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Stoat-related stuff
Better Mondays for Everyone - a mailing list where we send out a poem (by a proper poet like Louis MacNeice or Omar Khayyam or Fleur Adcock, not one of us) every Monday in order to brighten up your day. Click on the link to see what we've sent in the past, or send a mail here to subscribe. Things you're missing - a co-operative effort among independent bands and labels to help each other out. The website contains all sorts of information that independent bands might find useful.
Local music scene
Thumped -
MP3s, hosted sites, articles, reviews, discussion board ... the epicentre of the
Dublin underground scene on the web.
Cluas - new Irish music, travel and film writing.
Road records - Dublin's coolest
underground record shop.
Phantom FM - local pirate station, broadcasting
on 91.6FM and the web.
XFM -
cool music, patchy coverage on 107.9FM and on the web.
Alpha Relish - gig promotion and music distribution.
Ultramack - gig promotion and label.
Road Relish - a 'singles club' run jointly by Alpha Relish and Road Records.
Treasure Island - home on the web of Dublin's all-ages scene.
The Event Guide - what's on in Dublin.
National music scene
The Aspersion Music Collective - Limerick collective.
Zeitgeist - Cork webzine.
The music industry
Dotmusic - web version of Music Week, industry
trade mag.
BYOFL - contacts for music collectives, zines, labels, underground bands the world over
Salve your conscience!
The Hunger Site - look at some ads and
in return the advertisers will make donations to the UN world food programme.
Interesting stuff
Why popular music is shit, and why shit music is so popular (or, Advertising is the enemy of art).
The abolition of work
- by Bob Black. First line of this essay is 'No one should ever work'.
Z magazine - enormous progressive political site.
Noam Chomsky is a regular contributor.
Dissent - quarterly magazine of politics
and culture.
Adbusters - spoof ads, uncommercials, and critiques of corporate and consumer culture.
Anarchist FAQ - lots to learn
about anarchism.
Spunk library - a collection of literature with an
anarchist emphasis.
Political Writings of George Orwell
Bertrand Russell Society - Bertrand
Russell was a philosopher, mathematician, educator, social critic and political activist, who won the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1950. Some of his very interesting essays are on this site.
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