Welcome to our weekly rage against the machine – no, we don’t need to rage, look at all these brilliant bands and albums, don’t just take our word for it, hit the links and instantly discover – it all makes sense, these are fine musical times...
 

“More genius from our single-licious buddies at ORG, 17 amazing tracks all for two pounds - I’d say it’s worth buying even for a curious listen at such a price but that’d be doing it a great disservice. Featuring stunning new bands, styles and some genuine moments of sheer brilliance”  - Subba-Cultcha.com (single of the month review, August 2007) 

Death Of London and To The Bones play The Varsity, Bolton on August 9th, The Criterion, Leicester 10th August, The Sunshine Lounge, Birmingham 11th August. 

TO THE BONES are already hard at work on the follow up release, expect it at the end of August on Bolton’s own Repeater Records (home of other fine Bolton bands like those scuzzy punks The Kiss Offs, and Bookstore – they play loud and fast you know!) Something is a brewing up there in North West. 
 

HIGH ON FIRE have announced the first European dates of their forthcoming world tour in support of their brand new album, Death Is This Communion. The Oakland, CA trio will tour through the U.K. and mainland Europe in early September prior to their recently announced North American tour. Joining HIGH ON FIRE for a number of the United Kingdom dates will be guests RUSSIAN CIRCLES. HIGH ON FIRE tour dates: September 1st - Birmingham, The Barfly (w/ RUSSIAN CIRCLES), 2nd - Glasgow, Nice N' Sleazy, 3rd Manchester, Jabez Clegg, 4th - Bristol, The Cooler (w/ RUSSIAN CIRCLES), 6th - London, Underworld (w/ RUSSIAN CIRCLES) - www.myspace.com/HighOnFireSlays. Organ favourites CHROME HOOF play the Tapestry Festival, Port Talbot on 10th August and then on 6th December catch them supporting Klaxons and Justice at Brixton Academy, London OTTO VON SHIRACH (Ipecac) has recently announced the following tour dates supporting SkinnyPuppy: 14th August, Astoria, London, 15th August, Academy 2, Manchester and also the following dates supporting The Locust:  13th September, Thekla, Bristol, 14th September, Corporation, Sheffield 15th September, Social Club, Leeds, 16th September, Pressure Point, Brighton 17th September, Scala London and 18th September, Korova, Liverpool UNSANE hit the Underworld in London on October 16th

 

John on the phone...

LONDON FETISH FAIR. What’s that then? The next monthly event takes place this Sunday August 12th: Noon until 18:00 Get Kinky in the sunshine!  London Fetish Fair is evolving! “Our new after (BDSM, live music and performance) Party Diablesse starts September 9th right after the London Fetish Fair. More about Diablesse in a moment. First, the London Fetish Fair is back at Shillibeers, Carpenter's Mews, North Road (off Camden Road) London N7 9ER (nearest tube Caledonian Road) 12 noon until 6:00 p.m. £5 entry. What can you expect – exactly what it says on the tin, a market catering for all your fetish clothing equipment needs and wants. And for this month only: Aardvark Masks - Swiss artist Kepa Rasmussen visits in August with a selection of fully wearable art masks for those of you who want to make a serious entrance at your next fetish party (or gig!). August 12th also welcomes a visit from Fetish Flower Louise Hagill. What could look more luxuriant in your play space, dungeon or boudoir to underline your own personal celebration of your fetish lifestyle than a huge bouquet of leather roses? The Fetish Fair are also very proud to announce the launch, this month of the M-QuiverT MK1. The M-QuiverT MK1 has been designed with you in mind and allows you to travel and transport your fetish playthings in a discrete and organised manner – curious? Go to the website, or better still go to the fair – www.londonfetishfair.co.uk And then afterwards: DIABLESSE                   Diablesse is the new London Fetish Fair's new monthly after fair party event (the party starts September 9th 2007 at the Lark In The Park, right after London Fetish Fair.  Lark in the Park is at 60 Copenhagen Street, Islington, London N1. Featuring fetish friendly live music and DJs brought to you by the Organ team, the Club is hosted by Mistress Rebekka Raynor – a totally private indoor playspace with a marquee tented courtyard. Expect live music, burlesque /live performance, a great (Homey) bar & restaurant, and all draped out in metallic red by specially commissioned Fetish Fair set designers so you can show off your darkness. Expect a growing monthly selection of dungeon equipment, starting with a tiger Cage, kneeling, whipping stool, Come out and play hard after the LFF at am event produced by the London Fetish Fair. Expect a cutting edge (Organ selected) band on stage at 8.00pm each month. Entry is £5 for those attending the LFF or £10 on the Door (Organ readers get in touch we may have a cheaper guest list situation going but don’t tell anyone I said that).                 OPHELIA TORAH will play the opening night of Diablesse on Sunday September 9th. Doors at Six, band on at Eight. www.Diablesse.co.uk www.londonfetishfair.co.uk www.LarkinthePark.co.uk www.rebekkaraynor.com

