Well the BBC sure let John Peel day go by without a mention this year didn’t they. Thanks to everyone who tuned in to last Sunday’s Resonance FM show and thanks for all the feedback and positive response, we’ll do it again next year if we’re still here. 

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

DEMO OF THE WEEK
INERTIA BLOOMS – Another one of those glitchy post rock bands starting to explore the boundaries and the potential, clearly early days but there’s more than a few healthy signs that that the English band maybe taking themselves somewhere new rather than just being happy with sound like all the others. Three tracks that have some character and leave us rather hopeful. Yes, rather liking this – www.myspace.com/inertiablooms

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MISPELT (TWOPOINTZERO) – Junkfood Generation – No messing straight in there tuneful shouty fem-gob street punk goodness from the midlands of England. Stiff Little Fingers, Ramones, Motorhead, Vice Squad, Girlschool - fast gobby tuneful girl-fronted punk pop and junkfood delivered with suss and attitude. Shout-a-long chorus and a take no shit kind of hit and run defiance Four songs, four fast ram raids, all good - www.myspace.com/mispelt2pointzero

MONKEY FIGHTERS – Key Rights Of Man - Early moves and raw shapes from a Bristol band with a bit of melodic Queens of The Stoneage feel - bit of a funk vibe here, bit of an indie-prog feel there, gone all hard rock and Soundgardenish now, touching on Free – all early days and a sound and style still forming. The seeds of something good may have been sown here, worth watching just in case – www.myspace.com/monkeyfighters

Last week's demo of the week - SID SINGS

Previous demo's of the week - GIRO JUNKIE / THE ATROCITY EXHIBIT / SEA SICK / COUNTRYSIDE / MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN / GRASSCUT / COP ON THE EDGE / WILD DOGS IN WINTER / THE LAZY DARLINGS / DEBUTANT / ARCS OF RED / LE GALAXIE / PERHAPS CONTRAPTION / BLACKLANDS / THE SANS PAREIL

DEMO REVIEW ARCHIVES

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
ORIGINAL SILENCE – The Second Original Silence (Smalltown Superjazzz) - Oh this is good, this is noisy Luttenbachers good, this is what we hoped for, this is not background music for when you’re trying to do other things. No animals were harmed in the making of this music, as far as we know, no honking geese or screaming wind instruments were tortured. This album has provoked an argument here about the point in making music this unpleasantly difficult to listen to, I’ve got control of the keyboard right now though and I don’t find this the least bit unpleasant. This is enjoyably stimulating - hardboiled and difficult yes, and certainly not background music to relax with or iron by, this is a churning assault of relentless beauty. Original Silence are Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Terrie Ex (The Ex), Jim O’Rourke, Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Paal Nilssen Love (TheThing, Atomic), Massimo Pupillo (Zu), they’re put together by Swedish sax player Mats Gustafsson and yes this is more of what happens when the you mix the intensity of hardcore punk with the improv spirit of John Coltrane (as someone else rightly pointed out last time around). This really is contorted hardboiled rewarding jazz punk. Ever demanding, ever thrilling, the album was recorded live in Rome in 2006. More a rhythmic thing than the drone drenches of the first album, a cacophony of shapes, of angles, glorious resonance, a glorious juxtaposition of jazz noise rock, thick with atmosphere and as long as these pieces are, they’re always going somewhere, always with some kind of focussed purpose - abstract purpose maybe but purpose all the same. A cut above your average jazz-noise improv album then - www.smalltownsupersound.com
 

