This week’s Organ is despite the cesspools of apathy and we’re in a band therefore all must revolve around us and don’t ever expect us to give anything back attitude that drains so much... 
 

NO RADIOHEAD ALBUM TILL 2008 - Radiohead's management company has announced that the public should not expect a new Radiohead album, their seventh, until at least 2008. So those of you planning 2007 around a new album from Thom Yorke et al are going to have to do some serious diary rejigging. The follow-up to 'Hail To The Thief' will then have been five years in the making, though to be fair the band have been very busy on individual projects during that time, what with Yorke's Mercury nominated solo record and Johnny Greenwood's celebrated Trojan records compilation to mention but two such projects. And, of course, they don't currently have a record deal, so there's no label execs piling on the pressure to deliver a new long player in time to make the year end bottom line look less depressing.
 

New AVENGED SEVENFOLD - Sorted mate and matess, watch a brand new in-studio teaser for Avenged Sevenfold’s new album, here.  “Critical Acclaim”, the first track from Avenged Sevenfold forthcoming album, will be available for purchase before the album’s release on iTunes, meanwhile a clip of the song is available for streaming at www.myspace.com/avengedsevenfold. And for more information, should you need it, go to www.avengedsevenfold.com HENRY ROLLINS SPOKEN WORD UK TOUR - Former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins is set to go on a spoken word tour of the UK in early 2008, performing some of his work at the country's biggest venues. Rollins will perform at: 26 Jan: London Hammersmith Apollo, 27 Jan: Bristol Colston Hall, 28 Jan: Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall, 29 Jan: Dublin Vicar Street, 30 Jan: Manchester Academy, 31 Jan: Newcastle Academy, 2 Feb: Aberdeen Music Hall, 3 Feb: Glasgow Theatre Royal

 

CRAP ARREST OF THE WEEK

For being on the chain gang... Climate camp was a fine week for any connoisseur of police misbehaviour but this arrest grabbed the attention of the SchNEWS crew... One hapless camper was arrested during a stop and search for possession of a key-chain! Apparently his 18 inch long metal chain could be used 'to cause criminal damage'. Police have refused to be fobbed off and are now investigating his alleged links to al Key-eda.
 

John on the phone...

DOWN time: Roadrunner Records have announced the signing of New Orleans-based sludge-doom supergroup DOWN. Their forthcoming third album, “DOWN III - Over the Under” will be released on September 24th.  To anyone who cares anything for classic rock and metal, despite only releasing two albums, DOWN are important.  Semi-legendary.  Almost mythical - rising every six years or so to deliver a benchmark album to the metal hoards.  Boasting an amalgamation of talent from the American South’s most important metal outfits - Pantera, Crowbar, EyeHateGod, Superjoint Ritual and Corrosion of Conformity - and featuring one of the most charismatic and engaging metal frontmen of our time, Phil Anselmo, they push boundaries and play by their own rules.  This time, it’s different.  This time, it’s not a side-project. DOWN has become a full-blown project  Philip Anselmo (vox), Rex Brown (bass), Pepper Keenan (guitar), Kirk Windstein (guitar) and Jimmy Bower (drums) came together to begin work on album three just before Hurricane Katrina hit their hometown city of New Orleans in August 2005.  Having released two records as a side-project from their “day jobs” in other bands, the band gathered to start work on new material.  After the tragedy of the hurricane in which the members were displaced and separated for many months, the band reconvened.  It was obvious then that this was no longer a side project.  With everyone having honoured previous commitments with their respective bands, the NOLA natives were focused on DOWN and DOWN alone. Finding new life and a new bond through the common tragedies they endured both separately and collectively, not only with Katrina but with the untimely passing of their friend, Dimebag Darrell - they say they are ready with what will be the definitive record of their career.   The first installment appeared last Friday August 17th on www.down-nola.com and www.myspace.com/downnola - Expect a European tour later this year.

