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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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Live: Sufjan Stevens – Dublin

It’s has been roughly five years since Sufjan Stevens last toured Europe. His artistry was…

Tomorrow In A Year: The Knife’s Darwin Opera comes to Cork in June / win tickets

Last year The Knife released the studio album Tomorrow In A Year in with Planningtorock…

Yourstru.ly Presents: tUnE-yArDs – ‘You Yes You’

Via the effervescent Yours Truly. tUnE-yArDs plays Whelan’s on June 17th. Tickets are €16 plus…

Charli XCX – ‘Stay Away’

Brilliant dark-edged pop from 18 year-old English teenager Charli XCX. It was co-written by Ariel…

Harmless Noise – A little bit of solidarity goes a long way

Some very sad news from Naomi at Harmless Noise last night. Her role as a…

The Nialler9 Dublin gig guide (17th – 23rd May)

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

New Bon Iver song & Irish gig in October

There’s no doubt, having heard the new Bon Iver album (self-titled) that it’ll be a…

Popical Island compilation #2 details & hear a Tieranniesaur track

After establishing a pocket of Ireland’s musical space all to themselves with Volume #1 a…

Bingo – ‘Bee’

Dublin’s Frank Sweeney who goes by the name of Bingo dropped his latest track ‘Bee’…

Clock Opera – ‘Belongings’ (video)

A video for Clock Opera’s just-released single directed by Andy West of the band. Clock…

New iamamiwhoami – ‘; john’

Following on from last year’s rather brilliant elaborate series which culminated in a live concert…

Play with Chris Milk’s amazing interactive video for Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi

Chris Milk, the artist behind Arcade Fire’s Wilderness Downtown video is responsible for the new…

MAP – The global music blog mixtape – May 2011

Every month, MAP (Music Alliance Pact) asks 36 music bloggers across the world to share…

Michael Bolton f**king rocks

Michael Bolton is now cool forever. The Lonely Island’s comedy album Turtleneck & Chain features…

The legacy of promoter Bill Graham: A huge classic rock video catalogue

My latest column for Day and Night concern’s Bill Graham’s huge archive of video now…

Daithí – ