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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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Listen to El-P’s remix of Warpaint – ‘Keep It Healthy’

Warpaint‘s Keep It Healthy’, from their recent self-titled album, gets a dark-sided remix from beat…

Watch Soulwax’s visual mix of As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2

For the last two years, Soulwax/2ManyDJs have been releasing visual mixes on their Soulwax iOS/Android…

Celtronic Festival headliners include Blawan & Pariah, Ben UFO, Derrick Carter & more

Derry’s electronic festival Celtronic has revealed its main headliners for the festival taking place from…

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings / Lee Fields & The Expressions double headline gig for Cork Jazz Festival

Choice Cuts have announced that they’ll be putting on a double headline show at the…

Watch Go Wolf’s slightly weird video for ‘One More Night’

Belfast band Go Wolf’s ‘One More Night’ video was directed by Babysweet. The band play…

TÃLÃ – ‘Serbia’ (video)

TÃLÃ’s excellent track ‘Serbia’ now has a video shot by TÃLÃ and video director Katia…

We Cut Corners – ‘Blue’ (video)

Last week’s Album of the Week-bestowed We Cut Corners’ are launching their Think Nothing album…

Shamir – ‘I Know It’s A Good Thing’

‘If It Wasn’t True’ from 19 year-old “musician, comedian, singer, rapper, twerker, chef, writer, filmmaker,…

Austra – ‘Habitat’

Dark-edged electro Toronto band Austra have a new EP coming out on Domino on June…

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy for Dun Laoghaire gig

The idiosyncratic Will Oldham aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy has been announced for a Harmonic show…

Hear No Monster Club’s Irish Eurovision-winning cover

It’s Eurovision week as I’m sure you know from the talk of exuberant Icelandics, mother-loving…

Watch Spies perform ‘November Sky’ for a Trout Records session

The impressive indie-rock band Spies are the latest band to feature in the Trout Records…

Listen to Yoni Wolf’s rap mixtape which re-imagines Why? songs

Yoni Wolf is heading out on a U.S. tour with his pal Serengeti which rather…

Pandreas – ‘Rube’

Andreas Kleven Rasmussen is a Norwegian producer of electronic music who has had a spate…

Insider Playlist – Italo Disco

As featured in the Irish Independent’s Insider mag every Thursday. Spotify playlist below. This week,…

Hoodlem – ‘IGOTU’

Hoodlem is “an anonymous project blending pulsing experimental beats, soulful vocals and crisp production.” That’s…

Damien Rice is playing a special Whelan’s 25 gig next Tuesday

It’s been a long time coming but Damien Rice is back with a new album…

Cat Power announces seated Olympia show

Cat Power has announced a fully seated gig for July 16th at the Olympia Theatre,…

Shabazz Palaces – ‘They Come In Gold’

Shabazz Palaces are back with a new album Lese Majesty on 29th July on Sub…

Brighton duo IYES throw out their ‘Toys’

Two Brighton bands in one day? That’s because this weekend is The Great Escape festival…