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EVER EVOLVING ORGAN : CONTACT AND SWITCH THE OTHER |
Speak, Shape, Create, Time..
time for Organ things to evolve once more... strip it down... Just news,
reviews and whatever we want, whenever we want... you know what Organ is
about, what Organ has always been about, when a lash is need... What will
it say here tomorrow? Here are today's words, bites and positions assumed..
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SIGNPOSTS and links and paths and contradictions and things to check
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 JULY
9th 2009: Monitors went deep purple, then black, then died, Kevin went
fishing for one far too wide, leaves were painted yellow and we blame Bono
again...
NEWS:
U2's
MASSIVE CARBON FOOTPRINT REVEALED – Following revelations (well, observations
really) that Bono et al's decision to register their companies off-shore,
and therefore avoid Irish tax, impacts on Ireland's ability to give aid
to the third world, now eco-types are down on the band for the carbon footprint
of their current tour. Apparently the band's 360 Degree tour will this
year have a carbon footprint equivalent to that of 6500 average UK residents
all put together over an entire year. Or 65,000 tonnes of CO2.
Helen Roberts, environmental consultant at Carbonfootprint.com told The
Quietus: "The carbon footprint generated by U2's 44 concerts this year
is equal to carbon created by the four band members travelling the 34.125
million miles from Earth to Mars in a passenger plane. You also have to
add the carbon emissions from the same number of concerts again next year.
Just looking at the 44 concerts this year, the band will create enough
carbon to fly all 90,000 people attending one of their Wembley concerts
to Dublin. To offset this year's carbon emissions, U2 would need to plant
20,118 trees". See, when the sea level rises and your records are al lwashed
away and we all drown it will all be St. Bono's fault
JULY
7th 2009: Full moon Tuesday so it seems, extra instruction and places to
be and ashes to ashes, funk to funking, juicy ripe things ready to pick,
the first blackberries and fresh cans of Montana Gold and none of this
ever makes any sense to you does it? Never mind, there's the review and
the all important links and turn on the Spotify playlist that goes with
this page while you read and it makes even more sense...
ALBUM
REVIEW: FUZZ FUZZ MACHINE – The Most
(Casket) - Decent enough, sometimes melodic, sometimes crunchy, modern
metal from Italy (sung in English). Bits that taste of Pantera, of Breed
77, of this and that, decent enough.... www.fuzzfuzzmachine.com
or www.coprorecords.co.uk
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 ALBUM
REVIEW:THE STUPIDS – The Kids Don’t
like It (Boss Tuneage) - Maaaan they’re sound good and new and in good
health, real breath of fresh air kicking away the stale stench of rancid
hairspray and hot topic punk rock marketing... The Stupids are back, feel
the suck! And yeah, like we said when they put out that single a few months
ago; a first, a born again band, sounding better than ever and like they’re
doing it for something like the right reasons rather than to just cash
in on former glories... far too many fat old middle aged bands cynically
reforming when they really weren’t that good in the first place. First
new album in twenty one years and some serious speed-punk thrashing moshing
jumping off the speaker stacks skate skate skate like fugg in to the side
of a ten ton truck. Still all the irreverent humour and that we don’t give
a shit attitude, sounding like they’re having a blast and not taking themselves
too seriously while making a rather seriously good album... Spot
on production, just the right side of raw, alive with energy and thrashing
speed and are you sure this is the real Stupids and not a bunch of fresh
faced new kids on the block making their first record? This can’t be a
bunch of middle age punks? This might just be the Ipswich band’s best album
ever! A rip cruncher or an album, it’ll bring a little tear to your eye,
you’ll be wanting to go stick the carpet at the Hammy Clarendon... No no
no, scratch that, this is now, oh watch out, the kids are back! Serious
speed-metal-thrashing bloody-knee skateboarding wholesomeness punk rawk
goodness for yer, think we’ll start a zine or something... – www.bosstuneage.com
or www.stupids.moonfruit.com
NEWS:
JESU
AND GODFLESH MEN TEAM UP FOR NEW BAND - Jesu and Godflesh's Justin
Broadrick and Diarmuid Dalton, Isis frontman Aaron Turner and Head Of David's
Dave Cochrane have teamed up to form a new band, Greymachine. The results,
as you would expect, are heavy. Very, very heavy. You can check out, 'Vultures
Descend', a track from their forthcoming debut album, 'Disconnected', which
is due out via Hydra Head on 4 Aug, here: www.avalancheinc.co.uk/Vultures_Descend.mp3
NEWS:
The
first HARDY TREE track to see the light of day on CD will be on
Sexton Ming’s Tribute album This is Ming Beat. “I've covered the tune Seagulls
and Chips. Also on the album is, Dave Cloud, Head and Shoulders featuring
Jowe Head, The Rude Mechanicals, The Deptford Beach Babes and many
more all covering Sexton tracks. I don't think the CD is officially out
yet, but you may be able to buy pre release copies from Sexton's Rim Records
website www.rimrecords.co.uk.
The Hardy Tree is the beautiful new project from Francis Castle, she of
Transistor Six, more about that any moment now, hear the glowing delight
and the sunlight on a warm brick wall and the long gone treasures over
at www.myspace.com/thehardytree
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 JULY
6th 2009: Sing blue silver, kiss kiss, bang bang... Monday bloody Monday...
Eat my dust you insensitive f.... Are you making use of that Spotify thing?
LIVE
REVIEW: KILL IT KID – St Pancras
Station, London, 2nd June – Now this is a cool place to see a band, cool
in all senses of the word in this damn weather what with London in melt-down
and such... Kill It Kid, a band named after an old Blind Willie McTell
tune, in a railway station, playing some tunes to people rushing by...
it isn’t quite freight-trains heading South but it does seem kind of right
- the last bit of train travel as romantic notion is alive and well
once more at the born again St Pancras station – well it is upstairs sitting
outside the Betjemen Bar where there’s no advertising clutter and you can
watch the trains arriving from Europe while you take in the space, light
and air of the grand gothic architecture - thank heavens Sir John stopped
them pulling all this down....
Kill It Kid are set up in the shopping mall bit downstairs though, not
so much romance and air and space to be found down there but hey, this
will do nicely for a free gig... The now London based Bristol band are
a breath of authentic blues flavoured alt.country fresh air. Breezy songs,
harvest moons, deep rich voices and swarming wasps mellowing-out around
summer lemonade - a touch of rag-time from lips kept unclean. They're not
the easiest of bands to pin down, lot of sides to explore, different voices
and tempos, it may take a little while to connect it all – the strings
and banjos and the flames getting higher and the melancholic ache and the
harmonies and the stars that shine like switchblade silver, the cotton
dresses and the roughly brushed hair and their 30’s Americana - they are
worth sticking with though and they are stopping commuters and shoppers
and making new friends tonight, two tickets to go please.... A fine early
evening performance in the summer heat from a rather uplifting rather fine
band and smiles and cheer all round....
This is happening every Thursday in June apparently, different bands, same
station, fine idea, don’t tell anyone about that upstairs bar and the fine
Betjeman Ale, keep it a secret now, I like sitting there in the peaceful
cool just drinking, watching and doing nothing much else... www.myspace.com/killitkid
or www.stationsessions.com
or Sir John Betjeman
or www.sharpsbrewery.co.uk
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 LIVE
REVIEW: FIGHT LIKE APES – Cargo, London,
1st July - Give me my hook, need that hook again, it seems like ages since
those Apes were in town and yes I know it was only a couple of months ago
but give me my hook goddammmmmit! Need that hook...
Going to a gig is an insane idea tonight, the sticky London heat has turned
tube travel into some kind of endurance hell and the last place to be is
crammed in to a room with some damn band... Sensible people are loitering
in the frozen food aisles of air conditioned supermarkets or making like
cats and doing nothing in this inconsiderate heat. London does not do heat,
give me some rain, give me some rain... And neither does Cargo do heat
with their hopelessly limited selection of bad beer which amounts to a
choice of piss-poor draught larger or overpriced bottled crap – the draught
runs out far too early and almost seven quid for a couple of those tiny
cans of crappy Heineken is taking the p even by London standards, some
of you venues don’t deserve us paying to get in. We’re not here for
the beer though, we're here for one thing only, those hooks... Give me
those hooks...
Support band aren’t up to much, but then it really isn’t the weather for
checking out some band we’ve never heard of, we’ll give them another chance,
some other time, someplace where the bar and weather are a little more
band/punter friendly, I do hate to be treated like this by venues...
