New album from Morviscous
August 31st 2011
Stretched between East London and Paris, Morviscous are full of dark, detailed mathy grooves and Canterbury-scene jazz-tinged prog - and they have a new album, House Sounds out now...
King Robbo fundraiser
August 30th 2011
We Rock Hard in association with The Doctor’s Orders present: THE KING ROBBO FUNDRAISER & ART AUCTION - a fundraising night in aid of severely ill graffiti artist Robbo.
400 Blows return
August 25th 2011
Los
Angeles alternative hardcore-flavoured three piece 400 Blows are back
to treat you as their punchbag once more: six years on from their last
album, do they still cut it?
Hella album out now!!
August 24th 2011
It just strolls in, fires up, blows everything else away. Here's Tripper, the new album from Sacramento avant-progressive duo Hella, delivered early, dropping into many hungry open eager ears...
Yip-Yip unmask a new album
August 23rd 2011
Yip-Yip are a duo who don't so much play analogue/oddball synths as bathe in them. Intense exposure to the sounds and mad emanations given off by these machines has changed them into twin alien being things - and here's their latest album, Bone Up...
Organ Hour playlist
August 22nd 2011
This week's Organ Hour radio show on Resonance 104.4FM - here's who got played and how you connect up to find out more if you liked what you heard broadcast last night...
Busdriver, Money and Little Roy
August 11th 2011
Things things things… visual shaped video things of the day, three of them: L.A.'s Busdriver covering Animal Collective, Manchester's mysterious Money, and another Nirvana reggae recondition from Little Roy...
Dark beats from Paranoid Foundation
August 10th 2011
Two months cramped in the small cabin of a little research vessel, “miles off the barren windswept South American coastline” constructing the works that were to become Paranoid Foundation's mini album Threads...
New Hella download
August 9th 2011
Sacramento duo Hella have just uploaded a new full-length sample track from their forthcoming much-anticipated new album 'Tripper'...
Organ Hour playlist
August 8th 2011
This week's Organ Hour radio show on Resonance 104.4FM - here's who got played and how you connect up to find out more if you liked what you heard broadcast last night...
It goes it goes it goes it goes it goes
August 6th 2011
Death Grips are coming this way. Zach Hill and his mountain of forward looking hip hop will be knocking you off your feet here in London this September, can we wait that long?
Splashgirl
August 5th 2011
Today’s Thing of the Day is the sublime experimental avant jazz genre defiance of Norway’s SPLASHGIRL and their third rather fine album Pressure..
Off! are on, Ut are out
August 4th 2011
Couple of significant U.S bands are heading our way: Off!, the U.S hardcore band fronted by Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks), play their first ever UK dates this month, starting today - they’ve also unveiled a new video. Meanwhile, new wave / no wave flavoured New York cult legends Ut have just announced their first UK tour in 20 years….
A Batch of Things...
August
3rd 2011
A whole batch of albums today: MIRANDA’s Italian no wave jaggedness, ONWARD PILGRIM’s blending of classic North American alt.rock, the punk pop energy of THE DWYERS, FURYA’s progressive technical metal and the post-rock coming together of COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIRE & MOONCAKE…
THE POWER OF THE
RIFF
August 2nd 2011
THE POWER OF THE RIFF is an ongoing monster of a tour featuring some of the finest left-field metal bands out there. The Southern Lord record label people are giving away a free 20-Song download compilation called the THE POWER OF THE RIFF to go with the tour….
Mr Sterile Assembly
August 1st 2011
Who are MR STERILE ASSEMBLY? They’re pretty unique actually, uniquely excellent… Mr Sterile Assembly are from New Zealand, they have a minefield in their playground, and their latest album, Transit, is something we rather recommend..
PUNK MY ARSE!
July 30th 2011
Quilla Constance is not the kind of person to be messed around by an awful venue like that dreadfully named Punk. They tried to: here’s what happened…
Big
Sir big download
July 29th 2011
BIG SIR have just announced the completion of their much anticipated third album. To celebrate this fact, the band’s label, Sargent House, have made the band’s last album available as a free download for this weekend only. Big Sir are mostly Lisa Papineau and The Mars Volta’s Juan Alderete…
Tinsel and Twinkle's OPINIONATED OBJECTS
July 28th 2011
OPINIONATED OBJECTS is a rather different one day art event brought to you by those ever busy London based artists TINSEL EDWARDS and TWINKLE TROUGHTON
We're busy!
The Organ is off to the shops for a pint of milk and the paper. Back on Thursday!
