The Analogue Hour - Brendan McGuirk & Analogue Magazine Staff

Wednesday 19:00 (Repeats Friday 12:00)

The Analogue Hour is hosted by the staff of Analogue Magazine, a free music based publication available nationwide. The programme revolves around music featured in the magazine, with the best indie music, art rock and electronic newcomers alongside some of your favourite indie heroes.

The programme will also regularly feature interviews with international and local musicians, album panel discussions as well as live sessions specially recorded for the show.

Bangers & Mash

Damien Chennels, Wes Chennels,  Adnan Caucevic & Ger Duffy

Wednesday 8pm – 9pm (Friday 11pm)

Bangers & Mash is a weekly radio show on RTÉ 2XM playing the latest selection of local tunes. Every week Damien, Wes, Adnan and Ger play a bunch of the new and old tracks that have been making their week. While the show is uniquely Dublin, freeform, music-and-commentary driven, the crew will focus on specific matter each show. With musical guests and damn fine records every Wednesday and repeated on Friday, you’ll be jumping your weekend off proper!

Brainbeat with Peter Toomey

Sunday 10pm - 11pm (Repeated Thursday 8pm)

Brainbeat is the essential mix of pop, garage, girl groups, folk rock, psych and strange rock from around the world in the1960s. Every week you’ll get a bit of history, Peter’s musings over each track as well as a bit of new music to fit the sound of the show. On a typical show you could hear French pop, Dutch garage and English psych pop along with a special guest coming in to talk about their favourites records and their influences. Tune in a take a step back in time to the era that is Brainbeat

Click Clack with Dudley Colley

Wednesday 10.00pm (Repeated Saturday 3.00pm)

Dudley's been bothering the nations ears for some years now, whether with his previous radio shows and podcasts, or his caterwauling with Dublin rockers, The Dudley Corporation. From Stereolab to Slayer, Brazilian psychedelia to Beefheart, expect to hear a wealth of the newest underground non smash's and alt-oddities from day's gone by, stuff that even John Peel wouldn't have the nerve to play, or maybe the good sense not to play it!

Dance Monkey Dance with Paddy McKenna

Thursday 19:00 (Repeats Saturday 10:00)

Ever wondered what your favourite band would sound like if they took control of RTÉ’s digital airwaves?

Dance Monkey Dance is RTÉ 2XM’s brand-new, music show with a twist.

Each week one of Ireland’s finest emerging musical talents (Fight Like Apes, The Coronas, The Blizzards to name just a few) will join Paddy McKenna in the DMD studios to co-present an hour of fun, frolics and musical mayhem.

Paddy McKenna hosts Dance Monkey Dance on RTÉ 2XM and those of you who are RTÉ

2fm listeners will be familiar with him from his regular slots with Ruth Scott on The Saturday Show and his regular sports updates on the station throughout the week.

D.I.Y. Records with Rachel Jordan

Tuesday 10.00pm (Repeated Friday 3.00pm)

Each week D.I.Y. Records brings you great alternative music from the best international and homegrown independent record labels. The show will feature an eclectic mix, from alt rock to electro, from shoegaze to folk. D.I.Y Records will showcase music from independent labels such as Fat Cat, Warp, Bedroom Community, Morr, Bella Union, Type and Tomlab to name but a few... And of course there will be bit of label history and trivia thrown in! If the music is great and the label is doing it on their own, then you'll find it here.

Rachel Jordan has been working in radio since graduating from D.I.T. in 2005. Ever since creating mix tapes and pretend radio shows on her old twin deck cassette player as a kid, she has wanted to work on the airwaves.

Her love of the medium stems from her love of music, and as a self confessed music-addict, she loves being able to introduce people to new sounds.

Electric Honey with Edel Coffey

Monday 7.00pm (Repeated Saturday Midday)

Electric Honey brings you the very best in female music, playing everything from The Shangri-Las to Bat For Lashes, Karen O to Courtney Love, Dusty Springfield to Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney to The Breeders, Kate Bush to Kristin Hersh. and much more in between.

New releases sit side by side with classic recordings, music news and even the odd appearance from male musicians.

Edel Coffey made her radio debut on the then pirate radio station Phantom 105.2 in 2003 and went on to become the flagship daytime presenter for the now legitimate alternative rock radio station.

She produced and presented the two-hour daily show Access All Areas and was also a well-known face on RTE's TTV as a weekly music reviewer. She also played guitar and sang in the popular, all-female rock band Medea. She now works for the Irish Independent.

Fuzztone with Jim-Jim Nugent

Fridays 9pm , (Repeated Sundays 4pm)

Jim-Jim Nugent started his radio career on pirate radio with his own mix of funk, soul, jazz, rock and lots more. His 'Funk-school' on the breakfast show on RTÉ 2fm gives him a weekly chance to throw a classic into the playlist and has become very popular.  
But for those of you that crave more, Jim-Jim now will bring his funky selections to RTÉ 2XM with new show Fuzztone. The name of the show comes from the effect put on instruments and microphones by most of the bands and performers that Jim-Jim loves and therefore doesn't limit the show to any one genre. The general rule is that if it makes you're head bob, it's on Fuzztone.

John Kenny

Monday 5pm – 6pm (Repeated Saturday 8pm)

Ever Monday at 5pm tune in to John Kenny as he brings you his unique rock mix every week on RTÉ 2XM. Expect all you’re favourites from the world of rock music and all the latest news from the music scene at both home and abroad. 

