Unleash the beast, read the letter, made all up... 

– these are the things that have been in our ears this week, please explore and if it sounds interesting then justhit 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 instant hit of the www. 

DONE LYING DOWN - formed In the autumn of 1992, after singer Jack Plug (aka Jeremy Parker) relocated to the UK from his hometown of Boston, Massachussetts, and met up with guitarist Frank Art, bassist AliMac and drummer James "The Mez" Sherry.  Between 1993 and 1996 they released 2 albums, 7 singles, recorded 3 sessions for John Peel (scoring entries in the legendary Festive Fifty), played hundreds of shows and gained much recognition by the music press (back when this really counted for something). Now they live in different continents DLD generally only get together on the internet to collaborate on various musical projects, they are reuniting in London for this very rare show for Silver Rocket (who are massive long term fans, I should say!)

“Amidst even the most severe Done Lying Down song, you'll find cruel dashes of intentional and very dark humour. Wild at heart and wired on top, they're the best punk rock group on the entire planet" – NME
- www.donelyingdown.com / www.myspace.com/donelyingdown

4 OR 5 MAGICIANS – “This band wrote to us about 50 times telling us they were great (say ther Silver Rocket team) . We largely ignored them due to reasons of extreme busy-ness, like we do with most requests from bands. Finally we had a listen. It turns out they were right. If you ever liked Pavement, Superchunk, Sebadoh, Archers of Loaf (basically any great American indie-rock) then you won’t go wrong with 4 or 5 magicians. - www.myspace.com/4or5magicians

HERZOGA - Stoke three-piece making wrongpop, The Fall meets Girls Vs Boys meets Wire. We’ve gone on about them at length already here, you should have their debut split CD single by now -  “Like early Art Brut wrestling with a pub outing of psychiatrists” - Steve Lamacq  “A blistering set of twisted pop - think Sonic Youth meets Pavement and you're on the way there” - BBC Radio Stoke - www.myspace.com/herzogaband

SLUDGEFEAST - Deranged, intense (as in intensive-care), and compelling fuzzed-up filthy stoner garage rock (like middle period Mudhoney with added mud). They sound like an unholy combination of Mudhoney, Melvins, Ramones, Motorhead and Kyuss. Very rarely seen sober, or indeed upright, Sludgefeast are pure entertainment live. Their website describes this 3 piece as "f*cked up rock feedback action direct from hell" - www.myspace.com/sludgefeast
 

John on the phone...

John Peel's legendary Festive 50 continues again this year on Dandelion Radio - play your part in by voting for your three favourite tracks of 2007, here. I know what's I'd vote for.. Lewisham 77 is an event remembering, some 30 years on, the 'Battle Of Lewisham' when the far-right National Front tried to march through Southeast London. Locals and anti-fascists mobilised against them, leading to a street riot which saw more than 200 arrested and 100 injured. A day of exhibitions, screenings and talks take place on November 10th - 1pm-5pm, Goldsmiths College, (Great Hall), New Cross, London, SE14. -  http://lewisham77.blogspot.com

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 
SOHO DOLLS - Right And Right Again 
LILY GREEN - Patience 
TRUCKERS OF HUSK - Salad Ballad 
BEE STINGS - Pressure (Running Away) 
THE LOW LOWS - Dear Flies Love Spiders 
BEYOND DAWN - Among The Sedatives 

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

65DAYSOFSTATIC - A.O.D 
WENDYKURK - Freckles
SCARAMANGA SIX - We Rode The Storm 
ZERO CIPHER - Stupid People Make Me Angry 
MC LARS - Ahab 
TO THE BONES - Tycho 
BEECHER - Function Function 
MUNICIPAL WASTE - Headbanger Face Rip 
 
 