This coming Sunday we have the following videos...

1: 65DAYSOFSTATIC - Don't Go Down To Sorrow 
2: NOVA ROBOTICS - Two Seven One 
3: TO THE BONES - Tycho 
4: ASSDROIDS - Daft Crunk 
5: AARON STOUT - Space Station 
6: AKERCOCKE - Axiom 
7: DAN DEACON - The Crystal Cat 
8: KILL CARTEL - Risk The Addiction 

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

1: THE SCHLA LA LAS - 1,2,3,4
2: 65DAYSOFSTATIC - Don't Go Down To Sorrow 
3: AARON STOUT - Space Station 
4: DAN DEACON - The Crystal Cat
5: MY VITRIOL - This Time 
6: CARDIACS - Day is Gone 
7: AKERCOCKE - Axiom 
8: MUNICIPAL WASTE - Unleash The Bastards 

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 
 

DEMO OF THE WEEK
HELLFIRE -  Bleed For The Cause - Four slices of brutal blasting relentless screaming yelping extreme violent hellnoise metal from the English midlands. Well recorded, professional, locked, loaded and ready to violate the ears of you Raging Speedhorn/Mistress style blistering brutal flower picking cake bakers out there – www.myspace.com/hellfiremusic

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SCREAMING EAGLE – Whole album of material from a South Wales band out there making their first moves and building a solid reputation. Very professional and I guess looking for a label to release these ten well recorded well produced tracks. Stoner rock, melodic stoner rock, they do it very well, problem is, we’ve kind of heard it all already. Sounds like this is a blast to actually play, the musicians here are clearly having a great time, they certainly lock in to a tight groove. Thing is you thousands and thousands of stoner rock bands, I already got a Kyuss album or two sat there next to the Orange Goblin and Sabbath and Buzzoven and Eyehategod and all the others, I’m still feasting on the filthy X factor laced stoner brilliance of the new Weedeater album that landed two weeks ago... Screaming Eagle make professional polite mid-paced well played stoner rock, which in turn is probably a really cool blast in a venue in Swansea on a Thursday night but hey Screaming Eagle, why do I need this album in my life? Whst is the point in just being another stoner band with no identity of your own? Professional and clearly capable of taking the stoner sound and doing more with it if they really want to, there’s a potentially good band here wanting to break out of their stoner straightjackets. www.myspace.com/screamingeagleuk

Last week's demo of the week - MR PHORMULA and LEWS TEWNS

Previous demo's of the week - THE APPLES / ONSEGEN ENSEMBLE / SASSY / ALEX TAYLOR AND THE EVIL EYE / MONTY CASINO / TO THE BONES / 4 OR 5 MAGICIANS / JACK SHIRT / HERZOGA / LAST DAYS OF LORCA / THE DEFILED / BOMB THE SUN

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
MIKROKOSMOS – Is The Heart Of The Home (Ignatia) – Wonderfully delicately and uniquely crafted, precisely detailed, alive with warm ambient glowing uplifting mellow textures and dreamy shafts of hazy light. Bits of quiet whispered fairground psychedelia and that atmospheric hissing frothing ear friendly noise that sometimes opens the door to the Consultant’s Flower Garden (if you know what we mean). Spoken word undercurrents (and insect hooves) and buzzing flies and creaky old keyboards (and mechanical organs) and dreamstate cycling through the milky way and a wish is but a wish away. A whole world of scalpel blade microscopic adventures and shapes and colours. Is The Heart is a beautiful album, a refined delicate treasure treats of quiet coloured kaleidoscopes, a world of unobtrusive whispered sound and levitating dark stars. Mysteriously good, quiet unhurried uncluttered psychedelia and rich dark dreamy colours from the corners of a dusty sun-leaking attic. Those really quite squeaky creaky whispered Cardiacs textures when Eden Is On The Air, doors you hadn’t noticed that lead to whole new rooms and a whole other world (windows) of musical beauty to lose yourself in. New things to find every single time – and all so quiet, quiet enough to almost not notice it there waiting for you. Mikrokosmica in Christian Hayes, once of Cardiacs, Levitation, Ring and Dark Star. Don’t miss out now. www.ignatiarecordings.com / www.myspace.com/mikrokosmos1

