Episodios

  • If you were to define the greatness of a music writer/podcaster as how closely their recommended picks line up with other music writers/podcasters, then I would most definitely be a shit ass music critic.

    If one were to have half a brain and define the greatness of a music writer/podcaster as working across as many genres as there are and the independence to pick music based on its quality and not on its marketability, well then I would be up there if not at the top of the pile.

    Happy 2025! There will be one more best of 2024 episode and I will spend most of January 2025 scrounging the best of lists that I think could contain some diamonds sprinkled in with the manure. Bandcamp has some very good best of year lists, not perfect but very good, the NY Times sucks at music writing, I'll keep it at that.

    Thanks for listening!

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Sisso and Maiko: Chuma

    Ghost Dubs: Hot Wired

    Etran de L'Air: Erkazamane

    Undeath: More Insane

    Karate Boogaloo: The Early Bird Catches

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    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]

  • Here we are just before the holidays and the digital town square is flooded with best of lists for music, films and books. Some of my choices occasionally pop up on a list but there are many that are unique to The Magic Organ.

    The Magic Organ is a music loving podcast, it is not a music pimping/PR podcast. Going against the grain, focusing on the actual music and not giving a flying fuq about brat summer and whatever other stupid identity nonsense is sprinkled all over listeners to make corporate music appear meaningful.

    Randy Mason's hip hop record is a perfect example of an overlooked gem and I continue to maintain that anyone claiming to be a music lover without listening to all the incredible music coming out of Africa isn't really a music lover. Finally, if you dig the rock check out the Meridian Brothers wacko Latin-Captain Beefheart business.

    Enjoy and thanks for listening and happy holidays.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Meridian Brothers: Se Que Estoy Cambiando

    Floating Points: Vocoder

    The Zawose Queens: Mapendo

    Randy Mason: Wallet Phone Keys

    Accra Quartet: Hunters

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    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.

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  • Hey hey hey, Part 2 of The Magic Organ's 5 episode cycle of the best of 2024 is up and ready for your earholes. All genres all the time.

    Dancefloor, reggae, free jazz, stripper pole electronic music and dark epic rock -- we got it going on and hope you like it.

    If you have anything to say about it or want to counterprogram this hit me up, god forbid we break the corporate chains and communicate with one another.

    Thanks for listening.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Becky Hill: Multiply

    Mighty Joshua: Sometimes

    (Ahmed): Wood Blues

    Nikki Nair: 333333

    Big Brave: Not Speaking of the Ways

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    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]

  • Let it begin! The mountain of turkey carcasses has been made (I did not contribute) and the best of year lists will start firing any day.

    If you have found this podcast then you might think our collective musical culture matters; it matters to me as the corporate music outlets are basically a bag of ass, we know dis.

    I consider myself to be the widest listening and hardest working new music podcaster in these here 50 states. You can see the variety pack on display in every episode and all through the best of year episodes -- metal, reggae, African music, electronic music, funk fusion, and Latin Jazz.

    So have at it and enjoy it, if you have playlists hit me up, and there are four more best of year episodes to go in the month of December.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Mykal Rose and Subatomic Sound System: Streets On Fire

    Gatecreeper: Masterpiece of Chaos

    KOKOKO!: Bazo Banga

    SML: Bazo Banga

    New Regency Orchestra: Para Los Papines

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    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]

  • I can't stand the holidays but this is my absolute favorite time of the year in terms of listening to music and finding new music to listen to during the dark days of winter. Year end lists, checking out how garbage-y the New York Times best of year list is, and then finding awesome heavy metal records in the comment sections of other year end lists. Good times for music obsessives.

    This here episode is the last episode before I rain down upon the masses my best of year list in podcast episode form. That said I'm guessing the 20 bag of short bangers by the harcore/metal outfit Thirdface will make it onto my year end list for its positive mental attitude. Good stuff there and in the rest of the episode.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Jennifer Castle: Trust

    The Bongo Hop: Magica Bonita

    Thirdface: Bankroll

    Mulatu Astake & Hoodna Orchestra: Major

    Asher White: Runes

    La Rueda: Alevantate Temprano

    Elori Saxi: Drift II

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    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]

  • The Magic Organ didn't vote for either murderous bastard that was on offer and it looks like we got the Orange Circus 2.0.

    The Magic Organ doesn't want his life to be dictated by this insane Orange Cheese Doodle so we're just gonna tell him to fuck himself and get on with what The Magic Organ does best, bust out the flavor pack.

