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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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Is this a new mix from The Avalanches?

I started this blog in 2005. The Avalanches‘ brilliant Since I Left You album was…

Castlepalooza 2012 lineup: Ghostpoet, Solar Bears, The Charlatans, Little Green Cars, Young Wonder & more

The Charlatans, Ghostpoet, Solar Bears, Jape, Donal Dineen’s Parish Project, Mmoths,  Little Green Cars, King Charles, Jon Phonics,…

Listen to CYMBALS – Sideways, Sometimes EP

Sometimes you just need a full body of work to digest rather than scraps of…

Indiependence announce lineup with 2manyDJs, Scroobius Pip, Jape, The Minutes, Toby Kaar & more

Indiependence Festival has announced the lineup that will play at Deer Farm in Mitchelstown Cork…

Grimes – ‘Genesis’ (live on Later with Jools Holland)

Grimes did herself a great service in the great buzzband of 2012 stakes with this…

Elliphant – ‘Tekkno Scene’ (video)

In an interview in this month’s Dazed & Confused, Stockholm’s Ellinor Olovsdotter bka Elliphant says…

The Nialler9 Dublin gig guide // April 24th – 30th

Highlights: Nu-Mark, Ane Brun, Dry The River, Magnetic Fields, Popicalia, Joinery Fundraiser,  Mossy Nolan, Wolf…

Futures Apart
Futures Apart – ‘Landslide’

More future new romantic indie wave from Wexford and Ballina via Dublin-based Futures Apart. This…

Outfit
Outfit – ‘Drakes’

“Your skin is coming off in my hands”. That’s one of the standout (and slightly…

Listen to Forward/Slash: Volume 1 – Irish electronic music compilation

Further proof that Ireland has got it going on in electronic music at the moment.…

As An Talamh: Notes On Rave In Dublin (video teaser)

DCTV present a look at Dublin’s underground dance scene in a documentary of two parts…

Introducing: Skelocrats – Popical Island’s new “grotty pop” supergroup

The Popical Island universe is expanding once again. Actually, it’s kinda getting incestuous but in…

Temper-Mental MissElayneous – ‘Dominoes’ (video)

MissElayneous goes for a wander around the Dame Street area of Dublin in a video…

Teishi-1 – ‘Koi’ (Lemonada Remix)

I played this out last night. Irish born but not of this world. Insane. The…

If there’s only one thing you do this weekend…

…Watch The Last Waltz in tribute to Levon Helm who passed away yesterday. The Band’s…

Band of Blogs: Cymbals, TV Girl, Girl Band; A$AP Rocky & Theophilus London

Every Friday, I pick out four new music picks from the best of the music…

SBTRKT, Grandaddy, Squarepusher, Van Dyke Parks, Patti Smith and more added to Electric Picnic bill

Some real nice additions to Electric Picnic were just announced. Squarepusher! Van Dyke Parks! SBTRKT…

Last Days Of 1984 – ‘River’s Edge’ (video)

We all know that the internet has changed the way we watch music videos, that’s…

Stream: Patrick Kelleher’s Ghost Wop Doo Wop Record Store Day covers tape

Another Record Store Day release, this one. a selection of six covers of doo wop songs…

Bigg Juss and El-P team up on ‘Black Roses’ remix

It’s not just El-P from the now defunct Company Flow who is releasing a new…