Those Apes then... There’s something genuinely different and exciting about
a Fight Like Apes gig, there’s a buzz of anticipation now, a buzz that
builds as we wait, regular Ape followers are starting to get to know each
other, a nod here, a hello again and a knowing smile there... The band
arrive on stage armed with rather ominous looking planks of wood, who let
them have big planks of wood!? Doesn’t anyone know how dangerous these
potential weapons are in the hands of Pockets and Maykay? They start banging
them together in some kind of semi-ritualistic semi-chaotic way, banging
away just above our heads as the delightfully deceptive politeness and
the toasting of things that is Digifucker opens things... And
did you fuck her? And did you stick things up her? And did she love it?
screams MayKay in that accusingly hurt butter wouldn’t melt way of hers,
before that pretty (pretty is the only word) melody soothes things again...
Perfect start, the four Apes up there and despite the heat, the place is
jumping from the off... This is a real following now and you know already
that I’m a hopelessly frothing fan when it comes to Fight Like Apes, if
you want some kind of stick-up-ass objective critical review then this
isn’t the place, gigs and bands like this are why we do this Organ thing,
music this good still excites us like it did when we started this monster.
For all their banter and their baiting and the fun, it really is all about
the glorious songs and the heroicness of it all. They have something extra,
something magical, something stirring, something that really does play
with your emotions – “this may sound silly but they almost made me cry”
said a girl in a purple skirt experiencing them for the first time....
and you know that isn’t silly, in there with all the fists and the swipes
and the yelling and the playdough stuck up noses and the Buckfast they
do have this magical stardust that they effortlessly sprinkle all over
their songs, and they do make you swell up and yes they can make us cry
and no nightmare breaking bungee whores, these Apes are special. “They
might now be my favourite-ever purveyors of onstage banter” said a stage
diving member of another band... They really are my favourite-ever purveyors
of pretty much everything right now, give me more hooks! Woo, that one’s
a homewrecker, looks like Woody Woodpecker... and the new songs nervously
introduced mid-set bode well, didn’t catch the tittles but the first one
sounded great until they second one got another big hook in and really
got hold of us and took us off and falling into their version of Mclusky’s
Lightsabre
Cocksucker Blues and that hip-hop bellyflop karate rock and the lacking
of moral standards and all tied up in jackets and... Jake Summers
is a highlight again with all that getting of grace and good good taste...
Magameanie
roars past Napalm Death style.... The synths are as triumphant as ever...
MayKay in the middle busting faces and replacing them with bigger smiles
and flipping and gusto and all the taking off, she’s there in control with
her big hair all over the place and her black dress and flying is fearful
of them and we’re aching from jumping too much and sold to wanderlust,
jousting with Pockets and flying synths and...
They return for an encore with those planks of wood and Battlestations
and in it all goes, planks above audience heads and in our hand now, banging
together, Maykay crowd surfing and using words like clandestine.... Pockets,
Tom and Adrian all with great big shit eating grins... Lovely noise, that
makes us love them.... another triumph... the best one yet, until the next
one that is, there’s no getting any grace here, this band are special,
this is proper pop and fun and bite and energy and hope and most bands
are boring the hell out of me right now with their MyFace twittering and
it feel like a little Pond in here full of big ugly sharks to kiss... Can’t
wait for the next one... give me more hooks, no one fearful here... are
you coming? I love this band! (S) – www.fightlikeapesmusic.com
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 JULY
5th 2009: Organ OTHER ROCK SHOW on Resonance 104.4FM
with Marina, 9.00PM Sunday 5th July 2009... Here's who got played tonight....
Intro:
PHANTOMSMASHER - Bishop Hopping (Ipecac)
1:
BOB DRAKE - The Cemetery Trees (download)
2:
SKELETONS - Dripper (Tomlab)
3:
OEN SUJET - Colby and the Devils (Loaf)
4:
LED BIB - Yes Again (Cuneiform)
5:
PSYOPUS – Insects (Metal Brade)
6:
LOW TRAMON – Bakesale (demo)
7:
HARVEY MILK - We Destroy The Family (Hydrahead)
8:
THEY CAME FROM THE STARS I SAW THEM - It's Time (This Is An Exit)
9:
KIT - Flat Earth (Upset The Rhythm)
10:
LIME HEADED DOG - Kefum Weafuk (Volcano Attack)
11:
CARDIACS - I Hold My Love In My Arms (Alphabet)
12:
CHEER ACCIDENT – Facialization (download)
13:
MARS VOLTA - Eunuch Provocateur (GSL)
14:
HUGH HOPPER AND ALAN GOWEN "Waltz For Nobby" (Cuneiform)
Full
details, links and such up in a bit
NEWS:
Great
Birds of the British Isles is the first ever collaborative show from
artists called Milk, Dora, K148 and Amour. The four formed
this collective after meeting via underground graffiti circles, painting
walls and photographing the evolution of the artform. “Print, paint and
photography have brought these four birds together. After finding each
other’s passions they are determined to take a step forward and create
something totally fresh and unique. Expect to peer into a boudoir of colour
texture and design with solo and collaborative pieces spilling from wall
to canvas and back again, exploring an intoxicating mix of juiced up logos,
great birds, female forms and a spoon full of graffiti... seen through
a very different eye. Now sit back and watch them spread there wings and
fly!” Oblong is at 69 Southgate Road, London N1 (nearest tube in Angel).
The show opens on Friday 10th July and runs until August 9th – more details
from www.oblonggallery.com or
www.myspace.com/greatbirds
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 JULY
4th 2009: LIVE REVIEW: VAN
DER GRAAF GENERATOR – Regent Theatre, Arlington, Massachusetts, 23rd
June
Encouraged, maybe even exhorted, by Organ to go discover Van der Graaf
Generator for some time now, it seems fitting to explore them for the first
time in this very intimate, experimental theatre just a stone’s throw from
the equally experimental People’s Republic of Cambridge. This third gig
of their first proper U.S. tour is set in the comfortable, spare venue,
far smaller than some living rooms and many NYC lofts. Fine acoustics,
not a bad seat in the house, and I’m one of perhaps five women here, maybe
six, in a sea of mostly older prog rockers who know how every note will
go in a Van der Graaf Generator concert.
New eyes and new ears present, and I know I’m supposed to be listening
for intensity and despair, but I keep finding humour and hope. Is this
a propensity of the XX chromosome? This stripped down trio (no saxophonist
this tour) deliver rich, complicated, multiple layers of precise darkness.
With holes of light. I wasn’t told about that. Intensity? I wasn’t prepared
for the taurine ferocity of Guy Evans, a tenacious drummer and contents
under pressure here, converted into a raw energy that is at once diesel
fuel propelling big skyscrapers of sound forward, as well as a sheer pleasure
to watch. I could listen to him pulverize the drum kit for hours straight.
Hugh Barton is as dependable as the Thames, pure constancy on dual keyboards
and foot pedals and understated accuracy. Peter Hammill on both keyboards
and guitar is everything I’ve been promised, but it’s his voice that he
uses as a fifth instrument that is physically compelling. It’s good to
be seated perhaps only one hundred feet away to experience big swaths of
sound at a cellular level. This pale slender English frame houses an enormous
voice, that rips out of his lungs at enormous speed and wrenches his body
and mouth.
It’s the lyrics that are most defibrillating, in a positive way. Yes, I’m
hearing actual fine poetry, full of literary device that burns emotions
into my brain, actual free verse and form that most “poets” have forgotten
or never learned to write – real form that acts as safe and sane bondage
so that deep questions and deeper responses can be safely contained, something
I’ve pontificated about for years. I imagine that he has learned to love
the questions, as Rainer Maria Rilke wrote. “What cause is there left but
to die?” Answered by “What cause is there left but to live?” and to try,
there’s the intensity of hope. Good to hear “Lemmings” for the first time
live.
There are silences between songs, but none feel awkward, just lots of gentle
self-deprecating humour to wash down great big slices of sometimes otherwordly
prog rock. I love someone who can play with and to an audience; we’re definitely
not here to be played at. There are shouts of requests as Hammill steps
forward and tunes his guitar for an age. An unperturbed Hammill answers,
“Tune-age is very important on this stage”. A moment of what appears
to be a lost playlist, and then, “Guys, guys, we’ve spent hours working
this out” as Hammill holds up a set list. Humour only exists
when two or more levels of reality co-exist; how appropriate for unique
experimental prog that explores multiple time signatures, various snarls
of tonal scales and meanings of lyrics. Lots of realities and spaces threaded
in this room tonight.
