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Direct Current 22.12.25 📻 Now Playing: PUP - No Hope 💿 Who Will Look After the Dogs? Kicking off with a short, sharp, sad one from the Toronto band, whose London show in May was one of our live highlights of 2025. 🐶

Good timezone, everyone! Episode 013 and the final Direct Current of 2025 airs at 11am on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social - in tandem with last month's show, this is Part 2 of the 2025 Rewind, exploring more of our favourite songs of the year in a continuous mix. No brakes on this one. 🚫

Direct Current 24.11.25 📻 Now Playing: Fox Stevenson - YAS! 💿 Sunk Cost Fallacy And we're off - let's get the 2025 Rewind underway with a killer opener from Stanley Stevenson-Byrne, yeah? 🦊

Good timezone everyone! We are in Australia currently so are outlining today's show heaps early, it's barely gone 7am back home! Episode 012 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am Irish time/7pm AWST, and it's time for part 1 of the 2025 Rewind. ⏪

Genuinely how the hell are all the singles this good weeeeeeew

Direct Current 27.10.25 🎶 Now Playing Fox Stevenson - Curtain Call Leeds-based banger merchant Stanley Stevenson-Byrne released his long-awaited second album as Fox Stevenson back in June; we're powering up today with a very relevant song from it 🚫👑

Good Bank Holiday Monday timezone everyone! The last regular show of the year airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am, with Episode 11 of Direct Current bookended by two songs from Fox Stevenson. Dance With the Dead & @hyperpotions.bsky.social/MDK bring the Halloween week vibes to start.

Direct Current 29.09.25 🎶 Now Playing: TEED - The Echo Orlando Higginbottom drops his Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs moniker and news of a new album; Always With Me arrives Friday December 5th on Nice Age 👕

Good timezone everyone! *sniffle cough achoo etc* I'm sick! Not as sick as today's episode of Direct Current though 🤭 In lieu of the usual format, Episode 010, which airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am, will be a mixtape-style show. Less chat from me (for the best) and lots of jams.

Direct Current 01.09.25 Now Playing 🎶 Pillow Queens - HowDoILook? Celebrating the fifth anniversary of In Waiting, the Dublin band play the National Concert Hall on Tuesday October 21st 🪞

Good timezone, everyone! Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am, and we power up with Dublin's Pillow Queens, who play an anniversary show at the NCH next month, with new Irish music on the way from TRM, @beautysleeptheband.bsky.social and Adebisi Shank before midday.

Direct Current 04.08.25 Now Playing @anamanaguchi.bsky.social - Endless Fantasy (with a little Capsule Silence tip) The New York-formed band's incredible new record Anyway is out on Friday via @polyvinyl.bsky.social, so let's power up with the title track from Endless Fantasy.

Good timezone, everyone! Episode 008 of Direct Current airs at 11am. We open with @anamanaguchi.bsky.social, whose imminent, album-of-the-year contender Anyway is the Album of the Month. We close with... well, tune in for a surprise 🎺 Elsewhere, there's all this going on:

Following last week's broadcast, Episode 007 of Direct Current is now streaming on the @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social Mixcloud! Catch up here >> www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigita... << and see below for the 29-song playlist ⚡

Direct Current 07.07.25 | @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social Now Playing 🎶 Kendrick Lamar - wacced out murals He's currently on the international leg of his Grand National Tour with SZA, and we see them in Paris next week (!!), so why not warm up with the opener from GNX?

Good timezone, everyone! Episode 007 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am - we power up with Kendrick Lamar, play out with Moving Mountains, & have a whole bunch of good stuff in between, like all this: • New Irish music from Big Sleep, Far Caspian, Sprints & Greywind

Ahead of next week's show, Episodes 005 & 006 of Direct Current are now streaming on the @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social Mixcloud page! Playlists and links below 🎶

Direct Current 09.06.25 | @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social Now Playing @nin.com - The Day the World Went Away Powering up with something from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, off 1999's The Fragile - the Nine Inch Nails live band kicks off the Peel It Back World Tour here in Dublin on Sunday.

Good timezone everyone! Episode 006 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am - we power up and play out with @nin.com with no fewer than three songs from them to celebrate their long-overdue return to Dublin this weekend.

Direct Current 12.05.25 | @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social Now Playing 🎶 The Dirty Nil - True Devotion The Canadians return with a new album in July, and we atart today with one half of a warmup single they dropped in January 🐅

Good timezone everyone! Episode 005 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am, and there's SO MUCH going on, like all this for example: • New Irish music from Cable Boy, For Nina, Little Known & Left Iris • Two each from The Dirty Nil & @brutalligators.bsky.social

Episodes 003 and 004 of Direct Current are now streaming on the @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social Mixcloud page - individual show details, playlists and links are further down the thread. ⚡

Direct Current 14.04.25 | @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social Now Playing 🎶 @spanishlovesongs.bsky.social - Routine Pain/Self-Destruction (As A Sensible Career Choice) Two from the Los Angeles quintet's unflinching 2020 album Brave Faces Everyone to kick things off today. 💥

Good timezone everyone! Episode 004 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am, opening and closing with LA's @spanishlovesongs.bsky.social, & there's all this going on: • Homegrown music from the likes of Boyfrens, Junk Drawer, M(h)aol, @bandofvirgins.bsky.social & Daithí

Direct Current 17.03.2025 Now Playing 🎶 The Wonder Years - Low Tide Powering up with something from the Philadelphia band off their latest album, 2022's The Hum Goes On Forever - new music on the way from them after midday 🌊

Good timezone and happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! Episode 003 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am - we power up with (and also have new music from) The Wonder Years, close with an absolute knockout from Baths, and in-between we have all this going on:

Following last week's broadcast, Episode 002 of Direct Current is now streaming on the @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social Mixcloud - catch up here >> www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigita... << and see below for the 31-song playlist! (Technically 32 but who's counting? Oh yeah, we are.)

Good timezone, everyone! Yes, it's a Sunday, but you get show details in advance this month - Episode 002 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social tomorrow at 11am!

Thank you for your patience - following the January 20th broadcast, Episode 001 of Direct Current is now streaming on the @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social Mixcloud! Catch up with it here >> www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigita... << and see below for the 28-song playlist! New episode next week 👀

A couple shoutouts are necessary - the new logo's ready! A massive thank you to @ducc.uk for working on this 💜

Direct Current 20.01.2025 Now Playing 🎶 Jean Paul Makhlouf & Cash Cash - Reach For the Stars 📝 The theme from 2010's Sonic Colors to kick things off - why not open the first show of the new era with a banger?!? 🦔

Good timezone (& hello!) everyone! Direct Current switches on at 11am on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social - today's show features Bartees Strange's forthcoming new record Horror as the Album of the Month, plus Londoners Prima Queen as the High Voltage Track of the Month, not to mention all of this...

Charging: Direct Current A new music radio show with plenty of juice. ⚡ Switching on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social Monday at 11am. 📻🎶