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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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Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (First listen review)

Yesterday, I attended a playback of the new Daft Punk album in Dublin. Those in…

New music picks: Prides, Annie, Thundercat & Hannah Peel

The best new music/artist picks of the last week. As published in today’s Day &…

Camden Crawl Dublin timetable and Nialler9 night info

Camden Crawl Dublin weekend is almost upon us and now I’m excited. Along with other…

Spies – ‘Distant Shorelines’

Dublin band Spies are back with ‘Distant Shorelines’, the first single from the band since…

Nialler9’s New Music weekly

A roundup of 14 tracks not previously featured here that have been getting the new…

Listen to Ships’ mix for This Greedy Pig

Two weeks ago Ships shared a video of themselves working on their debut album. The…

Other Voices London – 5 reasons to watch the TV special tonight

Other Voices came to London last month for three nights in St. Wilton’s Music Hall…

Final 14 bands added to the Forbidden Fruit lineup

Forbidden Fruit have announced the last 14 bands to play the festival in the Grounds of…

Mixtape: The 25 best tracks of the month – April

The 25 tracks that made my month in a Soundcloud playlist with exploratory links.

Róisín Murphy sings on Boris Dlugosch’s ‘Look Around You’

It seems Róisín Murphy has better things to do than make awesome music these days…

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide // April 30th – May 6th

Highlights: Camden Crawl Dublin festival, The Beatyard festival, Alt-J/Hundred Waters, Angel Olsen, Thee Oh Sees,…

El-P & Killer Mike are Run The Jewels – Hear ‘Get It’

You might have heard that snippet of ‘Banana Clipper’ a couple of weeks back from…

Boards Of Canada’s new album Tomorrow’s Harvest is out in June

If you’ve been following the online treasure hunt of six-digit codes, mysterious radio and TV…

Listen to Orquesta’s Camden Crawl Dublin mixtape

Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin takes place this Bank Holiday weekend in 15 venues (17 with…

Download: Diamond Dagger’s Bison EP

When not accompanying David Kitt on his New Jackson project, Damo Lynch makes vintage sounding…

DOOM & Clams Casino team up on new track ‘Bookfiend’

Clams Casino‘ slowed down cloudy production style is put to good effect by DOOM here…

Watch Donal Dineen and Myles O’Reilly’s Willie Clancy school documentary

Donal Dineen and Myles O’Reilly filmed this documentary featuring Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh looking at Willie Clancy week…

Shit Robot – ‘Feels Real’ featuring Luke Jenner of The Rapture

The new single from Marcus Lambkin’s Shit Robot finds the trademark disco synth swagger in…

Break Bread – Listen to tracks made by 15 producers from a set of samples & rules

Break Bread is a fortnightly beat cypher challenging numerous producers to make a beat with…

New music picks: Poliça, RDGLDGRN, His Clancyness & Snakehips

The best new music/artist picks of the last week. As published in today’s Day &…