ALSO CHECK OUT BONNIE PRINCE BILLY – Is It The Sea (Domino) – Wonderful live album, a captured performance delivered with delightful clarity. Simple rewarding alt.folk or is it just folk or alt.rock, oh whatever it is this is wonderful. Simple songs, no, not simple songs, clever songs, it isn’t simple writing and playing and making it all sound this simple – this good, under that spell of his. Will Oldham AKA Bnnnie Prince Billy and mellifluous flow and beautiful spellbinding clarity. Backed by the close harmonies, flutes, whistles, percussion and warmth Harem Scarem and Alex Neilson – traditional folk players from Scotland who complimented Oldham’s craft exquisitely on his 2006 Scottish/Irish tour.  Simple, relaxed, perfect in every way - www.myspace.com/bonnieprincebilly DEERHUNTER – Microcastle (4AD) – Well they’re back, and as you’d expect (or indeed by now demand?) they’ve evolved again. Thought we’d maybe seen the last of the Atlanta-based band but no, here they are, back and newly signed to 4AD.  Relaxed set of reflective musical colours (even when they’re claiming to have been captured by Victorian vampires with elaborate designs or desires or something beginning with d). Far more subtle this time, relaxed inward looking sound, takes a little more time to unwrap and the psychedelic adventures are somewhat reined in  - bittersweet and delicate, still with an edge though, still messing with your head, a symmetry to the whole thing that hasn’t been there before, a different path that the one you’d maybe expect Bradford Cox and his band to take, but then you’d expect the unexpected with Deerhunter wouldn’t you? Are these the more straight ahead pop sensibilities that were talked of? Eerily comforting? Far more digestible, accessible, this maybe the one that crosses them over, and you wouldn’t want them to just make another record as difficulty good as the last one right? No, you’d want them to surprise and intrigue again - www.4ad.com/deerhunter or www.myspace.com/deerhunter x

