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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 Diamond Dagger’s new ’80s electro EP – DD-1

Formerly named Sarsparilla, Diamond Dagger’s spent the last year or so playing live with David…

Listen to the garage house of DEVolution’s ‘My Friends’

Love this track from Southampton pair of Pete Devereux & Tom Devos aka DEVolution. It…

Watch the new Villagers video for ‘The Bell’

From recent album of the week, {Awayland}, Villagers will release ‘The Bell’ as their new…

Video: MØ – ‘Glass’

Karen Marie Ørsted, is my Scanadanivan pop choice of the moment. The video for ‘Glass’…

Album of the week: Girls Names – The New Life

If you weren’t already enthused by Belfast’s Girls Names now is the time, their second…

Kool Thing – ‘TV Tower’

Kool Thing will be releasing their debut self-titled album on March 4th via Mad Dog…

New music: Kilo Kish, Mikky Ekko, Adultrock & The Depravations

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

Grizzly Bear for Galway Arts Festival & Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens

Grizzly Bear play Dublin and Galway this July. Thursday July 18th – Harmonic presents Grizzly…

The Notas – ‘Rosemary’

‘Rosemary’ stands tall in the North County Dublin band The Notas‘ recent live sets. Underpinned…

Intro: SertOne & Bolts are Almighty Sion

The last few months have seen the vinyl release of SertOne’s Shapes In The Sky…

And So I Watch You From Afar – ‘Big Thinks Do Remarkable’

Just before Christmas we got ‘Like A Mouse’, the first track from And So I…

Baths teams up with Japan’s Cokiyu on ‘Twinkle Way’

It’s been a while since Will Wiesenfeld was featured here. But the Anticon producer who…

Beach House for Iveagh Gardens show

Beach House will play Iveagh Gardens with a lineup of supports to be announced, on…

Listen to Hudson Mohawke’s Valentine’s Slow Jams mix VI

Hudson Mohawke’s now annual Valentine’s Slow Jams mix crawls back into our lives for Chapter…

Other Voices Derry – 8 reasons to watch

When Other Voices started, it was very much in the mould of a regular TV…

New Jackson – ‘Sat Around Here Waiting’

David Kitt’s New Jackson project really shines in a live session as I found out…

Youth Lagoon – ‘Mute’

It sounds like Trevor Powers has quite a transformation in store for the Idaho musician’s…

Forrests – ‘Islands’ (performed for Yours Truly)

While Yours Truly were in town for HWCH last year, they shot a live performance…

Windings – ‘Something Outnumbered’ (video)

I’ll be the first to admit that I had already decided Windings weren’t for me.…

FaltyDL – ‘She Sleeps’ (Martyn remix)

Update: A proper stream of this monster track. Martyn remixes FaltyDL‘s Friendly Fires’ Ed McFarlane…