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2
ODD NOSDAM – Level Live Wires (Anticon) – More of that refined beat driven atmospheric collaged hip-hop flavoured electronica that comes of the San Francisco corner and the Why/Boombip/Thee More Shallows/Anticon axis of creativity. Collaged textures and ambient challenge from the cutting edge. Collections of wordless short stories and cleverly woven audio scrapbooks. Atmospheric soundbites and scapegraces where synths ply with crackle-quiet dictaphones and old tape recordings and harps and beats and hiss and unruffled gliding ambience and delicately echoed guitar and tones and poems and beat boxes and yet another beautiful inspiring delicate album that could keep me satisfied for months and months. I mean, harps that groove? I’m about to overdose – wonderful, this is album of the week as well, take it up with your local MP or something, I can’t help that there’s too much good inspiring exciting cutting edge music being made. Explore via www.myspace.com/oddnosdam or UK distribution/mailorder via www.southern.net

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 3
MENENDEZ – Menendez (Function) – This is rather special, compelling, this is good. Menendez are fronted by the sublime brother-sister vocal harmonies of bass player Daniel and keyboardist Rachel Burroughs, this is the South East English four piece band’s debut album. The line up is completed by the impressively restrained drums of Adrian Pringle and the intelligent uncluttered guitar of Patrick Hopkins. Delicate, quiet, minimal, refined, and really rather beautiful. Blissfully sustained textured chords, cracks of warm musical sunlight to bath in, their sound is deceptively lazy - in reality they’re far from lazy and really rather cleverly brave. Brave in that they do things their own way rather that the obvious ways of so so many others feel the need to conform to. Menendez are post-rock flavoured, their sound and style is never that obvious though.  Simple, pleasing, mellow, refined and just so so right. Breezy, sunny, uplifting, positive. I guess if you want reference points then maybe a relaxed Stereolab or a more rewarding Tortoise, really though to name drop others does their wonderful album a disservice - this is just a beautiful album and having it in your life will make your life just a little bit warmer and richer than it was yesterday, treat yourself. 
www.menendezuk.com / www.functionrecords.com

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AKERCOCKE – Antichrist (Earache) – At last, got my dirty filthy possessed and blistering hands on a copy of Akercocke’s new album - and all the crows be picking at my flesh and I got no control over the situation (terminus baby!). Now what do we have here? Black metal, death metal, whatever colour metal you want your none more black metal to be, metal that stays within the boundaries and sets itself the challenge of obeying all the conventions while pushing them right out of shape and breaking every single them all. Challenging atmospheric black metal alchemy laced with cleverly demonic progressive light and shade and the distant fires that reflect in the eyes of Satan (and maybe just a little bit of heavy metal tongue in cheek). Eastern sounding ambient prog rock passages (more Oroonies or ullulators than Venom) spliced with slicing speed metal guitar and regulation warp speed drumming. Intelligent brooding challenging rewarding colourful impressive mood shifting complex black metal.  I think Akercocke just made their finest album yet and in doing so advance the cause and push the boundaries once more.  Devilishly decorated and rather recommended music for you diabolists – Follow the antichrist code via www.myspace.com/akercockeantichrist

