The Magic Organ

I'm listening to the beginning part of Drake's new record Iceman while I write the blurb for this episode and Lord it must be hard being Drake, he still seems shook in the wake of being cooked by Kendrick Lamar. The sounds are all right but the lyrics, oy. And that cover image has to be a Michael Jackson reference which I don't get at all. I wholeheartedly recommend the first three records featured at the front of this episode and the rest of the tracks are no slouch either. Once again showing that the real action in music is below the superstar level where the narcissistic douchebags primp and preen while real musicians make music. All three of these hip hop records have a lot of soul, Drake I'm not really sure.

If you can handle Archspire's extreme tempo and aggressiveness they deliver the goods, I think what they do is very unique and super beautiful in its way.

So there ya go, the Magic Organ is always multi-genre and banging, if you feel like getting in touch go for it, I'm super friendly.

Excerpts from this episode:

By Storm & Injury Reserve: Can I Have You For Myself?

Stik Figa: No Secrets

Isaiah Rashad: The New Sublime

Octo Octa: Just Listen

Archspire: Carrion Ladder

Canes Of Karabakh: Sevan The Wild Cane

Feel free, (it's free!) to follow me on the on the toilet called Instagram where I conversate and show my love for music as themagic_organ. I got it friggin' goin' on over there, commenting on culture, denouncing spectacle based American culture and serving up fresh bangers as I unearth them. Or brandish upon me 5 shits on the itunes if you want to help out, 5 starry shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Cough it up people. Or you can email me to say how I changed your life with all this great music. Music can be social, you can have opinions, the roar of the masses are not just farts as the Minutemen used to say.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. I'll even co host the show with you and I will be super nice. I might even serve biscuits. C'mon take the bait! LFG.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can tell other people about this concentrated blast of new music goodness, bursting with farm fresh flavor. You can celebrate what I do and what musicians do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast be your guiding light. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

First off apologies for any band names or song titles that get mangled in this episode and in past episodes and well out into the future. Maybe folks don't listen to world music and from places with funny letters cuz the words is hard to pronounce? That would be ironical, cuz music is a nonverbal language (with words and shit sometimes) that humans use to communicate with each other.

I love the second track SAME SHIT, I need to check the rest of the new Isaiah Rashad record, I'm excited about the new Stik Figa record so it's good to see some hip hop bangers coming out as the weather gets hotter. Otherwise, 13 minutes of quality -- world music, funk, ambient and a mash of indie and dancefloor from Frost Children that is a great idea but fell a bit wide of the bullseye.

Hey be a guest DJ on this show, show me 6 songs it will be super fun, somebody out there gotta have flavor, no? It's all about flavor, being creative and showing flavor to each other.

Excerpts from this episode:

Fauna: Bland traden

Isaiah Rashad: SAME SHIT

Pilori: A Pierre Fendree

Royce Wood Junior: Slush

Hoavi: Wayang

Frost Children: Bound2U

Feel free, (it's free!) to follow me on the on the shameful status toilet called Instagram where I conversate and show my love for music as themagic_organ. I got it friggin' goin' on over there, denouncing spectacle based American culture and serving up fresh bangers as I unearth them. Or brandish upon me 5 shits on the itunes, 5 starry shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Cough it up people. Or you can email me to say how I changed your life with all this great music. Music can be social, you can have opinions, the roar of the masses are not just farts as the Minutemen used to say.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. I'll even co host the show with you and I will be super nice. I might even serve biscuits. C'mon take the bait! LFG.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can tell other people about this concentrated blast of new music goodness, bursting with farm fresh flavor. You can celebrate what I do and what musicians do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast be your guiding light. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

Heating Up is Right! The first three tracks of this episode all on the candidate list of my nerd ass best of year tracking spreadsheet. Funky electronic, sick expertly arranged metal, and some world dancefloor banging, you can't beat that shit with a stick. Thus far we've seen a bump in flavorous electronic music, some good metal from that genre that keeps defying the rest of society, thank God for that.