TRANSMISSION – Sublimity (Transmission) - Can’t help but notice the restrained power of the bass and drums here, stood out long before we looked to see who it was – ah, Youth and Big Paul Ferguson, the original Killing Joke rhythm section – right there with the opening track Albion, a track title that will give you more than a clue. Unmistakable heaving brooding bass-line before those drums subtly steam in and the epic keyboard/vocal drone and that ahead of their time sound that other bands came along later and built a whole career on. There’s a massive pedigree here and a band and album more than living up to it. Simon Tong on atmospheric guitar – part of the Verve line up that made Urban Hymns before he became part of the Gorillaz project and then The Good, The Bad and The Queen, The Orb’s Tim Bran on keyboards and vocals – co-founder of Dreadzone. A whole and a mass organic collective psyche played out in widescreen technicolour and yes, they do manage to blend the sum of their parts and somehow come out sounding something like you’d imagine Killing Joke doing The Orb with some Bitter Sweet Symphonies and torrents of passion and a tribal rumble of an undercurrent and all the darkness and diamond black skies.... Side sweeps of Bowie in there with the waves of cinematic soundscape and the large instrumental passages – yes, a transmission that lives up to all the promise and the anticipation and a rather impressive album that comes rather recommended – www.maliciousdamage.biz or www.myspace.com/transmissionofficial THE BEDROOM PROJECT – The World Is Not Watching (UPR) – Whoooo, hang on, here’s something worth giving the once over twice. The Bedroom Project are from Plymouth and they’re dealing out some impressive energetic imaginative post-hardcore new wave indie rock colour (signposts to point you in a vague direction, not pigeon holes to push them in to). Plenty of character and imagination here, hints of good things like Fugazi or Cable, only hints though, The Bedroom Project are going their own way, they’re delivering it with a committed passion and a powerful melodic edgy imaginative heaviness. Strong statements, strident vocals, confident knowing band here, a band who slearly already have something a little extra to offer. www.myspace.com/thebedroomproject REPORT SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES – Destroy All Evidence (Alternative Tentacles) - Tales of American frustration and paranoia and more questions that need an answer or at least a thorn in the side. More alternative tentacle waving and the homeland taste of bile, more raging against the machine. Vic Bondi (Articles Of Faith, Alloy, Jones Very) started Report Suspicious Activities “as a productive means of channeling his political rage”, a one off project that grew in to a full touring recording band. The line up now features J.Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines) along with Darren Zentek and Erik Denno (both of Kerosene 454). Raging against the Bush regime, the upcoming US election, the war on terror, and a follow up to 2005’s debut. Yes they can duke it out with the best of the Reagan-era political punk outfits and yes Alternative Tentacles is their obvious home. They mix old style US hardcore rage with a DC post punk bite and a Dead Kens drive – informed, vitriolic, soulful, reflective when needed.. You can find out more via www.alternativetentacles.com ABIGAIL WILLIAMS – In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns (Candlelight) - Not some folky singer or indeed the main accuser at some 1692 witch trial, more a full on extreme screaming goth/death/black metal outfit with a bent for the dramatic. Lots of preposterously over the top gothic keyboards, relentless pounding machine gun drums, frothing cookie monster vocals, epic passages and flights of demonic fancy and oh, is that a melodic bit with ‘proper’ singing? Actually there’s a lot of light and shade in here lurking behind the relentless extremities and as far as Death/black/call it what you will extreme metal drama goes this really is rather good - www.myspace.com/abigailwilliams or www.candlelightrecords.co.uk PAUL J.ABBOTT - Three Left Legacies (Idiam) - A whole bag of wholesome electronic experimentation that holds the line and, as long as you’re not sharing space with cats, a musical challenge you’ll just about be able to live with. Busy buzzing and throbbing and scuttling and pulsing that counteracts the electronic caterpillar munching on the iron filings. Mutant machine music, always busy, never overwhelming, occasionally soothing (very occasionally). Contemporary experimental electronica, touching on the symphonic at times – in that Walter/Wendy Carlos way. A wind of electronic noise and howls in the wires right now. Abbott is a respected name in when it comes to the art of modern sound composition – he’s not afraid to throw in a Latin rhythm or a synthetic jazz sizzle amid the controlled chaos of the noise-art structures and the real-world sounds that convulse in a bath of jagged abrasive (often understated) electronica. Always with a musical structure rather than mere noise-art, this album has apparently been four years in the construction. Further investigation via www.idiam.co.uk KILL THE CLIENT – Cleptocracy (Candlelight) - Raging and blistering out of Dallas Texas in a shit storm of growling relentless extreme metal wound-opening wholesome musical violence. No idea what they’re grinding on about, no time to stick around and work it out, the sound of a million napalm deaths, bullet proof vultures, agraphobic nosebleeds and not much time for flower picking – www.myspace.com/killtheclient MARTUTA – In Narcosis (Candlelight) - Some frothing yapping yelping cookie monster extreme metal band who make Kill The Client sound like Bon Jovi’s plumber in comparison. Floridian grindcore deathsplat metal violence and good it is should you be in the mood and such – www.myspace.com/maruta INCASSUM – The Beckoning (Casket) - Forceful powerful dark melodic modern female-fronted metal that bites and growls when it needs to. They’re from Manchester, they’re dark, heavy, technical, melodic and here’s the link - www.incassum.com ROBIN TAYLOR – Isle Of Black (Transubstans) - Classic treasure box of proper 70’s prog and a new solo album from prolific multi-instrumentalist Robin Taylor. Recorded in 2007 and once again, as is often the case with this often interesting label, you’d swear if was a lost album from the mid 70’s - the kind of thing collectors of the obscure would talk in hushed tones of when gathered together around Mellotrons in dark corners. A forty minute six track pleasure, mostly instrumental and most of the time floating and gently driving somewhere near a classic mix of Van Der Graaf Generator and mid 70’s Pink Floyd. The melodic touch of early Marillion or Camel, some really nice saxophone and a whole set of really enjoyable moods. And just when you think you have it worked out, some delicate electronica or whole passages on authentic jazz. A classic old school instrumental prog rock album that comes rather recommended – www.progressor.net/robin-taylor HELGRIND – Religious Persecution (Casket)  - Well “Religious Persceution” is what it actually says on the front cover, press release says Persecution though, guess we’ll go with the press release and... Well they’ve been hanging around the lower divisions for eight or so years now and their music still has no real identity. Helgrind are a band with an ever shifting style that’s constantly moved around the aggressive thrash metal spectrum as line ups evolved. They’ve gone from being a Testament, Slayer kind of band to a Pantera kind of band to this new album and something that’s trying to be everything to all things extreme aggressive metal while not really being anything to anyone. Bits of thrash, bits of blackish deathish metal, bits that touch on hardcore metal, bits of moody reflective Metallica melodic metal. They’re not bad at all this, no real personality of their own though. Helgrind are going to need to inject something of their own sometime very soon - a bit of x factor, a bit of their own musical personality, a little something that takes them a little further than this competent, professional sounding, rather faceless standard issue lower division thrashy aggressive metal that they’re happy to be churning out right now - still they made a record, they're in  aband, they're living the dream, having a blast, maybe they are happy with that?  www.helgrind.co.uk x