ORGAN TV  is on your screens in the UK right now. Every Wednesday evening, 10.30pm  on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY160 (WE MOVED). And now due to the fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY883 at 11.15pm.

This coming Sunday we have the following videos...

TRUCKERS OF HUSK - Salad Ballad
YIP YIP - Candy Dinner
THE ICARUS LINE - Gets Paid
TO THE BONES - Tycho
THE BLACK KEYS - Your Touch
MC LARS - Ahab
THE PRISCILLAS - All My Friends Are Zombies 
LIARS - It Fit When I Was A Kid 

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

NOVA ROBOTICS  - Two Seven One 
SOHODOLLS - Right and Right Again 
DUREFORSOG - Living In Vain 
DAN DEACON -  The Crystal Cat 
KILL CARTEL - Risk The Addiction 
HELMET - Monochrome 
TANGAROA - Vietnamese Killing Queens 
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
THE FURIOUS SLEEP – Home Recordings 2007 – Home recordings? Wonder what their home looks like! They’re not the most productive pro-active band out there, always worth waiting for the day when a crumb or two will eventually fall through their table cracks and in to your life though. Never conventional, never easy to fit them in to any nice convenient pigeonhole and tick the boxes, not a band you can file away neatly and understand easily. The Furious Sleep require just a little more time and effort from their listeners – the effort is always rewarded, they are not your average band, three or four plays to familiarise yourself with the textures and they’ll have you hooked. We like The Furious Sleep! These new recordings are excellent actually “a bunch of home recordings we did for ourselves but we’re rather pleased with the results so we’re sending them out to a few people”. They’re from Cambridge, they’re always a little raw and rather out there on the edges. Raw yet mellow, nothing too heavy of confrontational - doing things their own sweet way, not really sure if that rawness is intentional or a result of shoestring budget restrictions? The collaged artwork and handmade package hints that this maybe as much by choice and design as something brought about by budget limitation. Step in to the limelight, the watch is ticking. Four substantial challenging tracks, four home made lo-fi DIY tracks – perfectly recorded. No regard for any rules, save for the rules of real creativity and positive artistic challenge. Progressive in the realest sense of the overused term. Both progressive and rather proggy, fragile, very English sounding – not eccentrically so (okay, maybe a little eccentric), something just a little strange going on in the English woodshed? Four tracks this time, four epics, and off-edge yelling and piano and acoustic prog-rock laced with dramatic, sometimes frantic folky punky twists and turns (and fossils and bones).  The Furious Sleep don’t obviously sound like any other band you’ve ever heard – real prog, raw progressive English punk rock made with passion and real creative rule-defying, rule-creating lo-fi imagination and spirit. A rather special band  - www.myspace.com/thefurioussleep

DEMO OF THE WEEK 2
FUNERAL CRASHERS – Goffs, the real proper deal, old school Rozz Williams/London A.M/Cure flavoured Goths from deepest darkest New York City (they sound like they’re New York city, they have that knowing NY attitude). A Death Rock Placebo with good hair and a HP Lovecraft fetish – the singer’s even called PH Lovecraft for creaming jesus’ sake! You have to admire their style (don’t you? Yeah you do, it takes style to be this old school goth). Lot of dark edged 80’s electro-pop and nothing left at the murder scene and stimulation for your flesh. Dark glam and Jesus And Mary Chain and postpunk drama queens. And you old school death rockers will love them more than a night in corner of The Dev clutching your cider and black and moaning about how the Slimelight isn’t as good as it was and how you hardly ever go there anymore and remember that time at the Batcave when that chick got up and she slapped Hussy’s face,  man we just fell about the place and if the boys want to fight you better let them. Proper 80’s Goth that isn’t just on some sinking ship retro nostalgia early goth post-punk 1983 trip to nowhere – they got the sound and you fickle goths will love it love it love it, you will I tell you, you’ll go bats, they’re good, they’re recommended, go check them out... www.myspace.com/thefuneralcrashers

