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ORGAN THING: Michael J. Sheehy and his Hired Mourners have a new album; of course it’s beautiful, of course it deserves some kind of love…

Michael J Sheehy And The Hired Mourners – Don’t We Deserve Some kind of Love? (Dimple Discs) – There are quite a few sides to Michael J Sheehy. When Miraculous Mule hit the spot then no band rocks quite like his blues-based garage band do (or indeed before that the even more raw way Saint…

ART

ORGAN PREVIEW: The 2026 Art Car Boot Fair date and details have been announced, always a highlight in terms of the London art calendar, almost defiantly so these days. The theme of the long-standing fair this year is Play Free…
ART

ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Shows – Anna Barham at Matt’s Gallery, Kembra Pfahler’s Hungry for Trash at The Clerk’s House, Lisa Ivory at Gramercy Park Studios, Tom Lemon and Gerard Cassidy’s Tom & Gerry The Exhibition at The Chapel at St Margarets House, Phyllis Bray at The Batsford Gallery and…
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ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – Cult Of Dom Keller’s Unholy Drum, the mathy flavourings of Bristol’s Maebe, the return of Social Distortion, Fuudge, the new album by pioneering electric guitarist composer and producer David Torn…
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ORGAN THING: Listen back to last night’s Other Rock Show (on Resonance 104.4FM) with F*cked Up, Cheer-Accident, Poly-Math, The Mercury Tree and more. Catch all the recent shows here…

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ORGAN THING: A Soisong book. Soisong was a music project and an artistic platform conceived in 2007 by Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Threshold House Boys Choir) and Ivan Pavlov (CоH). The project set out to offer an alternative to the conventional mechanisms of the music industry and…
ART

ORGAN PREVIEW: Kembra Pfahler is Hungry for Trash. The New York artist’s latest London show kicks off next week, opening night is May 28th, we’re still getting over that time ten years ago when Emalin first kicked off…
ART

ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Shows – Katy Binks, Matt Dosa and Mark McClure at Well Hung Gallery, Sun Ra Day with Thurston Moore at ROVR Soho, Clara Hastrup at Standpoint Gallery, Jason Shulman at Ashley Saville Gallery, Jan Gatewood at Rose Easton Gallery and…
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ORGAN: Five Music Things – five more slices of music that have recently come our way; Party Dozen return, Nick Carlisle and another classic bit of prog, Eartheater, Gnoomes, more of the delight that is Rien Faire and a bit of Steve Earle’s positivity…
ART

ORGAN THING: Jason Shulman’s Moving Pictures at Ashley Saville Gallery, Fleet Street, London. No, it isn’t an uncomfortable show, far from it, it is indeed a rather beautiful show…
ART

Cultivate Presents: Melike, Recent Work, an exhibition…
ART

ORGAN THING: Cherry picking the best of the London Original Print Fair with Henrik Knudsen, Bruce McLean, Kelly Reemtsen, Colin Gale, Diane Victor, Paul Huxley and the delight of a Norman Ackroyd print…
ART

ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Shows – Louise Howard at General Assembly, Urban Perspectives at Stolen Space, Joanne Duckett at Findings Gallery, T. Venkanna at Studio Voltaire, Bomb Factory open studios and…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Here we go, five more slices of music that have recently come our way; a gorgeous new thing from Shearwater, an excellent bite of Splat from an on-form Deep Purple, something extreme from Make, some American porn from the Die Spitz, some Hot Garbage and…
ART

ORGAN THING: Emma Talbot’s Always in Transformation at East London’s Hales Gallery – everything is energy…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Hang on, what’s this? Something new from The Yummy Fur? Zoh Amba and more from that new album, Mass Hallucination, a hardcore punk band from Leeds, a Poor Effort remix from The Cutter, more from North London’s Eel Men and some Gong from back there…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – American Football’s not so understated return, US noise/psych rock band The Flavor That Kills, more North American alternative noise rock, this time from the fictional days of Birth (Defects) and…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: That still vital Camp Skingraft 1997 compilation made available for free. Exclusive tracks from bands such as U.S Maple, Brise-Glace (Jim O’Rourke), Zeni Geva, Dazzling Killmen, Bobby Conn, The Flying Luttenbachers, Cheer-Accident and more…
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ORGAN THING: Stop, stop the bus, there’s new Le Grand Sbam, this is always good news. A first taste of the new album Janus, a philo-zoophic, zoopunk, Cthulhu, ecofeminist album so they say…
ART

ORGAN THING: Jan Gatewood’s Internal Empire at East London’s Rose Easton Gallery – it isn’t that easy to pin down Jan Gatewood’s and that is part of the enjoyment here, for it is, as challenging as it all is, as provoking as it is, an enjoyment…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Some Spratleys things, a beautiful new Furii album from Adrien Rodes and that Tim Smith’s Spratleys album Pony with all the mud cleaned out from his eyes for all to see and hear and here…
ART

ORGAN PREVIEW: London Gallery Weekend is just four weeks away so shouts someone. Here’s a preview and links to our extensive coverage of last year’s event…
MUSIC

ORGAN PREVIEW: Poly-Math bring their almost seamless mix of Ethio-Jazz, classic Prog, Math-Rock and Post-Rock to London this Friday, do note the venue change…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Five Music Things – More Slift, more of the much anticipated new Slift album, a bit of American Football, Spacemoth, Kira Roessler, Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders, Spacemoth’s Inward Eye and…
ART

ORGAN THING: Richard Kenton Webb’s continued passion for drawing and painting at East London’s Benjamin Rhodes Arts…

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