-eyed,white face-painted man in contorted mid scream (scythe in hand natch.) standard issue studded wrist bands up his arms, logo you can’t read, you know the deal. Is it any good though? “Spawned out of Norway in 2003 by the demonic visions of Grimnisse and Vardalv, their prophecy was and still is to craft purified and atmospheric occult black metal” Yeah yeah, but is it any good? “in the true vein of 80’s Norwegian Black metal blah blah blah” yeah yeah but is it any good? Actually yes, if raw atmospheric old school extreme screaming dooming black metal is your thing, then yes – there’s a lot of dreadfully naff and rather silly black metal about, this may not be that original in terms of sound and style and who knows how much substance there is, but it is a rather good example of genre and rather listenable in an unlisteneable extreme black metal kind of way – an eternal dark blasphemous unholy horizon indeed, think I’ll have another cup of tea now, fancy a muffin before that stripy cat wakes up again?   www.throneofkatarsis.com / www.candlelight.co.uk

PHINIUS GAGE – Seek Out Your Foes (Small Town) Names after a science textbook hero who accidentally blew a hole in his head and lived with a half brain (or so we’re told). And just as someone else has already pointed out, a punk rock half way house somewhere between the melodic SoCal sound and punk rock’s shouty rebellion highway. They’re actually from Brighton and they’re a half-decent hard working well-intentioned punk rock band with a provocative song or two. Worth your time and money (if you have any of either that is).  www.myspace.com/phiniusgage

APARTMENT – The Dreamer Evasive (Fleet Street) – Rather sharp and mildly rewarding in a spacious indie Bloc Party kind of way, there’s a certain depth and quality to Apartment. Curious types should take themselves off to www.myspace.com/apartment

MARYSLIM – A Perfect Mess (Wild Kingdom) – Classy sounding melodic hair metal pop-rock from Stockholm Sweden, they have an impressive edge of their own. Well worth your time if Backyard Babies or 69 Eyes or those Wildhearts or Him or AC/DC or LA Guns (I could go on and on with this list, you get the picture) are you’re thing. Rather fine version of The Sisters’ This Corrosion tagged on to the end of the album as well. www.maryslim.com

DAPHNE LOVES DERBY – Goodnight, Witness Light (Outlook) - Well someone has to love Derby I guess, god knows why though, they’re going to blow it, peaked too early in the fizzy pop league. This album? Harmless enough sugary sweet, sweet to the point of sickly, emo pop and pleasant enough if you’re in the mood I suppose, if you don’t listen to the lyrics anyway. This is so politely wet, Westlife are Slayer in comparison, just who the hell actually listens to this stuff? Harmless enough though and at least they don’t have one of those standard issue whinny voiced emo brat singers so for once I don’t feel the urge to reach for that baseball bat. OK, we’re four songs in now and those lyrics are really starting to piss me off, get it out of here now please, getting all the way through this is clearly going to be like trying to eat two tons of cheap brand dolly mixtures - just not possible without violently throwing up again. Right, enough of this, pass me the baseball bat, the extra violent one with the nails sticking out of the business end - this is sickeningly awful and must be destroyed right now, for the good of all and the welfare of the pink and white striped cat who might wake up soon and the wooden professor bird and the mice who operate the marvellous mechanical mouse organ and the garbage pale kids that no one loves, we care a lot... 
 
Last week's album of the week - MONOGONO

Previous album's of the week BILLY NO MATES / APSE / HOLLY THROSBY / MINSK / BLACK ELK / 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!! Weasel says check out VESSELS
Weasel wants you to know that TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. 2 CD OUT NOW!!!!! 

To Live and Shave in L.A. 2 - The 300 Dollar Silk  Shirt - ugEXPLODE/X+Z=0 Records

78 minutes - the complete studio recordings. FREE GLAM onslaught feat. Weasel Walter, Rat Bastard, Nondor  Nevai, Misty Martinez and special guest appearance by OM  Myth

for more information see http://nowave.pair.com/ugexplode

So there we were packaging up mail order (parcel tape and Coptic Rain albums flying everywhere) and listening to Welsh voiced Huw Stephens on Radio One just now at 1.00am, (flicking between Huw’s show and John Kennedy on XFM, that’s what we do when we’re not listening to demos and new albums and arrghhhhhh, not enough ears, not enough time). Nice to hear that excellent Stray Borders demo getting some national radio exposure on Radio One (and was that Mira Manga shouting down the phone line? Something to do with someone sponsoring her hotpants so she could go tour Singapore), tuned in mostly to hear the Wrong Music feature and DJ Shitmat and imagine our head pecking surprise when Mr Stephens just said on air just now that next week’s featured D.I.Y label of the week will be ORG, “hang on” we thought, “that’s us!”. So tune in to Radio One next Wednesday at midnight and see if we just imagined we heard that or not. Seems we did hear right, he just said it again 
 

SINGLES
So we have three singles of the week this week, so what? We had a good week for singles and we don't mean on no hornymatch dot com either...

