ORGAN: Five Music Things – Wooze, Detroit’s The Messenger Birds, something really good from Chris Connelly, O’o, Dead and well, apparently we don’t write reviews any more…

The editorial bit again again yet again, the introduction that heralds the latest Five Music Things thing and whatever it is actually all about. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there another way? A cure for pulling cats out of hats?…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Detroit’s rather witchy Varzum, Lyon’s Ashinoa, Hawkwind’s Niall Hone and his Lords of Form, J-Shadow connects his sonic explorations with astrophysics and a touch of Wet Leg as we ease into 2022..

All the striving and the doing it, on we go, 2022 is here and all the trumpets sumoned us, well hopefully not to anything more than more music. The first Five Music Things thing of a new year, the Five music things thing yet again (and again) for whatever it still might be worth. Five?…

ORGAN THING: LA’s Cuffed Up with a timely cover of a song by legendary Detroit proto-punk band Death…

LA band Cuffed Up have been demanding attention since their debut double A-side ‘Small Town Kid’ and ‘Mother/Father’ was released at the end of 2019. The band amassed waves of critical acclaim as a then unsigned act. Today they have announced a physical release for their debut self-titled EP on their new label Hassle Records,…

ORGAN THING: She works, they work, we work, this is awkwardly good, Detroit’s Throwaway have a hardboiled debut album you really do need in your life…

THROWAWAY – “What” – Art, how low can you go,hear the cutter cry, death row, or was it the angst or the exotic bird or the raise-your-glass-and-toast-the-war that she said was on her mind? There’s so much that you don’t know or so she says, this is hardcore. Last time we told you about something…

ORGAN THING: Detroit’s Adult have a new video featuring multidisciplinary artist Lun*na Menoh, they’re also in the UK this week…

Some days the Organ Thing Of The Day can be a long consider thing that takes a little time to write, like yesterday’s piece on the Hackney Wicked festival for example, some days it can be little more than a quick cut ‘n paste piece of some news, a video, and a vital link or…

ORGAN THING: A quick swoon over Swoon and her new show at Library Street Collective…

We make no secret of our swooning over Swoon, This just in from Black Rat Projects, “Swoon has opened a new installation at The Library Street Collective in Detroit, which will be open until 26th November. With over 2500 sq ft of the gallery’s walls and ceilings covered in hand-cut paper and mylar elements, the…

ORGAN THING: A band called Death, proto Detroit punk rock, oh, and it was 29 years ago today, at a Hawkwind gig, that…

Friday Organ things? I make it that Hawkwind played Guildford Civic Hall on this very day, December 4th, 1986, some twenty-nine years ago today. Which means that the first ever Organ zine went on sale twenty-nine years ago today. A hand-made handppainted zine loaded up with artwork and mostly interviews with bands like Cardiacs and…

ORGAN THING OF THE DAY: Who the hell are the MING CITY ROCKERS?

Been a frantic kind of wired up shape of a day, here’s a band I hadn’t heard of five minutes ago… this is the business, well not The Business, they’re a whole different band, this lot clearly are the business, no ideas who they are or where they’re from., saw a link from some people…

ORGAN THINGS: DETROIT STREET ART, NEKST, REVOK, POSE, and some steaming punk flavoured gin from THE MEN THAT WILL NOT BE BLAMED FOR NOTHING

Some passing Organ things – A quick bit of filmoid eye-candy from the evolving streets of Detroit, along with a bit of a Nekst tribute one year on, These days this Organ thing is mostly about throwing things up quickly while were busy doing other things that have nothing to do with organgrinding that went…

ORGAN THING: FREE ART, LONDON, DETROIT, IT STARTS WITH ART….

THINGS, just too busy today with Free Art Friday and the act of sharing free art from all over the world with people…….. Today at Cultivate, while TEN was on our walls, we had the great pleasure of sharing free art from all over the world at our FREE ART FRIDAY event, including quite a few…

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