We know they’re unique, we know they’re special, that they’re fuel, but occasionally something will pass by and a voice will shout from over there, “who’s that? That sounds a bit like Cardiacs” and well with today being the birthday of the leader of The Starry Skies, here;s five bands, you might like. Not clones…
Organ Thing of The Day? Well it isn’t likely to be some polite piece of “summery ambient electronic goodness” from Wales that some PR person keeps telling us we’ll love, apparently the summery piece in question got a début bit of airplay on Radio One this week and that fact is supposed to impress…
Organ Thing of The Day, well Caustics, members of Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Why? Why not? Caustics, today’s Thing, here they are, we’ve got to go… “Caustics is Yasi Perera (Breezy Days Band/Park Details) on voice/electronics, Josiah Wolf (Why?) on drums/percussion, Devin Hoff (Julia Holter/Xiu Xiu/Good for Cows) on acoustic and electric basses and John Dieterich…
Five more musical things, five things in no particular order, five things that have come our way in recent days, five carefully selected music things from the many many things that come our way with all the things, five things from the inbox, no need or time for an editorial., this Organ takes up far…
“The Daydream Library Series are ecstatic to announce the new full-length album by Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore entitled BY THE FIRE. Thurston Moore’s seventh solo album, BY THE FIRE features musicians Deb Googe (My Bloody Valentine) on bass and backing vocals, Jon Leidecker aka ‘Wobbly’ (of Negativland) on electronics, James Sedwards (Nought) on guitar,…
Organ Thing of the Day: And wahat a beautiful Friday thing it is, Public Enemy return in style with a slice of telling Trump where to go, they’e not holding back are they! “All we know is Trump has gotta go…. We shot this video in secret in the dead of the night. PEace Chuck…
“And with good reason” she said, (And with good) Reason then, a third and final on-line art exhibition brought to you by Cultivate during these strange locked-down virus-fearing times. When we first planned April’s #43Artists show, the first of what has now become a trilogy of on-line exhibitions, we had no idea that this Covid…
The full artist line up for the latest Cultivate gallery on-line exhibition (And with good) Reason show, a third carefully selected group show during these strange locked down times, a show that opens on-line at 8pm tomorrow night, looks like this… AMY ROBSON, ANNABELLE RICHMOND-WRIGHT, BEN FENTON, BRETT BANKS, DAN BROUGHTON, EMMA HARVEY, FERGUS HARE,…
Organ Thing of The Day: Scream the House Down, A socially-distanced art installation from Marcus Lyall. You are invited to vocalise your inner frustrations and power a large-scale light installation. Join a Zoom call and watch your outburst illuminate a a soon-to-be-demolished office block. 16th June – 4th July 2020. Opening hours for participating Tuesday…
Thursday? Five art things? Are we still in lockdown, Boris and his bunch of crooks aren’t exactly being that clear about anything now are they? The scientists look like they’ve disowned it all and I think we can meet to have sex in zoos or maybe safari parks as long as we “stay alert” and…
Organ Thing of The Day: Art Terry’s show, Is Black Music, on London’s ever vital arts radio station Resonance FM is always rewarding, the piano tuner, for that is what Art does when he’s not on the radio, always comes up with something worth your time. Last night’s show, last night being where Tuesday 9th…
Still not sure if, after everything that has gone over the last couple of weeks, if we’re ready to just post music or art that doesn’t say something about these times or past times or wrong times or future times. Statues are falling though, and questions are being asked and people are learning about things…
What is art’s role right now? What is the point of art right now? In Organ right now or indeed Cultivate? The “Serve and Protect” sculpture outside Salt Lake City’s Public Safety Building, now has a layer of red, “a demonstration of how art’s meaning can change completely with context”, now those “bloody” hands are…
Apparently today is Bandcamp Friday, don’t be asking us what that is, or where te peanut butter is or indeed anything else, something to do with Bandcamp not taking a cut of the money spent on music today or soemthing like that? We’re getting dozens of bands and labels asking us to post something about…
A quick parish notice in terms of today’s Organ Thing, seems there’s a whole load of what are billed as “Revolutionary Women Online Film Screenings” coming up next week, screenings brought to you by the South London Revolutionary Communist Group, here’s whast they have to say about what they’re doing “Women bear the double burden…