ALSO CHECK OUT
CODA - Whooooooo, demo band with their stuff together shock! You’d be amazed at the state of some demos that turn up here, grubby CDr affairs covered in sticky fingerprints and dubious dog hairs from bands demanding a living and the shirts off our backs (well I think they’re dog hairs!). Badly packaged with nowhere near enough stamps on them. Coda have a slick professional package andlook like you could trust them to turn up at a gig with drumsticks and strings on thier guitars (it has happened, we have had bands turn up without). Coda are from Northern Ireland (Belfast to be accurate), they create urgent energetic, slick (not too slick) indie-edged guitar rock that kinds of feels like a not quite so wired and slightly harder Gossip flavoured Pretty Girls Make Graves, Bloc Party thing. They’re a female fronted four piece – alternative, melodic and full of positive energetic potentially attention grabbing bluster  – www.codaonline.co.uk

FIRESUITE – Forever December - Three slices of raw melodic ambitious indie rock of a potentially big and rather epic nature. Kind of a Bloc Party (again)/Bravery/Ourlives/Radiohead shaped with a bit of a healthy post-rock edge to their song-based vision. The clear ambition of their songs isn’t quite matched by the quality of the rather raw under-produced recordings right now (but hey this is a demo, and Firesuite are not some raw punk band running on attitude, this is what a demo is for – a thing designed to give people a vague idea, a sketch, a declaration of intent, rather like two of the three songs here and looking forward to how it develops . www.firesuitemusic.co.uk

Last week's demo of the week - THUMPERMONKEY LIVES!

Previous demo's of the week - HELLFIRE / MR PHORMULA and LEWS TEWNS / THE APPLES / ONSEGEN ENSEMBLE / SASSY / ALEX TAYLOR AND THE EVIL EYE / MONTY CASINO / TO THE BONES / 4 OR 5 MAGICIANS / JACK SHIRT / HERZOGA

DEMO REVIEW ARCHIVES

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
EVERY TIME I DIE – The Big Dirty (Ferret) - Bite your tongue and don’t ever say rock n’roll again – pay attention now, this is important. Chewed off my very own hand to write this review – this is important - give me the key and take great god damn with you all dragged screaming and kicking to the keyboard to spread the screaming word right now – praise the lord and kick over the statues, they dropped another big set of musical skin and bone stripping bombs. Someone said to us early that there was no way they could have made a better album than last time – fact is they have. How much do I love this soul-peeling puss bursting band? Winding tight around your heart and it is possible to make screaming bleeding violent extreme post-hardcore flavoured scathing relentless screaming heavy metal and not sound like all the others? You damn well bet it damn well is! This is your smoking gun, there is no chance of walking out of here alive, throw them back in the sea and aim it well. Relentless, a non stop belly-rip of blistering metal, don’t give up the ship, they’d rather you sink than admit it. Using the riffs they found in another band’s dream. Chewed off my very own hand to get me out of this trap (some one just came in and asked if it was Voivod – I guess that means from the other room this sounds interesting enough to ask such complimentary questions – sound nothing like Voivod, rips like them though – that good!). This is metal and this rules, spit back and reload, imagination is sincerest form of flatery.www.everytimeidie.com / www.ferretstyle.com
 

