ORGAN THING: Part Four of the Cultivate Columbia Road takeover opens this Thursday evening, a fourth show at Shipton Street Gallery, a group show alive with people, painting, ribbon, installation and…

Organ Thing Of The Day? There’s not enough hours, there’s a backlog of things we intended to cover, no time for a Thing today, we’re busy wearing our Cultivate hats and part four of the Columbia Road takeover, the show opens tomorrow night, here’s what we just said about it on the Cultivate website…. The…

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ORGAN THING: Laibach have shared a new track from their “eagerly awaited” album, The Sound of Music. Watch the video for ‘My Favorite Things’ here…

Laibach have shared a new track from their “eagerly awaited” album, The Sound of Music. The album is out on Mute on 23 November 2018. Watch the video for ‘My Favorite Things’ here. The video, edited by Tomislav Gangl and Luka Karlin features live shots taken from Laibach’s premiere of The Sound of Music at…

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ORGAN THING: Pure has nothing to do with clean, Paul Sakoilsky, Cedric Christie and who cares about about the temperament of artists disagreeing with artists? The start of yet another art show…

PURE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CLEAN‘ – Paul Sakoilsky and Cedric Christie at Angus-Hughes Gallery, London E5. October 2018 – It really is good when it happens in a spontaneous way, really must ask Paul Sakoilsky (or Cedric Christie) how this one actually came about? Paul said something about having something like ten days…

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ORGAN THING: That beautiful detail she applies to those Last Dinosaur recordings is here again, those almost fragile layers you want to ever so carefully peel back, la.nskey has some new music ready to go, hear it here…

We can go for days here, sometimes weeks, without hearing anything that special, sure, we get good music landing here most days, but special things are indeed just that, very special, Once again this is about the detail, the subtle textures, the space between the sounds, the way it breathes in such a beautifully radiant…

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ORGAN: Frieze Week Part Two, avoiding the art fair madness? The excitement of those Sean Scully paintings at Blain/Southern, punchbags, red roads, goose feathers and a strong 21st Century Women show at Unit…

Frieze Week Part Two: Leave Moniker and Part One behind and wonder why so and so’s art wasn’t in there, and where was thingy and they do miss out on so much of the cutting edge in terms of the art they show at Moniker don’t they? So conservative, so playing it so very very…

ORGAN: Frieze Week Part One, art fair madness? shouty American interns? Is Frieze to only slice of honesty in town? Did Moniker offer anything more this time? Rocco and His Brothers, Egle Zvirblyte…

Well at least there weren’t railway tracks, none of that train yard bullshit this year – art fair season is upon us again here in good old London town, loads of loud American gallery interns telling us this and that when they clearly haven’t a clue where the real heart of it is, that couple…

ORGAN THING: Watch the new Liars video for Murdrum here, hard to resist a slice of Liars…

ORGAN THING: Hard to resist a slice or two of those ever challenging Liars, today’s Thing of The Day then… “Liars (Angus Andrew) has unveiled the video for ‘Murdrum’, taken from the new album Titles With The Word Fountain, out now on cassette and digitally and available on vinyl on 2 November 2018”. The new…

ORGAN THING: Another beautiful slice of beautifully crafted detail and another beautiful new song from the seemingly always beautiful thing that is The Last Dinosaur, beautiful…

Apparently this new the Last Dinosaur song is a “re-imagining of the Ben Gibbard (of Death Cab For Cutie) penned Me & Magdalena, that was written for and recorded by The Monkees for their final album, Good Times, in 2016”. Now you know how much that last Last Dinosaur album was appreciated around these…

ORGAN THING: Riot Grrrls, starz, golden slices of cake, punk rock slogans, we’re trumpet blowing again – the second artist-led Cultivate show at Shipton Street Gallery, East London…

And so the second of the six week Cultivate Columbia Road takeover shows opened last Thursday evening in what was hopefully not the last of the warm summer sunshine at East London’s Shipton Street Gallery. The plan was to not have a plan, to just let the six weeks unfold and flow and see where…

ORGAN THING: Kasper Bjørke Quartet share a rather beautiful new track ‘Line of Life’ and a film exhibition trailer and…

Thing of the day, a rather refined thing of the day today – Kasper Bjørke Quartet are set to release ‘The Fifty Eleven Project’, the album is out on 19th October as a 3x clear 180 gram vinyl box, a download and a stream, via Kompakt. At the same time eleven art films, one for…

ORGAN THING: I Saw It First, I Want It Worse, a whole load of Cultivation, Riot Grrrl paintings, circles, fish, stars and lots more down Columbia Road, East London… Seven Year Bitch? Seven year itch? Seven years on the aircraft carrier…

We make no secret of the fact that Cultivate is brought to you by the same team as Organ, walking it a little as well as talking it, we started the Cultivate gallery in a space in East London’#’s Vyner Street just about seven years ago this month, we’ve been nomadic for the last two…

ORGAN THING: New York’s Fielded, a video and a taste of her fourth album Drip Drip, an album due out on Deathbomb Arc any moment now…

Monday Monday, we need a thing, it has to be good though, we’re picky about the Organ Thing of The Day, there’s Fielded on a bike, at least I think that’s Fielded on te back of that bike, don’t ask me though, the facts haven’t been checked, her video was in the inbox (along with a…

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