The Magic Organ

Happy birthday 'Merka, you sad ass corrupt garbage can of a country turned into a shithole by the current Orange Turdmaster. As I scan the excerpts from this episode, almost all of this music is made by people targeted to be deported or put in jail, black folks and immigrants or potential immigrants. So yes, I believe that a lot of cultures mixing together is a good thing for all those cultures, k...

Random episote title, but not random song picks! I was going to go with Early Summer bangers as a title and then meh, that's boring, so we switch it up. A combination of straight up party jams at slot 1 and slot 3 with more abstract and quality electronic business at slots 2 and 5. All slots filled with creativity. Ya know music is both just music and it's much more than music, it's a non spoken l...

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 feature...

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 se...

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 fo...

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 th...

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 influe...

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 b...

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...

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 met...

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 a...

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 m...

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...

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...

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 listen...

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 mus...

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 Hier...

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 invol...

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 bange...

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, i...

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 n...

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...

It has been a garbage can summer for pop music and mainstream hip hop, and while those are the most money making sectors of the recorded music business, there is plenty of action from other parts of our culture that is worthy of Song of the Summer status. That is what The Magic Organ is all about, pushing up quality regardless of commercial domination, fuq the music business. Song of the Summer ca...

It was a struggle but there will be a Best Songs of the Summer episode next week heads up on that, but not this week. This week is just more dancefloor bangers, weird ass indie music, and a rare pop track kicking off the episode that I actually think is pretty great. Circling back one has to wonder with the absence of a clear song of the summer and what I see as some more quality indie rock and le...

First off the mistakes. I try to use the mistakes I make during the spieling of an episode to give that musical outfit more space. In this episode I mistakenly said that Kin'Gongolo Kiniata is from Kenya (you know, all the Ks) when they hail from the Congo. The Congo and its people (often under slave labor type circumstances) power your phones with minerals and they provided the uranium for Uncle...