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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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Johnny Stewart – ‘Flesh, Blood, Skin & Bone’

OK, OK. First thing’s first. The cynics among you (and in me) could blast Johnny…

EMBRZ – ‘Lights’ ft. pennybirdrabbit

Maybe you caught EMBRZ, the Kildare producer Jack Casey’s live set at Body & Soul…

Kendrick Lamar killed his performance on Late Show With Colbert

Lamar and his band played a To Pimp A Butterfly medley (or “The Very Horny…

Metropolis announce new acts Hot Chip, Four Tet, Vince Staples, Le Galaxie, Benji B & more

Metropolis Festival in the RDS in Dublin on 7th and 8th of November has just…

Stage times for the Nialler9-curated Music Trail @ Sounds From A Safe Harbour Festival in Cork

Next weekend, the Sounds From A Safe Harbour festival will take over the port and…

The best songs of August 2015

My favourite songs of the past month. Get the majority of them as a continuous playlists…

Hear the Soulwax remix of Tame Impala’s ‘Let It Happen’

If you spent Saturday night /early Sunday morning  at Electric Picnic dancing at the Despacio tent…

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide

Ticket giveaways: Monday:Life Has Surface Noise #3: Young Hearts Run Free @ The Peacock, Abbey…

Electric Picnic 2015 in review & photos

This year was my tenth Electric Picnic. That’s a lot of weekends spent in a…

Nialler9’s Electric Picnic Mixtape

Please enjoy my hour-long mix of tunes from artists playing Electric Picnic this weekend as first broadcast…

Girl Band – ‘Pears For Lunch’

Just a few weeks on from ‘Paul’, Girl Band are here to freak out your…

Win tickets to Electric Picnic 2015

Just when you thought it was too late. I had a pair of Electric Picnic…

little xs for eyes – ‘Funk Island’

It’s a fast-moving world dear readers, and music is moving faster than many artforms. Each…

Electric Picnic stage times 2015

For literary, comedy and food times go to the Irish Times. Here’s an Electric Picnic…

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide

Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun |…

Listen to an Other Voices live @ Latitude playlist

Other Voices recently hosted an impressive stage at Latitude Festival and this weekend, they’ll do…

Let Meltybrains? teach you ‘The Vine’ in their new instructional music video

Meltybrains? took a left and right turn with ‘The Vine’ the polychromatic tropical recent single…

The best tracks of the week

The new music playlist is also available on Spotify and Apple Music. Updated weekly. New music chart…

Last night’s TXFM show playlist and playback

My new music show is live every Thursday from 10pm to midnight on TXFM. Listen: Hour One…

Here’s an Electric Picnic Spotify playlist with a song from every artist playing

Before next week’s preview posts, stage times and the now-annual Electric Picnic mixtape arrive, here’s…