Shall we write a new editorial now? Oh the endless demand and who needs a damn editorial let alone a new one? No time for editorials, let the actual music do the actual walking and the actual talking. Exact same thing again, another five (or so) slices of music that have passed our way recently and however you like to slice it and of course it was the price of oranges and here comes the editorial. Don’t be flippant she said, how could it ever be flippant? I can’t remember why she said that now, in one ear, out the other. We have a bad attitude here apparently, no respect for those who work in the music industry, well no poop Sherlock, have you only just worked that one out?

Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Is there another way? A better way? A cure for pulling flying haddocks out of the clouds? Is there a rhyme? Is there a reason? Was there ever a reason? What do reasons make? Five more? Snake oil? Everything must go and no, we never do and the proof of the pudding is in that proof reading. When we started this thing, oh never mind, it doesn’t matter why we started this damn thing and like we asked last time, does anyone bother reading the editorial? Does anyone ever actually look down the rabbit hole or is it all just method acting? We do really try to listen to everything that comes in, we do it so you don’t have to, we are very (very) very very picky about what we actually post on these fractured pages or about what gets played on the radio or indeed what we hang in a gallery. Cut to the chase, never mind the editorial, skip this bit, there’s loads of music further down the page, well five or so pieces of music that have come our way in the last few days and what’s Wordsworth? Just the basic facts and links and those sounds (and visuals), that’s surely all you need from us?

Here we go, five more slices of music that have recently come our way, this time we start with something from Brussels, Belgium and that massive sound of The Bug…

1: The Bug has another big slice of music, another four slices actually, The Bug always sounds big, a big bug, this new four track EP is out in early June.

“The Bug recently finished sonically leveling Roadburn Festival with the intense sounds of Machine and now announces the Burials / Mud 12”/

Burials / Mud features new renditions of the Machine LP tracks Buried (Your Life Is Short) and Drop (Machine Sex) with blistering vocals from Logan (on Bury Dem) and the previously digital only release Deep in a Mud (ft Magugu). The 12” is rounded out with two unique dub versions of Bury Dem and Deep in a Mud.”

The Bug comments: “For me, Burials / Mud, is a celebration of verbal grime and sonic filth, where dub meets riff, and beats add brute physicality. It’s a bridge between the mechanized relentlessness of Machine and the raw, dubbed out extremity of Bug live shows. Logan and Magugu add fire to the flames, as the original rhythms are intensified, and fully f-cked with.”

2: DIIV – More of their elegance, even more on the band’s website or here, they don’t need many (more) words from us, they have featured on these pages a number of times, let the music do the talking…

3: His Lordship – Says here “Following last year’s explosive, no frills self-titled debut album, in keeping with the fast-paced punk rock spirit that’s His Lordship’s creed, today the potent two-piece return with new single I Fly Planes Into Hurricanes“. Haven’t heard last year’s explosive, no frills self-titled debut album, never heard of him until today when the algorhythm threw him under our wheels…

4: Geiger von Muller – We know very little about Geiger von Müller or if this subtle b-side remix by Pelso is typical of what we can expect but hey, as a one off stand alone track it is rather delcious and does make us wand to go and explore more of both parties. The original track can be found on Bandcamp…

Seems Geiger von Müller is from London, here’s the a-side of the single and…

Did we share this already? if we have then it certainly is worth sharing again. I don’t think we have have we?

5: Pili Coït & Les Exocrines – if we did share this already, then lucky you for here it is again in celebration of Pili Coït’s just released split album that also features Yowie – ORGAN THING: Pili Coït and Yowie, a split album on Dur et Doux and SkinGraft Records – “Split? There’s nothing divisive about it”. Two highly recommended bands challenging both themselves and you and me with what surely will be one of the albums of the year when it comes to list these things…

and talking of things on Dur et Doux here’s a teaser of something…

And while we’re here just because we can…

And some more Bunnies just in case you haven’t tuned in yet… ORGAN THING: Bunnies have a new album – “This ain’t pop rock nope, this is an outside variation on prog-rock. And not that slick sophisticated “proof of musicianship” type of prog. This is raw and they don’t really care that much what you think, as they should not. And that’s why I like ’em so much”…

And we’ll just leave this here…

May 15th, 2025 – “Bruce Springsteen opened his new tour tonight not with fanfare—but with a warning. From a stage in Manchester, he sent a message home. Not of glory days—but of grief, resilience, and reckoning. Three songs. Three statements. A country in crisis. This is what it looks like when an artist holds a mirror to America…”

Last Sunday’s Other Rock Show went like this…

Previously…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Cringe Fantasy have a new EP, more of that new Frankie and the Witch Fingers album, Lifeguard, The Sick Man Of Europe and a second rather impressive piece of music from Activity…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – New Gina Birch trouble, Suzanne Rhatigan and a song not heard before around these parts, a Midwife b-side, New York’s Activity, Man/Woman/Chainsaw have a new single, John Cale, Sunflower Bean and that’s five right?