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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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The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide & Playlist // April 23rd – 29th

Highlights: Egyptian Lover, Solar Bears & Letherette, Chelsea Wolfe, Death Grips, A Hawk And A…

SOHN – ‘Bloodflows’ (video)

He goes by the name of SOHN (pronounced Sonn). His track ‘The Wheel’  was enough to set things…

Janelle Monáe teams up with Erykah Badu on new single ‘Q.U.E.E.N.’

The ArchAndroid is back. Janelle Monae’s new single ‘Q.U.E.E.N.’, is a psychedelic funk cut which…

Superhumanoids – ‘So Strange’

You might know LA band Superhumanoids from their vocal work on Mmoths’ first EP, on…

First headliners announced for Oxegen while Electric Picnic release discount ticket info

Oxegen looks like it’ll finally be embracing the tag of Ireland’s pop festival of choice…

Album of the week: Solar Bears – Supermigration

John Kowalski and Rian Trench’s debut album as Solar Bears, 2010’s She Was Coloured In…

Watch Ships discuss what they’ve been up to with Eoghan Kidney

Simon And Sorcha of Ships have spent much of the year so far recording their…

New music: Haerts, Phoria, Expert Diggs & Empire Of The Sun

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

London Grammar – ‘Wasting My Young Years’

More stylish and dashing operatic-leaning piano-led pop from London Grammar after last year’s ‘Hey Now’…

Mossy Nolan – ‘Corkadoragha’

‘Corkadoragha’ features on Mossy Nolan’s excellent self-titled debut album release of very good awesome Irish…

Daft Punk – ‘Get Lucky’ feat. Pharrell and Nile Rodgers (radio edit)

If you’re like me you’ve been singing the chorus to this new Daft Punk song…

Death Rattle – ‘The Blows’

I’ve been listening to the new Kool Thing album a fair bit these days, so…

Interview: Chelsea Wolfe – “the darkness and truth of the world is what’s always inspired me to write”

I became aware of Chelsea Wolfe’s music last year when she released her collection of…

J Dilla’s ‘Trucks’ finally released, lost vocal album The Diary coming

Woah. Props to Stones Throw for keeping tabs on things. Yesterday, I got a mail…

Full lineup for all venues @ Meteor Camden Crawl announced

Today all of the venue lineups have been announced by Camden Crawl Dublin (see below)…

Laura Marling – ‘Master Hunter’

I’d kinda forgotten how good Laura Marling was until a few weeks ago when I…

Jon Hopkins – ‘Open Eye Signal’

One artist already announced for the Body & Soul festival in June is Jon Hopkins.…

Bands added to Body & Soul and Indiependence

Two Irish summer festivals today added some bands to their respective lineups. First up, Body…

Listen to Record Store Gay 2013 – a compilation of gay covers from Irish bands

Our LGBT brothers and sisters are the focus of lots of attention at the moment,…

Download: Alternative R&B singer SZA’s new EP

Kicking your EP with a sample from one of the best songs ever – Fleetwood…