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
I LIKE TRAINS – Spencer Perceval (Beggars Banquet) – Nine minutes plus of slowly uncoiling beauty that no physician or position can save you from now, a slow moving dark ghostly engine shed-quiet hulk of brooding moody steam train beauty and a murdered prime minister. Those arch miserablists iLikeTrains always manage to sound so gloriously uplifting and Black Five and Deltic-cool wonderful. Not quite as instant as their treatment of the evil Doctor Beeching and before those whispered vocals came in, it was rather post-rock-pack sounding in a slightly obvious Godspeed Your A Silver Mt Zion way. If the truth be told sounding a little too much like all the others until those trademark quiet vocals and their very own finger print eased in. Give Spencer Percival three plays and you’ll know it to be as fine as everything else this very fine band have ever done. Meanwhile over on the b-side I Am Murdered is equally as glorious and tension-building. Spencer Percival, the only British prime minister to be assassinated in office (in 1812), the song is from the perspective of murderer John Bellingham, the accompanying track I Am Murdered is from the point of view of Percival. Everything this fine band do is gracefully ambitiously glorious - black and white doomy and brooding and gloriously miserable. Like The Smiths before them, I Like Trains are a glorious glorious glorious English treasure. www.iliketrains.co.uk 

SINGLE OF THE WEEK 2
DINOSAUR Jr – Been There All The Time (PIAS) – Don’t you just hate it when favourite old bands reform. However good they were back then, things are never as magical second time around are they? No, they’re damn well not, bands should never ever be allowed to reform, there needs to be strict laws about these things. If Blair really wants a legacy then strict legislation on reforming bands is his key, the world will thank him, all will be forgiven, it will rain strawberry ice cream and we’ll all dance in the street, forgive all his spin and for miles around cats will put on legwarmers. This is just what you/we/him/her/the strawberry ice cream fiend in the legwarmers and everyone else ever could have wanted from a returning born again Dinosaur Jr.  Sounds like the three of them have never been away, like they’ve indeed been there all the time, sounds just right, sounds as fine as ever. Classic Dinosaur Jr and song writing as strong and bold as ever. An inspired and very cultured Dinosaur sounding a-side from J.Mascis and an equally rewarding and rather Neil Youngesque flavoured b-side from the pen of Lou Barlow. Both tracks are from the forthcoming album Beyond, everything is sounding goooooooood and don’t you just love it when a favourite old band makes a welcome return with something that sounds as good as they ever did. The two track single is released April 16th as a limited seven inch and download thing -  www.dinosaurjr.comwww.myspace.com/dinosaurjr

J. Mascis will be visiting the UK briefly next week, during which time he will be playing a solo acoustic show at London’s Oxford Street Metro on February 28th  2007 at 9.p.m. Doors are at 8 p.m. J will be playing some old Dinosaur Jr tunes as well as some from the forthcoming album “Beyond”. 

SINGLE OF THE WEEK 3
RADIO LUXEMBOURG – Diwrnod efo’r Anifeiliaid EP (Peski) – What kind of magical mystery ride of happiness and sonic sunlight are the rays of Radio Luxembourg trying to catch us in? A “twisted murder mystery record” and the immorality of zoos and giraffes with zebra stripes and half English language half Welsh. Actually the English bit almost didn’t grab us, it was only when they went all naturally Welsh that it all made perfectly glorious sunny sense - and now I’m hooked on all the sugar rush of all five beautiful songs, whatever the language. All the anifeiliaid are happy in this zoo. Hang on, short-cut time, let me get all list-lazy and throw out some names so you can get some kind of idea here – Kevin Ayers and Super Furry Animals and Sleepy People and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Tim Smith and twisted wayward pop and fine fine sunny harmonies and a day with the animals and the practicalities of sun cream and a great big set of smiles to bring in the sun and the spring – www.myspace.com/peskirecords / www.myspace.com/radiolux