On the practical side I lost my hookup for African and world music; I used to get the weekly playlist from WRIR in Virginia but the DJ who rocked that show passed away. I wanted to give his work and legacy a shout, he put many banging records in my collection and if anybody knows of great sources of world music reviews and/or spinning hit me up! It is a woefully underrepresented genre in 'Merka and this injustice must be addressed.

Excerpts from this episode:

upsammy & Valentina Magaletti: Superimposed

Bekor Qilish: Emptiness-Wrought Cognition

Rosa Pistola: Flauta Nahua

Slayyyter: Old Technology

Charif Magarbane & Ali: Kuda Arab

Star Moles: Real Magic

Feel free, (it's free!) to follow me on the on the shameful status toilet called Instagram where I conversate as themagic_organ. I got it friggin' goin' on over there, denouncing spectacle based American culture and serving up fresh bangers as I unearth them. Or brandish upon me 5 shits on the itunes, 5 starry shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Cough it up people. Or you can email me to say how I changed your life with all this great music. Music can be social, you can have opinions, the roar of the masses are not just farts as the Minutemen used to say.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. I'll even co host the show with you and I will be super nice. I might even serve biscuits. C'mon take the bait!

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can tell other people about this concentrated blast of new music goodness, bursting with farm fresh flavor. You can celebrate what I do and what musicians do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast be your guiding light. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

Man oh man, I'm busy af with real world activities. And even though I'm just one dude with a pitch shifter and exquisite taste I must squeeze in the Magic Organ, a lot depends on it jfc.

As has been mentioned '25 was an insane year for great new music, it was everywhere, and while we can't know if Trump's fascism and/or shit economy is effecting the general culture-mood, there have been bangers thus far in '26 but not as many and in this episode I've had to draw a coupla tunes from the Magic Organ podcast bucket, which is a reserve of bangers that I can turn to when I'm a coupla tunes short of a full picnic basket. Whew, huge sentence.

The short blast of metal from No/Mas is off a record on my potential best of '26 and the new Angine de Poitrine record could be an honorable mention, well just listen to see how I feel about the tunes presented here.

The music is always changing but the quality remains high. Enjoy, it's a 7 banger. Thanks for listening and if you have friends maybe they'd peep the Magic Organ.

Excerpts from this episode:

Dialect: Eusa

Angine de Poitrine: Sarniezz

Fly Anakin: My N*gga

No/Mas: Abolition

Benoit Delbecq: The Loop of Chicago

xaviersobased: I Don't Gotta Say It

Sons of Huns

Feel free, (it's free!) to follow me on the now convicted of harming young people Zuckerberg run Insta where I conversate as themagic_organ. I got it friggin' goin' on over there, denouncing spectacle based American culture and serving up fresh bangers as I unearth them. Or hit me up with 5 shits on the itunes, 5 starry shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Hook me up people. Or you can email me to say how I changed your life with all this great music. Music can be social, you can have opinions, the roar of the masses are not just farts.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. I'll even co host the show with you and I will be super nice. I might even serve biscuits.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can tell other people about this concentrated blast of new music goodness, bursting with farm fresh flavor. You can celebrate what I do and what musicians do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast be your guiding light. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

Just because the formula never changes doesn't mean it's not exciting. I pick the freshest of the fresh, music with impact, value and heart, I try to get you to listen to the fresh shit when it's super fresh, hopefully folks get out there and mouth their friends about the fresh shit they heard first on The Magic Organ, boom that's how culture works. The fresh shit wins maybe, let's hope.

We influence each other. Speaking of which send me an email, tell me what you think, what you don't think, tell me about hits and misses, let's conversate and bring attention to music that deserves attention. A special shout out to the new Jill Scott record which is straight bangers from top to bottom, the playing is great, vocalizing, lyrics, dare I say instant classic, people must listen to it I insist.

Happy Late Ass Spring!