There’s much from the latest album “Trisector” tonight. “Over the
Hill” and “(We are) Not Here” are particularly good. “Man-Erg” is the redoubtable
finale; it’s fragile and anthemic, smoother than the recording tonight
and more vulnerable. I don’t hear the loneliness, but I do hear the music
and lyrics penetrate the alone-ness, and having done so, the alone-ness
disappears. A musical nirvana, or a Zen koan, that alone-ness cannot
last once it is universalized in such a piercing way. Not comfortable listening,
but a match of lyrics and music that make a third delicate spiky reality
full of darkness – with those holes of light. But then again, black is
never black, is it? It’s an emulsion of all colours, and you just might
find indigo or green or purple or even red in the cat’s fur.
Go find these, and explore Van der Graaf Generator at www.vandergraafgenerator.com
or www.sofasound.com. Now touring
in North America through to 10th July. (Lilith Payne)
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 JULY
3rd 2009: We had some news about some band or other, but it melted in the
heat, hang on, here's some... that St Pancras thing was good last night...Betjeman
Ale in the pub named after the poetic man...more Kill It kid and Apes and
things in a minute, or maybe an hour or maybe tomorrow
NEWS:
FINALLY
PUNK, MALE BONDING and CHAPS are all in town on Saturday 4 July
at the Old Blue Last, 39 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2...
Here’s the word from the Upset team...
FINALLY PUNK are an all-female quartet based in Austin, Texas. They formed
in 2005, united by a love of flannel and punk-rock disco and a desire to
start a Seattle-revivalist band. This is the music Bikini Kill was trying
to inspire with all that riot grrl stuff. Their sound is equal parts Mika
Miko, Lung Leg and Meltdown - hilarious, true and liberating. It's just
as fresh-sounding as those Kleenex 7"s you are hunting for, and it's happening
today! This is the band's first ever UK date, and the first of six in England
in support of the new 'Casual Goths' LP for Army of Bad Luck / Germs of
Youth - a collection of three 7"s and unreleased / rare tracks. www.myspace.com/finallypunk
MALE BONDING is on-the-spot running project from Kevin Hendrix and John
Webb of Pre history, sharing vocal duties and trading guitar and bass scree,
with the addition of heavy hitting Robin Silas Christian on the cans and
cowbell. The result is super tight, super tribal, echo-blown popcore -
www.myspace.com/malebonding
CHAPS are a trio hailing from Exeter and Oxford, who create a clattering,
careering, anguishingly-yelped breed of hardcore punk. Their 'We're So
Skatebored' cassette tape is freshly dubbed on Milk Records now.- www.myspace.com/chapsforever
NEWS:
GRIZZLY
BEAR have announced that they will play live with the London Symphony
Orchestra at London's Barbican Centre in October. They will be playing
other shows in the UK too, but those ones won't feature any orchestras.
Unless orchestras start turning up uninvited and crashing in... Tour dates:18
Aug: London, Koko (Sold Out), 22 Aug: Green Man festival, 31 Oct: London,
Barbican Centre (with the LSO), 2 Nov: Glasgow, ABC, 4 Nov: Manchester,
Cathedral, 6 Nov: Bristol, Anson Rooms.
NEWS:
CLINT
MANSELL ANNOUNCES LIVE SOUNDTRACK SHOW - Former Pop Will Eat Itself
frontman turn awesomely awesome soundtrack composer Clint Mansell has announced
an equally awesome sounding live show at Union Chapel in London. He will
be performing (with the help of The Sonus Quartet) his soundtrack to 'Moon',
the new film directed by Duncan Jones, aka Zowie Bowie. That film sounds
awesome too, by the way. And it recently won an award at the Edinburgh
Film Festival. The performance will take place on 20 Jul, with the soundtrack
album released the same week on 13 Jul and the film itself out on 17 Jul.
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 JULY
2nd 2009: How good were those Apes again last night, new songs, planks
of wood and some kind of magical ingredient that just keeps on pulling
us back for more... No air conditioning, transport system in melt-down,
computers acting like heat-mosters, more red bats than ever swooping from
the sky you're not getting much from us today...
NEWS:
ALICE
IN CHAINS are giving away, to whoever wants it, a sneak preview of
their highly anticipated upcoming album BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLUE (Parlophone)
by posting a brand-new song online. The seven-minute-long track, titled
‘A Looking In View’, can be heard on www.aliceinchains.com
and is available to download for free. Catch them live in the UK on August
4th at the Scala in London. Apparently the best link for users to download
the track is http://links.emi.com/aliceinchains
NEWS:
ST
PANCRAS railway station is to play host to weekly sets from live acts,
to take place on the London terminal's concourse during the rush hour,
in a new initiative aiming to raise the profile of new artists. The Station
Sessions - A Platform For Live Music starts today, with performances from
Jem
Cooke and
Kill It
Kid taking place between 6.30 and 7.30pm. Future acts taking part
include Katie Vogel and Kerry Leatham... Sir
John Betjeman will no doubt be smiling...
NEWS:
JACKSON
IS ALIVE AND PRESUMABLY WORKING IN A CHIP SHOP - Yes, the internet is already
filling up with speculation that the king of pop didn't really die last
week and, rather, faked his own death to get out of his gruelling fifty
night booking at The O2, or possibly his mounting debts, and is currently
hiding out in Mexico. I'm guessing half the people writing this stuff
are doing so with their tongue in their cheeks, but the people behind the
website michaeljacksonsightings.com
– which opens with the headline "Michael Jackson may be alive!!!!" - do
seem to have gone to quite a lot of effort for a joke.
Their claims run thus: "The
man who died June 25 looked like him, spoke like him and in fact doubled
for him many times. The plot was 10 years in the making but it had to be
done. Michael could not go on hampered with past debt, law suits, contracts
etc. Michael is alive and well and happier than ever". So good news
for anyone at Sony hoping to follow the Elvis model for capitalising on
the Jackson legacy. The Jacko spotting has already begun (cmu).
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 JULY
1st 2009: They don’t mean to, but they do, and 69p each is the price we
pay for the Royal family, Sir Thomas Huxley invented the term agnostic,
or at least the middle ground, probably not thought, Agnostic Front and
can you believe in that? Not that we’re dogmatist or anything, and yes,
I know, not much news and no reviews this week, you sit here in the London
heat and those red bats and type this stuff! Off to Cargo for Fight
Like Apes... “focus on the doughnut and not the hole” is the message
according to the billboard outside the church we passed this morning on
the way to the dump - focus on the doughnut and not the hole? What is that
about
NEWS:
PIXIES
will perform the 1989 album 'Doolittle' in full at seven shows in the UK
and Ireland to celebrate its 20th anniversary later this year. In statement,
frontman Black Francis said: "We wanted to do something special for the
20th anniversary of the release of 'Doolittle' and we thought this was
a good opportunity to play all of the songs from that album, something
we don't normally do at a regular gig". Tour dates: 1 Oct: Dublin, Olympia,
2 Oct: Dublin, Olympia, 4 Oct: Glasgow, SECC, 6 Oct: London, Brixton Academy,
7 Oct: London, Brixton Academy, 8 Oct: London, Brixton Academy, 9 Oct:
London, Brixton Academy
NEWS:
FLAMING
LIPS stuff: According to reports, the previously reported new double
LP from The Flaming Lips, 'Embryonic', will feature appearances by MGMT
and Karen O. The album is released in the UK in September, and the band
will follow that with a short tour of the UK, dates as follows: 10
Nov: London, Troxy, 13 Nov: Portsmouth, Guildhall, 15 Nov: Glasgow, O2
Academy, 16 Nov:, Manchester, Academy, 17 Nov: Birmingham, Academy
JUNE
29th 2009: ORGAN @ RESONANCE 104.4FM, PLAYLIST SUNDAY 28th June....