MOHA! – Norwegianism (Rune Grammofon) - You know those strangely compelling noises you get when you drop your beautiful vintage valve guitar amp down an endless flight of stairs. You know those noises that mice make when they eat in to your beautiful vintage valve guitar amp, all those squeaks and cracks and wheezes and fizzes and those echo sounds and the squeaky bits that insects make when they’re moving heavy machinery - and the way moths squeak at each other when communicating electronically? (and the Clangers getting all avant). All blips and blurts and unobtrusive crashes and refined arcs and restrained screams, nothing that uncomfortably noisy though – free form electro jazz that in truth isn’t really that jazzy either. The work of a duo from Norway (although one of them may be German) and for the sake of clarity, it is alive with clarity. All kinds of obsolete effect peddles and fractured electronics and Anders Hana and Morton J Olson and some kind of customised drum with loads of triggers. Doesn’t sound accidental, I guess a lot of people would think they could do this, key here though with all the freeform hard boiled avantness is the clarity and the control that they have, rather soothing actually – www.runegrammofon.com / www.myspace.com/themoha

THE BDI’s – The BDIs (BDI Recordings) – Eponymous debut album from the London band formally know as The Panda Gang. Hey look, not really our thing but respect due and all that, they do that mellow retro Stevie Wonder funk/soul thing rather well – www.thebdis.com

HANOI ROCKS – Street Poetry (Demolition) – Back in the day, for a couple of glorious years, Hanoi Rocks were one of the finest bands in the world. London based street punk glam rock from Finland, they were two steps from the move with their Stones meets The Clash sound that came with a bag load of big hair, high heels and extra attitude extra attitude. Then a Motley Crue crashed that car and stole all the glory that should have been theirs... That was then though, days long long gone and now they’re middle aged men and still with big hair (or shaved heads) and songs with titles like “Teenage Revolution” and I’m not sure if I really want this to be happening. This is mid-paced blues based glam rock, growing old a little too politely – which is really not what Hanoi Rocks were ever meant to be about in my grubby book. Hey, what the hell do I know? If you’re one of those ageing fistfighting glam rockers from the 80’s who prefer a nice mug of  hot chocolate to your pint of Jack Daniels these days then Hanoi Rocks just made a new album of polite mid paced blues based glam rock, none of their razor sharp suss and street wise attitude from back them, decent enough though and still sounding like Hanoi Rocks and I guess some people out there will be more than happy – here it is then, we’ll leave it with you and politely move on. www.hanoirocks.info / www.demolitionrecords.com

SPIKE – It’s A Treat To Be Alive (Demolition) – Spike from the Quireboys with a righteous sounding mellow solo album. You know if anyone out there was to ever pay attention, then whisky voiced Spike has been doing the Rod Stewart thing far far better than Rod Steward for years (cool Rod that is, the one from the Faces, not the embarrassing pub covers singer Rod is now). Excellent version of Slade’s Everyday, fine album of heart felt edgy honesty and country flavoured mellow classic rock and blues and barroom mellowness  should you feel like it  - www.spike-online.co.uk / www.demolitionrecords.com

Last week's album of the week - GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN Previous album's of the week - CHROME HOOF / TWELVE / WEEDEATER / LASSE MARHAUG / MOTORHEAD / TWO BANDS AND A LEGEND / ANEKDOTEN / ORIGINAL SILENCE / GIRL BAND / MORVISCOUS / TURBONEGRO / TOMAHAWK / CHARGER / SHADY BARD / LOUIS LINGG AND THE BOMBS / SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM / ANTIGAMA / END OF LEVEL BOSS / RICHARD PINHAS / MICHAEL J SHEEHY

So many times we go to smaller gigs in London with the intention of seeing one particular band and find the rest of the bill to be an uninspired misshapen mismatch. We’ve almost come to cynically expect averageness and jarring incompatibility, surely promoters are interested in more than just numbers through the door? Ship in the audience and watch them leave again when their chosen band have performed. Tonight was inspiring, and no one ever thanks promoters, so thank you Mr/Mrs promoter team, we’d have been proud to have put on a gig like this. I must confess it was only misinformation and thinking Time.Space.Repeat had told us they were on first rather than last that got me out of the pub (and away from a pre-season friendly on the television – that and a toothless 3-0 lead for the shirts after 20 minutes). Now if we had been paying full attention we’d have noted Bearsuit were also on the bill and made a point of getting in early... 

