ORGAN PREVIEW: Anthrax, Liberty, Active Slaughter and Armoured Flu Unit come together next week for a benefit gig over in Brixton and a slice or two of good old no messing anarcho punk rock…

Now we’re motoring, as a man called John once said of a band called Doctor and the Crippens. We’re motoring because Anthrax, the long-standing UK version, the beautiful crustcore anarcho punk version, not the other lot, are joined in Brixton next week by the equally beautiful Active Slaughter and well as Liberty, Active Slaughter and Armoured Flu Unit,…

ORGAN THING: Pop Art, revitalised, full steam ahead, red cherries, Cuban Boys, Spray that, the damn song is stuck in our heads already…

Organ Thing of The Day: the damn song is stuck in our heads alreadyYou have to love an infectious good slice of “spiky, cynical, wordy new-wave synthpop” like this one. The real art of pop, blueprints for modernisation and a lot more than just minor hits and cult success, cynical smiles indeed, smiles as…

ORGAN THING: The reedy waters have been stirred, Appealing to Venus and the tale of that John Peel session…

Have we told this tale before? The ready waters have been stirred again, we’ll tell it once more. Organ has been around, in one form or another, for very very (very) nearly thirty years now, (the very first issue actually came out back on December 4th 1986 if you really must know, a messy hand-made…

ORGAN THING: New Cravats, but who’s that driving the bus? And a touch of Sea Nymphs magic sprinkled by Barnslou and…

Some quick musical things, first and foremost a new single (and video) from The Cravats (who’s that driving the bus?), available as a limited edition 7″ (and download) from Overground Records “Anyone who has had even a vague love of punk music over the last 35 years will know The Cravats or, at least,…

ORGAN: Mott The Hoople drummer Dale Griffin dies…

More sad news reaching us, enough! This time we’re sorry to say drummer with Mott The Hoople (one of the finest bands of the early/mid pre-punk 70’s) as well as John Peel recording engineer and session producer Dale Griffin has passed away…Another big part of growing up back there and linked in such a vital…

ORGAN THING: Oneida cover This Heat, Noxious Foxes over for a last minute London gig…

Today’s thing, a thing of the day, an Organ thing of the day, This Heat, covered by Oneida, it had to be covered, here’s some coverage, we got it covered……. Oneida, one of the finest bands around, something that’s not up for debate, and, as pointed out by Charles Hayward, they’ve covered This Heat’s…

ORGAN THING: Here To Be Heard, The Story of the Slits…

Where were we? Falling off the edge? Close to the edge? Over the edge? Sitting in a hedge? The Slits? One of the finest bands ever and for more than one reason.They were one of those bands that just stopped you the first time you heard them (probably via John Peel). “Here to be Heard:…

Organ: Monday’s Lucid Dream, an encounter with performance artist Amy Kingsmill and “The Arresting Sound of Cardiacs…”

Monday bloody Monday, this morning, so far, this are a pleasing black with colourful spots and we’ve opened six or seven e.mails from artists and responded to art they wanted to submit (even though we have no Cultivate open calls or anything that requires artists to send anything in at the moment, beside maybe coverage…

ORGAN THING OF THE DAY: 21 Songs For John, a free album featuring Half Man Half Biscuit, Cuban Boys and more in celebration of Mr Peel

A whole load of very (very) fine bands and things have put together a free downloadable compiliation album thing in celebration of John Peel, and how good is it it hear his voice on that Cuban Boys track (Cuban Boys, remember them!, is about time we put the ORG back catalogue up on line?), our…

ORGAN THING: Off The Wall happens today, Fall gigs announced for September (with almost the same band line up as last time!)

ORGAN THINGS FOR SATURDAY… for it is Saturday now and today is the day you get to explore the old decay and the new not decayed yet on the wall of Off The Wall. That link you just passed there will tell you more. Meanwhile, The Fall…. Fall gigs announced for September 2014 with almost…

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