1/intro:
TRANSISTOR SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta)
2:
NOSTALGIA 77 feat THE FICTION TRIO – My Name Is (Tru Thoughts)
3:
ONEIDA – What’s Up Jackal? (Jafjagiwar/Brah)
4:
GAY BEAST – Eeexxxpannndiiinnnggg (Skin Graft)
5:
MICHAEL J SHEEHY – The Gospel According To Marcelus J Mudd (Glitterhouse)
6:
ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM – Apparently (Big Dada)
7:
INCOMING CEREBRAL OVERDRIVE – There (Supernatural Cat)
8:
ANTHRAX (UK) – Welcome (Happy Release)
9:
HORDES OF HEL – Leave Life Behind (Regain)
10:
GG ELVIS – Suspicious Mind (Mental)
11:
JASON PEGG – Everything Is Easy (demo)
12:
DJ FOOD – The Illectrik Hoax (Ninja Tune)
13:
FULBORN TEVERSHAM - Beachtunes (Pickled Egg)
14:
XBXRX – F**k Your America (download)
15:
POISON IDEA – Motorhead (Golf)
16:
PRE – Haircutticus (Skin Graft)
17:
ARAB ON RADAR – No3 (Skin Graft)
18:
CURSIVE – Donkeys (Saddle Creek)
19:
J.VIEWZ feat NOA LEMBERSKY – Smooth Criminal (Tru Thoughts)
Links
and full details and news on what the bands are doing and why they got
played and the colour of the sky here
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 JUNE
28th 2009: Sunday, you know what happens on Sunday, we don't have
to say Sunday in radiohead day every week do we? Today is radiohead day,
another rush over to London Bridge and over the river for the Organ hours
on the actual radio station, can we get away with that new Fight Like Apes
b-side again? Twirl bitch twirl? Heard that before somewhere, we
love those Apes.... yeah I know, I cut and past this from last week, those
Apes are in town this week though, music does still exite you doesn't it?.9.00pm.
Organ on Resonance 104.4fm in London or www.resonancefm.com
worldwild...
... Worldwild: What's that...?
NEWS:
KRIS
WLODARSKI Art opening July 2nd - This should be an interesting and
edgy night of fun and frolics ;-0 One of the most exciting artists in London
right now...I personally recommend you come along and see these art pieces
in the flesh.........some stunning work! Opening Night is Thursday 2nd
July from 5pm See you there... so says Mediator. Unit 24 Gallery, Great
Guildford Street, London, SE1.. Click
here
to see something... just another signpost on a Sunday morning while we
put a radio show together and melt in the sticky London heat...
NEWS:
Hardcore.metalcore
pitcore corecore, enough cores already... HATEBREED have re-entered
the studio to begin work on their long-awaited new studio album which is
slated for a late Autumn 2009 release. HATEBREED’s follow-up to 2006’s
‘Supremacy’ will be released by Roadrunner Records in all territories,
ex-North America. The new album, simply titled ‘Hatebreed’. is shaping
up to be one of the band's most ferocious albums yet (or so the record
company say, well they would wouldn’t they? I mean, they’re not going to
say, they’re recording a new album, it probably won’t be as good as the
last one, they’re probably as little burnt out now, can’t even think of
a decent title for it, can they? We have every faith though, this is Hatebreed
right?
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 NEWS:
ANTHRAX
have
a new single, the proper Anthrax that is, not that we don’t have lots of
time for the other Anthrax, we’re talking the English anarch-punk band
Anthrax here though, days of Crass and all that... That’s right,
two brand new Anthrax tracks on one cd single... “We went into the recording
studio on the 16th and 17th May and put down One Last Drop and Welcome.
Both tracks will be available on a double A side CD single - the recording
was with the original anthrax line up - Gareth bass, Peter drums, D guitar,
Oscar vocals, Shaun guitar - the first time we had been in a recording
studio for over 20 years. The single is available from anthraxukoffical.com
- we have it here, straight on the radio with it tonight...
And talking of good old wholesome slices of punk rock on your radio, we've
just taken delivery of a prime slice or two of GG ELVIS. Who are
they? A rather GG Allin-like, punk as a punk thing Elvis Presley tribute
band is who they are - and on their way over from California for some UK
dates, as part of a European tour, in about a month.... Dates in the UK
go like this 5th August - Camden Underworld, London, 6th Aug - TJ’s, Newport,
7th Aug - The Rebellion Fest, Winterpool Gardens, Blackpool, 8th Aug -
Ivory Blacks, Glasgow, 9th Aug - The Palace, Bridgwater... Find out more
via www.myspace.com/ggelvis
JUNE
26th 2009: No we’re not at bloody Glastonbury with all the trust-fund hippies
sipppppping bloody Pimms with the wall to wall media in their new green
wellyboots checking out who the hell is playing the bloody Guardian Orange
Vodaphone carbon-offseting John Peel stage, and no! We don’t want to follow
you on bloody Twitter, no we don’t want to log on to bloody Facebook to
view the details of your event, just bloody well tell us where the hell
you’re playing and cut the crap...
NEWS:
SKY
SAXON of sixties rock outfit The Seeds has died in Austin, Texas, from
as yet undetermined causes. He is thought to have been around the age of
63 (although some say 71). The Seeds' lead singer and founder was born
Richard Marsh in Salt Lake City and began his career performing doo-wop
in the early sixties, before changing his name and moving on to a more
psychedelic sound that made his band a favourite with the 'flower power'
generation. Saxon had recently moved to Austin, where he played with a
new band, Shapes Have Fangs, and was planning to take part in retrospective
tour the California '66 Revue.
Lester Bangs once wrote: "All the bikers around San Diego thought the Seeds
were apocalypse, then, I recall one hog-ridin' couple ... who didn't take
the Seeds' first album off their turntable for three solid months". (cmu)
x |
 Music
journalist Steven Wells has died, now that really is a genuine shame. Steven
was an NME writer back when the paper and the music press actually meant
something... Now we had our run-ins with him in the 90’s, he was also very
supportive and enthusiastic when we released something he liked or he wanted
to cover one of our gigs or he wanted to know about soemthing in Organ
– he’d be on our case if we had something he felt something for, that’s
something rare. Swells was one of those music journalists who wrote with
passion, with real commitment, a music journalist who’s opinions were worth
noting, one of the very few who’s words would make us go check out something
or indeed go back to something and give it another go. If his name was
on it it was worth reading... We encountered him quite a bit via our Atom
Seed, Cardiacs, Huge Baby, Napalm Death connections, he was never one to
follow fashion, to jump on the next bandwagon, never one to hold back with
an opinion, he was provocative, he was full of it at times, he was one
of the few mainstream music journalists we had any time and respect for.
Stephen lost his battle with cancer this week, he was only 49, we’ll miss
his commitment, if only there were a few more like him at the bloody NME
now...
JUNE
25th 2009: EP REVIEW:A
DANCING BEGGAR – How They Grow (Grand Independent) - Pure, crisp, clean,
refreshing post rock instrumental pieces... Gentle, hopeful, refined, glowing
in an understated slowly building kind of way. There’s something just a
little different here, something extra, no revolution, this is very much
that atmospheric instrumental building until you touch the sky instrumental
post rock thing, just something a little more, an x factor (as we once
would say before the term was stolen...) This is just all rather
beautiful in a simple crisp clean natural unforced kind of way. Clean guitars
and that Sigur Ros Maps kind of thing. A Dancing Beggar is the solo project
of Brighton based James Simmons – just beautiful melancholic creativity
and everything just right, wonderful six tracks, simple really... Highly
recommended warmth – www.myspace.com/adancingbeggar
NEWS:
AMANDA
PALMER will perform in Edinburgh during the Fringe as well as at an
early-September gig in London's Union Chapel. Dates from the Dresden Doll
are as follows: Saturday August 22 The Picture House, Edinburgh,
Also appearing: The Indelicates. Saturday September 12, Union Chapel, London,
Also appearing: Polly Scattergood
DEMO
REVIEW: CATO STREET CONSPIRACY
– Oh look, this lot are doing their chosen thing impressively well, just
ain’t really our thing, and maybe not the most original of things either...
that slick emo indie pop rock polite guitar thing laced with melody and
harmony... the Oxford band’s lyrics are a little more rewarding than most
of these emo-indie modern guitar pop bands and good luck to ‘em we say.
Here’s a link, if it sounds like your thing then they do it well enough,
three pin-point tracks and go investigate and get it out of here and I
think we’ve been polite enough for today and you know what we really think
of things like this – www.myspace.com/catostreetconspiracy
x |
 NEWS:
DEVILDRIVER:
NEW ALBUM AND DATES... The circlepit kings who apparently slayed
the Download Festival last weekend with their incendiary main stage set
(don’t ask us, I’d rather pull my own head off than go get marketed at
at that advertising festival that is Download) return to the UK for a short
batch of dates this October.