    We kick it off with some aggro, there's gonna be a lotta aggro comin' up, and then we peep a poppish African tune that is just lovely, get on with an appropriately aimed tune about the life of a garbage can, then some dancefloor and on and on it goes.

    We hope you stay tuned because it's the end of the year and that's when we rock the best of the year episode and you can find some music that slots right into your life and gets the booty moving if that's how you roll.

    Just a reminder if anybody out there has the skills and the daring shoot me a playlist and it could happen.

    Thanks for listening.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    The Body: A Premonition

    Kokoko!: Mokolo Likambu

    Peter Bibby: Bin Boy

    SUBSET: Advanced Fizziks

    La Sonora Mazuren: Cavernicolas

    Kali Uchis: Perdiste

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    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]

  • Best of the year music lists will start popping out a little before Thanksgiving and they will continue to trickle out into the first week or so of December and then a few stragglers towards New Years.

    It's looking like 4 best of '24 podcasts for The Magic Organ and maybe an honorable mention if I can squeeze one out. Those shits take time (I've already begun downloading and contemplating my choices), so there will be one or two more non best of '24 episodes before that. Hence the beginning of the end.

    Best of year lists are the best time of the year to be a music fan, at least one like me where I listen to the choices on a lot of these lists. If I had two suggestions for budding music listeners, one would be to ignore anything the NY Times puts on a list, the odds of finding a banging record in the paper of record is almost zero, their music writers have always been the worst. Ignore NPR, what a bag of soft ass over there.

    The other is just life advice, don't listen to Wilco, Wilco is one of the most boring bands ever, right up there with The National, don't listen to them, man that shit is energy vampire music, awfulness incarnate.

    Enjoy, and thanks for listening.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Black Decelerant: Six

    AJ Lee & Blue Summit: City of Glass

    The Zawose Queens: Maisha

    DJ Muggs and Raz Fresco: Memory Lane

    MAVI: tether

    Angelica Garcia: Mirame

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    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]

  • There are many things we don't do here at The Magic Organ. We don't discuss tits and ass, we embrace ugly ass musicians. We don't celebrate rich musicians, in fact we think they're boring and they shouldn't listen to. We don't stay in our lane, we listen to all the genres and musicians who play all the notes!

    We do one thing, we bring the bangers, we let 'em out, we drop the mic! I get that might be more than one thing but just blur your eyes and pretend it's one thing, that's what 'Merka does.

    So kick back, enjoy the variety, don't sleep on the New Regency Orchestra record, it is absolutely a certified bag of bangers.

    Thanks for listening, always looking for musical guests as in people who can put up a custom playlist and defend it, let's do this!!!

    Excerrpts from this episode:

    New Regency Orchestra: Para Los Papinas:

    Laura Jane Grace: All Fucked Out

    Hiatus Kaiyote & Niki Yang: BMO is Beautiful

    Sideshow: RIP TY RIP RICCO

    Los Campesionos!: Long Throes

    Malignancy: Irradiated Miscreation

    Previous Industries: Montgomery Ward

    Pedro the Lion: It'll All Work Out

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    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]

  • This episode, set to go last week, was interrupted by Covid. It is never nice to have the 'vid, but it's receding and we're set to get the Magic Organ back out there.

    We kick it off with some metal from Thou (heavy metal is good for you, as is eating bitter vegetables), and head out with some funky and poppy hip hop from Rapsody, then a track from Fenya Rai, a group updating older Catalan folk songs. From there we get some some heavy post love diva dancefloor banging from Becky Hill and we must not skip the Northern Irish hooligans Kneecap trafficking in a variety of themes on their track, Drug Dealin Pagans.

    Thanks for listening, keep your masks on cuz Covid blows.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Thou: Emotional Terrorist

    Rapsody: Black Popstar

    Fenya Rai: La Galindaina

    Becky Hill: Outside of Love

    Andra Day: Narcos

    Kneecap: Drug Dealin Pagans

    U-Ziq: Imperial Crescent

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    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]

  • Oh, we've got an episode perfectly matched to the mood of late summer.

    Kick it off with some super funky techno, into some wild ass video game flavored African music, onto some highlife, into some Moroccan gnawa music, build towards the finish with some modern party reggae, and go out on the cumbia tip.

    You can't beat it with a stick, tbh.