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The Imagination School's Savage Coast
July 23rd 2011
The Imagination School have a new album for you available from their web site. Called The Savage Coast, it's rendolent of the smell and feel of the wide skies of the East Sussex coastline, where the Imagination School lives...
Mutate Britain announce their Pleasure Gardens
July 22nd 2011
What are Mutate Britain doing now? Well they’ve just announced that they’re rather pleased to be part of something spectacular - a revisiting of the original London Pleasure Garden...
The New Banalists have formed an orchestra
July 21st 2011
The New Banalists Orchestra features Penny Rimbaud, Mark Stewart, David Tibet, Youth, Eve Libertine, John Sinclair and Zodiac Youth…: just hit the play button, watch the video, see for yourself...
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum invite
you to be their specimen
July 20th 2011
he announcement earlier this year that Oakland, California based, theatrical avant-rock band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum were to be no more disappointed - scratch that, devastated - a lot of people - but they're having one last creative fling, in the form of a short film...
The Rite of Spring tonight
July 19th 2011
So you thought the Proms is all about that flag waving nonsense? No, forget the Last Night - it's two months of music for the people; just turn up at the Albert Hall with a fiver in your pocket and experience the best orchestras in the world... tonight, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring...
Good Police,
Herpes, Scumbag Philosopher &...
July 18th 2011
Good Police, Herpes, Scumbag Philosopher and Not Otherwise Specified are the bands in today's action packed bag of Things...
Puro Instinct
July 16th 2011
PURO INSTINCT, who are they? Joey Kern leads our horse to water and tells us why Puro Instinct are his new obsession ahead of the Southern Californian band’s debut UK dates:
Morton
Valence's
perfect slice of pop
July 15th 2011
Sailors is released by London's Morton Valence this coming Monday, a prime piece of electro pop glam-vaudeville goodness; more importantly, an insanely catchy piece of real deal earworm...
Two from CockRockDisco
July 14th 2011
That hive of all that is messed-up, retro-engineered and sonically perverse in dance music (whatever that is these days), Cockrockdisco, presents two recent free album downloads worth your attention, from Poland's 8rolek, and the Nam-Shub Of Enki
New Death Grips video
July 13th 2011
These things have become seismic events. Who or what is Death Grips? Based in Sacramento, California, they're a force unto themselves; and when this mysterious collective transmit a new video, people watch...
The Temptation of Miss Roberts
July 9th 2011
Can you be tempted to the Stinging Netil with a cookie? It all happens tomorrow… Miss Roberts will be there, let her explain...
Foot Village Alert
July 8th 2011
FOOT VILLAGE are coming this way, Hoovers at the ready... We have said many things about these delightfully ear-friendly people from L.A already.. This time, let's cut to the chase with a slice of Foot Village aural and visual goodness...
First Thursday: A Burning Candy shoot-out, and...
July 7th 2011
East London’s First Thursday art trawl is upon us again. Two shows we’re particularly keen to see are the new BURNING CANDY show at Tony’s Gallery and KELLYKIWI’s abstraction of DESIRE at the Outside World…
Fire! with Mats Gustafsson and Jim
O'Rourke
July 6th 2011
A New album from Swedish avant-jazz power trio Fire! is always something to excite, and this time it comes with added colour from Sonic Youth/Gastr Del Sol experimentalist Jim O’Rourke....
News from She Makes War...
July 5th 2011
SHE MAKES WAR has a new video for Slow Puncture shot around the art-covered streets of East London, meanwhile her debut album is about to be re-issued and best of all, she plays our Stinging Netil art fair this coming Sunday…
Stinging Netil preview part four..
July 4th 2011
Lilies On Mars and Rude Mechanicals will both be playing at the Stinging Netil Art Fair on Sunday, meanwhile fine artist James Boman will be showing some of his recent work on one the many art-packed stalls…
Happy
Birthday Tim Smith!
July 2nd 2011
A Time For Rejoicing... tomorrow is the 50th birthday of Tim Smith, frontman, composer, producer and guitarist of Cardiacs, the Sea Nymphs and others, and an ever growing global creative inspiration...
Triumphant latest album from To
Arms Etc
July 1st 2011
To Arms Etc make warm, clever proper prog that drips with all the uplifting tuneful goodness of the classic 70’s bands without ever sounding retro or dated.. This London band really are one of the best kept musical secrets around..
Stinging
Netil preview part three...