FLOWING TEARS – The Kingdom Gone (Ascendance) -  The pain and tears of the rain of a thousand years or something like that... More of that female fronted melodic mildly symphonic neo-prog Euro goth-metal, this time from Germany and here you go you gothy creatures searching for light in the pain of night -  www.myspace.com/flowingtearsofficial

I HATE KATE – Embrace The Curse (D2) - That bloke from California out of the rather faceless Zebrahead switching bandwagons with some faceless slightly new wave flavoured radio friendly US indie pop... www.myspace.com/ihatekate

THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE - Monuments (Lifeforce) - Hailing from Lancaster PA, wherever the hell Lancaster PA is, don’t ask me, we’re not here for Geography lessons are we? Another onslaught of yelping mommy-I-stepped-on-a-pin screaming metal, hang on I need a cup of tea – kettle on, lets clean up the mess here. More metalcore screaming and modern yelping and throw everything in there with the technical riffing and the brutal breakdowns and haven’t we heard all this before somewhere? All that Norma Jean, All That Burns, A Life Once Lost stuff? Sure, they can play and they’re tight and their sound is packed and yes we have heard it all before...  I guess they do this metalcore thing as well as everyone, now let me drink this tea and throw this CD on the pile over there never ever to be played again – was there a point to this album? Or this review? What is the damn point here all you same old same old conforming metal bands! www.lifeforcerecords.com

THE PADDINGTONS – No Mundane Options (Mama Bear) - Well we did have a lot to say but what’s the point? We’ll keep it short, why waste ink? Dated tired sub-Clash London fashion-punk Camden/Hoxton pedestrian politeness and predictable and about as punk in terms of sound, attitude and anything else as Phil Collins on his damn pogo stick (again). Kind of embarrassing when this is offered up as the sticky fingered voice of London punk rock next to the chemistries of common life coming from elsewhere around the globe right now. They have songs like Punk RIP and What’s The Point In Anything New. According to the NME they’re “pissing rage, filth and fury”, while that tit encrusted bastion of musical opinion the Daily Star tell us they “fuse the viciousness of the Sex Pistols and the wisdom of The Clash”. Must just be us who have it wrong then. This is like drinking yesterday’s left over cheap supermarket own-brand larger, the musical equivalent new Guy Ritchie movie... And I’d thrown it on so wanting them to finally live up to all the hype – www.myspace.com/thepaddingtons. 
 

Last week's album of the week - RELIGIOUS KNIVES Previous album's of the week - F*CKED UP / NISENNENMONDAI / HILDE MARIE KJERSEM / GRAILS / BEATGLIDER / UNIVERS ZERO / CONSTANTINES / YOUNG WIDOWS / AMANDA PALMER / LUSTMORD / SLIPKNOT / HEY COLOSSUS / ROSE KEMP / VESSELS / ELEPHANT 9 / DOSH / KAYO DOT / SAY BOK GWAI x

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LIVE REVIEW ARCHIVES

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RAY – Cut Our (Pito) – A smoldering Pulp of a thing, brooding powerful smoothly edgy epic indie rock and a triumphant bright new heart of a proud song, is this Ray’s finest moment yet? Certainly impressive – www.raytheband.com

DANIEL LAND & THE MODERN PAINTERS – Within Boundaries / Benjamin’s Room (Sonic Cathedral) – Double A sided single and an impressive celebration of that refined floaty cloudy 4AD sound and all good things Slowdive or Cocteau Twins – pure and simple while alive with crafted emotional detail – www.soniccathedral.co.uk