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2  SOHODOLLS – Ribbed Music For The Numb Generation (Filthy Pretty) – Here it is then, the long awaited debut from London’s deliciously naughty and gloriously lush Sohodolls. Pull down all your fences and your highest of high heels, spread yourself out, lube yourself up and prepare for some pure (and proper) pop lust. The Dolls have been packing and thrilling horny London club audiences (well actually, looks like they’ve been packing places all over the globe) and releasing very fine singles for a couple of years now. The good looking boys and girls have been feeding a genuinely hungry word of mouth buzz with their perfect come-and-stare mind-stripping synth ‘n guitar riff driven electro pop. There’s nothing quite like the buzz of a Sohodolls show when it all falls in to place – and it does so often fall perfectly in to a beautifully delicious place – stimulating all six senses and far more besides.           The trouble with calling something pop, in these shallow cheated times, is that it just conjures up images of manufactured plastic product pushing soulless record label X factor puppet nothingness – Sohodolls are your pop antidote, Sohodolls are everything you ever want pop music to be, Sohodolls are here to take it all back and take all you have as well, time to wake up the numb generation.        Okay, we can do better, if we pull together (do you think she’s clever) let’s cut to the chase and stick them neatly in to a nice tidy pigeonhole then – lush instinctive synth driven electro glam trash-punks from the London underworld - drop yourself right in to the deep end, this is not just a wash and go album, something for far more than just the weekend - we’re talking classic Being Boiled Human League/Visage textures, we’re talking biting synths and lashings of luscious keys, caressing drums, throbbing bass lines. They’ll have you from the open tease and the primal (glitter) beat of their already classic Stripper. We’re talking sensuous 80’s flavored horny lustful erotic new romantic electro pop delivered with just enough knowing strutting cool as f, we’re in control, you do as we say attitude. Hedonistic horny synth pop. I must admit I had my doubts, I thought they might just be all attitude and a couple of infectious singles and that’s them off in to the night – shouldn’t have doubted them for a second – www.sohodolls.co.uk

ALSO CHECK OUT
WHITE HILLS – Glitter Glamour Atrocity (White Hills Music) – Impressive heavy droning acid infested progressive space/kraut rock from New York City. Thick swirling soups of droning synths and freak-out and wah-wah drive that comes laced with spoken word and slices of angry political comment – mostly directed at Bush.  Slices of first rate Neu, Hawkwind and maybe just a hint of Joy Division in there with the brooding psychedelia and that hint of menace – deep deep space, hypnotically good for you. Rather recommended and heading to the UK for a tour in September – www.myspace.com/whitehills

MUNICIPAL WASTE – The Art of Partying (Earache) – Ah, The Waste – the authentic rip crunching old school sound of proper thrashing moshing speed metal. Radiation poisoning and Exodus, bang with us and early Suicidal Tendencies and DRI and Anthrax (and dreadful artwork – you have to have dreadfully bad artwork!) and beer pressure problems and septic detonation and bang that head that does not bang! Metal up yer ass, FOAD - Thrashing Is My Business And Business Is Good! And a kool free embroided patch, metal fuel... Tonight we’re gonna party like its 1983. The real deal. www.myspace.com/municipalwaste

HOPE IS NOISE – Applaud Friends...The Comedy Is Over (Rimbaud) – Hope is indeed noise, well this noise is (and yes, that band name does require some kind of smartarse review juxtapose hope noise wordery). This is a fine album, a hopeful album. They sound like they’re going to be just another (good enough) post hardcore melodically inclined emotional indie rock band but then the details start to register - and then half way through they hit you with a way above average song called Dying To Tell You The Truth, and then you notice they hey, most of their songs are a cut above the average. They’re from Cork (Ireland) and if you like your tuneful post-hardcore and bands like Whipping Boy and Hot Snakes and Trail Of The Dead, if you like clever anthemic rock with a little twist and turn and a little bit of details that makes them stand out from the crowd, if you like delivered with a caustic edge, then this is for you... rather good, like it lots – www.myspace.com/hopeisnoise or www.myspace.com/rimbaudrecords

THE BLACKOUT ARGUMENT – Decisions (Lifeforce) - Song six is this whinny emo acoustic thing that really will have you reaching for the fast forward button or a baseball bat or something, dreadful lyrics - before that the quintet were doing the standard issue brutal screamo hardcore metalcore thing. no I can stand this sixth song, got to fast forward. Thankfully track seven, The Die Song, is an inspired piece of anti-war spoken word over a grinding slice of crunching metal – and then we’re back to standard issue - good enough I guess - blistering American sounding hardcore metalcore screamocore (from Munich). www.lifeforcerecords.com