Excerpts from this episode:

Sideshow: Soft Tooth Tiger

MAMMO: 4.1

Jill Scott: Norf Side

Worm: Halls of Weeping

Nondi_: I Version Melody

RJD2 & Superstition: Machines Like Us

Feel free, (it's free!) to follow me on the now convicted of harming young people Zuckerberg run Insta where I conversate as themagic_organ. I got it friggin' goin' on over there, denouncing spectacle based American culture and serving up fresh bangers as I unearth them. Or hit me up with 5 shits on the itunes, 5 starry shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Or you can email me to say how I changed your life with all this great music. Music can be social, you can have opinions, the roar of the masses are not just farts.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. I'll even co host the show with you and I will be super nice. I might even serve biscuits.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can tell other people about this concentrated blast of new music goodness, bursting with farm fresh flavor. You can celebrate what I do and what musicians do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast be your guiding light. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

Hey, I don't do a ton of research before I rock an episode so I wanted to say the female singer featured as the fifth excerpt in this episode, Rima Khcheich, is Lebanese so yeah she's in the war zone. May the bombs stop dropping soon.

It seems a bit weird to be spinning tracks during a shooting war, something even worse more widespread than the genocide in Gaza. But if some of the music here can be an outlet for what people are feeling and work its nonverbal magic on the human brain, well then that's what music is for.

Thanks for listening and good luck to all the decent Vermonters fighting the goon squad ICE, stay safe out there.

Excerpts from this episode:

Musicentrydelete: Sub AM

Sleaford Mods: Megaton

Gorillaz: The God of Lying

Sammy Brue: Promise To Keep

Rima Khcheich: Muwashah Ya Man Itha

Isobel Waller-Bridge: Tapes

Feel free, (it's free!) to follow me on the Zuck run Insta (owned by the garbag-iest Americans going) where I conversate as themagic_organ. I got it friggin' goin' on over there, denouncing spectacle based American culture and serving up fresh bangers as I find them. Or hit me up with 5 shits on the itunes, 5 starry shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Or you can email me to say how I changed your life with all this great music. Music can be social, you can have opinions, the roar of the masses are not just farts.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. I'll even co host the show with you and I will be super nice. I might even serve biscuits.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can tell other people about this concentrated blast of new music goodness, bursting with farm fresh flavor. You can celebrate what I do and what musicians do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast be your guiding light. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

As I make a Herculean effort to gather my favorite records from my personal music collection all in one place (personal vinyl, out of print archived vinyl, net releases, cd favorites) to put onto a digital music player (DAP) I came upon a bunch of records that I was super into from 10-15 years ago and they all still hold up as great music.

And I thought maybe listeners would enjoy The Magic Organ with less of me and more of other shit. I spliced in some tasty non sequitur bits from an school slideshow record and a vinyl record of children's songs from Spain. That's right -- random shit mixed with great music, that is what happens here.

Voila, it's a fresh episode of the The Magic Organ. Great music has legs and sounds fresh as time passes so don't sleep on these bangers.

Excerpts from this episode:

Acid Arab: A3ssifa (feat. Rizan Said)

A Tribe Called Red: Intertribal N. 1

Karol Conka: Gandaia

Kenny Dennis: Punks

Jeri-Jeri: Gawlo

Feel free, (it's free!) to follow me on the Zuck run Insta (owned by the garbag-iest Americans going) where I conversate as themagic_organ. I got it friggin' goin' on over there, denouncing spectacle based American culture and serving up fresh bangers as I find them. I'm also up on the recently deballed Tik Tok, #FreePalestine. Or hit me up with 5 shits on the itunes, 5 starry shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Or you can email me to say how I changed your life with all this great music. Music can be social, you can have opinions.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. I'll even co host the show with you and I will be super nice. I guess most people can't hang, I wish it weren't thusly, but the roar of the mass are farts, unfortunately.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast be your guiding light. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

Oh we got a 7 banger for this episode, 13 minutes with 7 chunks of hot fire and a healthy dose of heavy music, punk hard rock, metal etc. My defense of heavy meta/heavy music is simple: Everybody feels bad, it's okay to feel bad, listening to other people talk about how bad they feel can make you feel less alone, it gets you moving from the overwhelmed state towards action. When I hear a great metal record I wanna go burn somebody's house down, the art in it is picking the right house (the White House, Elmo Mush's house etc)

In between the hard nuggets we have some electronic music and some alt country from Ryan Davis, a record I found as a result of my end of year best list scrounging, great lyrics and I don't find myself typing that very often. Let's hear it for great lyrics!