AIRBOURNE – Diamond In The Rough (Roadrunner) – The bastard sons of Bon Scott, and nevermind no new AC/DC album, here’s where the real gritty barroom brawling dirty deeds done dirt cheap action is, stick your finger in this honey!  -  www.airbournerock.com

EXIT CALM – We’re On Our Own (Club AC30) – This is exceptionally good, you expect good from the AC30 team, this is one of their most impressive releases yet. Unashamed epic euphoric creamy intensity, a calm soothing breath of fresh air and a whole raff of classic 4AD, Echo And the Bunnymen, Remy Zero style references dusting off the cobwebs and washing away the feelings. The Yorkshire band more than enhance their growing reputation with this refreshingly fine single – www.myspace.com/exitcalm or www.myspace.com/clubac30

SILVERY – Action Force / The Nod (Blow Up) – More of their Victorian gentleman’s club brit pop, Action Force is a catchy slice off the London band’s well received recent album. The Nod is a previously unreleased goodness and one of their best tracks - if ever there was a model of a modern major general and all the Sparks that fly and the bits of early Blur and XTC and Jules Verne adventure – www.blowuprecords.com or www.myspace.com/silverytheband 

MAYBESHEWILL / HER NAME IS CALLA – split single (Field) – Two tracks from Maybeshewill and one from Her Name... Maybeshewill are starting to evolve, their 65Days style glitchy post rock is starting to take on a character and the ambition that was maybe missing in previous times. Still very much an established post-rock style and an Explosions/65Days thing and still very much that nice euphoric thing, just something a little more developing now. Her Name Is Calla’s contribution is their expressive mood-switching seventeen minute epic Condor & River – a moody emotional slowly uncoiling tour de force of a piece that really is something to behold. www.field-records.com or www.myspace.com/maybeshewont or www.myspace.com/hernameiscalla

WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON’T – Violence (Distory) – Back for more and they’re rocking like the best girls do again. A no messing, abrasive grungy scuzzy punk rock bite from Scotland and we can’t help but say they’re one for you fans of bands like L7, Babes in Toyland or the raw edges of Hole. We rock do rock, they rock with confident strident bite and Scottish band are sound better than ever with this scuzzy edgy howl of a new single - www.myspace.com/werocklikegirlsdont

HAYMAN, WATKINS, TROUT & LEE – Fine Young Cannibals/That’s Why She Left Me (Fortuna Pop)  - More of their London based Americana and melancholic alt.country and fiddles and banjoa and racing for gold – www.fortunapop.com

Last week's single of the week - THE KABEEDIES

Previously - VOICEsVOICEs / THE QUARRY / F**K BUTTONS / THE ALL NEW ADVENTURES OF US / FRIGHTENED RABBIT / THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART / DARK CAPTAIN LIGHT CAPTAIN / PRINTS / PETALS ON A WET BLACK BOUGH / LITTLE JACKIE / MARY EPWORTH AND THE JUBILEE BAND / ART IN EXILE / MOGWAI / Z's / ONE DAY AS A LION

SINGLE REVIEW ARCHIVES

PREVIOUSLY - THE BUG / TEMPORARY RESIDENCE / WOODBOX GANG / ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES / EX-GIRL / DELIA DERBYSHIRE /  F**KED UP / THE REVELLIONS / LIZ PHAIR / OASIS / THE CLOUD ROOM / HERZOGA / THE MELVINS / SHEARWATER / THE REAL McKENZIES / VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR / SIGOR ROS / VASECTOMY EGGS NAILER / FAT WRECK, ME FIRST... / THE DANDY WARHOLS  / SKIN GRAFT RECORDS / WIRE / BUTTHOLE SURFERS  / CARDIACS

