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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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Free gig & screening this Sunday: A Joyful Slog

A Joyful Slog is a documentary that takes a look at the independent music scene…

Five reasons why Irish trad has been reinvigorated in 2012

Update: A few people have taken issue with my opinions below. Let me just stress…

Not Squares – ‘Fall Far’

When Not Squares dropped into the Button Factory in Dublin a couple of weeks ago,…

Band of Blogs: The Suzan, Hidden Highways, Phantom & Baio

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

Squarepusher – ‘Drax 2’

More new Squarepusher from new album Ufabulum. Business as usual = an orgy of bleepy…

El-P – ‘Tougher Colder Killer’ feat. Killer Mike and Despot

“I slapped the motherfucker so hard, his mother just called him and said ‘Baby, you…

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…