BEARSUIT are frantic tonight, are they’re always this frenetic? They’re a screaming treat of clashing musical colours, hard-boiled angles and pointy shouty sliver things. A multi-armed/legged gang of boys and girls armed with trumpets, fizzing keyboards, spiky guitars and a controlled cacophony of infectious pop chaos that live almost explodes into in post punk violent noise when they feel the need (seems they feel the need rather a lot).  Cutting pink things with sharp knives and going off and things and gloriously unlike anything you can obviously pin on them – okay, they sound a bit like Bis, maybe Bis rucking with The Locust. Hey, so what? Bis were brilliant whatever anyone might say and in a better world more bands should sound a little bit more like Bis (and clever enough for us to mention The Locust as well!). Tonight Bearsuit are a glorious scrum of riot grrl/boy punk rock fizz and yelp, they bounce off each other in such gloriously compelling and attention-demanding way.  How can a band scream and shout and yell and make such a screaming off-centre noise and sound so poppy and infectious and so so right? Like teasing with glitter pop and candypop flick-knives and bits of soul and intergalactic dinosaur warfare and screamy art punk and Sonic Youth and Trencher and all kinds of instrumentation and yeeeeeeeeeeees! Not everyone agrees, overweight man in the corner, glasses, ponytail and serious metal band t-shirt, is yelling at them, something about having no talent and get off and give up, girl next to him is firing invisible pony tail cutting death rays at his back. Bearsuit are tearing it all up and singing about masturbation and aliens and terrible blood thirsty gangs of tiny children and shouting about clashing t-shirts - it takes serious talent to be this good and this different. We like Bearsuit lots. The evening is off to a fine start, follow that if you can next band!

 JOHN & JEHN are that next band, John & Jehn are a two piece with an amazing compelling dynamic. They effortlessly follow the frantic feast of Bearsuit with something equally as fine. I guess they’re a couple, they must be a couple – yes they’re obviously a couple. They’re deliciously French and they have this amazing (Left-bank) dynamic, a musical/physical energy going on between them, like there’s some invisible piece of string holding the two of them and their music together.  He’s playing a rather hypnotic guitar, she’s centre stage and very stylish behind a big old Farfesa keyboard (until she picks up her bass and they rock out towards the end of the set). The sound is left field and incredibly sexy/voyeuristic in a Velvet Underground/Joy Division meets Sebadoh playing Gainsbourg via PJ Harvey kind of way - and yeah I know I’m being incredibly clichéd (and rather lazy) about it all but they are so beautifully French and extremely cool and so so good and it is that simple. Their songs, like their dynamic energy, are compelling - a noir feeling, a dream city film club, a twist of relationships, friends, love and oh look, just go investigate and enjoy, it really really is as simple as that. 

SISTER then, don’t know anything about them, they can’t possible follow the first two treats though can they? No way (surely not?). They’re setting up intimate glowing red-bulb bedside reading lamps around the stage and changing the venue’s dynamic (there’s a lot of dynamic around tonight), this looks interesting. No shambling on stage in t-shirts and scruffy jeans here, Sister have style. Whooooooo instantly hooked! Five of them, smartly dressed girl singer in black suit, big hair, stylish high heels and sharp stage moves. Mellow band, refined alt.country flavoured laid back rock n’roll sound with more than a healthy bite to it. Think Mazzy Star, Rolling Stones, think Them, Lone Justice and more of that Velvet underground vibe - mostly think songs that just have ‘it’. Sister are loaded up with stylish songs that have ‘it’ - that Waiting For The Man feeling, just songs that instantly have you there with them, a whole treasure chest of songs to instantly hook you in. Surely these are old classics from somewhere back there, they can’t be new songs from a fresh band can they? This is good, remember that cool thing Saint Silas Intercession were laying down? Their songs are already in my head, she’s a star, she’s got one hell of a cool band and a sound that’s just right – an already fine evening just got better and better.

