The Magic Organ

The avalanche of great new music continues, Best of 2025 Part 5!! I feature 5 tunes in each best of episode and there will be six total (maybe a 7th in the New Year) with my best of year list topping out at 35 records which is quite modest. No fluff, no filler just straight bangers of all genres.

Rankings within the top 35 are non existent, music listeners can love different records for different reasons, one's desires and preferences are not rational, duh. Comparing a great heavy metal record to a great jazz record, not for the faint of heart best of luck!

I believe I have hit my cloud storage limit for the month so this will be the final episode of the 2025, thanks for listening if you have listened throughout the year. Happy early New Year to you.

Excerpts from this episode:

Los Piranas: El nuevo Prometeo

Kilbourne: Sugarbee

Gelli Haha: Funny Music

Meklit: Tizita

Old Saw: Ribbons of Marble

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. 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]

The Magic Organ Best of 2025 avalanche of musical goodness continues. How do my picks differ from those of the NY Times, PItchfork, and the New Yorker? Way less white boy and girl indie, more non white musicians from all over the world and from here. Just sayin'.

Because I'm mostly opposed to pop music and the concepts of pop music and pop culture that currently rule the empire, the Magic Organ's best of year music picks require listeners to do what they are, to listen and pay attention. So if you can't muster the energy necessary to do that and to escape from the Pop Death Star, I don't know what to say, that's on you somewhat, mostly, you might be the victim of a predatory cultural system but some people do make it out and I hope you make it out, it's way more fun being a freak than being in the suck ass line.

Thanks for listening.

Excerpts from this episode:

Ben LaMar Gay: John, John Henry

Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Bonne Annee

Thee Oh Sees: Sneaker

Scientist & Dubiterian: Use Your Head

Africanoise: O Chamado:

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, it's beyond #epic. 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 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]

Oh my, the party continues! When you listen to all the musics and you don't just reside in the indie rock ghetto or the tiny ass village of jazz then there's a lot of insanely great shit to listen to out there. And that right there is the mission of The Magic Organ.

There are no favorites nor weak links in the best of year episodes, it's straight up bangers from beginning to end, thanks for listening and have a great holiday season whichever way you roll.

Excerpts from this episode:

Abul Mogard: In a studded procession

Agender: Action Reaction

Open Mike Eagle: michigan j. wonder

Pillars of Cacophany: The Cradle

Ammar 808: Ah Yalila

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, it's beyond #epic. 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 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. Personally most people can't hang, I wish it weren't thusly, I listen to music pretty much all day most days.

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 inspire you. God forbid.

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

You know what time it is! It's the best of year series, we gotta a spreadsheet of all the genres that we're distilling down to the Magic Organ favorites of 2025. Plus I just caught a couple records on The Quietus' best metal of 2025, the new Sex Germs record and these other gents from the UK, Human Leather.

Never fear, The Magic Organ is way more than heavy metal and punk rock, we love all the musics, they're all God's children. Jeebus too.

Thanks for listening, shoot your favorites this way if you feel the urge.

Excerpts from this episode:

Civililistjavel!: XIII

Azuka Moweta and His Anioma Brothers Band of Africa: Egwu Asagba Ahaba

Gordon Grdina: Bunker

Barker: Force of Habit

Raul Monsalve y los Forajidos: Calipso Time

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, it's beyond #epic. 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 mail to tell me 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. Personally most people can't hang, I wish it weren't thusly, I listen to music pretty much all day most days.

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 inspire you. God forbid.

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

Here we go! The best time of the year to be a music lover and I don't mean a music lover that just sits there and eats whatever is served up by Big Music.

Take your time, savor it, cuz there will probably be at least 6 best of episodes this year, there is so much great shit to listen to, it's just a podcast and a click of the mouse away.

Excerpts from this episode:

Noura Mint Seymali: Guereh

Hieroglyphic Being: The Secret Teachings of the Ages

Frente Cumbiero: Paratebueno (feat. Theon Cross)

Laura Jane Grace: Your God (God's Dick)

Damon Locks: Distance

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, it's beyond #epic. 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 mail to tell me 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. Personally most people can't hang, I wish it weren't thusly, I listen to music pretty much all day most days.

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 inspire you. God forbid.

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

This is the last new music episode before the end of year roundup, don't be sad. New releases are slowing to a trickle, best of year lists start coming out around Thanksgiving or just afterwards.

This year my best of 2025 record list has 38 releases on it, which is historically high. As you may not know from my podcast commentary I'm a finicky mofo, my definition of a best record of the year involves the record being good, having some meaning and nutritional value to it, and music that bears repeated listening. Most of the records on the major music outlets' best of year lists do not meet these requirements, especially the repeated listening part.

The music industry is notoriously lazy and corrupt, so that's one of my main arguments in favor of The Magic Organ ruling the roost in terms of picking music, my shit is honest and professional.

Hopefully this nerded out description has you super hotted up for the best of year roundup and there are three records on my best of 2025 list in this episode, so some last minute entries into the derby. I have to listen more to the new Shad record to see if it qualifies.

Thanks for listening.

Excerpts from this episode:

Shad: Slanted

Algernon Cadwallader: Shameless Faces

Cabaca: Africanoise

Armand Hammer & The Alchemist: Scandinavia

Blawan: WTF

Old Saw: The Wringing Cloth

Feel 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, it's beyond #epic. I'm also up on the recently deballed Tik Tok. 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 mail to tell me what shit you heard on The Magic Organ that was banger material for you. 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. Personally most people can't hang, I listen to music pretty much all day most days.

