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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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Death In Vegas’ Richard Fearless DJ set for Dublin this month

Death In Vegas’ Richard Fearless will be in town on Saturday January 28th for a…

Introducing: Evian Christ

Not even two weeks into 2012 and we’ve already got ourselves a couple of anonymous…

Introducing: Faws – anonymous Dublin-based minimal electronic productions

Having first appeared on Bandcamp on Christmas Eve, there’s very little information available about Faws,…

MMOTHS interview on State

State Magazine’s third annual Faces Of the Year series which picks out a selection of…

SBTRKT are playing The Academy in May

The makers of my album of 2011, Aaron Jerome aka SBTRKT and his vocal partner…

Georgia Anne Muldrow & Madlib – ‘Seeds’

Madlib’s hyper-accelerated release cycle with a new album or mix dropping seemingly every month has…

Onra
Onra – ‘Keep On Loving Me (Edit)’

Onra’s whipsmart edit of The Whispers’ ‘Keep on Loving Me’ from 1983 is a perfect…

Watch tUnE-yArDs live on Jimmy Kimmel

If Nialler9 did Person of the Year in music nominations, Merril Garbus would have won…

Lianne La Havas & Willy Mason – ‘No Room For Doubt’

I almost didn’t mention Lianne La Havas just because she charted in the BBC Sound…

WU LYF – ‘Heavy Pop’ (live on Letterman)

I would have thought WU LYF’s polarising sound would be pretty unsuitable for late night…

Listen to Loud Mouth Collective Volume 3

Loud Mouth Collective released Volume 3 in their series of compilations in the pre-Christmas rush.…

Lee Fields & The Expressions – ‘You’re The Kind Of Girl’

UGH. January. The prevailing sense of impending doom is too much. People on radio stations…

Clock Opera – ‘Once And For All’ (2012 version)

This album version of ‘Once And For All’ is the opening track on Clock Opera’s…

Blondes – ‘Wine’

Blondes released one of my favourite tracks of 2011 with ‘Lover’, a big slice of…

Compilation: Music from Saharan Cellphones

Darren from Last Days of 1984 put me onto this compilation seeing as I’ve shared…

Free album: CocknBullKid – Adolescence

It’s a path that occurs way too often in pop. A promising young artist gets…

What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have all of the cute… Frank Loesser’s 1947 song was…

The Nialler9 Dublin gig guide (New Year’s Eve edition)

A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin and…

Nialler9′s top 100 songs of 2011
tUnE-yArDs -  'Bizness' M83 – ‘Midnight City’ Adele - 'Rolling In The Deep' Jamie xx remix…
Nialler9’s top 30 albums of 2011

Hit play and hear a song from each album in my top 30 of 2011.…