The California based band's beast of a new album, Pray For Villains hits
stores on 13th July. Says here that “critics and rock media agree
that this new release sees the band operating at a higher level than ever
before, having honed their sound over three previous albums to the benchmark
status they’ve attained today”, you know what, them there critics are right
for once, we got it crunching and blasting and ripping right now and there’s
a big circle pit of cats in the Organ office, this is what we need on a
Thursday morning.
The October dates line up as follows: Fri 16th Oct: London - Garage, Sat
17th Oct : London - Garage, Sun 18th Oct: Leeds Rio’s, Tue 20th Oct: Glasgow
- Garage Wed 21st Oct: Manchester - Academy 2, Fri 23rd Oct: Wolverhampton
Wulfrun Hall. For further information, point your mouse at www.devildriver.com.
And look, only two silly beards this time...
NEWS:
CARDIACS:
A STATEMENT FROM US: One year ago this week, Tim Smith of Cardiacs had
a very serious heart attack and stroke, it happened at a my Bloody Valentine
concert in London. Cardiacs are, were and will always be out musical fuel.
We haven't said much about what happened here at ORG Records, in line with
the wishes of Tim's family and the Cardiacs family. Today, Cardiacs, via
The Alphabet Business Concern have made a statement, so today we shall
say a little, there isn't a day that goes by without someone asking us
for news.
The
band explain the situation in their statement. At the time of Tim's illness
we were heavily in to the final plans for new Cardiacs singles here at
ORG ahead of the new album. Tim was more animated and excited than ever
about Cardiacs music and the new material, we were making plans on almost
a daily basis - but the recordings for the single were never quite fnished
and all the plans remain just conversations and e.mails between Tim and
us. Now we're proud of every single record we've ever reelased on ORG,
but nothing really mattered to us as much as releasing Cardiacs music does,
Cardiacs have always been our real reason, our real love, our passion.
Since the events of last year we've not really felt that desire to put
out records, like we've said before, we never have released mere 'product',
music matters to us, people matter to us, bands matter to us. Tim's recovery
is still a long way off, who knows what's going to happen and who knows
if we'll ever release that Cardiacs material or indeed feel like doing
anything more with ORG. Maybe we will release that new Cardiacs single
one day, maybe we'll release other things on ORG, for now, all we really
want is for our friend Tim to recover...
The
CARDIACS/ALPHABET STATEMENT June 25th, read it in full on the ORG RECORDS
page here
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 24th
JUNE '09: ALBUM REVIEW: KLAY
Maps Of Rebellion (Lockjaw) – Generic mathy indie post something or other
conformity and more slavish following of the damn rules. They do it well
enough, but you’ve heard every single moment of it before sometime someplace
in the last year - bits of Biffy, bits of Monument To Masses, bits of this,
bits of that, same voice, same phrasing, same polite, slightly mathy, slightly
post-rock/hardcore, same old indie rock riffs... I don’t know, I guess
there’s some point in sounding exactly like your record collection, damned
if I can see it though. Thing is, there’s a decent band in here somewhere,
so why have they played so safe and conformed so much this time around?
Why such a lack of ambition when they really should have been building
on that last promising album? Why are we using up our space telling you
this...? Why? Why....? Why! www.myspace.com/klay
ALBUM
REVIEW: GODDASS – My Beautiful
Sin (EMG) – God damn hell! More of this heard it all before dumbshit metalcore
rule-obeying copy your record collection sound like your (already tediously
unoriginal) heroes pointlessness. Will you people stop wasting your stamps
and our time with generic gutless musical cowardice like this please -
we’ve already got this same album released by seventy three other metalcore
screamo beano killswitch engages this year. What is the damn point?
This lot are from Italy - they can play, the singer can sing when
he wants to, he can certainly growl, someone in there can do the regulation
melodic bits, so why the hell don’t they take it all and at least try to
be a tiny little weeeeny titchy bit different? Bedwetting metal is what
this is, scared to do anything more than just conform to the tedious blueprint.
And look at this press release frothing on about how “stunning” it all
is and how they want to have oral contemplation with Bullet For a Friend
and yeah, I know, I know, we usually just throw this generic crap in the
corner and politely ignore it, there’s only so much of this time wasting
bullshit we can take though! What is wrong with metal these days? Lookout,
beware, when the full moon’s high and bright... No, we’re not even giving
this lot a link, they don’t serve it. I’d rather listen to that damn awful
Enter Shikari band all day than put up with anymore of these tedious metalcore
copycats...
ALBUM
REVIEW: HORDE OF HEL – Bodskam
(Regain) - Thank the frothing lords of hell and all those cat-food bothering
flies for that, some decent, challenging metal that doesn’t instantly sound
like a hundred other metal things we already heard, something worth actually
telling you about this hot sunny day! This is both originally different
and really rather hell-boiled-up good! Horde of Hel “is a mysterious, clandestine
collective of Swedish black/death metal scene legends and Blodskam is their
highly anticipated debut”. This is good! This is misanthropic art, this
is dark disturbing twists, turns and drones, this is all gone-wrong-at-the-church
blackend melodies and hellish choral distortions, this is giant slams of
slow-moving black metal with a sinister industrial godflesh of a twist,
this is an adventurously challenging set of grimly sung atmospheres sliced
open by evil riffs and those slashes of voice and rhythm... This
is forward moving, highly original, challengingly good black/death/whatever
metal. This is evil, this is good, this is twisted black musical abomination,
now go get me some ice cream please... oh yes, listen to that bit there
jarring and ripping against that bit, listing to that choral moaning from
the depths.. evil evil metal! www.myspace.com/heldivine
or www.regainrecords.com
SINGLE
REVIEW: COUGAR – Thundersnow
/ Rhinelander (Counter) - Release dates, who needs ‘em, this new single
from Cougar, the first from their forthcoming second album, has been out
a few weeks already, we’ve had it for ages, we should have said something
already, what ya gonna do? These are busy times, and anyway, aren’t Cougar
a metal band? Have we run out of new names for bands now? This Cougar are
a quintet a million miles away from heavy metal, they’re from Madison,
Wisconsin and this is two pieces of quietly considered glitchy instrumental
post rock, laces with alternative post-rock bite, choral delight, clever
interplay, considered warmth of a Vessels meets Four Tet nature, touch
of Tortoise... www.myspace.com/cougarsound
or www.counterrecords.com
Seems
Van
Der Graaf were on top form over in Boston last night, U.S ears experiencing
the beauty for the first time... more of that it a while, more of lots
of things in a while... more more more...
NEWS:
The
latest PUB POP show, brought to you by Resonance FM’s Dexter Bentley,
happens tonight, Wednesday 24th June @ The Miller, 96 Snowsfields, London
Bridge, Borough, London, SE1... The good looking bill features CHIPS
FOR THE POOR, PLUG, SPINMASTER PLANTPOT, PEEPHOLES, THE PLAN, DJ: Rich
Nuvo, Doors: 8.00pm, Entry a mere £3. The Miller is a nice friendly
old school (messy) pub...
THE BILL according to Dexter: Britain's answer to the credit crunch Chips
For The Poor promise to break with their usual 60 second long
song convention with the debut performance of their proto-prog/punk,
1 note, 20 minute epic 'I Am Warrior'. www.myspace.com/c4tp
Post-punk girl duo Plug return once again to cement their PUB POP
pet band status!. Skeletal song structures combine with tribal rhythms
to propel intriguing musings on germs, drugs and dosh. - www.myspace.com/plugddd
Leading light of the spoken word scene and Toulouse Lautrec doplleganger
Spinmaster
Plantpot brings his al~fresco, surrealistic, anarcho-punk poetry to
the boil. www.myspace.com/ppot
Wet Dog big cheese Rivka Gillieron makes a 'rare as hens teeth' solo performance
under the monicker of The Plan. Expect an entire array of short,
sharp (and perhaps alphabetically ordered?) pop-punk gems! - www.myspace.com/theplantheplantheplan
London based duo Peepholes perform contagious, raucous party-punk
pop. - www.myspace.com/wearepeepholes
Links: www.myspace.com/pubpop
or www.deXterBentley.com or
www.resonancefm.com
or www.myspace.com/millerlondon
NEWS:
WET
SOUNDS ~ UNDERWATER SOUND ART GALLERY ~ Touring swimming pools
nation-wide, Wet Sounds begins a 16 date UK tour with an opening event
at The London Fields Lido on the 4th July. The audience will float and
dive in the swimming pool immersed in sound art played from underwater
speakers. The theme for the 2009 gallery curated by Joel Cahen is Audio
Cinema – narratives in sound.
