DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio is a weekly goth / industrial / post-punk / intelligent electronica broadcast hosted by DJ cypher. On the air since 2001, DNR emphasizes new releases but mixes up the new with the old. You can catch live broadcasts (and submit requests) each week on Sunday night starting at 9 PM EDT on Spirit of Resistance Radio http://www.sorradio.org.
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio can now be streamed and is built entirely around new and recent goth, industrial, and post-punk releases. Among the new tracks included are ones from Lights of Euphoria, Bill Leeb (of Front Line Assembly), Interface, Victor Sierra, Blaklight, The Antoine Poncelet Band, Featured, Mark E. Moon, The Halo Trees, Destroy Me…
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The PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR broadcast no. 46 is ready for your ears-- an hour’s worth of bliss if you need to let loose for a little while. It includes some favorites from Tiger Army, Social Distortion, and Devil Doll; some new tracks from Lota Red, Screamin’ Sins, and Black Hearse Getaway; and rockin’ releases from Gamblers Mark, The Cain Pi…
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With the assistance of the Dark Nation Radio facebook group, and in the spirit of my host station, Spirit of Resistance Radio, this week’s show is by turns dark and defiant. Among those in the mix this time are Ministry, Consolidated, Pop Will Eat Itself, Pailhead, Ayria, Stromkern, Savages, KMFDM, Delilah Bon, Mindless Faith, Pigface, New Model Ar…
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Dark Nation Radio typically leans heavily toward new and recent music, but this week’s show is built entirely around releases received in the past two weeks—2 full hours of brand new music! It starts off with a new track from The Cure, and then includes new songs from bands including The Chameleons, Delerium, Beborn Beton (what year is it again?!),…
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! For your spooky listening pleasure, the annual Dark Nation Radio HALLOWEEN PARTY broadcast is back from the grave and available for streaming—three full hours of creepy, freaky, and very cheeky tunes for the living and living impaired! Included in the stew are Type O Negative, Twin Temple, The Cramps, Aurelio Voltaire, Concrete Blo…
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Ghosts and Ghouls—I’m pleased to present the PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR Halloween broadcast! Two hours of undead psychobilly and horror punk mayhem including The Cramps, Ghoultown, Nekromantix, Demented Are Go, The Young Werewolves, The Brains, The Misfits, Calabrese, Bathearse, The Koffin Kats, Sick City Daggers, Raygun Cowboys, Deadbolt, The C…
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Three very different sets comprise this week’s Dark Nation Radio. Block one will appeal to fans of old-school goth and death and is built entirely around new and recent releases; block two shifts to electro-industrial and supplements the new material with a few fun ones from the vault; and then rounding out the evening is a block of more meditative…
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As always, DJ cypher’s Dark Nation Radio is your go-to source for new music from the goth/industrial underground! Among the new tracks featured on this week’s broadcast are ones from Vision Video, Bill Leeb (of Front Line Assembly), Black Angel, Tears for the Dying, Christ vs. Warhol, Jesus on Ecstasy, Lost Signal, Nox Novacula, Love the Ghost, Col…
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The October 8th PSYCHOBILY FAMILY POWER HOUR broadcast takes a dark country turn with bands including Ghoultown, Hola Ghost, Rezurex, Psycho Mutants, The Coffinshakers, Creepin’ Cadavers, Gamblers Mark, Graveyard Johnnys, Federale, The Reverend Horton Heat, Tiger Army, and the Handsome Family. So gather round the campfire, family, and listen to tha…
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Variety is the name of the game on this week’s Dark Nation Radio, which ranges from dark electro to dreamy shoegazer to aggressive cyber metal to old-school goth—plus a terrific block of fierce women vocalists! New tracks in the mix this time from bands and musicians including Haujobb, Kota Kira, NECRØ, Nature of Wires, Esoterik, Agnis, SINE, The H…
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Ready to get a little psycho? My latest PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR broadcast can now be streamed and it’s a hot one! Included in the mix are The Koffin Kats, Demented Are Go, The Delta Bombers, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Quakes, The Brains, The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Ghoultown, The Creepshow, Lee Rocker, HorrorPops, Psycho Devilles, and mo…
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio broadcast can now be streamed and features terrific new tracks from bands including Chainreactor, Cold Connection, IAMTHESHADOW, Sacred Skin, DEAD LIGHTS, Urban Heat, Mekong, The Synthetic Dream Foundation, iamnoone, Snowbeasts, GULVØSS, Sun’s Spectrum, and genCAB. I hope you’ll give it a spin! As always, if you like w…
