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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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Elliphant – ‘Down On Life’ (video)

Have had this chorus in my head since I heard it last week but only…

Orquesta – Cycle One: An Exoplanetary Forest

Certainly not someone lacking in ambition, Orlando Fitzgerald aka Orquesta wanted to go all-out for…

SOAK – ‘Sea Creatures’ (Live on Other Voices)

Bridie Monds-Watson aka SOAK was very charming and adorbz in Dingle last week. Here she…

Chelsea Wolfe – ‘Spinning Centers / The End’ (video)

I’ve been playing Chelsea Wolfe’s beautiful new album Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs…

Artful Dodger – ‘Please Don’t Turn Me On’ (Disclosure Remix)

The Disclosure wunderkids turn a not very good Artful Dodger year 2000 song into something…

Listen to Owensie’s Christmas song for St. Gabriel’s School

Owensie’s second album Citizens (listen here) is definitely in my top five Irish albums of…

St. Lucia – ‘September’

Last we checked in with St. Lucia, Jean-Philip Grobler was making awesome pop music. No…

Dutch Uncles – ‘Flexxin’

Ooh, so Dutch Uncles 2013 album Out Of Touch In The Wild was already a…

Listen to Simon Bird’s debut album Sport and watch a 10-minute music video

Surprise! Simon Bird released his first album Sport via Bandcamp this week without much warning.…

Leanne Harte – ‘Restless Sleepers’

Leanne Harte performs the title track from her already-successful Fundit campaign which finishes today for…

Listen to the Skelocrats new Hot Yoga EP

Earlier this year, A supergroup of Dublin-based Popical-related musicians  calling themselves Skelocrats impressed many with their…

The Nialler9 Dublin gig guide // December 5th – December 10th

Highlights: The xx, We Love Yule, Chilly Gonzales, Baauer, An Evening With No Monster Club,…

Flume is playing Dublin in January

Flume, that Australian wunderkid is on a European tour in January next year including a…

The 20 best tracks of the month: November

The top 20 tracks that made my month in November, whether they were posted on…

Album of the week: Captain Murphy aka Flying Lotus – Duality mixtape

Captain Murphy could never have really been anyone else could he? Though there was much…

Music video roundup: Tanlines, Shugo Tokumaru, Local Natives, Haim, Nosaj Thing, Charli XCX, How To Dress Well & Chad Valley

A collection of music videos of interest which arrived in the last few days.. Tanlines…

New music: Kate Boy, The Neighbourhood, Yus & Alice Jemima

Every Friday, four new music picks culled from the music blog hive mind are published…

INTRO: Bleeding Heart Pigeons – Limerick teens with expansive ambition

The name Bleeding Heart Pigeons was a bit of a misnomer for me. It was…

Watch The Weeknd on Later With Jools Holland

For those who weren’t awake for the near midnight showing of The Weeknd’s debut television…