Previously: DEATHROW  / THE GATHERING / BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES / CLIFF / KILLING JOKE / THE SAVAGE RESURRECTION / BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB / DOOM / LIFE OF AGONY / DEAD HEAD / DAVID BOWIE / STUPIDS / AMEBIX / BLONDIE / THOR / STUMP / KOENJIHYAKKEI / SEBADOH / THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS  / SUN EATS HOURS / LEGION OF PARASITES / ALABAMA 3 / AHLEUCHATISTAS

MAXWELL DAVIES ON DUMBING DOWN - Peter Maxwell Davies, the Queen's composer no less, has spoken out against 'dumbing down' and the commercialisation of culture, blaming bankers and politicians for it all. He made the comments when addressing the British Academy organised 'Composers: Who Needs Them?' conference, which took place last week. 

Davies cited the example of Damien Hirst's dead cow piece going for £10.3m at Sotheby's last month as representative of where the arts are going. "I think we can all learn from a recent auction of art as an instantly recognisable iconic commodity, where it has become part of the entertainment industry, crossed with investment banking," he said. "The artist had wit to sell a golden calf and other bejewelled trinkets, but all creative artists, in whatever branch of the arts they work, must ponder the implications of so much money scrambling after manufactured artefacts without content - with just a brand tag supposed to guarantee market value".

He continued: "Over the last decades, since Thatcher, every commodity, including culture, not only has to be approachable, but, above all, have a measurable market, or commercial value, and must be demonstrably accessible to the largest spread of public. My main concern is how this is changing the face of our musical culture. As creative musicians, we can help make people of aware of such things that threaten our future. In all styles and types of music, we must bring awareness of that upon which the politicians turn their backs, while they engage in circumscribed, schoolboy mini-debates".

PREVIOUSLY - ACT ART 6 - DYING FOR IT! / DAMIEN HURST / JOE MEEK / IMPROV EVERYWHERE / AARON KRATEN / HURRA TORPEDO / BOOK: THE STOOGES – A JOURNEY / JUNK SALES:SLAVES OF NEW YORK / BITTER PIE / SF ZINE FAIR / GIANT PAW – ART CARD SERIES / L. GABRIELLE PENABAZ @ FIERCE / ZINE: LIGHTS GO OUT #1 / LESS THAN JAKE

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ORGAN 277 - yeah yeah, a non stop operation....

ORGAN 276 - Oh go have a look, do we have to list it everyweek, we had loads of great stuff last week, classic week for new music... 

ORGAN 275 - GRAILS, BEATGLIDER, THE ATROCITY EXHIBIT, TO THE BONES, SEA SICK, F**K BUTTONS, STE McCABE, THE BARDO, GENTLE GIANT, THE ALL NEW ADVENTURES OF US, HANSON BOTHERS, RUMORS OF GEHENNA, ACID MOTHER TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO, JMC, P.G.LOST, UGLY STICK, A TEXTBOOK TRAGEDY, NO RETURN, TRIVIUM,  AMANDA PALMER, THE DeBRETTS,  TEMPORARY RESIDENCE...

ORGAN 274 - UNIVERS ZERO, HAUSCHKA, COUNTRYSIDE, MANIQUI LAZER, MAB, MILK ROAR, HYDRA, MAGICIAN, KIMYA DAWSON, STRIBORG, ROSE KEMP, VOLBEAT, THE BOBBY McGEES,  THE MAY FIRE, MOOSE FACTORY, PRO-PAIN, TRIP LAVA, A POETIC YESTERDAY, LORD BELIEL, FRIGHTENED RABBIT, FROM PLAN TO PROGRESS, BOWERBIRDS, BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES, DAMIEN HURST, CLIFF'S SINGLE, ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES... 

ORGAN 273 - CONSTANTINES, WOODBOX GANG, RA RA RIOT, MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, PERHAPS CONTRAPTION, AMANDA PALMER, BYE BYE CANDY, OF THE I, RUDE MECHANICALS, ANARCHISTWOOD, GIRLSCHOOL, ICED EARTH, ICED EARTH, BLOOD CEREMONY, TONAL OAK, SOULS, FALLEN, PURE INC, BULLET, THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, DARK CAPTAIN LIGHT CAPTAIN, THE TAMBORINES, EX-GIRL, DESTINATION:OBLIVION, JOE MEEK....

