ORGAN THING: The Sadler’s Wells x 180 Studios production of Ivan Michael Blackstock’s Traplord is stupendous, thrilling, moving, something utterly engaged with our times…

Ivan Michael Blackstock’s Traplord – 180 Studios, The Strand, London, March 30th 2022  –  Aside from the name, the location, a couple of hints that it was going to be interesting, and knowing it was a Sadler’s Wells x 180 Studios production, I managed to avoid knowing anything about Traplord – no spoilers, no reviews,…

ORGAN: Five recommended art things – The Face of Shoreditch with Nelly Duff, John Hoyland at Hales Gallery, Anika Roach, Untold textile goodness at the Mile End Art Pavilion, Jim Grover, The Life of Maurice Dorfman and…

Five more art things. five art things, five more art things happening somewhere around right now or any moment now. Five art shows to check out in the coming days. An (almost) weekly round up of recommended art events. Five shows, exhibitions or things we rather think might be worth checking out. Mostly London things…

ORGAN THING: Bad Breeding, the Stevenage-based hardcore-punk foursome have a new album, hear a first taste here…

This just in, “Bad Breeding, the Stevenage-based hardcore-punk foursome, call for solidarity in their fourth album ‘Human Capital’, a pointed and brutal display of aggression steeped in political awareness, out on July 8th. Across twelve merciless tracks they attack Conservative meritocracy and the exploitative forces of late capitalism with a cacophony of blistering guitars and…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Electronic musician and sound artist Jessica Ekomane, more Crows, Thousand Yard Stare, Horse Lords for Oto with Historically F**ked, a Fuzztones encore and who are Tom Moody And The All New Greatest Hits Band?

The Five music things thing yet again for whatever it still might be worth. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five, cross-pollination? Five more? Five more while Death Pill hide in their basements and all we can really do is watch their social media feeds and hope they’re surviving over there in Kyiv Do we…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Artist and sound designer Sam Slater, the space pop of The Keplerians, “noisy ass punk” band Brand Bland, Chicago’s Em Spel, New York metal duo Luminous Vault and…

The Five music things thing yet again for whatever it still might be worth. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five, cross-pollination? Five more? Five more while Death Pill hide in their basements and all we can really do is watch the social media feeds. Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is…

ORGAN THING: Death Pill and Terrorscum come together with Unsane and more on a benefit album packed with Ukrainian and American punk, post-punk, hardcore, folk, metal bands and more…

Band Together: A Benefit for Ukraine, is just as it says on the tin, a collection of bands coming together and compilation album that acts as a benefit for Ukraine. This one is a U.S compilation of Ukrainian and American punk, post-punk, hardcore, folk, and metal bands. Death Pill, a band who you might have…