You can also expect to hear plenty of music on the heavier side of things following John’s infamous "Metal Show" on RTÉ 2fm which ran for 7 years. Have your ear plugs at the ready!

Radio Clash with John Kelly
Tuesdays 12pm (Repeated Saturday 7pm)

Presented by John Kelly, Radio Clash is the radio series that asks the question ‘Is there no such thing as a new song?’
Using The Clash as its basis, John Kelly goes on a journey through the decades right up until Sonic Youth kick-started the Alternative Rock Movement in the early eighties. Throughout the series John looks at those bands who not only produced new music, but a whole new sound. There’ll be no pretenders or imitators, just those who set out to break boundaries.

REVOLVER

Tuesday 10am – 11am – Repeated Saturday 9pm -10pm

TV on the Radio, The Velvet Underground, Midlake, Stereolab, Cocteau Twins, Broken Social Scene - All these and a lot more every week on 'Revolver' presented by Cathal Murray. Modern melodies and classic cuts - Radio for the Head! Also some very special guests will be popping in to pick their favourite tracks – watch this space.

ROBOTNIKS RANDOM RAMPAGE

Tuesday 19:00 (Repeats Friday 18:00)

Chris Morrin aka Robotnik is 27 and from Dublin. Chris is into all types of music  from the Sex Pistols to Smog,  from Underworld to Lou Reed. When he found his fathers vast record collection when he was only 7, he was drawn into multiple genres from the get go!

Robotnik has been extremely busy with the release of his critically acclaimed  debut album ‘Pleasant Sqaure’ in 2008 and has been excersising his Devo-esque performances alongside the likes of Laura Marling and Crystal Castles.

With his refreshing zest and innovation, the brand new ‘Robotniks Random Rampage’ show will undoubtedly keep its promise in taking digital radio to a new level. Dont miss out on this ambitiously forward thinking musical output every week on RTÉ 2XM.

Shaving with Occams Razor with Eamonn Carey

Friday 3pm – 4pm (Repeated on Monday 10pm)

Sunday Nights with Eamonn Carey is a two hour ramble through music - sometimes themed, sometimes chosen on the basis of what appeared on random on his mp3 that week. There’ll be plenty of 1990s American rock, grunge music and occasional forays into tracks from Fourtet, Squarepusher and many others. Eamon will also take a look back at some classic albums, picking a few tracks from each as well as listening in to some great new Irish and international music. Also, the Damo and Eamo Agony Uncle Line will try and solve some of our listener’s woes with our nuggets of wisdom on life, love, the universe and everything.

The Sonic Projector - Music from the Silver Screen

Thursday 10pm -11pm (repeated Sunday 6pm)

The Sonic Projector features a wide and inspiring range of music from the silver screen. Film, television, gaming, advert and internet scores are the order of the day chosen by music aficionado Phil Grier.

Featuring scores from Steve Jablonsky to Bjork, Carter Burwell to DJ Shadow The Sonic Projector is the essential ticket to your score at the movies. Playing out bi-weekly Thursdays 10pm and Sundays 6pm.

The Suburban Dream with Ciaran McCarthy

Thursday 11.00pm (Repeated Sunday 8.00pm)

The Suburban Dream radio show is a selection of chilled vibes crossing many genres, selected, mixed and mashed by Suburban Dream Recordings owner Ciaran McCarthy.

Ciaran began his musical journey in the early nineties with the purchase of a set of 1210 turntables. His early interest in electronica was sparked by bands such as The Prodigy and more locally the Soundcrowd. He began mixing progressive house and presented radio shows on Dublin's Vibe, Club, Freedom and Super Q radio stations in the early nineties, eventually moving into hip hop and breaks on Jazz FM. Ciaran now produces hip hop styled grooves under the names Crowd Control, Suburban

Dream and Attic Boy, house music under the name Players 18 and hard, progressive and uplifting trance under the name Dance Monkey. He is signed to Bonzai Music (Belgium) as well as running his own Dublin label Suburban Dream Recordings.

Texas Music Matters

Tuesday 3pm – 4pm (Repeated on Thursday & Saturdays 5pm)

Direct from Austin, Texas Music Matters features exclusive live performances by bands like Spoon, Shearwater, The Black Angels, Okkervil River and many more, plus interviews with international artists, and the inside track from “The Live Music Capital of the World”.  The program is produced for RTÉ 2XM by KUT Austin, a non-commercial National Public Radio institution that’s been defining ‘The Austin Sound’ for 50 years.

Wired for Sound with Jan Ní Fhlanagáin, Barry Bracken and Lauren Murphy

Thursday 5.00pm (Repeated Saturday 6.00pm)

Wired For Sound is a brand new magazine show by music fans for music fans. Presenters Jan Ní Fhlanagáin, Barry Bracken and Lauren Murphy will present a variety thought-provoking features, in-depth interviews as well as playing the best in brand new indie/alternative sounds and highlighting the freshest local and international talent. What's more, there will be plenty of opinion and news thrown into the mix for good measure.

Along with the passion of its presentation and the quality of its music, the weekly hour-long

show promises to have its finger on the pulse and exhibit a discernible absence of padding. Simply put, it brings an authenticity to the airwaves that is truly Wired For Sound.