I.R.S. is a record label that has interested me for a long time; well since I started to get into R.E.M. in the late 80s and saw that until recently, they had been on that label. The name interested me - I knew enough about the USA to know that there was some government association with this initialism. Before we dive a little bit into the labels history and some of the key bands that were a part of it (we will focus on the original version of it, rather than the time since 2

I recently realised that after more than three years of listening, watching and writing (and of course, waffling) about music - I was...

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So, everyone's gone through a period where they really wished they could drum in a rock band; where they've been sitting in a pub and...

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