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With new tracks from bands and artists including Front Line Assembly, Chelsea Wolfe, Sacred Skin, Night Nail, Nox Novacula, Rosegarden Funeral Party, Re:Nan, Noromakina, Fix8:Sëd8, Sevit, Cliff & Ivy, Gary Robert and Community, Victor Sierra, and pMad—plus True Moon, Occults, Ritual Howls, Holygram, Kill Shelter, Chiasm, Astari Nite, and others (wi…
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New music, as always, is the name of the game on DJ cypher’s Dark Nation Radio—but I did manage to sneak in some classic Concrete Blonde and L7 that sounded really really good! The show leads off with my favorite new release of the week—Sun Blood Stories’ “Brand New Ghost Town”—and then features new or recent tracks from bands including Black Angel…
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Get in the car, friends—we’re headed to DJ cypher’s PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR! This week’s show includes some personal favorites from The Young Werewolves, The Creepshow, Blitzkid, Back Alley Barbers, and the Rosedales, as well as new/recent tracks from The Quakes, The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, 38 Coffin, Floating Witch’s Head, Lords of the Hig…
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio broadcast is ready for your ears. Lots of variety in this one (somehow, I packed in almost 30 songs) and some fantastic new tracks, including ones from Sacred Skin, PIG, Beasto Blanco, Covered in Snow, Pink Panther Project, LEATHERS, Seaside Tryst, Sjöblom, Frenchy & the Punk, Sun Atoms, The Search, Closed Mouth, Bone …
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Listener requests for VNV Nation, Nitzer Ebb, and Apoptygma Bezerk resulted in a big block of electro-industrial to start off this week’s Dark Nation Radio that should definitely get you moving—followed up with another big block of post-punk gothy goodness! New material in the mix includes Clan of Xymox, Leathers, Agnis, Funker Vogt, Plastic Estate…
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DJ cypher’s PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR is my semi-monthly rockabilly / psychobilly / gothabilly / horror punk broadcast for fans of bands such as The Cramps, The Creepshow, The Misfits, and the Reverend Horton Heat. The most recent show is ready for your ears and features tracks from, among others, Gamblers Mark, The Magnetix, 6 Feet Down, Bonsa…
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio includes some fierce vocals by women artists, including Izzy Reign, Amulet, Nox Novacula, Bestial Mouths, MXMS, K.Flay, Autumn-U.S. and Beasto Blanco—as well as one of the best new tracks of the year from Sun Blood Stories. Also in the mix are new tracks from Bill Leeb (Front Line Assembly), Bellhead, The March Violets…
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DJ cypher’s PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR is always a ton of fun and this week’s show—the 40th edition!--is no exception. I LOVE featuring new releases and friends of the show, so get ready to rock with new Psychocharger, 38Coffin, The Hellflowers, and Federale, as well as Black Hearse Getaway, Los Pistoleros, and Reno Divorce. The Reverend Horton …
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Dark Nation Radio this week is a showcase for some of 2024’s best “dark scene” releases of 2024 thus far, including tracks from Urban Heat, Solar Fake, Nox Novacula, Rosegarden Funeral Party, Stella Sleeps, The Halo Trees, In Mitra Medusa Inri, Federale, Mortes, and Flesh Field. It’s already been a great year for dark music and we’re only a bit pas…
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio is an entire show built around brand new releases! In the mix are some absolutely fabulous tracks, including just-released material from Urban Heat, Lost Tapes, Federale, Electric Children, Bill Leeb (of Front Line Assembly), Nox Novacula, Hemlock for Socrates, [melter], Stella Sleeps, VV & the Void, Psychosomatik, Rav…
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Hey cats and kittens: things get a bit catty on the PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR this week—with a feline-themed first half, that is! The Stray Cats, The 69 Cats, The Koffin Kats, X-Ray Cat Trio, Empress of Fur, King Cat Rhythm, and so on will have you purring. And then, with a mix including Nektromantix, Rocket to Memphis, Hard Fall Hearts, Memphi…
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio broadcast can now be streamed and downloaded. I don’t do it often, but I decided to go “retro electro” for the first hour, so you’ll find :wumpscut:, KMFDM, Stromkern, Numb, Rammstein, and on in the mix. Hour two features new material from Unwoman, ACTORS, Night Nail, Chelsea Wolfe, and Lunar Paths, among others. It’s …
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The 38th edition of DJ cypher’s PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR is here and it’s a doozy— fuzzy, swampy, and wild from start to finish! Among those in the mix this time are Rocket to Memphis, Los Pistoleros, The 69 Cats, The Hellbillies, and Frantic Flintstones. I hope you’ll give it a spin! Special thanks to those who tuned into the live broadcast—l…