TIME.SPACE.REPEAT then and by now it isn’t about trying to follow the last band, just about shifting the dynamic in a positive way once more (and compliment what’s already been on this well thought out bill). Time.Space.Repeat are an uplifting four piece with an optimistic sound that thankfully isn’t that easy to pigeonhole. Even when they’re singing about the end of the world you’ll feel fine and full of hope. I guess if you need signposts and directions then they’re a relaxed easy shoegazing post rock band of sorts, but that’s the fine thing, it just isn’t that obvious. Shambling on to stage in t-shirts and jeans (or an un-tucked shirt and loose tie) is their thing and they’re as so right and natural as Sister’s stylish entrance was. Part uncluttered Mercury Rev, part tingling Sigor Ros, a hint of heads back touch the clouds Pink Floyd and just the right amount of edgy fractured Sonic Youth in there with the innocence and the genuine love of and for their craft. There seems to be no ambition here besides the ambition of pure enjoyment - no manifesto or business plan, no urgent drive to the next step on career ladder or to be the next big thing, just a refreshing need to make music and enjoy playing on their own terms. There’s an air of pure pleasure and a band at ease here, relaxed and knowing, content in their space and time. They almost mock themselves, they mock their song titles – I’m told we’re supposed to be a post-rock band so we’ve given this one a very long tittle – Youth Of America, Your Government Has Been Taken Over By Aliens – or something along those lines. They don’t really look like a rock band, they clearly couldn’t care less (or care more) Time.Space.Repeat are rather fine in an unassuming uncluttered unpretentious and rather enjoyable way. 

Four fine bands who somehow work together and compliment each other perfectly, it wasn’t an obvious bill to put together – the best things are never obvious, an excellent bill and a brilliant night. A fine gig put on by the Goonite club team, thank you (and it all finished just in time for us to miss the last tube – damn, guess we can’t have everything) 

www.myspace.com/bearsuit
www.myspace.com/johnjehn
www.myspace.com/sistermusic
www.myspace.com/timespacerepeat
www.myspace.com/gooniteclub

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
LIARS – Plaster Casts Of Everything (Mute) - So this time they say they wanted to strip it all away, they threw out everything, this time that pulled away all the distractions and the hints of concept and I wanna run away I wanna run away – they stripped it all and just locked right on. They said (in an interview we did with them the other day) that this time it wasn’t even about an album (or tittles or imagery or any of that clutter) it was just about individual songs – you know that thing, the classic song – that one Joy Division track or that Smiths track or Is This The Life or Warm leatherette...  Thing is whatever they stripped away it always was about the songs with Lairs and none of the other stuff really distracted. That very very distinctive sound that could only be the always excellent Liars. A single off the fine new album then, a single that drives and throbs and pulsates and the whole album is excellent and lots more from us in the coming week – Liars rule more than ever - what ever they strip away and whatever the reference points are and wherever Drum got to. So Liars have evolved again, it would have been shocking if they hadn’t. Fine song (and yes, running away did just create more drama, you can’t strip down, it occurs naturally) - www.liarsliarsliars.com

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SCUL HAZZARDS – Count Less Dead (Valve) – One of those edgy jagged pointy rusty-edged violently noisy, relentlessly dense, good, low end staccato bands that violently jab (and jab and jab) at you (the Camden Lurch, anyone remember that?).  Aggressive, almost primitive locked on Red Eye Express, Scissormen, Muy Feo, Jesus Lizard, Rapeman style, a deconstructionist sound that just maybe knee deep in blood that isn’t theirs. A three piece from Australia with an impressive five track EP and drawing their own lines in your dirt. Focused, raw and almost nostalgic and they could be homage freaks! We like this. Five fine tracks and they say they’re about to head out on an Australian tour with Pelican  before they set about relocating to the other side of the world and take on London – someone re-open the Falcon and alert the Tortoise Liberation Front. Great artwork as well. www.myspace.com/sculhazzards

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE – Holy Diver (Roadrunner) - Ride that tiger, you can see the stripes and you know the shinny diamonds and the meaning of life and the answer to just about everything has to be there (behind the rainbow in the night) in those Ronnie James Dio lyrics – and always ten times cooler than Ozzy bloody Osbourne is Sabbath as well. What’s all this got to do with Killswitch? A Dio cover that’s what, and a pretty straight forward to the bone cover as well, well why mess with things too much? They Killswitch it all up a little, get away get away, you’ve been down too long in the midnight sea. Do they know what he means?  What does Ronnie James mean? Who knows who is free? There is no sun in the shadow of the wizard, 