    If you want to be on the show, if you're a music obsessive, hey just do it, hit me with 6 of your banging-est bangers and see if you make the grade. That's how we do it here on The Magic Organ.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Logic 1000: side by side

    Sisso & Maiko: Kiboko

    Okwy Osadebe and Highlife Soundmakers International: Ifunanya

    Asmaa Hamzaoui and Bnat Timbouktou: Lalla Rkia

    Jahill & Marina P: Miss & Mister Rub-a-dub

    Kumbia Boruka: Santa Suerte

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    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.

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  • This summer has been fruitful in terms of new music and this episode is the kickoff of a flurry of episodes to conclude this season of listening. Whereas I found a ton of amazing African music last summer this summer the action has been spread across more genres.

    We kick it off with some funky techno, head into some sweet roots reggae, back into techno but a bit more raucous, into the indie, take a turn with some stripper pole electro funk and end up with some weird mostly acapella indie.

    Thanks for listening, spread the word and stay safe out there.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Lil Silva: Done Heavy

    Mighty Joshua: Sometimes

    M. Wagner: Marcy Av

    Shannon & The Clams: Big Wheel

    Lindigo: Tiako

    Nikki Nair: Prowler

    Anastasia Coope: Woke up and No Feet

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    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.

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  • Episode 82 kicks off with some minimalist instrumental funk, segues into medium laidback African music out of Senegal, dips into some dark indie from Big Brave, and on and on it goes for 13 minutes. The episode concludes with some electronic metal out of Kenya and nothing signifies where The Magic Organ is at more than a tune by an African metal musician that is distorted and aggro but surely is not typical metal!

    The Magic Organ is unaffiliated with the corporate bastards who are presently running the music business deeper into the toilet, it is an independent effort focused on quality over genre. Ask yourself who else is trafficking as widely as The Magic Organ? C'mon now, the answer is nobody, nobody comes close to The Magic Organ in terms of what's in the flavor packet.

    Thanks for listening.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Karate Boogaloo: One Hand One Bounce

    Tidiane Thiam: Neene Africa

    Big Brave: Not Speaking of the Ways

    Facta: Emeline

    Sam Gendel and Same Wilkes: Rugged Road

    Lord Spikeheart: Djangili

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    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.

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  • There was music before the internet and a lot of it was really good. This week we feature tracks from Portugal, Russia, America, Israel, and Sweden. All bangers but the opening track is especially hot.

    Thanks for listening and stay safe out there.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Shegundo Galarza: O Pezinho

    Ivan Rebreff: Cossacks Must Ride

    Lionel Hampton: Flying Home

    Lev Ran Choir: N/A (record face is in Hebrew)

    Ake Gronberg: Calle Schewens Vals

    Disco Around the Globe (Compilation): Dancing

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    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.

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  • A response to our last episode focusing on the sad ass music department picks at the New York Times. This by no means exhaustive set of bangers is part of The Magic Organ's continuing mission to present music that moves people, both asses and minds.

    We kick off with some delightfully funky dumpster electronic, pop out a nugget for all the rockers out there, head into some pumped up dancefloor melancholia, get the horns up with a track from Gatecreeper's new record, on and on and on. 13 minutes of blast furnace levels of heat, Death Valley heat, etc.

    The focus is not on genre or marketing budget but whether it gets you moving.

    Thanks for listening.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Nikki Nair: Prowler

    Charles Moothart: Hold On

    Becky Hill & Sonny Fodera: Never Be Alone

    Gatecreeper: Oblivion

    Shabazz Palaces: Angela

    Flowdan: Do My Ting

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    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.

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  • Imagine if the New York Times recommended passionate music, extreme music, and music reflecting the human condition. But alas it is not to be. Today we cruise through the 8 of the NY Times' best tracks of the first half of 2024. If you disagree with my assessment of this bag of tracks, I will invite you on the podcast to discuss it if you make sense. Part of what makes being a sports fan great is the trash talking of athletes, journos and fans, while in the sphere of music the vast majority of fans lap up whatever gruel is placed in front of them.

    Next week I will push up some of my favorite tracks from the first half of the year and it will not be a flaccid playlist, it will be bumpin'.

    Thanks for listening.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Sabrina Carpenter: Espresso

    Tyla: Safer

    Ariana Grande: we can't be friends

    Billie Eilish: THE GREATEST

    Zsela: Fire Excape

    Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well

    Beyonce: 16 CARRIAGES

    Mk.gee: Little Bit More

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    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.

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  • There's the good heat from bangin' new music and there's the bad heat that will f*cking kill you and sometimes we have both. Let's hope for more heat between the musical humans and the listening humans and less heat from the planet (which is our fault, the fossil fuel humans). Stay safe out there.