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
HOUSEHOLD – A rather chaotically good lo-fi alt-rock edgy post-punk indie guitar noise that comes laced with raw ambition and a creative imaginative attitude. It looked good from the off - inviting intriguing D.I.Y packaging that told us something a little extra had gone in to this demo. Wired guitar lines, abrasive vocals and hooks that don’t so much invite you as snarl and joust and then grab you by the roots of your messed up hair and pull you right in to their stew of broken glass and snarling vocals. A broad Scottish singer, noisy bits pushing at the quiet bits (actually even the quiet bits are frazzled and snarling). Frenetic and discordant and abrasive and invasive – they have it under control though, this sounds like an intentional positive raw lo-fi mess. They’re tight, they know what they’re doing, they’re right to be confident, they know they’re good. Household are impressive and edgy and just a little disturbing - disturbing is good - drilling right into your heart (ready to pluck it out and put it in their pickle jar). They’ve got these analogue textures and paranoid loops and they’re all wired and on fire – this is a frantically fine demo, they’re from Glasgow – you need them and their self proclaimed no-wave punk rock. Another one for the bottom feeders.... www.inthehousehold.com or www.myspace.com/inthehousehold

Last week's demo of the week - THE JELAS

Previous demo's of the week - COUNTRYSIDE / BASTARDS OF THE SKIES / MEHE / THE PRETTY YOUNG THINGS / HAPPY PENGUIN HUNGRY BEAR / SOMEBODY’S MIND / INSTRUMENTS / DEATH QUNT / OAKWOOD / EPSTEIN SUPERFLU / THE FURIOUS SLEEP / FUNERAL CRASHERS / THUMPERMONKEY LIVES!

DEMO REVIEW ARCHIVES

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 
FRIGHTENED RABBIT – Sing The Greys (Fat Cat) – So much eloquent personality here, songs and things that don’t really fit anywhere too obvious, tales of ordinary things – like the girl who yawns and the tide coming in – positive celebrations of the things others may miss. Incisive observations, the wit of life and knee deep in high-horse shite. Folk-tinged alt.pop songs that are alive with uplifting tactile detail. Frightened Rabbit are a three piece from Scotland and nothing is missing despite the lack of a bass player. Pin-sharp focused songs, wry social commentary, clever emotion and modern alt.folk done just so so beautifully right - especially Yawns – an album full of treats, play it three times and you’ll know you’re going to love it for ever. www.myspace.com/frightenedrabbit or www.fat-cat.co.uk
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ALSO CHECK OUT THE MOCK HEROIC – Dignified Exits (Superfi) – Now this is frantically unhinged and like some falling upstairs episode of an in control out-of-control escape plan. Frantic and scratchy and far too creative to be thrown in any lazy pigeon hole – been out since May, so we’re late, or someone’s late getting it in here for us to yell about, so what, call the man in the hat or something. Damn, this is intense! Relentless screaming hardboiled scrum of screaming math metal violence and vicious high-wire slicing. Taking their creative cue from the original post-hardcore emo bands of the 90’s and twisting it all into a beautifully violent and rather relentless set of light and shade screamathon frenzies – oh yes, this is goooooooooood, every intense screaming barking twitching slicing bendy second of it – www.superfirecords.co.uk

SOLDIERS – End Of Days (Trustkill) – No messing hard-as-nails no-time-to-compromise metal-edged hardcore intensity straight out of Long Island New York. Brutal, hard, honest, violent, real... good. www.trustkill.com

RED VOICE CHOIR – A Thousand Reflections (Atakra) - A dark and rather inviting mix of tasty things from deepest Oakland (California). Think Siouxsie style goth via a cool American alt.rock outlook and a hints of things like Phantom Limbs or Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and just a hint of left field Liars. Intriguing, edgy, clever word play, melodramatic post-punk flavoured alt.goth for March Violets everywhere – right there in the dark, waiting - harrowing drama. Miss Kel (from Black Ice) on tense seductive vocals and dramatic organ, guitarist Adam Beck an edgy foil/frontman to her voice. Intense atmospheres, layered story telling, drama – words and lines that keep on demand attention. Seems their live shows have been described as being like a “thunderous seance” – that makes sense, that thunderous feel certainly comes over here in the warm inviting intensity of these six intriguing tracks. www.atakra.com / www.myspace.com/redvoicechoir

