We did actually have a band the other day who actually actually e.mailed and actually damn well actually asked “do we actually need to send you a CD to actually get played on the radio?” I don’t know, difficult one that! Maybe they wanted us to sing their new song over the airwaves or something? Maybe they thought we could think it on to the air? Hey man if you all imagine we’re playing this CD that the band didn’t actually need to actually send in, then you can imagine what they actually sound like, think hard maaaaaaan and you’ll all hear it right there in the glowing silence. No, if you can’t workout simple things like do you need to send us music to get played then please don’t bother asking, we have now given up suffering fools and if you can’t get your shit together then we’re not going to do it for you. 

Bands! Musicians! Absolute ungrateful arseholes all of them! No clue about anything (to misquote the great Tony Wilson), absolute clueless ego-strapped creatures, no life skills, no thought for others, think the whole world revolves around them and what they’re doing today - you haven’t mentioned us for five minutes now, nada, nothing - people who somehow have this one ability to sometimes make beautiful life changing mood altering vitality in the form of some three and half-minute tune so we forgive the bastards almost everything. Time to slake... 

Slake \SLAYK\, transitive verb: 1. To satisfy; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. 2. To cause to lessen; to make less active or intense; to moderate; as, slaking his anger. 3. To cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water. 4. To become slaked; to crumble or disintegrate, as lime.

– these are the things that have been in our ears this week, please explore and if it sounds interesting then hit the links and make your own minds up, our reviews and thoughts are mere signposts designed to guide you to the things you might like to feast on yourselves... don’t you just love the www. 

CARDIACS TOUR NOVEMBER 2007

MON 12th - BRIGHTON: THE OLD MARKET 
TUE 13th - OXFORD: ZODIAC 
WED 14th - BRISTOL: THEKLA SOCIAL 
THU 15th - NOTTINGHAM: RESCUE ROOMS 
FRI 16th  - LONDON: ASTORIA 
MON 19th - SHEFFIELD: BOARDWALK 
TUE 20th - STOKE ON TRENT: THE SUGARMILL 
WED 21st - MANCHESTER: ACADEMY 3
THU 22th  - PORTSMOUTH: WEDGEWOOD ROOMS 
FRI 23rd  - CARDIFF: CLWB IFOR BACH 
SAT 24th - LEEDS: WOODHOUSE LIBERAL CLUB
 

John on the phone...

Well if you did make it here on Thursday then today is John Peel day, if you didn’t they hey, last Thursday was John Peel day. We originally put that “John On The Phone” headline up there on the day we heard the news on the radio that he had passed on and the day we wrote a piece about how he would call us up to ask about a band or a record we had sent him or a demo he thought we might know about – thanks John, you’re not forgotten.

ORGAN TV?

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

This coming Sunday we have the following videos...

AARON MCMULLEN - Blue From Black 
ODD SHAPED HEAD - Egomatic Annie 
EMIGRATE - My World 
ASSDROIDS - Daft Crunk 
LILY GREEN - Patience 
TIM ARNOLD - Another World 
SOHODOLLS - Right and Right Again 
TO THE BONES - Tycho 

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

VIKING MOSES - Little Emma's Smile 
ODD SHAPED HEAD - Egomatic Annie 
TIM ARNOLD - Another World 
AARON MCMULLEN - Blue From Black 
BEE STINGS -  Pressure (Running Away) 
THE KIETH JOHN ADAMS - The Other Side Of The Road 
65DAYSOFSTATIC - Don't Go Down To Sorrow 
TANGAROA - Vietnamese Killing Queens 

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 
 

You know, we don’t usually bother writing about the time wasting stuff that clutters up so much of our day and our floor - we listen to it so you don’t have to, all part of the public service - Hell! What is this crap cluttering up our ear time right now?! Some of you people just don’t have a damn clue do you – send this crap to Louie Walsh or whatever he’s called, him off of that brain-melting moron-fodder X Factor show (X-Factor? Where did they get that one from eh?), he’ll probably tell you how crap it is as well but hey, at least that would be somewhere near vaguely in the right direction for this cynical kiddy pop poop – At least vaguely target your crap at the right place, we cover evil nasty rock music, a wide spectrum of rock music I know, but come on!! It isn’t rocket science is it? Insipid indie rock bands with dreadful lyrics sending us crap we can forgive and ignore, piss poor metal bands are an accepted hazard of life, Cliff Richard albums and Hard-fi singles go straight on Ebay, but time wasting pop star wannabes just stay the hell out of damn post box! Your CD has been stomped, the case has been recycled (see, we care a lot about garbage pale kids that no one loves), and hey look, the stamps are unfranked, anarchy indeed, we’re happy to abuse the Royal Mail bosses right now. Come on, do you clueless idiots really need us to feed you biscuits, pat your head and tell your music is good? No! Your music is crap, you’re not getting any biscuits, go away, stay the hell out of our post box!

