Talk To Strangers

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Talk To Strangers is BACK!
This show Rú runs through Wednesday’s Choice Music Award shortlist nominees 1 by 1. The nominations sparked ferocious discussion among Ireland’s most noted musos. Remembering the forgotten, we also throw out a shoutout to those who didn’t quite make the list (David Kitt’s ‘It’s Yours’ features at the end).
This week, the studio’s [...]

Albums don’t need to be long to be vital
They don’t need to be produced by Rick Rubin to sound angry
They don’t need lyrics to say something

I’ll Eat Your Face know this

Do you?

Music is GREAT.
We love our tunes. I love your tunes.
They all have meaning in some way or another, but very, very rarely do the topics of songs go beyond personal experience and opinions.
Where have all the (i)informative(i) songs gone?
PUNK may have died, but did its message go amiss too?
We need artists with political mindsets and [...]

Congratulations! You have reached the next level!
As obvious as mmmud on your corneas, a !new! page has been opened on this very website titled The Lost Art Of Gig Posters.
Celebrating the self-indulgence 1 can only receive from an aesthetically pleasing gig poster. All observed extranormal posters and flyers will rear their heads.

See kids (Sea kids? [...]

It’s alreadyyy been been posted; on Run Into Thunder, but I’m a sssucker for puzzzzzzles, brought to y’o’u’ by your friendly neighbourhood CODES.

\\more bands do this now kplzthx//

… is a new blog covering all brilliant things based around mu.sic from this country (and a couple from without). We got a \very/ kind writeup on it, but that”””’’s not the reason you should peruse. You should go for the biting prose, the unrelenting passion and, most importantly, the relevance to modern culture and [...]

Just a reminder that at one stage U2 didn’t write shit songs

Happy new year, everyone!