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 inspire you. God forbid.

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

I freeball my podcast commentary and use these intro blurbs to correct things I wish I hadn't said. Towards the end of the second excerpt by feeo I say something like 'it's the best of what I heard' when I was trying to say that the opening track of that record was the best tune I heard on that record, not the best tune of this episode.

On to the show where the same thing always happens: 6-7 bangers, 13 minutes, appreciating what musicians do, how they do it, listening together and learning about how musicians do what they do that makes you feel the way you do when the great music happens.

And we apply that across the world because great music transcends race, class, circumstances, it can happen in a lot of different places and situations, it's a state of mind and thank God it happens.

Thanks for listening.

Excerpts from this episode:

Upchuck: New Case

feeo: Days Pt. 1

Hannah Frances: Steady In the Hand

Klein: it is what it is in d minor

Bongo District: Bongo Bong

Piotr Kurek: More Than One

Feel 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, it's beyond #epic. 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 mail to tell me what shit you heard on The Magic Organ that was banger material for you. 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. Personally most people can't hang, I listen to music pretty much all day most days.

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 inspire you. God forbid.

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

I was short tunes for this episode so I went a diggin' in the interwebz and found mucho bangers! The more active you are as a listener (and as a person) the more great music you will have in your life. Of course, listening to The Magic Organ is a music hack to get there faster, but you should always listen for yourself.

As usual we do the multi genre thing kicking off with some funky electronic, into some American/Ethiopian folk-jazz; hard to put a label on it, some wild ass metal, hip hop etc. on and on, it's a golden age as a music listener and so sad that so many folks just sit in the genres that they feel their indentity should be listening to. Man, what a world it would be if the suburban housewives were full on into the death metal, if only the mopey indie rockers would peep the African scene, then we would be getting somewhere. Minds would open, booties would move.

And don't listen to Taylor Swift's new record, it's not very good, don't join cults, that shit is a cult.

Excerpts from this episode:

Xexa: Kisson

Meklit: Abebayehosh

Agriculture: My Garden

Chester Watson: love spell

T.NO: Cadence

Rochelle Jordan: Bite the Bait

Aita Mon Amour: Ammela

Feel 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, it's beyond #epic. Or hit me up with 5 shits on the itunes, that would be helpful, 5 starry shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Or you can email me mail to tell me what shit you heard on The Magic Organ that was banger material for you.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. Personally most people can't hang, I listen to music pretty much all day most days.

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 inspire you. God forbid.

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

The Magic Organ doesn't ask for a lot of your time, the Magic Organ respects your time limits and we only ask for about 13 minutes of your attention every 10 days to 2 weeks. It's not a lot. Look at that bowling ball head Joe Rogan mofo, three hours a day, JFC! We usually throw up 6 excerpts from new releases, with commentary and celebration.

We only put up a little over 2 minutes of a track, we never use a whole track, we're only offering snippets as part of fair use definitions to avoid copyright violations and to respect musicians. To discuss music and to celebrate less visible music without giving it away without permission.

For extra flavor this episode offers a 7 pack, 7 excerpts in 13 minutes, yea we blast through it, starting with some banging reissue cumbia out of 1970s Peru all the way to a freshly released rock track from North and East Africa. Some abstract hip hop and electronic music also featured within this delicious sandwich.

Hey, give me advice, tell me this is so good and everything in between, thanks for listening!

Excerpts from this episode:

Los Zheros De Iquitos: La Rosa

dolo2000: lazarus (feat. kuru)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Gush

Scientist and Dubiterian (feat. Joseph Cotton): Yes Boss

Lucrecia Dalt: caes

Anysia Kym & Tony Seltzer: Afterparty

Yalla Miku: Alemuye

Feel 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, it's beyond #epic. Or hit me up with 5 shits on the itunes, that would be helpful, 5 shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Or you can email me mail to tell me what shit you heard on The Magic Organ that was banger material for you.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host. Personally most people can't hang, I listen to music pretty much all day most days.

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 inspire you. God forbid.

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

Hello America and fuq you to a giant chunk of you for your blind adherence to the status quo, we are an acquired taste here at The Magic Organ. This week's episode kicks off with an ambient banger from Abul Mogard, goes funky after that, goes punky after that, goes rootsy after that, goes heavy after that, and goes chill for the last track.

Do you have any idea how much music I listen to? A lot, a lot of music, new and old. There is very little variation from episode to episode, the subject is always the same, the best music I've heard since the last podcast episode in as many genres as I can keep a hand in. Ignoring the toxic horseshit of the music business public relations industry and focusing on quality, not booty or bling.

If someone is doing it better than me let me know I wanna hear it. For real. Comment, fight (verbally) about music, enjoy all the flavors, don't just sit there and eat whatever food is served to you, this isn't third grade cafeteria hour.

Excerpts from this episode:

Abul Mogard: In a studded procession

Dijon: (Freak It)

Water From Your Eyes: Life Signs

Jesse Royal & Yohan Marley: Blessing

Cordyceps: Murder All

Kimmortal: I Just Wanna Know

Feel 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, it's beyond #epic. Or hit me up with 5 shits on the itunes, that would be helpful, 5 shits on the itunes I dare not dream!!! Or you can email me mail to tell me what shit you heard on The Magic Organ that was banger material for you, that would be encouraging.

I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

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 inspire you. God forbid.

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