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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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SZA guests on D.R.A.M.’s ‘Caretaker’

SZA’s been all too quiet this year after last year’s glut of features on Isaiah…

Cheer up Slow Riot
Listen to Limerick post-punk band Slow Riot’s debut EP

The Limerick post-punk band Slow Riot burst into our consciousness with a song called ‘City…

Premiere: Daithí’s new track features his 90-year old grandmother talking about falling in love

West of Ireland electro/pop fiddle and button pusher Daithí has been finding his own groove…

Chrome Sparks – ‘Moonraker’

Ann Arbor’s Jeremy Malvin started Chrome Sparks with a chillwave style back when that was a…

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide // Oct 20th – 26th

Win Tickets: Thursday:Beck’s Rhythm Series: DAM-Funk Live and The Gaslamp Killer  @ The Sugar Club…

The best tracks of the week playlist

These songs represent my favourite 10 tracks of last week. Check the new music section.…

Hot Chip recorded their Springsteen ‘Dancing In The Dark’ / LCD Soundsystem ‘All My Friends’ cover

Hot Chip have been playing a great cover of The Boss’ ‘Dancing In The Dark’…

Berlin-based Irish singer-songwriter Crook channels Beckett and Sufjan

Last year’s Guinness Amplify campaign benefitted some artists who were gifted paid-for recording time. One…

Hear a track from the forthcoming Villagers album recorded live in one day

Where Have You Been All My Life? is a unique Villagers collection of music from…

Album of the week: Kisses – Rest In Paradise

Los Angeles’ Kisses have been knocking around on the periphery of the music blogosphere for…

Watch the sweet new Ciaran Lavery video for ‘Little More Time’

This year, Antrim singer-songwriter Ciaran Lavery collaborated with Ryan Vail on the evocative windswept Sea…

Here’s a Mercury Music Prize 2015 Spotify shortlist 

Lauren Laverne just announced the shortlist for the Mercury Music Prize over the course of…

Listen to this week’s Nialler9 TXFM radio show

My new music show is live every Thursday from 10pm to midnight on TXFM. Here’s what I…

Watch the ‘All The Boys On The Dole’ video

The Dundalk boys TPM gave us their recorded version of their social welfare anthem ‘All…

Pleasure Beach – ‘Dreamer To The Dawn’

After the release of their debut track, ‘Go’ which established their stadium-rock leaning swagger, the…

Sonar Reykjavík announces first names for 2016 including Hudson Mohawke, Squarepusher, Holly Herndon & Oneohtrix Point Never

Iceland has really shown other small countries (by other countries, I mean Ireland primarily) how…

Chairlift are back with ‘Ch-Ching’

Chairlift have come back with the first bit of new music since 2012’s much-loved second…

Watch the video for Contour’s chaos-seeking pole-dancing ‘Paradise Lost’

The Dublin twosome of Anna Doran and Conan Wynne dropped their recent Contour EP Blessed…

NCH to host a David Lynch night featuring Conor O’Brien, Mick Harvey, Cibo Matto, Jehnny Beth of Savages

The National Concert Hall are putting on a homage night to the director of Twin…

Hear the recorded version of T.P.M.’s ‘All The Boys On The Dole’

In August, you may have seen a video of a band called T.P.M. busking on…