Starting at 1pm on the 4th. The 75min sound art gallery session will be
followed by an Aquadelica DJ set by Spax playing a collage of music and
narrative sound compositions. The event is open to all ages and is priced
at regular pool admission. Bring your goggles!!
The
Closing Event on the 22nd July at Clissold Pool will feature live performances
from some of the most prominent sound artists these days. They will play
a live performance through an overwater sound system as well as an underwater
one, effectively creating three distinct sound spaces each of which may
be differently experienced by members of the audience, as they move above
and below the surface of the pool. Find out lots more and fugure out what
the hell it is they're doing over at www.wetsounds.co.uk
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 23rd
JUNE '09: NEWS:TORTOISE
have
announced a London show at the born again Garage, over there in Highbury.
Tickets at £13 in advance, you get them via www.atpfestival.com.
This has been a short sharp news story, no corporate energy drinks were
mentioned during the making of this news story and...
Happy
birthday, it must be someone’s birthday today, maybe Yours? Trees wrapped
in red fabric and white spots?
FIASSCO!
–
“Umm -!!!! We would like to apologies to everyone who tried to get into
the EBRMC Fight Party on Saturday only to be turned away by the Oakland
Police. --ALL 3,000+ OF YOU!!” Say one time ORG band and ever wholesome
Bay Area punk explosive experts EVERYTHING MUST GO...
“Everything Must Go was the only band that successfully snuck all our members
and our gear into the venue past the police blockade* and we did actually
play the damn thing, to the 200 or so people who climbed over barbed wire
down train tracks and over walls to break into the party. That is until
we blew the power out for the entire building!!! Adding another layer of
catastrophic ridiculousness. So then we went to Merchants (a bar downtown)
and played there instead, along with The Binges (a f**king incredible Rock
and Roll band from L.A. who came up to do the fight gig.) So that was rockin'
at least. There are lots of rumors as to how and why the thing got
ruined and plenty of finger pointing but the long and short of it is this;
Someone in city hall was dead set on preventing us all from having a good
time. We will find out who! And expose their neo Nazi sympathies! Because
one stick ass hard on should not be allowed to ruin an entire communities
night~! But anyway thanks for coming out, and sorry it was such a mess.
Cheerz & Love JAKE”
“Police
blockades can be penetrated with a combination of lies, slight of hand,
politeness, invisibility, and the exertion of an individuals inherent authority
over the written law. Eddy got in three times.”
ALBUM
REVIEW: CURSIVE – Mama, I’m Swollen
(Saddle Creek) - Ink blots shaped like Zeus? Blood red egg yokes burning?
Something like that anyway - the body, the burning, the earthquake, you
get a little more with Cursive, no need for great escapes (HBO or takeouts),
plenty here to write about, the best years of their lives, out there in
their world – out there in the world. Cursive make great records, they
write great records – a fluid progression once more, something to really
hang on to get in to, invest time in, go back for more When he says
he doesn’t want to know what he knows you believe him, and he thinks he’s
going to hell and you’re convinced by the argument, he may just be right,
wearing out those heels on a road to... Cursive are an intelligent
band, a clever band, they don’t need to wear it though, they don’t need
to constantly tell us how cleaver they are – that’s the clever thing, it
isn’t rehearsed, this is natural, the considered screams from the foaming
mouths. He’s at his worst when he’s at his best. Tim Kasher and his fine
band – a band equally as comfortable from their energetic pit with your
punk mates jumping or at home with their words and dark light where have
you been, sailing out to sea with your new best friend... plenty of treasure
islands and tales to tell and who needs that cease and desist... Aren’t
most bands burnt out by this point? Cursive just get better and better
(or at least keep on being as good as ever). An album alive and bursting
with questions, points, the morality of humanity, growing up, getting old,
Peter Pan - a heady album, not one of those albums that instantly grabs
hold of you, no, the Cursive way is a lot more subtle, a longer lasting
set of questions to explore... They really are on of the best bands around,
one of the most interesting set of people, a band you can hang on to...
a treasure island of reality, something with a little more depth, and how
much do we need a little more depth right now – www.saddle-creek.com
or www.cursivearmy.com or www.myspace.com/cursive
22nd
JUNE '09: ALBUM REVIEW: KILLSWITCH
ENGAGE – Killswitch Engage (Roadrunner) – Various shades of blustery/slick/brutal/melodic/conforming
modern metal that kind of passes by without really registering the personality
or indeed the cutting edge of previous Killswitch albums... www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk
SINGLE
REVIEW: ASHTECH/POLCARI – Meditronica
(RareNoise) – Dub waves and delicate electronica, gentle rhythms, touches
of trip-hop skilfully woven and rather soothing... www.rarenoiserecords.com
ALBUM
REVIEW: THE ROBOT LORDS OF TOKYO -
Whiskey, Blood & Napalm (Self Release) – They’re not from Tokyo, they’re
probably not even real robot lords, they're actually from Ohio... didn’t
the Bionic dog come from there? They may not be real robot lords but they
do make some rather muscled-up classic old school heavy metal/hard rock
that takes in bits of Sabbath (both Dio and Ozzy periods), early Rainbow,
touches of things like Dragonforce, Trouble, Maiden in there along with
their obscure Kiss cover Larger Than Life that comes out sounding
more Judas Priest that Gene and Co... Solid, good for your ears, no messing,
old school hard rock/metal, they're maybe not doing much you haven't heard
already but hey... www.robotlordsoftokyo.com
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 22nd
JUNE '09: Catching up with the mid summer sun and radio recovery day
NEWS:
DEPTFORD
ART MAP, what's that then? People who are part of South London's thriving
gallery/art scene doing something that's what....
“Deptford Art Map details the most exciting galleries and art spaces in
Deptford. From up and coming curated and artist-run spaces to established
commercial galleries and warehouse spaces, each art venue has a different
flavour from emerging artists to Turner Prize nominees. Deptford has recently
been dubbed by the New York Times,’ as a 'boisterous concoction of blue-collar
aesthetics and intermittent hipsterism,’. With Deptford Art Map you won’t
miss an exhibition or event, helping you get the best out of the Deptford
art scene. The Deptford Art Map website will be launched in September 2009
with multiple features, alongside a printed map available in all major
galleries in London. Deptford Art Map is a Bearspace initiative” - www.deptfordartmap.com
And this Friday is final Friday in Deptford, apparently every last Friday
of the month the galleries all open (relatively) late and then there's
an after event party.... " We also have the first ‘Deptford Last Fridays’
this Friday 26th, where all galleries in Deptford are open until 8.30 pm,
with an afterparty called ‘Dirty Cop Fridays’ from 9pm at the Old Police
Station in New Cross" said Julie from Bearspace – www.bearspace.co.uk
ALBUM
REVIEW: THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX –
Tab 4 (Tee Pee) – Neat enough cover of Pink Floyd’s Astronomy Domine (though
nowhere near as good as the Voivod version from back there), is it me or
are the usually mighty Bitchwax sounding a little polite and middle aged
middle of the road with their 70's sounding psychedelic stoner rock this
time around? They hit the sweet spot now and again but... little disappointing
- www.theatomicbitchwax.com
ALBUM
REVIEW: THE LEGENDS – Over And Over
(Labrador) – More Swedish creamy dream pop that now and again has a tendency
to hit the Jesus And Mary Chain button and drench everything in white noise
fuzz and buzzing feedback. Seems the Legends is a one man band with a number
of guests and voices and vibrant pop and degrees of Stereolab, My Bloody
Valentine and such... www.labrador.se
Those
good people over at SchNEWS have issued a “humble apology to all
the police we've unfairly maligned over the years. Apparently the boys
in blue's over-zealous friskiness with the boots, truncheons and tasers
isn't 'cos they're the front-line of state repression after all. It's because
the poor dears are getting their brains fried by microwave energy when
they're sat in their paddy-wagons. According to an article in Jane's Police
Review – the 'UK's best-selling policing title', ''Police behaviour at
the G20 protests in London could have been caused by the frequency used
by the officers' Airwave radios interfering with their brainwaves', one
expert has said.'
