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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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8 new Irish songs you should hear this week

New music from Archy Moor, ROE, Niamh Regan, Gemma Bradley, God Creative, HOST, Josef Mac & Skanger.

Cork venues The Kino & Dali are re-opening with reduced capacity this month

News from Cork City today, as two of its venues have announced gigs will take…

Here are the safety measures that a Northern Irish socially-distant festival is putting in place

Stendhal is putting on a socially distant music festival called Unlocked this August that hopes…

EXIT Festival cancels its 2020 edition a second time amidst second COVID-19 spike and anti-government protests

Serbia’s EXIT Festival is the last European summer festival to cancel its proceedings this August.…

Arts4All campaign hosting a Zoom meeting this afternoon about Irish musician issues during COVID-19

Arts4All is a campaign from People Before Profit featuring a working group of artists and…

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Rejjie Snow collabs with his hero MF DOOM on ‘Cookie Chips’

Ever since Rejjie Snow appeared on the scene as Lecs Luther, there was only one…

The best online live streams happening this week

Highlights: Fontaines D.C., Angel Olsen, NZCA LINES, Charlotte Adigéry, NCH Livestream Series

Watch Gold Blooded Woman’s explicit puppet lose her mind in the video for the disco-house fun track ‘Take It Off’

Gold Blooded Woman is Sarah Byrne, who you may know as half of Faune with…

Watch Elaine Mai’s evocative video for ‘Somewhere Else’, a song about not belonging

Elaine Mai released a new song this past Friday called ‘Somewhere Else’, an emotive song…

Irish Women In Harmony single raises €215,000 for Safe Ireland

The recent Irish Women In Harmony charity single featuring 40+ Irish women musicians covering The…

Georgia for Dublin 2021 show

Looking for something to look forward to? UK electro-pop artist Georgia, who released one of…

Handpicked new tunes released today: Wyvern Lingo, James Blake, !!!, Brién, Sufjan, Future Islands & more

Friday is release day and here’s the first things that caught my ear while listening…

The 25 best songs of the month

The best of June 2020.

Other Voices announce Fontaines D.C. will play live from Kilmainham Gaol next week

With Other Voices Courage back and into week two (tonight’s show features Saint Sister and…

15 new Irish songs you should hear this week

New music from Breezy Ideygoke, Patricia Lalor, Brame & Hamo, Jehnova, Aislinn Logan,Adam Garrett, Luthorist, The Bonk, Demigosh, Banríon, Modernlove, IMLE, Banba, 49th And Main, The Academic

There’s a micro-festival for 110 people called Home happening in August in Westmeath

With every other festival on the Irish festival calendar other than dance festival Fuinneamh cancelled…

HAVVK and Jess Kav of BARQ collaborate up on the MASI-supporting song ‘Always the Same’

HAVVK and Jess Kav of BARQ have teamed up on a new version of HAVVK’s…

30 of the best albums from 2020 so far

If last year felt like a strange year for music at the half way point,…