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April 30, 2025

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Something both frantic and urgent from Fruit LoOops, a healthy slice of 7Seconds Hardcore, Death Valley Girls with a Fleetwood Mac re-imagination, a modern spin on Link Wray and some UK dates, These New Puritans, more Bunnies and…
April 29, 2025

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Rampressure and that broodingly intense noise they’re making, Rival Consoles and a new piece, Sydney-based three-piece Daily Toll, Baby Volcano, more from JakoJako’s new album and something from Index For Working Musik…
April 29, 2025

ORGAN: R.I.P Mike Peters, he of The Alarm, cheerleader to those brilliant Big Country celebrations, an endlessly defiant fighter, an inspiration and so much more…
April 27, 2025

ORGAN: Down that prog rock rabbit hole, this time new albums from Edensong, Brass Camel, The Book of Moons, Soft Hearted Scientists and more…
April 26, 2025

ORGAN THING: Always got time for HAAL and of course time for the number 43, this is brooding, cathartic, as big as ever…
April 25, 2025

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”…
April 24, 2025

ORGAN: “My name is David Fucking Thomas… and I’m the lead singer of the best fucking rock’n roll band in the world.” David Thomas, June 14 1953 – April 23 2025. Long live Pere Ubu…
April 24, 2025

ORGAN THING: Test Plan at The Shacklewell Arms, compelling – evoking interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way – this matters, they matter, the whole thing matters, their killing jokes and their headbutts and their scathing concoction of locked on menacing rhythm…
April 23, 2025

ORGAN THING: Rise up! Experimental supergroup Osmium announce album; Hildur Guðnadóttir, Rully Shabara (Senyawa), James Ginzburg (Emptyset/Ginz) and Sam Slater release their debut via Invada records…
April 21, 2025

ORGAN: Five Music Things – A beautiful first taste of the new She’s Analog album, even more Bunnies, Glass Museum, a self confessed Jazz-tronica band from Brussels, new Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Panzerballett’s version of Ode to Joy, Brass Against do Ace of Spades and…
April 17, 2025

ORGAN THING: The Charmers, four rich dark pieces of music, deliciously folk flavoured, beautifully, hauntingly sung, some of it almost whispered, all of it rather otherly – Pertaining to something or someone else; different – earthly, disturbing maybe? Spiritual, powerful, intriguing…
April 16, 2025

ORGAN THING: Sweden’s excellent Gösta Berlings Saga are always worth your time, a lush experimental forward looking properly progressive band, progressive rock that does not rely on clichés or indeed showing off, they’ve just released a nineteen minute slice of their new album, hear it here…
April 15, 2025

ORGAN ALBUMS: Erlend Apneseth’s Song Over Støv, the “formidable musical collective” knows as Klamp, Black Country New Road’s new direction and don’t look now ’cause here’s young William, I guess his generation don′t mean a thing now and, well, is this really what you want?
April 14, 2025

ORGAN: Five Music Things – S3xverbot’s debut, more from that forthcoming Fatboi Sharif & Driveby album, New York’s Slow Fiction, a hardboiled first taste of the new Jake Henry album, something new from New Candys and…
April 13, 2025

ORGAN: Five experimental music things – Hannya White’s rather painterly thing, Bell Barrow, a taste of JakoJako’s new album Tết 41, Abul Mogard’s Quiet Pieces and Argentinian cellist, improviser and composer Violeta Garcia has made a collaborative album with the Swiss musician Hora Lunga…
April 13, 2025

ORGAN THING: Some rare footage of a really on it Van der Graaf Generator performing live in Toronto in ’76 has emerged, “I’ve been secretly working on this one for a while…” said Jim today.

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