DEMO OF THE WEEK
THE PRETTY YOUNG THINGS - Well they’re not going to win any prizes for originally, and I can’t tell you if they’re pretty, but hey, this is a solid shit-kicking attitude-laden blast of ram-raiding car-stealing New York style raw power Stooges/Dolls/Dead Boys goodness - as raw as it should be, blistering, low slung – raw-throated dumb as hell punk rock and roll for health freaks and joggers everywhere. Apparently they’re a gang of teenagers (or maybe twenty-somethings by now) from Cambridge.  Nice slide guitar, really nice slice guitar! Good enough to name drop Rose Tattoo (things are serious when we get to name drop the Tattoo!) or The Woodpackers or the Georgia Satellites or Bon Scott period AC/DC or a fuzzy Pistols playing the Stones bootleg tape  – these three tracks are getting better and better with every spin, these three guys can play! They’ve got the licks, they’re got a raw filthy attitude, they’re basic and stripped down and coming right at you and these three tracks, recorded in this raw filthy state, damn well rule!  Don’t let anyone every think of given them money to record ‘properly’, don’t let any know-everything know-pushing producer anywhere near them – keep these people hungry and raw and abused enough to keep on pumping this righteous blues-our garage punk rock right out there – www.myspace.com/theprettyyoungthings

Last week's demo of the week - HAPPY PENGUIN HUNGRY BEAR

Previous demo's of the week - SOMEBODY’S MIND / INSTRUMENTS / DEATH QUNT / OAKWOOD / EPSTEIN SUPERFLU / THE FURIOUS SLEEP / FUNERAL CRASHERS / THUMPERMONKEY LIVES! / HELLFIRE / MR PHORMULA and LEWS TEWNS / THE APPLES / ONSEGEN ENSEMBLE / SASSY

DEMO REVIEW ARCHIVES

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
SAMARA LUBELSKI – Parallel Suns (The Social Registry) – A gentle colourful glowing elegant blend of warm inviting uplifting delicate ethereal and rather beautiful psychedelic folk. Slightly prog flavoured songs that hold so so much. She’s from New York and this is deliciously warm and lush and alive with so much welcoming rewarding detail. Bright and inviting and clever and full of beautiful dreamy sleepy sunny colour. Organic and very Sixties flavoured in a very positive way - soft-focus melodious analogue and eating pie and drinking tea and honeydew and melodeons that flow and maybe if Sea Nymphs were a dreamy American folk band? A beautiful album all toped off with strings and clarinets and recorders, Parallel Suns feels so right, so nice down here. The Production, the playing, the arrangements, the details – everything is right - and then there’s her delicate soothing inviting glowing voice right there in the middle of it all. Wonderful (and yes, incandescent) beauty. Apparently she’s working with Thurston Moore oh his new album right now – a beautiful album -  www.samaralubelski.com  or www.thesocialregistry.com available in the UK via www.cargorecords.co.uk
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ALSO CHECK OUT ROTHKAMM - FB03: E Pluribus Unum (The Flux Record Archive) – FB03 is apparently the final installment of the FB trilogy, first thing we’ve heard so we can’t really comment on the evolution here – seems this culminating work in an “epic of supermodern electronic music” and Rothkamm's “radical Critique of the Stereophonic Illusion results in microscopic-level detail and a most intimate sound. Monophonic sound sources, coupled like DNA strands, are the building blocks. Binary rhythms, now at the forefront, result in frequency distributions closest to folk music. FB03 shows aspects of multiple time periods simultaneously as it architects the Great Evolution: from tiny granulations to dense drones”.- Well that’s the science bit out of the way (got that bit from the blurb that came with this fine album). Thing is, considering all the highbrow Wire reader chin stroking seriousness presented here, this album is actually fun – this album has humanity, it has substance, it has depth and yes, deep art if you want to go deep, but it is in reality lots of enjoyable minimal soothing ambient bleep-blimp-buzz-drone pleasure - clean cut circuit-bending of both existing technology and of reality,  German born, now American based, Rothkamm, aka Frank Holger, does indeed create something that you could describe (and enjoy) quite rightly as supermodern electronic music – crisp, clean, minimal, modern, rewarding instrumental (simple?) electronic music. He asserts that the three principles of supermodernism are: "1. Be Utopian and Scientific, 2. Nod to the First Pioneers, 3. Make full use of Left, Right, and Phantom Channel". And yes it does nod towards the pioneers like Stockhausen and yes we could analyse it and get all geeky art-house Wire-serious on your arse, we’re not going to though – this is just music - enjoyable resonant sound-art music, the simple (complex) pleasure of creating and/or listening, this is everything you want music to be – a find enjoyable piece of art.. www.rothkamm.com

