• New Three-Day Irish Underground Festival Alternating Current Announced

    January 28, 2020 - By 

    A new, three-day Irish festival has been announced. Set to showcase Ireland’s underground as part of St. Patrick’s Festival 2020, the inaugural Alternating Current will take over Dublin’s The Sound House from Friday, March 13th to Sunday, March 15th. Curated by Dublin Digital Radio, Enthusiastic Eunuch and Tiny Cosmos, the line-up for the festival’s first outing is absolutely nothing to sniff at it, either. From ELLLL, BB84, Woven Skull, Vicky Langan, Crevice and Fixity, to Maija Sofia, Naive Ted, Post Punk Podge, Robocobra Quartet, Rising Damp and beyond, this is a bill that more than comfortably makes up for the absence of…

  • Dublin Digital Radio launches 2019 Pride Programme, Queering The Airwaves

    June 19, 2019 - By 

    Dublin Digital Radio has shared its Pride Programme for 2019, which will run on the station every afternoon from 20th to 30th June. Titled Queering The Airwaves, the consistently vital platform’s inaugural Pride Programme aims to provide “an alternative space for LGBTQ stories and celebration”, with an emphasis being placed on subverting the often “corporatised and sanitised” public pride events that have become so prevalent. Informative and reflective broadcasts, discussions, radio documentaries and specially curated sound pieces will cover a broad range of topics significant to the LGBTQ+ experience in Ireland, including AIDS activism, parenting, clubbing and cruising. ‘I really…

  • Sounds Of The Undergrowth: Open Ear redefines what an Irish festival can be

    June 11, 2019 - By 

    If there was ever a space to disprove the absurd notion that the world of Irish independent music is disjointed or lacks community it would be Open Ear – Not that it needed disproving. For the past four years, the small festival on Cork’s Sherkin Island has shone a light on a countrywide scene that has, for some decades now, been quietly growing – thriving in the undergrowth. Expanding this year to a capacity of roughly 600 attendees, Open Ear’s celebration of Ireland’s experimental music scene, from its stalwarts to its adventurous young artists, is a testament to the unity and…

  • Listen Back To This Week’s Death Culture Blues on Dublin Digital Radio

    November 23, 2018 - By 

    We returned to Dublin Digital Radio last night for our weekly two-hour show, Death Culture Blues. As ever, it was 120 minutes of cosmic and cosy sounds, this week featuring the likes of Yo La Tengo, Spark Sparkle, Wire, The Monochrome Set, Spacemen 3, Liars, Stereolab, BEAK> Faust and more. Miss it? Never fear. Stream below now and tune in this coming Thursday (November 30th), where our reviews editor Eoin Murray will be serving up only the very best experimental, ambient, electronic and cosmic sounds from 8-10pm.

  • Stream: The Thin Air’s Death Culture Blues #7

    January 31, 2017 - By 

    Hey, you know what was fun? The most recent installment of Death Culture Blues, our show of experimental, cosmic and ambient sounds on the most excellent Dublin Digital Radio. Miss it? Not to worry: listen back to the show and check out its playlist in full below. We’re back with DCB on DDR this and every other Thursday night from 8-10pm. Check out their full schedule of programmes right here. 1. Polymorphie – Suite NC Part 3 2. 4treck – Pong Ping 3. The Soundcarriers – Low Light 4. Guitar Red – Disco From a Space Show 5. Rodion G.A.…

  • Stream: The Thin Air’s Death Culture Blues #6

    January 6, 2017 - By 

    In the first installment of the show this year, we returned to Dublin Digital Radio last night for our weekly two-hour slot of experimental, cosmic and ambient sounds, Death Culture Blues. From Jack Rose to Windy & Carl, it was – as we might well be likely to say on several of these posts down the line – easily our favourite show thus far. Check out the full playlist and listen back via the DDR Mixcloud page below. 1. Jack Rose – Sun Dogs 2. The Makers – Don’t Challenge Me 3. Kariem Riggins – Bahia Dreamin 4. Temples –…

  • Stream: The Thin Air’s Death Culture Blues #5 on Dublin Digital Radio

    December 30, 2016 - By 

    In case you missed it or on the off-chance you fancy a second listen, the fifth – and our personal favourite – installment of Death Culture Blues, our weekly show of experimental, cosmic and ambient sounds on Dublin Digital Radio, is available to listen back now.  Check it and this week’s playlist – featuring everyone from Radioactive Man to Robocobra Quartet – below. 1. Radioactive Man – Go Ahead London 2. A Band Called O – Coasting 3. Video Liszt – Fade In Hong Kong 4. Maximum Joy – Let It Take You There 5. Katie Kim – Ghosts 6.…

  • Stream: The Thin Air’s Death Culture Blues #3 on Dublin Digital Radio

    December 16, 2016 - By 

    Despite a little technological hitch, we returned with Death Culture Blues on Dublin Digital Radio last night spinning two hours of psychedelic, experimental and ambient sounds in the varied vein of Füxa, William Basinski and The For Carnation. Check out the full playlist (which, it seems, features no less than four umlauts) and listen back to the show in full via DDR’s Mixcloud below. Death Culture Blues returns to Dublin Digital Radio on Thursday, December 22 from 8-10pm. 1. Silver Apples – Ruby 2. Bruce Haack – Party Machine 3. Amon Düül – Yeti (Improvisation) 4. Michael Turtle – Spooky Boogie…

  • Stream: The Thin Air’s Death Culture Blues #2 on Dublin Digital Radio

    December 9, 2016 - By 

    Having kicked off with its inaugural outing last week, we returned with Death Culture Blues on the new-fangled – and most excellent – Dublin Digital Radio last night from 8-10pm. And as with show #1, the order of the evening was experimental and cosmically-inclined sounds, featuring everyone from Mica Levi, Documenta and Wet Hair to Alice Coltrane, Bardo Pond and Maximum Joy. Check out the full playlist for show #2 and stream it in full below. 1. Broadcast – Pendulum 2. Tonstartsbandht – Black Country 3. Isotope 217 – Solaris 4. PVT – Community 5. Maija Sofia – Dreamscape 6. Mica Levi –…

  • Stream: The Thin Air’s Death Culture Blues #1 on Dublin Digital Radio

    December 5, 2016 - By 

    When it launched back in October, we really liked the sound of Dublin Digital Radio’s broadcast manifesto of “providing a quality platform for the various communities striving to create a socially and culturally progressive city in a landscape netted with political stasis and tepid bureaucracy”. Now, a couple of months later, we’re very pleased to present a stream of the first instalment of Death Culture Blues, our brand new, two hour weekly show on DDR, presented by TTA editor Brian Coney and featuring the very best in experimental, ambient and cosmic sounds, including some of our favourite Irish artists at…