ORGAN 272 - YOUNG WIDOWS, AMANDA PALMER, EHNAHRE, GRASSCUT, PRINTS, THE FRENCH QUARTER, POPE JOAN, THE VERVE, BUFFALO KILLERS, MISERATION, DRAGONFORCE, THE MONO EFFECT, BONKERSFEST ‘08, NOUGHT, GERTUDE, TO THE BONES, ROLLINS, BOBBY BARKER, ONE TRUE DOG, BLUEZZ INTOXICATED, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, F*CKED UP, IMPROV EVERYWHERE, CLIFF... 

ORGAN 271 - LUSTMORD, SLIPKNOT, LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS, AARON KRATEN, FIGHT LIKE APES, TOY GUN COWBOY, IMMERSION COMPOSITION SOCIETY, PICTURES PAINT WORDS, LITTLE JACKIE, RUBY THROAT, TO THE BONES, THE MIRIMAR DISASTER, AGRYPNIE, CITY 13, LORDS OF BASTARD, THE DONKEYS, GOLDBLADE, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS: BRENDAN CANNING, BLAND BLADEN, EUREKA MACHINES, BRIAN WILSON, PETALS ON A WET BLACK BOUGH, NARRATION, KISSING KALINA, THE REVELLIONS, KILLING JOKE... 

ORGAN 270 - HEY COLOSSUS, ROSE KEMP, MOTORHEAD, COP ON THE EDGE, GNOMES OF ZURICH, LITTLE JACKIE, JOY OF SEX, GNAW THEIR TONGUES, GEOFF SOULE, UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, JAGUAR LOVE, HELLFIRE, CRUISER, THE CHAIR, GORGOROTH, SONNY, REGURGITATOR, LAGWAGON, MILLENNIA, UNBUNNY, TZUN TZU, SUPENIK, ZEBRAHEAD, MOURNING RISE, SINISTER, THE BIKINI BEACH BAND, ZAG AND THE COLOURED BEADS, WHIMWISE, SUSAN GEORGE BOOTH, SERGEANT BUZFUZ, POPE JOAN, FOUR DEAD IN OHIO, THE VIEW FROM BELOW, THE INCONSOLABLES, THE SAVAGE RESURRECTION, LIZ PHAIR, BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB... 

ORGAN 269 - VESSELS, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, ELEPHANT 9, ART IN EXILE, WILD DOGS IN WINTER, DISSENTIENT REVOLT, TONAL OAK, THE STRIPPER PROJECT, GUTZ, 31KNOTS, INDIAN JEWELRY, KASAI ALLSTARS, NEW MECANICA, LONELY GHOSTS, AGNOSTIC MOUNTAIN GOSPEL CHOIR, RYE, RYE, LAST HARBOUR, THOSE WHO BRING THE TORTURE, RE-RENAISSANCE OF THE CELTIC HARP, BEN MARWOOD, VALKYR, EGEBAMYASI, THE CLOUD ROOM, HURRA TORPEDO, FIGHT LIKE APES...

ORGAN 268 - DOSH, VILE IMBECILES, QUEEN ADREENA, Z's, MOGWAI, DDD, ISOR, PURE REASON REVOLUTION, BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, HEAVY HEAVY LOW LOW, SOUTH, SILVERY, THE LAZY DARLINGS, THRACIA, LATE OF THE PIER, FANTASY BAR, BLACK FLAME, THE VERVE, HERZOGA, THE STOOGES, FIGHT LIKE APES...

ORGAN 267 - KAYO DOT, SHEARWATER, OXBOW, HARVEY MILK, ONE DAY AS A LION, KONG, DEBUTANT, IDIOT SAVANT, THE JET BOYS, NADJA, THOMAS FUNCTION, SEBASTIAN BACH, ORGHIA, SANCTORUM, GROUND MOWER, DISARM, RON FRANKLIN, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME, SABATRON, KAROSHI BROS, THE VIVIANS, THE HAIR, UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, THE EMERGENCY, DOOM. BIFFY CLYRO... 