Last week's single of the week - DAN DEACON

Previously -  / TWIN THOUSANDS / ZAN PAN / THE GENTLE GOOD / TRUCKDRIVER JNR / FRAN RODGERS / SOULSAVERS / THE NOVA SAINTS / VILE VILE CREATURES / CHRONICLES OF ADAM WEST / OIB SPLIT VOL 1: 7” GAY AGAINST YOU / LONELY GHOSTS / MUNCH MUNCH / THE TUMBLEDOWN ESTATE / WE START FIRES / THE THERMALS / DAS WANDERLUST / 65DAYSOFSTATIC

And so one by one, those glorious old bands have been dusting off their long lost tapes that they have stashed away in their attics and answering the demands of those of us who haven’t quite forgotten. And to be quite frank some of those old bands are best left in those dusty attics with all the memories and flyers and stories and remember the time Conflict played the Greyhound and it all kicked off and no I’m not paying 50p for a zine you capitalist tool of Thatcher... Anthrax though, Anthrax always had a little edge (and those recent Anti-State/Anti this/anti that compilations that came out on Newcastle label Overground more than wet the appetite and the demand and...) 

So Anthrax got all their singles and demo tapes and old bits of this and that out (and set up a My Space page) and pulled it all together - and I’ve had this album sitting here for a few days now – not sure if I really really wanted to go there. Were they really as good as memory suggests? Is this going to be a let down? Is it all just rose-tinted (brew-encrusted) memories? No it damn well isn’t! As strange as it may seem, this sounds as fresh and vital (maybe even more vital?) than it did back then – classic ranting raging slicing cutting angry pissed off confrontational thrashing metallic punk rock, a positive call to arms and does it do your heart good to blast it all again or what! All the tracks pulled together along with the original artwork and some new artwork that captured the spirit and vibe (by the original creator Tasty M). Oh yes! What a fugging set up, what a real treat, we all make sense of it, it all makes sense. Go grab a slice of real positive proper system defying punk rock (then go make your own or start a zine or a label or a website) – www.myspace.com/anthraxuk (that’s right, interact ‘round Murdock’s Space, delicious irony, use that channels, subvert, divert, get involved, don't forget to soap the stamps and use a 14 times used already envelope with a Ring sticker on it) 
 

PREVIOUSLY - OMD

PREVIOUSLY - ZINE: NOISY No5 / DVD: SAMMY AND THE WABOS – LIVING IT UP IN ST.LOUIS / DVD - NAZARETH – FROM THE BEGINNING

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ORGAN 201 - FIELDS, I-DEF, KTP, PROFESSOR FATE, BLACK SABBATH, RIVETHEAD, ANNIHILATOR, SILICON VULTURES, THE SMEARS, THE SCARE, THE TIGERPICKS, THE SWORD, BOMB THE SUN, KUTOSIS, TEN TO NEVER, CRYSTAL ENTITY, GUNNING FOR GOLIATH, THEE MORE SHALLOWS,THE DONNAS, TOMAHAWK, BLOODSTOCK, THE SMEARS,  MICHAEL J SHEEHY, SUNS OF THE TUNDRA, OXYGEN THIEF, SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM

ORGAN 200 - 

ORGAN 199 - 

ORGAN 198 - SHINING, LEFTOVER CRACK, CITIZEN FISH, THE SCARLET LETTER UNION, ALMOS, TORQUE ARMADA, PORNOHEFT, ANDENSUM, DAATH, THE PONY COLLABORATION, THE MIGHTY ROARS, BLACK STONE CHERRY, THE DISAPPOINTMENTS, PORCUPINE TREE, LOST PROPHETS, THE CONWAY STORY, TRADEMARK, A SECRET SOCIETY, MY VITRIOL, AKERCOCKE, THE SMEARS, LADYFEST – LEEDS, LADYFEST – LONDON, WILL HAVEN, ME FIRST & THE GIMMIE GIMMES, EVERYTHING MUST GO, MICHAEL J SHEEHY, LESS THAN JAKE, MIXING IT on RESONANCE FM, ORGAN TV..

ORGAN 197 - 

ORGAN 196 - EATEN BY TIGERS, DEATH LIST FIVE, BITCH SLAP BARBIE, FRANK TURNER, CAR BOMB, THRONE OF KATARSIS, PHINIUS GAGE, APARTMENT, MARYSLIM, DAPHNE LOVES DERBY, THE LOW LOWS, SONIC YOUTH, TERROR...

