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Niall Byrne

Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.

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European Endless: 12 is a motorik beat-inspired charity album benefitting the Irish Refugee Council featuring Arvo Party, The Bonk, Fixity & more (first listen)

European Endless: 12 is a new charity compilation album out tomorrow featuring Arvo Party, The…

Denise Chaila, Thumper & Smoothboi Ezra among Irish artists heading for Iceland Airwaves this November

Iceland Airwaves looks set to actually happen in 2021 Reykjavík despite Corona and an active…

Loah turns 1920s Eva Gore Booth poem into song on ‘The Body To The Soul’

Loah has used this stop-gap year in her career and personal life to explore a…

The best live stream gigs & events happening this week

The best live streamed shows we know about this week. All times are Irish /…

Steven McCann debuts new project rvstless with the yearning pop-funk of ‘Wanna Be Free’

Rvstless is the new project from Steven McCann, who you may recognise from the big band…

Paul Noonan & Daithí are judging your Zoom backgrounds with their new band HousePlants

HousePlants is the new band teased by Nialler9 socials last week which is Bell X1’s Paul…

Listen: Dubliner Zach James Douglas’ debut single ‘Something / Anything’ featuring Kintsuku

Zach James Douglas is an artist that has worked in music on and off stages…

Watch J Smith’s tender and personal music video featuring the artist & his wife for ‘Blood Orange’

James Smith has released two tender solo songs – ‘I’m Sorry’ and ‘Blood Orange’ this…

Leon Vynehall announced for Dublin show

Leon Vynehall has been announced for a show later this year at the Pepper Canister…

9 new songs from Irish artists you should hear

Featuring new music from Banyah, Benjamyn, Twin Diver, Pretty Please, Bedrooms, Pagan, Kubb, Ocena Tisdall, NTF and more.

Dublin cultural space Jigsaw has closed – the city needs spaces like it

The pandemic’s effects on our city’s landscape is currently hard to ascertain when everything is…

You can’t go to a gig yet but you can apparently go to a Bon Jovi drive-in concert screening

While we wait for clarification around live events, New Jersey’s finest Bon Jovi are seemingly…

Soda Blonde – ‘In The Heat Of The Night’

Soda Blonde will release their debut album Small Talk on July 9th and the band…

National Campaign for the Arts ask for timeline from government for reopening of arts & live sector

The National Campaign for the Arts steering committee has put out a statement calling on…

Kojaque announces Irish tour

Kojaque has followed up last week’s debut album announcement with news of an Irish tour…

New Music Friday Edit: The Chemical Brothers, Little Simz, Flying Lotus, David Keenan, Space Dimension Controller, The Juan Maclean & more

It’s New Music Friday, which means there’s loads of new songs out. Here are the…

New releases out today: Field Music, Jinx Lennon, Alfa Mist, Sufjan Stevens & more

The best new releases out this week.

Toygirl remind you to look after yourself on fourth single ‘Water’

The five-piece Dublin-based band Toygirl have established a palette of alt-soul pop over three singles…

Podcast: #BrokenRecord & the campaign to fix streaming

Support Nialler9 on Patreon The lack of income in the last year for musicians during…

X Collective’s Chloë Agnew, Zapho, Senita, Toshín, & Gemma Bradley release single ‘WB’

After announcing their formation last year, the X Collective artists Chloë Agnew, Zapho, Senita, Toshín…