ZOLAR X – X Marks The Spot (Alternative Tentacles) – Some kind of space pop-rock and I guess for some a new Zolar X album is a big deal, I find it a little sugary sweet and those lyrics are a little twee and irritating (flying out past the stars to Mars? If you’re flying out past the stars Mr X then even I know you’re way past Mars and I never leave London). Jello reckons Zolar X is the missing link between Chrome and The Stooges, not hearing that here – at best this is pop-rock Hawkwind with a slightly irritating vocal style and rather twee lyrics - still, if you’re interested then here’s the link – www.alternativetentacles.com

JODY THOMAS – We Are (Wheels Of A Gnome) – Self confessed twenty something singer song writer with a seven track album that’s really rather good in a Thom Yorke, Jeff Buckley, Kurt Cobain kind of way. He’s from London (via the West country) and if intelligent, slightly dark, slightly angst ridden singers are you thing then this is worth your time - www.jodythomasmusic.com or www.myspace.com/jodythomasmusic

OLD TIME RELIJUN – Catharsis in Crisis (K) – They have this groove going down and some edgy dub that’s on the rise and a giant giant slice of Captain Beefheart going down (which of course could well explain them being named the same as a song on Trout Mask Replica). They’ve been around for an age, revolving around the K/Olympia scene. Is that too much of a slice of Beefheart? Little too much of an influence maybe? Ah well, what the hell, sounds good, they do it rather well – www.krecs.com or available in the UK via www.cargorecords.co.uk

MOONSPELL – Under Satanae (SPV) – New album from subtle as a brick in the teeth Portuguese goth metallers Moonspell – all classical interludes, stomping metal and dark acoustic bridges. A whole load of re-workings of early songs, more details from – www.moonspell.com

MY ALAMO – My Alamo (Seventh Star) – Polite indie guitar rock for people who like things like Foo Fighters and think Download is a good idea, we’ll leave it with you to investigate if you want to – www.myalamo.co.uk
 

Last week's album of the week - EFTERKLANG / TAINT Previous album's of the week - AMERICAN STEEL / ATHLETIC AUTOMATON / YOU AND THE ATOM BOMB / GALLHAMMER / MEWITHOUTYOU / PRE / LOU REED & ZEITKRATZER / SCRAPS OF TAPE / EVERY TIME I DIE / SOHODOLLS / LIARS / UPSILON ACRUX / MIKROKOSMOS / ODD NOSDAM / MENENDEZ /  GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN x

ALBUM REVIEW ARCHIVES

LIVE REVIEW ARCHIVES

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
LOVE AND A .45 – Too Blonde For You (Cheapshock) – Seven slices of high-energy low-budget broken heel hole-in-yer-baseball boot cheap-trash glam-edged punk rock’n roll goodness for you – They’re from London, they’ve got New York late 70’s and Seattle Mid 90’s running in there with the healthy hints of the capital city. That and The Ramones and a healthy hint of So-Cal punk-pop and Rip Her To Threads and Babes in Toyland (and that woman from Angel Cage or whatever they were called) and the bittersweet trash rock and smudged lipstick and pop hooks that’ll drag you in to their punky power pop and classic CBGBs via Wardour Street and jagged edges and healthy feedback and don’t mess fuzz. They’re a four piece led by the raw pop-throat rasp of Kate Moritz. And we all know low-budget cheap-trash glam-edged proper punk rock’n roll is far better for you than the sanitized high budget super slick clean cut compromised the Man would like to sell you. They got the goods and they got it right. Seven track EP – www.myspace.com/lovemy45.

ALSO CHECK OUT
UNDERDOG – No Enemies (Blackwater) – Radio friendly Brit rock with a healthy Stones swagger – www.underdogtheband.co.uk

BLOOD RED SHOES – I Wish I Was Someone Better (V2) - Another slice of urgent buzzing indie yeah yeah yeah goodness from the Brighton seaside – www.v2music.com or www.myspace.com/bloodredshoes

Last week's single of the week - BLUE STATES

Previously - EFTERKLANG / NATO / TINY MASTERS OF TODAY / AND THEIR EYES WERE BLOODSHOT / BRENDA / CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN AVIATOR / FIGHT LIKE APES / THE SOUND MOVEMENT / THE CULT / LIARS / DAN DEACON / TWIN THOUSANDS / ZAN PAN / THE GENTLE GOOD / TRUCKDRIVER JNR

SINGLE REVIEW ARCHIVES

PREVIOUSLY - CARTER USM / THE HOUSE OF LOVE / MONO / DEEP PURPLE / NUB / ANTHRAX / OMD

PREVIOUSLY - NEMESIS TO GO #4 / DVD: MIGHTY ROBOT: SLEEP WHEN YOU ARE DEAD / DVD: GLASTONBURY - THE MOVIE / BOOK: THE LANGUAGE OF THE BLUES – Debra De Salvo / BOOK: BERNARD SUMNER – CONFUSION / ZINE: NOISY No5 / DVD: SAMMY AND THE WABOS – LIVING IT UP IN ST.LOUIS / DVD - NAZARETH – FROM THE BEGINNING

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