TIMO RAISANEN – I’m Indian (Maven) – The title track is one of those rather fine melting eyes-closed emotional things that just builds in to some arms wide open epic high – something for people who know that Keene are good and aren’t too cool to admit it. Keene’s first album was cool. There’s all kinds of levels here and it would be very easy to dismiss it (like we almost did). Indie pop, emo pop, Ben Folds flavours and cool Swedish indie rock. Breezy intelligent songs, torch songs, self-evading songs and in the tittle track I’m Indian one pure piece of beauty. Not every track on here hits the spot but enough of them do for us to say check it out - www.mavenrecords.co.uk

THE CONDORS – Wait For It  (Rank Outsider) - One of those energetic when they need to be, rock-out when they want to type laid back new wave sharp-suited country-edged alternative indie rock barroom bands that will always sound so positively West Coast Los Angeles 1981. They sing of nights at the Rainbow Grill, they taste of Elvis Costello, The Replacements, The Kinks in their late 70’s/early 80’s phase of life, they’re pretty good at it – www.rankoutsiderrecords.com

PATRICK WATSON – Close To Paradise (V2/Secret City) –  I have no idea who Patrick Watson is, this album  just turned up (no press release or anything like that), I guess I could go surf and find out that he’s some big name from some band that the rest of the world knows about or I could tell tell you I rather like the album and leave you to go see. Just really classy, well produced, refined mellow glowing Radiohead/Coldplay clever simplicity and warm intricate pleasure, I really don’t mind Coldplay on day when they’re not being shoved down my throat  – www.patrickwatson.net / www.secretcityrecords.com
 

Last week's album of the week - LIARS / UPSILON ACRUX Previous album's of the week - MIKROKOSMOS / ODD NOSDAM / MENENDEZ /  GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN  / CHROME HOOF / TWELVE / WEEDEATER / LASSE MARHAUG / MOTORHEAD / TWO BANDS AND A LEGEND / ANEKDOTEN / ORIGINAL SILENCE / GIRL BAND / MORVISCOUS x

ALBUM REVIEW ARCHIVES

Off to the Proms and the glorious, grandiose Royal Albert Hall then. How many Londoners take advantage of this treat on their doorstep? Only five pounds to get in to the standing ‘promenade’ area if you take a risk and just turn up beforehand - just get in the queue and hope there isn’t a thousand in front of you.  Everyone should try it at least once in their lives - it is only live music after all - just live music and no one is going to bite you (might just get hooked though). Robert Newman and Henry Woods’ vision, you see: a season of concerts with the intention of opening up the possibilities of classical music to a wider audience.  A tradition started some one hundred and eleven years ago and still going strong.  However much the more expensive tickets for a Proms performance maybe in demand and indeed sold out, there’s always some one thousand very reasonably priced five pounds standing tickets available to those willing to turn up and queue on the day. That’s how it has been since 1895, that is the Proms.

A last minute shall we go for it rush down to Kensington on the 52 bus. John Adams is always worth checking out, rewardingly avant yet very easy to flow with, not awkward just for the sake of it, always slightly different. Vivid contemporary colourful intricate harmonic highly charged classical/operatic music is what American composer John Adams has for you. Oh yes, John Adams is always worth checking out (you post-rock magpies could’ve ‘borrowed’ a hundred cool riff ideas tonight!). We make it in with minutes to spare, thankfully less than a thousand have taken advantage of the Henry Woods legacy tonight, a rush around to the side door and we get our Proms tickets - last in and politely hurried to take our place in front of the orchestra just before John Adams walks out, in white jacket, to respectful cheers and enthusiastic applauds. The rest of the hall is pretty full, politely comfortable in the standing promenade area - and far less stuffy and formal than you’d imagine it would be. All you have to do is keep quiet during the music. No dress code, bring a cushion, stretch out on the floor if you like - this is going to be fun. 