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KUBICHEK – Nightjoy (30:30 Recordings) – Harmlessly infectious throwaway indie pop, nothing offensive, nothing that we want to shout at or about or around, nothing we really need in our lives, if you think you need harmless infectious indie pop in your life then here’s the link  - www.myspace.com/kubichek

ANGUS & JULIA STONE – Mango Tree (independiente) Australian brother and sister duo, nice breezy positive acoustic folksy sunny warm resonating heartfelt homespun folk-pop – Viking Moses, Simon And Garfunkel. Nice nice nice, positively nice - www.angusandjuliastone.com

POISON THE WELL – Letter Thing (Ferret) A download only single and a taste of the forthcoming album Versions. I don’t know, there’s always the threat of something interesting trying to break out with it comes to the better than average screamo metal of Poison The Well. Unfortunately, as usual, that threat is lost somewhere in the stew of screamo clichés and the feeling that they’re just not quite brave enough to really go for it and cast of the restrictions, it like they need to continually conform. Nice slide guitar in there with the metal violence – almost yet again, almost... almost! Available to download from March 13 – www.ferretstyle.com/poisonthewell

EI-P – Flyentology (Definitive Jux) – The current hip-hop name to drop, lead track is some kind of not very inspiring collaboration with (the usually inspired) Trent Reznor that we really don’t have much of an opinion on either way really. B-side, EMG, sounds rather good in an old school 80’s Street-Soundz kind of way, sounds like typical Capital Rap show earfood circa ’86 back when that show was vital listening – EMG is fine enough but no real indication as to why he’s the current name to drop - so we won’t drop no names, walk away, nothing much to see here, nothing is dropped and everything must go, thou shalt not drop names like Killa Kela namedrop last week, wooooo a name drop, go check out Killa – www.myspace.com/elproducto / www.iswyd.com

ALEXISONFIRE – Boiled Frogs (Hassle) –  Who is this Alex and why is his Alexis on fire anyway? I don’t know, are we missing the point here? Is there a point? Just what is the point. This ain’t a scene, it’s a god damn, oh , I don’t know what it is? What is it!? Boiled frogs, what’s all that about? Hassle? or maybe the Alex who’s on fire is a her in her Alexis, who knows, does anyone know? Who boiled the frog? Some gentrified gastro pub food? Does Gordonfuckingramsey know? I’ve forgotten what it sounded like now, wasn’t very memorable then. “The Mighty Alexisonfire are heading our way for another hotly anticipated UK tour. You can check them out at the following dates” says this here press release - Feb 28 Glasgow ABC, March 1st Manchester Academy 2, 2nd London Astoria, 3rd Sheffield Corporation, 4th Cardiff University, 5th Newcastle University, April 27th London, 28th Birmingham, 29th Glasgow where a plague a boiled frogs will rain for forty days and forty nights and oh get it all out of here...

Last week's single of the week - HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT / MOTHGUTS / KILLA KELA / CHARLES CAMPBELL JONES

Previously - TOBIAS FROBERG / THE FLESH HAPPENING / GIRL SCOUT HAND GRENADE / ZERO / BEATNIK FILMSTARS / 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

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As always, thanks to SchNEWS for their alternative news bulletins - www.schnews.org.uk
Open message to you bands, labels and anyone else with a blog or a My Space page or a webzine or who are generally out there getting involved in a positive way and spreading the word about fine music and creativity and underground/alternative art that go bump in the night. This is how it works around here; we’re perfectly happy for you to cut and paste our reviews and put them on your band/label pages or where ever you want, please please do go spread the word, that’s what this is about – the spreading of information. We encourage you to do it (unless you’re involved in something that’s a little unsavoury like one bunch of nasty little right wing scumbags we had a run in with a few weeks ago), There’s no ego here, we’re not going to come chasing you about copyright and all that crap. All we ask you to do is credit the material and add links to our pages with anything you want to use. Please feel free to use our words to spread the word, it’s how it works – word word word it’s basic netiquette, it’s weblove and only a massive ego-inflated no-mark would think any other way. Use our words, we take it as a massive compliment – please do add the link though, please tell people where you got it from and cut 'n paste away (like many others have already done), the more people who read about these bands and things the better don’t yer think? It’s the underground way. 

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