ORGAN 195 -

ORGAN 194 - BILLY NO MATES, ONSLAUGHT, SMOKE OR FIRE, VANILLA, ERRANDER, XisLOADED, DROP DEAD GORGEOUS, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, LOVEHATEHERO, TOBIAS FROBERG, THE ADVENTURES OF LOKI, RAY, CSS, THE BLACK VELVETS, LEAVE THE CAPITAL, FARRAH, WILLIAM D.DRAKE, NORTH SEA RADIO ORCHESTRA, DINOSAUR JR, ROLO TOMASSI, THE LOCUST, WILL HAVEN, INDYMEDIA, ClearerChannel, SchNEWS

ORGAN 193 - APSE, BLOC  PARTY, NIGHTRAGE, THE PAYBACKS, THE FLESH HAPPENING oh and loads more, go look...

ORGAN 192 -

ORGAN 191

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ORGAN 189 - SHORT SHARP SHOCK, DEATHSKULLS, THE RUBY SUNS, THE VELCROS, FUTURE OF THE LEFT, TRIPPED & FALLING, OZRIC TENTACLES, FROM THE SKY, RADIO MOSCOW, THE BLOODY HOLLIES, BELOW THE SEA, MONTANA, GALLOWS, THE RESIDENTS...

ORGAN 188 - MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI, FUCKED UP, THE SCHA LA LAS, THE PRISCILLAS, LEISUR HIVE, ENNIO MORRICONE, ANTHRAX, KUTOSIS, FADE TO SEPIA, IRVING, COAXIAL, BRUTAL TRUTH, WINTERS

ORGAN 187 - 

ORGAN 186 - MICROWAVES, RONDELLUS, DUSTIN’S BAR MITZVAH, SUPERSUCKERS, THEY DIED TOO YOUNG, LITTLE TROPHY, FANTAPLASTIC, HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE, SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM, PICASTRO, RED COTTON, THE BAZOOKAS, SOLEY MOURNING, PETER HAMMILL, VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, RADIOHEAD, BIS, UNTITLED MUSICAL PROJECT, TIGER FORCE, NOTORIOUS HI-FI KILLERS

ORGAN 185 - DUSTIN'S BAR MITZVAH  CRIME IN CHOIR, GIANT PAW, GOBSAUSAGE, GENE SERENE, EARTH, IQ, FLIPPER, THEATER DES VAMPIRES, THE KNIVES OF NEPTUNE, PETER HAMMILL, SWAD, MIKROKOSMOS, THE FLESH HAPPENING, THE OXFAM GLAMOUR MODELS...

ORGAN 184 - THE RUBY SUNS, CHROME HOOF, FRANK TURNER, CLUB LE SHARK, ENABLERS, THE DODGEMS, GRINDERMAN, RONNIE DAY, THE DISTANCE, YOUR CREATION, LIPID, MOTORHEAD, WEASEL WALTER...

ORGAN 183 - O

ORGAN 182 - Oh, that one was live on the radio, all 11 sleepless hours of it.

ORGAN 181 - O

ORGAN 180 - OPHELIA TORAH, OCTOBER FILE, MOISTBOYZ, BAUER, WINTERKIDS, GREENWICH RESIDENT, WE ARE TREES, VOICST, ME FIRST AND AND THE GIMME GIMMES, ALEUCHATISTAS, BEATNIK FILMSTARS, FUME, OUT FOR BLOOD, CRADLE OF FILTH, NEBRASKA, RATTLESNAKE REMEDY, THE DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE, THE STOLEN BABIES, ZAG AND THE COLOURED BEADS, PEEPING TOM, TERROR, SPACE WEATHER, THE ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR

ORGAN 179

ORGAN 178

ORGAN 177 - CATS AND CATS AND CATS, I LOVE POLAND, AGE OF CHAOS, SANCTORUM, LOVEMAT, WOVEN HAND, LEAVE THE CAPITAL, THE APPARATUS, JESUS LICKS, RED SPARROWES, MASTODON... 

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 

ORGAN 175 -

ORGAN 174 - 

ORGAN 173 - In print, on paper, got go grab 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....

ORGAN 169

ORGAN 168

ORGAN 167

ORGAN 166 - 

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

ORGAN 164 -

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ORGAN 160 - 

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 

ORGAN 158 -

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ORGAN 153 - 

ORGAN 152 - 

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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