PRIMORDIAL –To The Nameless Dead (Metalblade) – First class epic metal and possibly the long standing Irish band’s finest moments thus far. Intense yet melodic, epic thrash-edged full-blooded brooding metal and a new album that stands way way out above the overcrowded wastelands of metaldom. Ambitious impressive folk/Celtic/pagan flavoured epic dark-edged metal from a band who’ve evolved out of the 90’s black metal underground. They have a sense of a time and place, a feel of where they are from, that Black Rose epicness, a real heart to their impressive wall of sound. Recommended – www.primordialweb.com

GERIATRIC UNIT – Life Half Over (BossTuneage) – Life half over? Nah mate, some of us bottom feeding scum are going to live forever, a constant angry pissed-off thorn in your side. What we have here is a bunch of old school got-the-scars been there, done-it-all UK hardcore punk rock originals. People who’ve done time in fine bands like Heresy, Iron Monkey and Hard To Swallow - people who really should know better then to be blasting out fast raw straight up real deal proper hardcore by now. Ten tracks that are over before your pot of tea has brewed and a bunch of middle aged men showing the upstarts and the hairstyles how to do it properly. Old fast loud rules – this ain’t just some 80’s rehash nostalgia trip cash in - no, this is a proper kick in the teeth at the arse end of cynical 2007 - still raging against the machine and needed now as much as they ever were. You know, some glossy mainstream journo who runs a label and likes to spout on about DIY and punkrock and unity (when it suits him and his marketing plan) sent us a barrage of amusing abuse this week - told us were nothing but bottom feeders with a bad attitude and we should have figured out by now that punk rock was merely another convenient genre and nothing but a pigeonhole - just a marketing tool for record labels to push their product with – maybe it is? Maybe that all it ever was? What the f do us loud mouth opinionated scumbags know about anything? Hey, we may know jack, but we sure do know that this is a blasting slice of righteous good-for-your-health hardcore punk rock (all of their lives have been dedicated to this). Does it all amount to nothing in the end? No! Go grab yourself a rather fine antidote to all the drivel that masquerades as this, that and the other. Ten slices of faster than fast undiluted proper angry raging UK hardcore punk rock, woof woof bark bark babble babble – it is your hate on which we feed – yes, we like it down here, bottom feeders one and all  -  www.myspace.com/geriatricunit or www.bosstuneage.com

THE BUSY SIGNALS – Busy Signals (Dirtnap) - Catchy energetic electric punky power pop. New Wave early Blondie and early Buzzcocks and wound-up-tight ’77 flavoured punk-pop. www.myspace.com/thebusysignals

MSB – Cafe Trauma (Redcorn) – A promising mix of punk-pop and trad-ska with a hint or two of funk. Production leaves the embryoic English band's album a little flat when it really should be jumping out of the speakers, sounds like they could probably kick up that traditional ska storm live though. An alright album that's kind of crying out for an edge and a hint of X factor – guess they’re a live thing for now - www.magicskoolbus.com

HEARTSALIVE – The Tragedy In Us (Dead Vibrations Industry) - Professional enough screamo metalcore, the same as the other seven million ambitious-less conforming scared-to-be-different screamo metalcore bands we’ve already encountered. Same screams, same riffs, same pose, same uniform, same band photo, same same same  - here it is if you want it - www.heartsalive.net
 

Last week's album of the week - DEERHUNTER / KMFDM Previous album's of the week - BY THE END OF TONIGHT / TERA MELOS / RUBENS / RASHOMON / SAMARA LUBELSKI / EFTERKLANG / TAINT / AMERICAN STEEL / ATHLETIC AUTOMATON / YOU AND THE ATOM BOMB / GALLHAMMER / MEWITHOUTYOU / PRE / LOU REED & ZEITKRATZER / SCRAPS OF TAPE x