So what turns yer average easy-going liberal bobby from helping old ladies
across the road into an armoured truncheon wielding stormtrooper? 'Officers
were waiting in metal vans for hours, and their Airwave radios effectively
turned the vehicles into microwaves. Airwave radios send out microwaves
at a greater rate than the brain's natural rhythm, which controls decision
making in emergency situations. If you put waves through the brain, you
end up with entrainment, which makes you do something you are not programmed
to do.'
Next
up we expect to see police violence excused on grounds of poor Feng-shui
(insert gag here excess gamma rays etc) inside New Scotland Yard. Stay
tuned or go see - www.schnews.org.uk
SINGLE
REVIEW: MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS – Life
Boat (Nettwerk) – Another escapee from the Brian Jonestown Massacre circus
of chaos and gunfire, Miranda has a beautifully creamy dreamy sunshine
drenched voice. The single is lifted from her recent Light Of X album.
Life Boat is delicate uplifting West Coast psychedelic folk and warm glowingly
gentle alt.Americana – www.mirandaleerichards.com
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 ETIQUETTE
OF COMFORT by LISA SLOMINSKI & SALLY SPINKS is an art show currently
showing at a small intimate shop style gallery right in the middle of Deptford
High Street, over there in South London - actually an ex pub once called
The Brown Bear, though you'd never really know it was once a pub.... "BEARSPACE
brings together Slominski and Spinks to investigate philosophies of security
relating to comfort and discomfort through imagery" so reads the Bearspace
website... "Using mechanical processes, both artists look at recognised
visuals and insert these into a new context, from a threat into a symbol
of reassurance or visa versa. Appearance and texture are important in this
transformation. Both artists use appealing media such as perfectly
produced plastics, fine wool, luxury wallpaper print and other seductive
materials to alter the original significance of both source visuals and
medium...." Well worth dropping in and checking out the mixed media
textile flavoured paintings and pieces of Sally and Lisa, the show runs
until 27th June – www.bearspace.co.uk
ALBUM
REVIEW: SAD DAY FOR PUPPETS – Unknown
Colours (Sonic Cathedral) – Creamy girl-fronted shoegaizer indie fuzz pop
from Stockholm. Think Mazzy Star, The Primitives, Madder Rose, mellow harmonies,
lullabies, gentle sunny feedback and investigate over at www.myspace.com/saddayforpuppets
should you feel the need. www.soniccathedral.co.uk
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21st JUNE '09: The problem today is red acrylic, busting tubes, and always
the red ones
ALBUM
REVIEW: ADAM FRANKLIN – Spent
Bullets (Hi Speed Soul / Second Motion ) – One time Swervedriver front
voice (and main songwriter) with a refined set of reflective songs that
have a clever positive Elvis Costello touch to them alongside that Swervedriver
(Husker Du, My Bloody Valentine) feel. Rather impressively good, rather
evocative, rather inviting once you open up and let those gloriously mellow
songs in. Clever details, something a little more, alive with the understated
beauty of it all. Rather recommended.
www.adamfranklin.com
ALBUM
REVIEW: ASSEMBLE HEAD – When
Sweet Sleep Returned (Tee Pee) – San Francisco’s Assemble Head with their
third album and some 70’s sounding psychedelic rock goodness that flies
along somewhere near those Notorious Byrd Brothers getting all alt.country
psychedelic on us in a bright breezy stoner doom kind of way... Like them
films with the lens flair sunshine and the bikers chasing the American
Dream and all the Fear And Loathing and acid and the dream went wrong years
ago and the bats, he’ll see the bats soon enough... Bits of The Who, bits
of Jefferson Airplane, bits of Lalo Schifrin soundtracks where bad people
in black Dodge Chargers are chased by the cool cops in even cooler black
Mustangs up and down those San Francisco streets. All bliss-out vocal harmonies
and acid guitars and the assemble head in sunburst sound indeed... www.myspace.com/assemblehead
or www.teepeerecords.com
NEWS:
GUERILLA
GARDEN TO STAY - In the last month locals in Brighton have been transforming
a derelict former ESSO garage into a community garden. The concrete Lewes
Rd site, empty for five years, was cleared of rubble before being laid
with flower beds and lawn. Benches, flower pots, sculptures and other decorations
have made the space an oasis of calm on a busy, heavy-traffic, high street.
Last week site owners tried to spoil the garden party by chaining the access
gate, but undeterred, the gardeners ensured access to the site by removing
the gate. The owners have now given consent for the continued use of the
garden until 'development' begins. Volunteers are still needed to help
with the garden and run workshops as well as garden materials. See
lewesroadcommunitygarden
ALBUM
REVIEW: TYR – By The Light Of
The Northern Star (Napalm) – Serious horns-up, sword-wielding Viking metal.
Open track goes by the name of Hold The Heather Hammer High and
tells of truths to be told on the wings of old – I think you get the picture.
They’re from the Faroe Islands and they damn well sound like it! This is
excellent, they have the folk tradition in there with their pounding metal,
and when they do it in their own language... oh yes, proper into the storm
Viking Metal... shame those damn Faroe Islanders have no respect for all
those whales they slaughter... www.myspace.com/tyr1
or www.napalmrecords.com
SINGLE
REVIEW: SLIPKNOT – Sulphur
(Roadrunner) – We’re late, it came out last week, what ya’ gonna do? Take
it up with your local MP? Slipknot with a single sliced off the last album
and we still have time and space for their metal. A kind of average Slipknot
moment, but hey, in terms of modern metal slickness, they’re way ahead
of most... www.slipknot1.com
ALBUM
REVIEW: MEAT PUPPETS – Sewn Together
(Megaforce) - The born again 80’s American alt.rock cult legends
blah blah blah.. .all sounds nice and breezy and all sewn together this
time, all nicely sewn together in a breezy sunny alt. American way, all
that rapid eye movement and.... www.myspace.com/themeatpuppets
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 21st
JUNE '09: Mid summer Sunday, Sunday means Organ on your radio, Solstice
sun up and this week we have THE OTHER ROCK SHOW at 9.00pm on Resonance
104.4FM in London or www.resonancefm.com
worldwild. The Other Rock Show is about exploring rock that's made using
things beyond the convention of mere 4/4, exploring time signatures that
are a little more adventurous....
ALBUM
REVIEW: GAY BEAST – Second Wave (Skin
Graft) – “Gay Beast are one of the few bands I’ve seen around
that are seriously challenging the form and content of modern rock music.
Their compositions and execution are ambitious and effective. A truly unique
and weird band” to quote Flying Luttenbacher Weasel Walter. And he’s right.
Gay Beast, “Minnesota’s premier agit-prog queercore band” to quote once
more, this time from the press release (wonder how many agit-prog queercore
bands there are in Minnesota then?), have a new album, Second Wave, out
right now – an urgent album, a precise album, a premeditated clatter of
guitars, keys and pin-point drums flavoured with a dash of electronic psych
and some cutting sax – a significant album, an exciting album, another
thrilliant album. Spongy synth contradictions, obtuse angles, bits that
go off and things, squalor alive once more, things left on the floor. Walter
is right, Gay Beast are one of the few bands seriously challenging the
form of modern rock music – that doesn’t make them a difficult listen though.
Hard-boiled and jittering all over the place yes, very busy, rushing off
in ten directions at once, never abrasive though. They do have a lot of
early Cardiacs about them, they have lots of good things about them – tight
pin-point new wave (dare we say pronk?) exploding knees and thingd eeexxxpannndiiinnnggg.
Electronic psych, wild sax, waves of point feminism, no trouble leaving
any house these days... Gay Beast are Cardiacs good in a Flying Luttenbachers
meets
Deerhoof contradictory way – yes, really that good! We love doing
this Organ thing when things like this land - www.myspace.com/gaybeast
or explore Skingraft’s site, there’s a good page of free sample downloads
to get you hooked over there, you really need to buy the whole album though
– www.skingraftrecords.com
19th
JUNE '09: The good lacking all conviction? Mere anarchy let loose on the
land? contradictions? Down the 303 for the sunrise this weekend?
SINGLE
REVIEW : ASLEEP BENEATH VOLCANOES –
EP01 (Dormant) – New band with a debut release on a new label, Asleep Beneath
Volcanoes are a rather impressive two piece outfit from Kendal, Cumbria.
