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ORGAN: Five Music Things – The brutality of Empiricismus, Sweeping Promises and another spiky piece of short sharp proper pop, Severe Girls, Every Hell, more from Maquina’s new album…

I guess we just pick up like we nearly did last time and where we left off and who needs who? Still no time for editorials, repeat, replete, reheat, let the actual music do the actual walking and the actual talking. Exact same thing as last time once again, another five (or so) slices of…

ART

ORGAN THING: Near to the Wild Heart at The Approach, East London, a rather instinctive group show featuring Anderson Borba, Hilda Kortei, Bill Lynch, Kentaro Okumura, Carole Vanderlinden and Sam Windett…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – Downtown Boys and their public luxury, Red Dwarf Star, New York experimentalists Neptune play some music, Problem Addict’s nihilistic garage punk rock and…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Spratleys have a new album, oh yeah! All treasure in the cup that got full of mud in the rain and all that glitters and blooms and…
ART, Today’s Slice of Art

ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 1) – Madeleine Strindberg’s Departure…

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MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Horse Lords Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! This feels like an important album…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Snõõper Live at United, more of that gloriously urgent thing the Nashville band do, that’s all we need today…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Le Grand Sbam’s new album is here. A full blown experimental operatic adventure that hints at rock, that hints at thrilling things at the most avant end of rock’s tentacles…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – Andrew Jim Gannon hydrates those minds, an identity reset from One Eyed Ancestor, a nihilistic something or other from VNRL, four fifths of the classic King Diamond line up return as Lex Legion and someone complained that the problem with Organ is that we like everything…
ART

ORGAN THING: Got your Football World Cup stickers in order? Marking; An Alternative World Cup Football Memorial at Hackney’s Grey Gallery, a rather onside rather powerful art installation or exhibition or set of questions or….
MUSIC

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Le Grand Sbam and a second taste of that new album we’re getting rather excited about, Pussy Riot turn their Venice Biennale protest into a music video, more Horse Lords, Sweeping Promises, The Linda Lindas and some more Shearwater, six then…
life

ORGAN: Where have we been? London Art Weekend? Music? Galleries? Why the silence you ask…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Gaspar Claus announces a new album Cells, here’s a first taste of things to come…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Listen back to last night’s Other Rock Show (on Resonance 104.4FM) with Cheer-Accident, KayoDot, Legs On Wheels, Neverbody, Isildurs Bane and more…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: F*cked Up return with Year Of The Monkey, the second chapter in the Grass Can Move Stones trilogy that really does pick up from where Year Of The Goat left us late last year, it picks up with more epic prog adventure…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: And Cheer-Accident did it again as well. The Blue Lie just might be their finest moment ever, breathtaking, it just might be peak Cheer-Accident, it is as fine as anything from Prog Rock’s finest days back there and then Absence Moving Backwards following it in the way it does, wow!
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Slift do it again, this is maximalist Prog; once again, as it was last time, Fantasia will be one of the albums of the year…
ART

ORGAN THING: Kembra Pfahler’s voluptuous Hungry For Trash opens at Emalin Gallery’s Clerk’s House space, Shoreditch, East London…
ART

ORGAN THING: Hackney Art Week? Thomas Houlihan kicks off Canalboat Contemporary’s 2026 season. Meanwhile on another East London canal boat Underbelly’s Richard Amor and…
ART

ORGAN THING: Radical Happiness then, something to do with the art of joy as an act of resistance. A three artist group show at East London’s Union Gallery with Billy Crosby, Bunny Hennessey and Isaac Andrews and well, better late than never…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Five more slices of music that have recently come our way; Dead Pioneers with a Sleaford Mod, LA’s XCOMM with some more hardcore attitude, Hackedepicciotto, a fresh Neptune experiment, some Sad Cypress and a bonus bit of Laurie Anderson because…
MUSIC

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…
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…
MUSIC

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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