Thanks for listening, if this podcast makes you feel something let me know don't be shy, if you have great record you think I might like let me know don't be shy!

Excerpts from this episode:

Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band: Mutilation Sprins

Sex Germs: I Like To Eat

CxBxT, Norko Tujiko and & Adrian Corker: Toku No Minato

XweaponX: Everybody Breaks

Oneohtrix Point Never: Lifeworld

Bee Hive Ski Race: Gish Gallop

John Glacier: Money Shows

Feel free, (it's free!) to follow me on the Zuck run Insta (owned by one of the garbag-iest Americans going) where I conversate as themagic_organ. I got it friggin' goin' on over there, denouncing spectacle based American culture and serving up fresh bangers as I find them. I'm also up on the recently deballed Tik Tok, #FreePalestine. Or hit me up with 5 shits on the itunes, 5 starry shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Or you can email me to say how I changed your life with all this great music. Music can be social, you can have opinions.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. I'll even co host the show with you and I will be super nice. I guess most people can't hang, I wish it weren't thusly, but the roar of the mass are farts, unfortunately.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast be your guiding light. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

Welcome to the first fresh Magic Organ episode of 2026!! New music is a bit slow in January, not completely nothing but less than usual, and new music listeners like me will be scraping the best of last year's lists in search of great records that slipped through the cracks. Everyone has different cracks, everyone has different times where they discover new music, you can't catch all the bangers as they are released.

So this episode is the result of late December post best of year Magic Organ bangers listening. Special shout out to all these tracks it's some really great stuff.

Thanks for listening, spread the word, God bless 'Merka what's left of it.

Excerpts from this episode:

Babau: When we fell into the eternal glide it was too late to escape the extreme verticality, we left walking on vampire steps

Human leather: It's a Shit business, Glad I'm out of it

Yasmine Hamdan: Abyss

St. Panter: American Dreams

Daniel Son & Futurewave: Sweet Pepper

Bass Drum of Death: Do Nothing

Feel free, (it's free!) to follow me on the Insta (owned by one of the garbag-iest Americans going) where I conversate as themagic_organ. I got it friggin' goin' on over there, denouncing spectacle based American culture and serving up fresh bangers as II find them. I'm also up on the recently deballed Tik Tok, #FreePalestine. Or hit me up with 5 shits on the itunes, 5 starry shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Or you can email me to say how I changed your life with all this great music. Music can be social, you can have opinions.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. I'll even co host the show with you and I will be super nice. I guess most people can't hang, I wish it weren't thusly, but the roar of the mass are farts, unfortunately.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast move you and your ass. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]

Hey, don't think of this episode as any sort of leftover 2025 nugget, it's a certified set of bangers. It contains an excerpt of what might be my favorite record of the year by Aia Mon Amour. Not that any of the other excerpts aren't total bangers because that's what The Magic Organ does, we set 'em up and knock 'em down for our listeners. And we look stylish doing it!

Here's to a great year for music in 2026, thanks for listening, if you have any friends who claim to love music that aren't total dirt tell them about The Magic Organ.

Excerpts from this episode:

Emily A. Sprague: Matsumoto

Algernon Cadwallader: noitanitsarcorP

Aita Mon Amour: Sidi H'med

Sarcator: Burning Choir

Famo Mountain: My Struggle to Survive

Feel free, (it's free!) to follow me on the Insta (owned by one of the garbag-iest Americans going) where I conversate as themagic_organ. I got it friggin' goin' on over there, denouncing spectacle based American culture and serving up fresh bangers as II find them. I'm also up on the recently deballed Tik Tok, #FreePalestine. Or hit me up with 5 shits on the itunes, 5 starry shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Or you can email me to say how I changed your life with all this great music. Music can be social, you can have opinions.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. I'll even co host the show with you and I will be super nice. I guess most people can't hang, I wish it weren't thusly, but the roar of the mass are farts, unfortunately.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast move you and your ass. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]