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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Direct Current 28.09.26 Now Playing: Please Louise - Bury My Head Louise McNamara's been off radar for a while after being one half of Heathers throughout the 2010s, but she's back as Please Louise, with a debut EP slated for November ⛏️

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good timezone everyone! Episode 023 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am. We really had to lock in to get this one over the line, so you should definitely tune in. We start with Please Louise (of Heathers) & finish with Every Time I Die (Andy Williams forever).

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Good timezone everyone! Episode 022 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social on Monday at 11am, and I'm getting well out in front of this one because I won't be doing the usual listen-along on account of being at my sister's wedding over the coming weekend 💍

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Following this morning's broadcast, episode 021 of Direct Current is now available to stream on the @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social Mixcloud! We packed 28 songs into this one, the playlist (with alt text!) is below and you can catch up over here >> www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigita...

An edited image of an obscured sign against a leafy green backdrop, upon which is the playlist for Direct Current's August 3rd 2026 edition, titled 'We Once Were Electric' (h/t Kavinsky's 'Zenith'). Hour one reads as follows:

James Ivy - Texas
Really Good Time - Do It
Verse Metrics - Evil Only Travels in Straight Lines
Kavinsky - Nightcall
Haiver - Better (feat. Devin Casson)
Michigander - Freaking Out
Josaleigh Pollett - Cherry
Do Nothing - Act Natural
The Mountain Goats - Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds
Dinosaur Jr. - Blowin’ Up
Frog - Dark Out
Death Cab For Cutie - Trap Door
Din of Celestial Birds - Takeoffs & Landings

(Lilac text indicates a song from an Album of the Month)

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

if you don't Know About This, you should.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Direct Current 3.8.26 Now Playing: James Ivy - Texas New Jersey-born New Yorker with New Music from his New Album? Say less. Powering up with James Ivy, who also occupies a High Voltage Track of the Month slot in roughly an hour 🌠

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Good timezone, everyone. Episode 021 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am. There is a heavy sense of loss hanging over this episode. If I don't sound like myself, that's why. Part of this one acts as our tribute to Vincent Belorgey. You may know him as Kavinsky.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Direct Current 06.07.26 Now Playing PUP - Totally Fine We're in the recovery stage after a raucous Sheffield headliner from this Toronto band last night, so let's go straight in with one from them! 🐶

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Good timezone everyone! Getting well out in front of the show going out on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social on Monday morning at 11am because we'll be in Sheffield (having seen PUP! OMG!) when it airs! Episode 020 coming down the tracks, featuring a rare case of us finding time for an extra song!

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Direct Current 08.06.26 ⚡ Now Playing SIDE ONE, TRACK ONE 💿 The Wonder Years - Came Out Swinging The Philadelphia titans' third album Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing turns fifteen next week, and we're kicking the door down to start Year Five 🎂

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Good timezone, everyone! Today marks the start of our fifth year here at @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social, and Episode 019 airs at 11am; how about a new feature to start? You bet we're coming out swinging with two totemic album openers (Side One, Track Ones) from The Wonder Years and @blocparty.com.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Direct Current 11.05.26 🐰 Now Playing Muse - New Born Specifically the 20th anniversary remix/remaster of the song! We've been rediscovering this Devon band recently and forgot that existed. Origin of Symmetry is 25 years old next month (we know) so let's kick the door down to start, yeah? 🟠

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Good timezone, everyone. Episode 018 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am - fair warning, I fried my voice at The Twilight Sad at the Button Factory on Saturday so sound a fair bit different this month! We power up with Muse and close out with Father John Misty.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Direct Current 13.04.26 Now Playing 🎶 Enter Shikari - System... Meltdown 💿 A Flash Flood of Colour (2012) Straight in there. You know we had to - powering up today with two from Enter Shikari, who are set to storm the Academy next Tuesday. It is sold out AS HELL but you'd expect that 📉

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Good timezone, carbon-based lifeforms! Episode 017 of Direct Current airs on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social at 11am, powering up with Enter Shikari - got a lot of love for the St. Albans band; their new album was surprise dropped on Friday so you'll hear us popping off! New music inbound too!

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This is an absolutely fucking BALLER move. Here at Direct Current we say FUCK ICE with our whole chest and Cheekface say the same. Only ice we like is in our coffee sometimes.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

All These Things That I've Done found dead in a ditch Incredible new record from @cheekface.bsky.social is on the way 😈

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Direct Current 16.03.26 Now Playing 🎶 Manchester Orchestra - Top Notch 💿 Cope Opening with the first of four from Atlanta band Manchester Orchestra today in tribute to Tim Very, so we figured we should blow the doors off 🥁

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Good timezone, everyone. Mixed emotions about this month's episode of Direct Current on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social, which airs Monday at 11am; I'm doing the promo for Episode 016 in advance because I'm off to see Hot Mulligan tomorrow. I'll be live-posting the show here of course! 🧵

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Direct Current 16.2.26 🎶 Now Playing Biffy Clyro - Different People The Scottish band were in a whole different class at the 3Arena last month, so we're powering up with the opener from 2013's double album Opposites 🌳

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Good timezone, everyone! Episode 015 of Direct Current airs at 11am on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social and believe us when we say the playlist is more stacked than your breakfast pancakes 🥞 We power up with Biffy Clyro, play out with new Arcane Roots (!) and have all this in between:

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Direct Current 19.01.2026 Now Playing: 🎶 @themountaingoats.bsky.social - This Year Couldn't think of a better way to kick off 2026. This song, from John Darnielle's incredible 2005 album The Sunset Tree, is for anyone who needs it.💜

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Good timezone, everyone! A new year brings a new episode of Direct Current on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social - Episode 014 kicks off with @themountaingoats.bsky.social (you already know which song) & Affection to Rent, closing with new Thumper from the band's incoming second album, out next month.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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. 🐶

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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. 🚫

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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? 🦊

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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. ⏪

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Genuinely how the hell are all the singles this good weeeeeeew

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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 🚫👑

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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 👕

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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 🪞

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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:

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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 ⚡

The playlist for the first hour of Episode 007 of Direct Current, which aired on Monday July 7th under the title 'with hope crossed on our hearts', reading as follows:

kendrick lamar - wacced out murals
big sleep - pick a cheek
far caspian - autofiction
cliffords - my favourite monster
nerves - takes a second
april - tv show
feint & dj sally - bloom
boxplot - rose tint

ALBUM OF THE MONTH

lakes - slow fade (lucky art/big scary monsters)

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hypernow (single version)

wet leg - cpr
just mustard - pollyanna
we are scientists - what you want is gone
fox stevenson - yas!

The playlist for the second hour of Episode 007 of Direct Current, which aired on Monday July 7th under the title 'with hope crossed on our hearts', reading as follows:

HIGH VOLTAGE TRACK OF THE MONTH

george gadd & the aftermath - invisible

hot mulligan - and a big load
the beths - no joy
turnstile - sole
sprints - descartes
greywind - waterfall
wednesday - wound up here (by holdin on)
biffy clyro - god only knows
biffy clyro - a little love
burnt tapes - new lungs
nation of language - i'm not ready for the change
liquid mike - at&t
the murder capital - love of country
bob vylan - bait the bear
moving mountains - ghosts

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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?

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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 🎶

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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.

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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 🐅

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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

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Direct Current @directcurrent.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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. ⚡

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