ORGAN THING: Laibach to perform in Kyiv, Ukraine in March. The first foreign band to perform a full show in the capital since Feb 2022, of course they are! The Eurovision programme has just been confirmed…

“War – huh yeah – what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!” (Edwin Starr, War), “The horror… the horror…” (Colonel Kurtz, Apocalypse Now), “Love is the only engine of survival.” (Leonard Cohen, The Future) – three quotes that just came in at the top of a L;aibach press release andyes, of course they’re the first…

ORGAN: Five music things – Kyiv’s defiant hardcore punks Death Pill announce their debut album, UTO’s new video, Cardiff punk band Penny Rich, some Black Belt Eagle Scout, Brooklyn’s Decor and…

The editorial bit at the top of the five slices of music thing again and again and however you slice it we can’t go on about earfood again. Of course it was sushi and here comes the introduction that heralds the latest Five Music Things thing and whatever the hell the five music thing is…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Ukraine’s Pusca, sound artist Auclair, a new song from Michael J Sheehy, more Death Pill, those defiant Hardcore Riot Grrrl punks from Kyiv, some Wilma Vintra, Brighton’s Diner, Terrorscum and…

We usually come up with somekind of smartarse editoria about alll the striving and the doing it, on we go, 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? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Springtime’s experimental noise, Aspire are from Odessa, Ukraine, Death Pill are Riot Grrrls from Kyiv, Belfast’s Robocobra Quartet, new Traams, Bluesbreaker, skatepunks Castalarial and…

xxxx All the striving and the doing it, on we go, 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? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there another way? A cure for pulling cats out of…