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The annual Dark Nation Radio UNDER COVER show can now be streamed and downloaded—three hours of goth/industrial (and adjacent) bands covering their favorites. I hope you’ll give this one a spin because it’s a fun show! Included in the mix are The Cult, the Cramps, Faith & the Muse, Front Line Assembly, The Sisters of Mercy, Ego Likeness, Panic Prie…
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio broadcast can now be streamed and I’m betting if you listen to the first few minutes, you’ll be hooked! This one features great new tracks from bands including Clan of Xymox, PIG, Curses, Gulvøss, Dead Lights, Mechanical Moth, G.W. Childs IV, Solar Fake, Eye New Dark, Echoberyl, Robots in Love, and dstrtd sgnl. Also, m…
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“American Routes but for weirdos and goths” is how my PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR show was recently described and I love it! The PFPH is also roots rock and rockabilly, but with 100% more Cramps, Misfits, Horton Heat, and The Creepshow in the mix. Included in this week’s show are Lee Rocker (of The Stray Cats), Johnny Nightmare, Milwaukee Wildmen…
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio is built almost entirely around new music from bands including IAMX, Clan of Xymox, Autumn-U.S., Frenchy & the Punk, iamnoone, The Mystic Underground, Llumen, Mayflower Madame, and Solar Fake. I hope you’ll give it a listen. Thanks to those who made requests during the live show. As always, if you like what you hear, I…
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Ready to relax and have some darkly delicious fun? The annual Dark Nation Radio GOTHIC BEACH PARTY can now be streamed! As in years past, this one plays fast and loose with genre, with the Beastie Boys and B-52s rubbing shoulders with Siouxsie and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult while Gnarls Barkley and Karen O keep company with Adam Ant, Poison,…
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Ready for some fun?! If so, I invite you to tune in the latest PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR broadcast—with a mix of rockabilly, blues, country, and psychobilly, it’s one I thoroughly enjoyed! It leads off with a brand new track from Reno, NV’s Los Pistoleros and then includes some real bangers from Reno Divorce, Phantom Rockers, Graveyard Johnnys,…
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The WORLD GOTH DAY edition of DJ cypher’s Dark Nation Radio is now available for streaming and some terrific requests took this one in unexpected directions! For you old-school Goth fans, Kommunity FK, Requiem in White, Corpus Delicti, Bauhaus, New Model Army, Siouxsie, The Sisters of Mercy, Depeche Mode, and The Cure are in the mix. As always thou…
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Start off with a generous helping of rockabilly, season with some boogie woogie, add a dash of blues and country, then stir in some psychobilly and a bit of horror punk and you’ve got the recipe for this week’s PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR. This is a fun one guaranteed to get your wingtips tapping and your pompadour flapping with The Brains, The C…
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With contributions from bands from Italy, Estonia, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Canada, Russia, Spain, Belgium, and the U.S., this week’s Dark Nation Radio is its own dark Eurovision! It’s also a show in three acts: it starts off on a bright up-tempo note with new Solar Fake, takes a more languorous turn with new Mortes, and then goes goth with new M…
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The ENTIRE Dark Nation Radio broadcast this week consists of NEW dark music—if you like finding out about new music, make this one your destination! Included in the mix are new tracks from PIG, Funker Vogt, 16volt, Flesh Field, The Joy Thieves, Circuit Preacher, Leathers, headdreamer, Date at Midnight, and Rosegarden Funeral Party—and that’s just t…
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Now, I’m not saying the sheer awesomeness of the latest PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR is definitely going to melt your face. Just probably! If you need a little high-octane rockabilly mayhem to distract you from the world for a little while, I hope you’ll give the show a spin. Included in the mix are The Young Werewolves, The Creepshow, The Coffin …
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio packs in 30 songs and features new releases from bands including Urban Heat, Dead Astronauts, Frenchy & the Punk, Principe Valiente, Then Comes Silence, Dual Analogue, Blackbook, 9-Volt Velvet, XTR Human, Chiasm, and Date at Midnight. I’m pleased with how this one came out and think you’ll enjoy it! I hope you’ll give …