ORGAN 266 - FIGHT LIKE APES, WE ARE SCIENTISTS, SAY BOK GWAI, THE KINGSIZE FIVE, THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, SON VER & ELEPHANT LEAF, DAVID CRONENBERG’S WIFE, TRIPWIRES, DRAGONFORCE, LIFE OF AGONY, SCUL HAZZARDS, SOULFLY, RON ATHEY, ARCS OF RED. EPIPHANY, SHADE EMPIRE, YETI RAIN, SCHIZO FUN ADDICT, FAITH, SOFIA, LAVONDYSS, ROSE HILL DRIVE...

ORGAN 265 - LE GALAXIE, FIGHT LIKE APES, SCORCH TRIO, SUSAN GEORGE BOOTH, THE REAL McKENZIES, THE MARCHES, 28 DEGREES TAURUS, GHOSTED, PHANTOM FLOAT, ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMIES, Marie Vesco, Bonkersfest.. 

ORGAN 264 - VILE IMBECILES, THE LAST PEOPLE ON EARTH, BODIES OF WATER, ALGHAZANTH, TEASING LULU, THIS IS RADIO FREEDOM, BLAZE BAYLEY, EMPYROS, PLASTIC HEROES, THE BRUTE CHORUS, PORT O’BRIEN, VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, DEAD HEAD, junk stalls, bath bombs... 

ORGAN 263 - FIGHT LIKE APES, LE GALAXIE, CAPILLARY ACTION, PEDRO, THE PSYKE PROJECT, SERPENTONE, MOTORPSYCHO, SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB, ALLA, HARVEY MILK, ZENITHAL, L.A. GUNS, VESSELS, LESS THAN JAKE, DAVID BOWIE, STUPIDS, NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS, THE 1990'S, HONKEYFINGER, SOUNDSHOK, TV SMITH, RICHARD LLOYD, THE DODOS, JAPANCAKES, SOULFLY, GLORIA CYCLES, VASECTOMY EGGS NAILER, SIGOR ROS...

ORGAN 262 - LAYMAR, WIRE. THE ROTTED, COLDPLAY, VERJNUARMU, THE COKE DARES, STONE GODS, URN, VILE IMBECILES, ROYAL TREATMENT PLANT, JESSE MALIN, AMEBIX, BLONDIE, PERHAPS CONTRAPTION, DOUBLE HANDSOME DRAGONS, KANEDA, WAVES UNDER WATER, SOSUMI, IRVINE WELSH PRESENTS THE BOOK SLAM, BITTER PIE and the SF ZINE FAIR

ORGAN 261 - MARIE VESCO, RESONANCE FM IS TEN, BLACKLANDS, STRAY DOG CAFE, HIGHTOWN CROWS, WE THE FACELESS, HEAR O ISRAEL – A PRAYER CEREMONY IN JAZZ, GRAND MAGUS, Q WITHOUT U, FREE KITTEN, MAMBO MANTIS, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, GUNSLINGER, BLACK LIGHT BURNS, CALABRESE, SIX REASONS TO KILL, GIANT PAW, DARK CAPTAIN LIGHT CAPTAIN, THOR, CROCUS, HADDONFIELD, ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES, FAT WRECK.....

ORGAN 260 - RUDE MECHANICALS, OPETH, BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES, THE SANS PAREIL, RABBIT SEASON, LITHURGY, TASHA FIGHTS TIGERS, RING, MOSS, ZERO HOUR, TREES, MOCKINGBIRD, AKPHAEZYA, THE MORE I SEE, HISTORY OF GUNS, AMBERIAN DAWN, NUESTROS DERECHOS, ZAG AND THE COLOURED BEADS,  WIZARDS OF TWIDDLY, STUMP, THE DANDY WARHOLS, THE HYENAS, AIRBOURNE, NO 2 PAY 2 PLAY....