ALBUM REVIEW ARCHIVES

LIVE REVIEW ARCHIVES

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
DEPARTMENT S / TERRY EDWARDS & THE SCAPEGOATS – My Coo Ca Choo/Cat People (Sartorial) – Department S back and reformed - quick, rush and tell Vic! Is he there? Stripped down and Ant-beat infected cover of the black leather clad contortionist Alvin Stardust’s classic debut single that kind of sounds more like a lo-fi Shane Fenton and the Fentones thing than the original slice of 70’s cooler than cool glam rock’n roll – brilliant! Single of the week already - and on Romany blood red 7”vinyl as well! Single of the week well before we flipped it over for the even better slice of outrageous Bowieness in the shape a smouldering gasoline on the fire saxophone-drenched ska version of Cat People – Bowie never sounded so good! Brilliant, both sides of it! Outrageously brilliant! www.myspace.com/sartorialrecords or www.myspace.com/departments
 

ALSO CHECK OUT

THE KISSAWAY TRAIL – 61 (Bella Union) – A rather breezy beautiful uplifting Grandaddy/Flaming Lips style slice of positive delight – www.thekissawaytrail.com / www.bellaunion.com

THESE NEW PURITANS – Colours And Numbers (Angular) – More creative angular indie pop from the sharp people at Angular Records - and if not now then when... 

CROWNING GLORY – Dead Man’s Paradise (Rise Above) – From the depths of London (The Soundhouse? The Ruskin?) Proper bleedin’ metal! NWOBHM name rank and serial number Fist punching metal for Sledgehammers, Ravens, Angel Witches and Praying Mantis munchers everywhere. Sounds like very early Maiden, sounds like spilt beer and filthy dirty unwashed embroided denim  - garrison-storming no-messing proper metal as f  M-E-T-A-L!!!! www.myspace.com/crowningglory

LOVE ENDS DISASTER! – Suzanne/Dinosaur (This Is Fake DIY) – Love Ends are heading in to indie rock Bloc Party land, the indie pop-rock press and evening time Radio 1/XFM DJs seem to think this is a good thing – and good luck to them all. Love Ends Disaster do their chosen thing well, their people seem pretty keen on us saying something so we’ll say I guess it wouldn’t annoy us if it was on daytime XFM rotation, rather have this than the annoying rinky dinky Pigeon Monkeys (listening to daytime XFM can bring me out in a radio throwing rage, how many times do they need to play the same damn record! Thery’ve had the same songs on for four days now).  Hang on, those lyrics are starting to register now – hey look, this really isn’t our thing, the direction they’re clearly heading isn’t for us. Respect to ‘em, everyone to their own and if you like your radio friendly current crop indie rock then here’s Love Ends Disaster’s next step - probably big news next year, probably best if we leave it with you, good luck to them (are you noting how polite we’re being here?). Here’s a couple of links, who cares what we think, think for yourselves, if they sound like your thing then they’re certainly worth your time – www.myspace.com/loveendsdisaster or www.thisisfakediy.co.uk

TARJA - I Walk Alone (Spinefarm) – One time voice of Finnish metal band Nightwish with a goth flavoured operatic ballad that sounds more like some movie theme tune or Lloyd Webber musical thing you’d catch on Classic FM - I must confess I kind of like it in a cheesy kind of way, if Terry Wogan hears it then it might be a Christmas number one.

Last week's single of the week - THAT F*CKING TANK

Previously - ODD SHAPED HEAD / VESSELS / 4 OR 5 MAGICIANS / TIME.SPACE.REPEAT / WE START FIRES / LOVE AND A .45 / BLUE STATES / EFTERKLANG / NATO / TINY MASTERS OF TODAY / AND THEIR EYES WERE BLOODSHOT / BRENDA / CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN AVIATOR / FIGHT LIKE APES / THE SOUND MOVEMENT / THE CULT

SINGLE REVIEW ARCHIVES

PREVIOUSLY - HERE AND NOW / WALLS OF JERICHO / CARTER USM / THE HOUSE OF LOVE / MONO / DEEP PURPLE / NUB / ANTHRAX / OMD

PREVIOUSLY - BATH BOMB / 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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