We’re talking forward moving refinement, organic electronica and a more
than healthy mix of raw instrumentation and sequenced sound... Bit of a
positively classic Hawkwind Valium Ten feel to that opening track, a feel
that carries on when those vocals kick in. Droning tribal Hawkwind meets
a Killing Joke/Primal Scream menace of a feel to that first of three tracks,
a subtly textured glowing right minute orgone accumulating thing called
Water... Second track Heavy Legs is more of a bubbling slice of refreshing
electronic ambience, an aural bubble bath with a touch of a dark undercurrent
running just bellow the soothing surface. Third track, Holiday, follows
the two eight minutes slices with a more focused one and a half minutes
of a hopeful Spiritualized nature... Something good happening here, rather
encouraging first moves from a new band worth checking out... www.dormantrecords.comor
www.myspace.com/asleepbeneathvolcanoes
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 NEWS:The
SOMERSET
HOUSE series of gigs is almost here, always a pleasant set of outdoor
summer events Right in the middle of London, this side of the river,
grand surroundings. There's a photo from the night Fight Like Apes played
last year... We already told you
DM STITH had been added to the
Bat For Lashes day as a special guest, the organisers have now added a
final night to the run with CALVIN HARRIS. The series will run from
Thursday 9th – Monday 20th July.
The full line-up of 2009 Summer Series now features the following: Thursday
9 July: Grace Jones, Friday 10 July: The Enemy, Saturday
11 July: Lily Allen, Monday 13 July: The Mars Volta, Tuesday
14 July: The Ting Tings, Wednesday 15 July: Pendulum, Thursday
16 July: Bat for Lashes, Friday 17 July: Athlete, Saturday
18 July: Super Furry Animals, Monday 20 July: Calvin Harris.
More from www.somersethouse.org.uk
NEWS:
SILVERY
have posted a free live audience recorded bootleg called "SILVERY,
I PRESUME"., their swirling Victorian carousel ride of a show from the
Bull And Gate that happened earlier this year can be downloaded for free
from here
complete with artwork, sleeve notes and everything else you could possibly
want... More from www.myspace.com/silverytheband
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 NEWS:MARNIE
STERN has announced UK tour dates. Hooray! What's more, support will
come from Tartufi. Tour dates: 20 Jul: Cardiff, Buffalo Bar, 21 Jul: Leeds,
Brundenell Social Club, 22 Jul: Bristol, The Croft. 23 Jul: London, Luminaire
24 Jul: Manchester, Islington Mill More in a minute...
NEWS:
Extra
EXTRA
LIFE, extra PERIOD... They're probably the finest band in the
world right now and Extra Life have just got back home from their European
tour. Charlie has posted a blog...
“Back home from Europe. The tour was outrageously good. We made tons of
new friends, and even a few awesome new enemies. Much love and gratitude
to Paper and Iron, Julie Tippex and Disco Babel for lining it all up. Bands,
you should play in Latvia if you haven't. What a vibe...
In other news, I have made a page for PERIOD. This project has been going
for a couple years and a page is long overdue - www.myspace.com/periodikal.
The band features Mike Pride, Darius Jones (Little Women) and Chuck Bettis
(Brown Wing Overdrive). Also, check out SCULPTRESS if you haven't already.
Extra Life will be on break from shows for June and July. We'll return
to the stage in August, although we'll mostly be playing at home as we
work on new material. We're excited to cook it up for you. love, Charlie
/ Extra Life”
If you missed Extra life on their European tour, then you really missed
out on something really rather special. the Organ album review and live
review can be found here, explore the Extra
Life magic via www.myspace.com/extralifetheband
NEWS:
COURTNEY
LOVE REFORMS HOLE (WITHOUT TELLING HOLE) - Courtney Love is still working
on her new solo album (the one that was supposed to come out six months
ago), 'Nobody's Daughter'. Except it's not her new solo album any more,
it's now the new Hole album. That's what she says, anyway. Before you get
all excited/angry about the thought of a full-blown Hole reunion, don't.
Because it isn't. The number of original Hole members featuring on the
album will be two. And the second, bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur, will only
be providing backing vocals.
Courtney
revealed her decision to release this album under the Hole moniker in an
interview with the NME. She also claimed that the album is almost finished,
thanks to Michael Beinhorn, the third producer to have a crack at it, who
seems to have reined her in a bit. Beinhorn produced the last Hole album,
1998's 'Celebrity Skin', and his rockier production style (compared to
former Four Non Blonde Linda Perry, the album's original producer) may
be what has caused Love to think of this as more of a Hole album than a
solo work.
'Nobody's Daughter' is apparently scheduled for release, despite having
no label as yet, in late 2009 or early 2010. But, hey, by then everything
could have changed again. Who knows. (CMU)
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| 18th
JUNE '09: Twirl bitch twirl.... Things things things...
SINGLE
REVIEW: FIGHT LIKE APES – Something
Global (Model Citizen) – New single from the abrasively fluid spiky synth-pop
fight club from Ireland known as Fight Like Apes. Give me my hook, nothing
lame about pop with a big hook, give me my hook! Choruses are for who?
We love hooks, we need a chorus, feeling up who? Those Apes were the pop
band of last year, they’ve been far too quiet this year, give me my next
hook damn it! New single, lead track off last year’s album but that will
do for now... More of their fiesty do not mess do-you-like-my-new-look
silver hot pants and fractured synths... Something good, something real,
something cool, enough for all the boys the drool, give me my hook ...
The single is out as a white vinyl 7” hand stamped sleeve on June 29th,
busy at festivals and such right now, single comes with a one minute outburst
of a new track called This Is Like The Time Jody Didn’t Know What Cunnilingus
Was that really almost certainly won’t get played on any radio shows
(besides ours that is – Twirl Bitch Twirl! And a live version of
their rather heroic Battlestations – we love those Apes, you know
that already though, pure Organ pop fuel – www.fightlikeapesmusic.com
ALBUM
REVIEW: ALEXISONFIRE – Old Crows/Young
Cardinals (Roadrunner) - Forth album from the Canadian band, the follow
up to Crisis and more of their bluster... Positive bluster mind
you, little less obvious in terms of their screamo car crashes this time
around, moving along in a feverish manner... They have some extra colour
in there this time, a heightened sense of light and shade. All kinds of
hints of things in there – is that a touch of Warrior Soul? Killing Joke
(Accept Crime sounds very Joke), bit straight ahead driving hardcore, modern
metal, moody bits where they want us to appreciate their sensitive side
now and again... They say they pretty much want to put the knife in screamo,
they certainly wounded the idea... A not bad album, which is a lot
more positive than we were expecting to be, rather decent, nothing vital,
decent enough though - www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk
or www.theonlybandever.com
NEWS:
THE
MYSTERY OF THE MISSING SUNSPOTS: The sun is in the pits of the deepest
solar minimum in nearly a century. Where have all the sunspots gone? Scientists
studying a jet stream deep inside the sun may have found the answer. Find
the full story at spaceweather.com.
NEWS:
SQUAREPUSHER
ANNOUNCES LIVE BASS ALBUM - On record
he is best known for his mind-bending drum n bass antics, but Squarepusher,
aka Tom Jenkinson, is equally acclaimed for his live solo bass performances.
In fact, one such performance led Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea to
call him "the best electric bass player on Earth". And he would know. If
you've not been lucky enough to see him in action, you'll be able to hear
what you're missing on his new live album, 'Solo Electric Bass 1', which
was recorded at Cité de la Musique in Paris in September 2007. The
album will be released by Warp on 17 Aug. (CMU)
NEWS:
NIGHT-SHINING
CLOUDS: On June 16th, a remarkably intense display of electric-blue
noctilucent clouds (NLCs) swept across Europe. Sightings were made in Belgium,
Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Poland and the British Isles.
These mysterious clouds are known to flourish during years of solar minimum--and
2009 is such a year. This means more NLCs may be in the offing, not
only over Europe but also North America and elsewhere. Check spaceweather.com
for images, movies, and observing tips.
NEWS:
Bat
for Lashes’ Natasha Khan has personally asked DM STITH to support
her at the sold out Somerset House show (London) on 16 July. Stith will
also be performing his own headline date at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
on Monday 20 July. Much covered and played around these Organic parts,
discover why Bat taste is good over at www.myspace.com/dmstith
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