A Copeland piece first then, dramatically conducted by John Adams. The Billy The Kid Suite - you may not think you know Aaron Copeland’s music, but you do. Copeland pretty much is the first half of the 20th Century as far as American orchestral music goes - you’ll know it when you hear it, so instantly recognisable and unmistakable - such an influence. You really do feel you are listening and viewing in letterbox Big Country widescreen. It really is something special to be standing there with a full orchestra in front of you - you just don’t get the sensation or the (relatively quiet - well, to this metalhead anyway) power when you’re sat at home letting a television editor select your views for you - this is brilliant!  The unified movement of an eye-level string section really is something to behold. Copeland’s scores flow, they float, they tell stories - somehow, he captured both the sense of hope and optimism of pioneer America, and the physical bigness of the landscape.    Billy The Kid is a ballet score based on the life of the cowboy outlaw - a wide open expansive piece and the sound of the great American West - and there goes a delightful slice in 5/8... others have imitated but the source sounds incredibly fresh.

A short break for breath (and polite coughing) and John Adams is back, still in his white jacket and ready to conduct a thrilling piece of his own called Century Rolls. Impressively delicate almost mechanical notes open and lead us into a piece that features an absolutely mesmerising Finnish pianist called Olli Mustonen - how on earth does he play like that? How does he hit the right notes with those expansive arm movements? Those fingers come from such a height. The main body of the orchestra looks - to this untrained eye - to be pretty conventional, save for the array of strange and rather impressive percussion - giant Chinese gongs, tubular bells... We’re talking warm inviting math here, a bright rhythmic alertness and once again that captivating coordinated arm movement of the string section that occurs just above the standing heads of the crowd - a sea of violins, arms moving like waves. All kinds of classical references to Twenties and Thirties jazz and bebop - drifting into dreamy passages and never for a moment letting you out of its grasp. It's incredibly detailed, dense, often with layers and layers of fast notes weaving together to make a shimmering texture. It seems ridiculous that he was lumped in with minimalist composers like Philip Glass at the start of his career: this couldn't be more of a contrast, and not for nothing are people bandying around the phrase 'maximalist'.   Thirty-one wonderfully captivating thrilling sometimes very delicately gentle minutes - and all with that amazing piano. 

The thing about John Adams is that you don’t feel that he’s isolated and closed to outside influences - he’s of a generation that has naturally absorbed all kinds of music, which means, even thought he’s incredibly complex and full of detail, it makes perfect sense to our ears - just down to earth, emotional and human yet rewardingly avant garde at the same time.  It's only 'challenging' if you're a musician - for all the super-complexity of the rhythms and melodies Adams' music is incredibly human and incredibly easy to digest.  Century Rolls is based around the style and animation of 20th Century mechanical player-piano music - hence passages which sound brilliantly like analogue sequencers burble away, but weirdly infected by human feeling. Century Rolls' final section, cheerily titled Hail Bop, has even more references to avant player-piano composer Conlon Nancarrow (Adams is much nicer to listen to, apparently), and concludes to joyous applause and cheers 

Second half of the evening is taken up by the (much anticipated) world premier of a new symphonic version of a 2005 John Adams opera, the original three-hour score stripped of narrative and compressed into the Doctor Atomic symphony. A thirty-five minute piece in four parts, it revolves around Robert Oppenheimer, the moral dilemma of nuclear invention and the creation of the atom bomb.  Things get off to a dark and rather intense, almost heroic start: the race to create the bomb that will save the world... or destroy it; the personal conflicts of the people involved - quite a musical contrast to Century Rolls. This is imagination-firing stuff... Not as easy to grasp as the previous works tonight but moments burn into the memory, especially passages heavy on percussion that are indescribable in the acoustics of the Albert Hall, and probably impossible to capture on record.  Which brings us back neatly round to why you have to give this experience a go - stuff a fiver in your pocket, find the little door and the friendly people round the back of the Albert Hall, bring a cushion and some ears - no flags required - although at time of writing you've only got a week of Proms left - check the listings for what's on.