June 30th 2011
Ten days until the Stinging Netil and the third part of our preview: a look at Emma Harvey’s painted observations, Dannielle Hodson’s colourful, loose, life studies and the ongoing Unlikeness collaborative photography project…
Nikki Louder new album
June 29th 2011
NIKKI LOUDER’s intelligent new album of art-fuelled guitar noise, Our World Died Yesterday... Plus, an opening of an exhibition of GLENN IBBITSON’s powerful paintings at Studio 75 in East London....
Piano
shaped days...
June 27th/28th 2011
No Thing Of The Day this Monday or Tuesday, for this Monday and Tuesday are set aside for piano painting days and there shall be no time for any other things of any size or shape. Except to revisit to a lost piece of art by Alan Keel...
Stinging Netil preview part two...
June 25th 2011
The Painted Peepshow of Loolie Hapgood, her elegantly naughty coupe plates, plus Country Dirt and their bluegrass flavoured country music at an art market in East London…
Weasel
Walter on
Cardiacs
June 24th 2011
Legendary stalwart of underground drum mayhem Weasel Walter is touring the UK this week - earlier this year, he helped spread the word about the San Fransisco fundraising gig for Tim Smith of Cardiacs, with this neat review/testimonial...
Weasel
Walter Alert!
June 23rd 2011
Look, Weasel Walter is in town, you don’t need to know anything else - Weasel's in town, just go! Whatever he's got in store, it will be good. And he's collaborating with Alex Ward (Dead Days Beyond Help) and James Sedwards (Nought, Guapo) amongst others...
Stinging Netil preview part one...
June 22nd 2011
'Colour is a point of obsession – an organic means of experimentation and self-discovery. In his latest work the canvases are all interlinked: by using a canvas as a palette when painting'. DAVID AGENJO is a London based fine artist, he’ll be showing some of his recent work at the Stinging Netil..
Perhaps
Contraption's Lunch
For The Worms
June 21st 2011
Perhaps Contraption proudly announce the arrival of their second LP, Business, a psychedelic avant-folk excursion, melding twisted pop, mathematic expulsions & soaring instrumental soundscapes...
Stravinsky by Leone
June 20th 2011
Last Friday was the birthday of Igor Stravinsky... his music, with it's balance of edgy tension, drive, hammering repetition and clear-cut, wild melodies, is instantly understandable by those of us brought up on rock... With this in mind, here's a free download of the new recording of his Les Noces, by San Francisco based musician/composer Dominique Leone...
SCUMBAG
PHILOSOPHER...
June 18th 2011
...have a new album out this week; it goes by the name of It Means Nothing So It Means Nothing, it features the rather impressive single God Is Dead So I Listen To Radiohead, a single for anyone who’s ever read half of Ecce Homo or has a will to power, that's why they don't shower…
Little Roy, ReCardiacsFly
June 17th 2011
Two for today, two covers of two classic songs: LITTLE ROY’s new single, an excellent version of Nirvana’s Sliver/Dive. And a very impressive RECARDIACSFLY version of Cardiacs' To Go Off And Things performed at the recent San Francisco Tim Smith benefit concert
Peter
Kernel
June 16th 2011
“Peter Kernel play music anyone can play in an attempt to' satisfy man's basic human instinct. Primary rock. Peter Kernel are a Swiss Canadian art-punk trio... Inspired by a love story Peter Kernel are engagingly intimate and in a primitive and sexy manner reinterpret pop music...”
Remembering Anet
June 15th 2011
Not really a Thing of the Day today, more the very sad task of relaying the news of the death of Cay singer Anet Mook. News reached us here late last night that Anet had lost her life in recent days.
11:11
June 14th 2011
11:11 is 22 artistic responses from 22 artists: 11 broadly operating within the sphere of fine art and 11 within that of urban art. 22 artists whose work ranges from the bold and socio-political to the subtle and poetic….
Old boots, new laces
June
13th 2011
OLD BOOTS, NEW LACES is the name of an art show that opens this coming week on East London’s Brick Lane; the show is brought to you by the loose collective of artists who are forming around the newly opened B.O.G. What is the B.O.G? Get your new boots on and…
Max Eastley @ Raven Row
June 11th 2011
London arts-based radio station Resonance104.4 FM is returning to some of its sound art roots this month with a series of live events and radio broadcasts from Raven Row. This Tuesday the series of events continues with a performance by kinetic artist MAX EASTLEY...
Nobody cares about your Abercrombie bra!
June 10th 2011
The debut single from SCREAMA BALLERINA and two minutes of shouty bratty big society baiting punk rock energy from Charlie O’Conner and her angry southern English pop band… and 80s style guilty pleasure from The Neon Mile...
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