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Well rounded sports, music fan & blogger. 🎧
Host of 'The Human Recommendation' radio show 📻 @flirtfm.ie
Writing ✍️ @thetonearm.com
Newsletter 📨:
https://buttondown.com/thehumanrecommendation/archive/
Podcast 🎙️on @mixcloud.bsky.social
#TeamHuman
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'The Music of What Happens' A Human Recommendation Special Mix available on @mixcloud.bsky.social contains best of indie, sound bites, sports moments, archive digs & more. Hopefully it can provide a musical accompaniment to a journey,
Athbhliain faoi Mhaise Duit ☘️🇮🇪
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'The Music of What Happens'..A Human Recommendation Special Mix
This is my 100th Mixcloud Upload and for it I decided on a special, a celebration of all things Irish! This is the "Music of What Happens", a 2 hour playlist showcasing the abundance of incredible ta...
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Available to read on the Blowtorch Records blog, my latest interview, where I spoke with Spencer Enock from London indie dreamers Pynch about their sophomore album 'Beautiful Noise' & being in a #DIY band with your best friends (and brother!)
blowtorchrecords.com/post/pynch-bea…#indiei#teamhumanan
https://blowtorchrecords.com/post/pynch-bea…
January 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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This is pretty neat.
NEW! As streaming and major labels threaten to push out human creativity, a small band of micro record labels are fighting back, channelling the DIY ethos of punk. READ OUR EXCLUSIVE FEATURE HERE: www.stateofsoundmagazine.com/an-outpourin...
January 27, 2026 at 8:59 PM
New music coming from Vancouver's PC Dagg tomorrow
www.instagram.com/reel/DUBe-0p... #musicdiscovery
January 27, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Miss #46 of The Human Recommendation radio show last night 📻 ?
Listen back on @mixcloud.bsky.social
Playback link:👇
www.mixcloud.com/FlirtFM_Arch...

Show playlist details below:
#Teamhuman #musicdiscovery
January 27, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Tune in tonight at 8pm on 101.3 FM in Galway city and via the web stream on @flirtfm.ie 📻
#teamhuman #musicdiscovery
January 26, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Next up on The Human Recommendation podcast I got the opportunity to talk with Spencer Enock, a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and front man of London DIY Dreamers Pynch.
Listen 🎧 on @mixcloud.bsky.social & check out their album 'Beautiful Noise' #indie
www.mixcloud.com/Humanrecomme...
The Human Recommendation Interview #53 London Diy Dreamers Pynch
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January 23, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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Cities and Memory founder Stuart Fowkes tells us why Ways of Listening breaks new ground as our first ever multidisciplinary creative project.

Find out how you can get involved in our partnership with @evelynglenniefd.bsky.social and @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social: citiesandmemory.com/listening
January 23, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Next up on The Human Recommendation podcast I got the opportunity to talk with Spencer Enock, a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and front man of London DIY Dreamers Pynch.
Listen 🎧 on @mixcloud.bsky.social & check out their album 'Beautiful Noise' #indie
www.mixcloud.com/Humanrecomme...
The Human Recommendation Interview #53 London Diy Dreamers Pynch
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January 23, 2026 at 8:55 AM
This year, entrants include the seven-foot-tall synthesis of a double-bass and the classical Indian instrument known as a rudraveena, a “cyborg woodwind"
www.popsci.com/technology/w...
The 10 weirdest and wildest musical instruments of 2026
The 28th annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition includes a Fiddle-Henge, a modified bicycle wheel, and a 'Demon Box.'
www.popsci.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Listen back to The Human Recommendation radio show #45 📻 on @mixcloud.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/FlirtFM_Arch...
#teamhuman
January 21, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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We’re proud to launch Ways of Listening, a new partnership with @evelynglenniefd.bsky.social that is open to everyone. This unique global project asks you to share your answer to one simple question - “What does listening mean to you?”
@dameevelynglennie.bsky.social
citiesandmemory.com/listening
Ways of Listening - Cities & Memory | Field recordings, sound map, sound art
citiesandmemory.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:42 AM
The Human Recommendation airs tonight at 8pm 📻 on FM in Galway city and via the web stream on @flirtfm.ie
Show #45 will feature another eceltic mix of indie genres from slowcore to shoegaze and alt and folk rock #teamhuman
January 19, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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First interview of 2026, I spoke with slowcore artist how r u (Thom Southern) who chatted enthusiasticly about the slowcore genre that sucked him in, producing music with his sibling and the liberating release model.
Listen on @mixcloud.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/Humanrecomme... #slowcore
The Human Recommendation interview #52 with slowcore artist how r u (Thom Southern)
The Human Recommendation is a weekly radio show on Flirt FM 101.3 in Galway city showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe. But in this special interview side ...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:49 PM
First interview of 2026, I spoke with slowcore artist how r u (Thom Southern) who chatted enthusiasticly about the slowcore genre that sucked him in, producing music with his sibling and the liberating release model.
Listen on @mixcloud.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/Humanrecomme... #slowcore
The Human Recommendation interview #52 with slowcore artist how r u (Thom Southern)
The Human Recommendation is a weekly radio show on Flirt FM 101.3 in Galway city showcasing the best of indie & alternative music from Ireland and around the globe. But in this special interview side ...
www.mixcloud.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Keep up with all things The Human Recommendation with my @buttondown.com monthly newsletter📨. This email contains music recommendations including @statusnonstatus.bsky.social , an Irish EP I'm looking forward to, Winged Wheel's new album and Whitelands.
Read it here: buttondown.com/thehumanreco...
Chasing The Sun
Happy New Year, my first radio show of 2026 is in the can, 📻 listen back to #44 of The Human Recommendation on mixcloud. The most common image I have seen...
buttondown.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:19 AM
My first piece for Atwood Magazine, 'Lifting the Spirit of the Anishinaabe Experience Through Music': A Conversation with Ribbon Skirt’s Billy Riley
atwoodmagazine.com/rsbd-ribbon-... #postpunk
Interview: Ribbon Skirt’s Billy Riley on Lifting the Spirit of the Anishinaabe Experience Through Music - Atwood Magazine
Ribbon Skirt guitarist Billy Riley reflects on the band’s meteoric rise, the making of their Polaris-shortlisted debut album ‘Bite Down,’ and the creative, cultural, and emotional forces shaping one o...
atwoodmagazine.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
This weeks show has a new position in the student radio chart.
Miss the show?
listen 🎧 back on @mixcloud.bsky.social
#teamhuman
January 14, 2026 at 12:28 PM
First radio show of 2026 in the can, 📻 listen back to #44 of The Human Recommendation on @mixcloud.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/FlirtFM_Arch...
#Teamhuman
January 13, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Behind the scenes of At All , our new single, out now on @youvechanged.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
The Human Recommendation radio show 📻 returns this evening with #44, the first show of 2026 at 8pm on @flirtfm.ie in Galway City and via the web stream at Flirtfm.ie
So much new music to get through! 🎧🎸
#Teamhuman
January 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Here's your very occasional reminder to follow @wfmu.bsky.social for daily announcements of special programs on the world's greatest radio station, including its web-only streams. Very low-noise account. Or check here anytime for a full listing: www.wfmu.org/upcoming
January 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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