    Summer 2023 was full of world music hot rocks and we can only hope for a repeat of that in 2024. We kick it off with the eternally partyistic Omar Souleyman, hit a little hop from Armand Hammer, some indie from Lord knows where (because I listen to so much music), some retro funk from the Silver Skylarks, and we take you out with a 5 minute double shot of my favorite jazz record thus far this year, the 58 minute monster shot from Ahmed out of the UK. It's hard to explain how these guys take jazz and blow it to the moon and back so please check that out.

    Thanks for listening!

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Omar Souleyman: Male Atab

    Armand Hammer: When It Doesn't Start With a Kiss

    Blue Bendy: Mr. Bubblegum

    Silver Skylarks: Number One Set and Sound

    (Ahmed): Wood Blues

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    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.

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  • Welcome back and we are on the threshhold of the summer of '24. The new music is heating up not quite as fast as the climate but we're just pretending climate change isn't happening because it's a #sadface bummer.

    Another 13 minute music bomb from all over -- hip hop from Shabazz Palaces, traditional Mexican music from Cana Dulce y Cana Brava, onto some guitar driven world music/rock from Somaliland, some ambient cello business from NYC (go 5 boroughs!!), to some pop punk from Minneapolis, to the cradle of dub/electronic music from long standing reggae superstars The Aggrovators! Yikes, what a sentence.

    Thanks for listening and stay hydrated, it's gonna be a hottie!

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Shabazz Palaces: Angela

    Cana Dulce y Cana Brava: El Palomo

    Sahra Halgan: Som hanyari

    MIZU: Realms of Possibility

    VIAL: Bottle Blonde

    The Aggrovators: Press the Dub Along

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    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.

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  • Episode 76! Could be a soft launch for summer '24 as we kick this episode off with the UK/Caribbean dancehall stylings of Flowdan with the track Do My Ting. He does his ting, I do my ting here at The Magic Organ, and hopefully you get in the ring and do your ting out there wherever you are.

    For the 80th gabillionth time, we are committed to quality and not genre, I would play more new indie rock and white people rock if there was more high quality indie rock and white people rock being released. I have to run an affirmative action program for indie rock some episodes that's how lacking some of the indie rock is out there. Take it up with my fellow flour rangers making the indie rock, I go where the quality is.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Flowdan: Do My Ting

    SPRINTS: Heavy

    Piper Street Sound: A Shadow in August

    MIKE & Tony Seltzer

    Angelica Garcia: Juanita

    Adrianne Lenker: No Machine

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  • As I initially was constructing this episode I noticed the excellent space rock on offer from Okavango African Orchestra in track 3, and how the Brazilian MCs take American sounds and make them their own in the final track. All these various sounds and sonic subcultures slurping around the interwebz, picked up and checked out by other folks in other places and thereby changed even a wee bit as they spread. It's cool to see creativity in action.

    I ended up titling this episode Skills and Vibes as it came out whilst I was spieling over the faded tracks and I liked it a whole bunch with it. The crosstalk will continue to occur, it's near the heart of what music makes it onto The Magic Organ.

    Thanks for listening -- tell your stupid friends.

    Excerpts from this episode:

    Tiken Jah Fakoly & Tiggs Da Author: Les Martyrs

    Charles Moothart: Clock Rats

    Okavango African Orchestra: Selam Kiblaki

    John Thayer & Chris Cochrane: Excavation

    Mama Sissoko: Safiatou

    MC L da Vinte & MC Gury: Parado no Bailao

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  • The Magic Organ returns and if you don't grok the whole 13 minutes (I estimate that to be 1 and one half to 2 toilet sittings depending on diet) make sure you peep the opener by Ahmed Ben Ali as I've been listening to this Liberian reggae dancehall gent do his thing and it is stylish. As usual lots of world music, but not exclusively world music and as we say at the Magic Organ it's not about genre it's about quality. If you want to guest on the show, hit me up, I would love to have a music obsessed guest on the show, otherwise peep and enjoy.

    Excerpts from this show:

    Ahmed Ben Ali: Ya Ghalian Alakheera

    The Ex: Requiem For a Rip-Off

    Loving: Medicine

    Dieuf-Dieul De Thies: Ariyo

    Aiace: Se Voce Se For/Citicao: Meia Hora

    Ben Okafor & The Liberators: Beware of the Snake

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    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.

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