ORGAN THING: Weasel Walter’s new album, seven tracks of jarring, loud, obnoxious, shrill, angular noise rock. no wave, brutal prog insanity by the master of disaster…

“Seven tracks of jarring, loud, obnoxious, shrill, angular noise rock/no wave/brutal prog insanity by the master of disaster. People who like “Revenge of The Flying Luttenbachers” will most likely be into this. There’s no jazz on this one, folks”, the words of Weasel Walter, yer man from the glorious Flying Luttenbachers and quite a few…

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MUSIC

ORGAN: Five tasty musical slices with the bite of Bristol’s Lice, with Brian Eno, with the prog rock of LA’s Atomic Ape, with Copenhagen’s Ice Age, queen of New York Tancred and another bit of Courtney Barnett…

We haven’t done that five slices of music thing for a little bit have we? We haven’t mentioned Lice yet, we need to mention Lice, here’s their horse, you don’t need any editorial, five and a bit bits of music, links details and why can’t new band’s ever check out to see if the name…

MUSIC

ORGAN PREVIEW: This Heat’s Charlie Bullen continues the rather enticing New Arts & Music Programme at Hackney’s authentically Tudor Sutton House this weekend…

The rather enticing New Arts & Music Programme at Hackney’s authentically Tudor Sutton House goes on this weekend with This Heat’s (or This Is Not This Heat’s) Charles Bullen. “Charles Bullen, of seminal experimental art rock group This Heat and its current iteration This Is Not This Heat, performs solo percussive prepared guitar in the…

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ORGAN THING: Extra Life’s Charlie Looker announces debut solo album and unveils first single “Ritual Fire”, hear it here…

Extra Life’s beautifully voiced Charlie Looker has announced a debut solo album “Simple Answers”, the album release date is June, it will come out via Last Things Records, he’s unveiled a first single Ritual Fire, you can hear it here, the song can be found further down this very page,,, “This song could be about…

ART / HEAVY METAL / MUSIC

ORGAN THING: One week until Record Store Day, Grow Hackney’s DIY Art and Vinyl market, Vinyl Pimp and meanwhile down the Hackney Road, Knight Terror, black metal and the Crypt of The Wizard…

So we’re walking down the Hackney Road, coming back from the Semi Skimmed opening amongst other things, art-dropping, well carefully placing, these things are never dropped, always carefully placed, we’re walking home, minding our own business when without warning, a metal attack, it struck me like a Sledgehammer, or something like that, “Oi! Are…

ORGAN THING: Ten years ago today, celebrate the excellent thing that is Cafe Oto with a free download of their first ever show…

Ten years of Cafe Oto? One of London’s finest venues with an always exciting programe of cutting-edge music as well as a decent bar and a place just to hang out and enjoy, they’re celebrating, and so they should…. “Hi there, Ten years ago today we hosted our first concert. At the time we had…

ORGAN THING: Semi Skimmed’s mostly impressive first statement of intent at Jealous Gallery…

A Semi Skimmed pop up, what kind of label are we going to stick on this one then? Pop art? Street art? Urban art? It doesn’t really matter what we call it does it? A room full of art, mostly painting, a room full of colour. lots of colour, (and lots of people) almost always…

ORGAN THING: Star Period Star are back with a prog as flip new album…

Star Period Star just released a new album, they released it on smoked-coloured vinyl, the album is called Daylight Spending Time. The band say they have “returned to the use of “wobbletones”, radical guitar tunings where the lower strings are tuned so low that they not only create micro-tonal chords, but the notes bend or…

ORGAN THING: Lucinda Metcalfe at Bearspace, surely worth seeing in the flesh?

Oh, a thing of the day? is anyone that bothered if we do it everyday or not? I mean I know a lot of the art and the music we cover on these fractured pages doesn’t get covered anywhere else (especially the art), but is anyone really that bothered if we miss a day or…

ORGAN THING: Visual artist Peter Harris, his debut album, Lee Scratch Perry, really singing, Adverts, widescreen television and…

Peter Harris has a new album out, his debut album, Peter Harris is a visual artist. his album, Adverts,. features collaborations with Lee Scratch Perry and Vic Goddard, it comes out as a limited run of 300 vinyl albums, each one comes with a unique piece of hand printed art from Harris The video features…

ORGAN: Five Art Things to check out; Anne Hardy at Maureen Paley, the Semi Skimmed take over at Jealous, Women Can’t Paint at Turps, LG White at Underdog, Norbert Bisky at König London…

That five upcoming art things then, five more art things, five five five, five art things, five more London art recommendations, five art things in no particular order, five things that are about to open, five things that interest us, five things that might interest you, an ongoing series of recommendations, five things that look…

ORGAN PREVIEW: Peter Hammill, the leader of Van Der Graaf Generator, plays a rare London concert performing music from his new album, as part of a UK tour..

Peter Hammill, yhe leader of Van Der Graaf Generator, plays a rare London concert, at the Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, performing music from his new album, as part of a UK tour. The other dates on the tour are: 24 April – GLASGOW Oran Mor, 25 April – MANCHESTER Stoller Hall, 27 + 28 Apr…

THE ORGAN

The Organ 'zine; music, art, underculture…

ORGAN THING: Weasel Walter’s new album, seven tracks of jarring, loud, obnoxious, shrill, angular noise rock. no wave, brutal prog insanity by the master of disaster…

ORGAN: Five tasty musical slices with the bite of Bristol’s Lice, with Brian Eno, with the prog rock of LA’s Atomic Ape, with Copenhagen’s Ice Age, queen of New York Tancred and another bit of Courtney Barnett…

ORGAN PREVIEW: This Heat’s Charlie Bullen continues the rather enticing New Arts & Music Programme at Hackney’s authentically Tudor Sutton House this weekend…

ORGAN THING: Extra Life’s Charlie Looker announces debut solo album and unveils first single “Ritual Fire”, hear it here…

ORGAN THING: One week until Record Store Day, Grow Hackney’s DIY Art and Vinyl market, Vinyl Pimp and meanwhile down the Hackney Road, Knight Terror, black metal and the Crypt of The Wizard…

ORGAN THING: Ten years ago today, celebrate the excellent thing that is Cafe Oto with a free download of their first ever show…

ORGAN THING: Semi Skimmed’s mostly impressive first statement of intent at Jealous Gallery…

ORGAN THING: Star Period Star are back with a prog as flip new album…

ORGAN THING: Lucinda Metcalfe at Bearspace, surely worth seeing in the flesh?

ORGAN THING: Visual artist Peter Harris, his debut album, Lee Scratch Perry, really singing, Adverts, widescreen television and…

ORGAN: Five Art Things to check out; Anne Hardy at Maureen Paley, the Semi Skimmed take over at Jealous, Women Can’t Paint at Turps, LG White at Underdog, Norbert Bisky at König London…

ORGAN PREVIEW: Peter Hammill, the leader of Van Der Graaf Generator, plays a rare London concert performing music from his new album, as part of a UK tour..