    Modern orchestral/contemporary classical music lives behind a big scary invisible wall; the likes of us get glimpses of delicious sounds but haven't the foggiest where to start.  Adams may well be the best to begin with: for all the depth and subtlety and multi-layered meaning and harmonic complexity in his work - it rocks.   Edgy story telling music, connected with what's going on with the world, deeply emotional, shape-shifting, avant and complex yet never willfully hard to listen to... this is the music of now, of our time and place.  Listen for yourself, the concert is up on line for a week - www.bbc.co.uk/proms. or explore John Adams via his website - www.earbox.com
 

LIVE REVIEW ARCHIVES

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
THE SOUND MOVEMENT – Questions (Truck) – A fine single from an album we happily declared album of the week back last year sometime (says so here in their press release, so we must have done – yes we did).  Breezy uplifting single, feel good single, fresh and cleansing and while they really do sound like no one else but themselves, they do positively taste of rather fine and healthy things like those glorious Stone Roses, those Bunnymen, The Church and the best bits of Ride. Uplifting, light on your feet and this time they sound like airy easy breezy peel of uplifting church bells. Avert your gaze from those shoes and look over the hills and into the sky – simple, clever refreshing, uplifting and rather recommended yet again – www.myspace.com/thesoundmovement  Oh an they’re playing the Borderline in London on August 31st as well. 

ALSO CHECK OUT
KUBICHEK – Method-Acting (30:30) – Another politely epic (in that very predictable minor way) indie rock Bloc Party thing. How many is that this week? The NME say they’ll “blow your mind and break your heart”, I guess the NME know best when it comes to things that will break our hearts. My mind however remains rather unmoved and unblown and my cold heart still appears to be functioning in a rather unflustered manner and you know you can always trust your wonderful NME far more than you could ever trust anyone around here – seems a little too much like formulaic Bloc Party to us. Kubrick then, yet another indie rocky Bloc Party thingy, just like all the other thingys that the tapeworms and biscuit thieves over at the ever impressive NME say will break our minds. I know why not let Kubichek make your mind up for themselves over at www.myspace.com/kubichek – alternatively you can move on down to the bottom of the pile with us scum bags and visit places where alligators and other vile vile creatures really will chew your minds and take you to places where things that sound like yet another run of the mill easily marketable Bloc Party just won’t do 

Last week's single of the week - THE CULT

Previously - LIARS / DAN DEACON / 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

PREVIOUSLY - NUB / ANTHRAX / OMD

Cabbage – The blues are rife with food metaphors for genitalia. There’s cabbage, cake, jelly roll and pie for women, and bacon, hambone, hot dog, jellybean and lemon for men. Cabbage was also slang for money during the 1940’s and 50’s. In Empty Bed Blues, Bessie Smith teased “He boiled my first cabbage and he made it awfully hot, when he put in the bacon it overflowed the pot” 

Once you pick it up you won’t want to put it down. 

Oh and Debra is a rather impressive New York based blues guitarist herself – www.debradesalvo.com or www.myspace.com/debdesalvo
 

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

TOP 10 LISTOID THING	10 THINGS
Weasel Walter’s Top 10 list  1. Re-watching Twin Peaks 2. The Polyphonic Spree  - The Fragile Army 3. Listening to the records I'm prepping for release  - I seriously work on this stuff so hard, pretty much every single record I do involves months and months of obsessive tweaks to get them perfect.  Right now I'm finishing the Luttenbachers record and a bunch of free jazz stuff. On the horizon is a duo recording with guitarist Mary Halvorson that slays.  4. Anal C*nt - Defenders Of The Hate reissue 5. Trader Joe's Greek style yogurt with fig in it 6. Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives (I can't figure out if I love it or hate it) 7. My girlfriend  just bought this rad dress and some wicked shoes at Bebe. Totally  hot. 8. Lauren Newton on Masahiko Togashi's Contrast LP.  9. Whitehouse - Racket 10. ZS -  Arms  Weasel Walter is a Flying Luttenbacher

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