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio consists almost entirely of brand new music! Included in the mix are new tracks from Rosegarden Funeral Party, The Foreign Resort, Chiasm, Headdreamer, Glass Apple Bonzai, Miss FD, Aesthetic Perfection, Lovelorn Dolls, Headdreamer, Fractal, Cellmod, and Sick Jokes—and that’s just part of it. DNR is your destination for…
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Lots of new music in this week’s Dark Nation Radio, as well as a few surprises! Among the new are tracks from bands including klack, Principe Valiente, A Spell Inside, Circuit Preacher, Living Temples, The Shadow Majlis, The City Gates, Resistor, melodywhore, Beasto Blanco, and Unwoman. As always, if you like what you hear, I urge you to support th…
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The latest PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR show can now be streamed and I’m happy to be able to include new material from The Witchdoktors, The Atomic Bats, The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, and Psycho Otis and His Road Killers! Also among those in the mix are The Reverend Horton Heat, The Brains, The Coffinshakers, Nekromantix, and Raygun Cowboys. I thi…
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio is overflowing with stellar new music from bands including Wumpscut, ACTORS, New Model Army, Otyken, The Cassandra Complex, headdreamer, Sensuous Enemy, Lunar Paths, Black Nail Cabaret, Silent Mass, SINthetik Messiah, LEATHERS, Ruined Conflict, You Shriek, Ploho, Mind Machine, and Then Comes Silence! As always, if you …
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The latest PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR show can now be streamed and includes the latest from The Quakes and The Brains, as well as contributions from Coffin Nails, Mad Marge and the Stonecutters, Bathearse, Dick Dynamite and the Doppelgangers, Zombie Ghost Train, Memphis Morticians, and a lot more—I hope you’ll give it a spin and rock out with us…
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Contributions by women to the dark music scene is the focus of this week’s Dark Nation Radio broadcast and I hope you will give it a spin as it is filled from top to bottom with fantastic music! In the mix are Chelsea Wolfe, Rosegarden Funeral Party, Pixel Grip, I Ya Toyah, Unwoman, Ships in the Night, The Birthday Massacre, Ayria, and Black Nail C…
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The latest PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR show can now be streamed and includes new material from The Quakes and The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, as well as rockin’ tracks from bands including the Back Alley Barbers, Demented Are Go, The Brainiax, Psycho Charger, Eightbomb, and a lot more to kick you into high gear! If you like what you hear, I invite …
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Lots of new music in this week’s Dark Nation Radio, including new tracks from I Ya Toyah, Nox Occultae, Ultra Sunn, Solar Fake, Bestial Mouths, Cathedral in Flames, The Cassandra Complex, Blak Light, Brittany Bindrim, Rina Pavar, Dead Lights, Kaleida, and Alien Creation. I hope you’ll give it a spin! Tuesday is my Psychobilly Family Power Hour show…
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio can now be streamed and includes a good mix of styles, as well as a lot of new music, including tracks from Ministry, Principe Valiente, Chiasm, Unitcode:Machine, For All the Emptiness, Spectres, Poison Point, Supercraft, Dead Astronauts, The Anix, yelworC, Kirlian Camera, Supercraft, and Matt Hart. As always, if you l…
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If you are looking for something to lift your spirits, look no further than this week’s PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR during which I focus on the women of rockabilly and psychobilly! I’ve got some classics in there from Wanda Jackson and Janis Martin, some that’s smooth from Imelda May and Arielle Dombasle, and a good bit that’s rough around the ed…
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This week’s Dark Nation Radio is back to form after a couple special focus broadcasts and, as usual, leans heavily into the new with new tracks from Chelsea Wolfe, Empathy Test, Then Comes Silence, The Neuro Farm, Zanias, Spectres, Sun Atoms, SYZYGYX, Black Nail Cabaret Scenius, Nox Occultae, Leathers, Kontravoid, Sexsomnia, yelworC, and Funker Vog…
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For Black History Month, this week’s Dark Nation Radio showcases black musical artists of the dark music scene. Included in the mix are Algiers, O.Children, Shadow Age, Yves Tumor, Light Asylum, Val Cain, Black Rose Burning, Urban Heat, Bastet, Jordan Fiction, and a lot more—I’m certain you’ll find some new bands to follow in this one and I urge yo…
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This week’s PSYCHOBILLY FAMILY POWER HOUR show mixes up the new with the classic and the rockabilly with the horror punk. In the mix are brand new tracks from The Hillbilly Moon Explosion and The Deathtones, along with The Damned, The Misfits, Duane Eddy, The Deep Eynde, Black Hearse Getaway, The Wolfgangs, and more! I hope you’ll give it a spin. I…
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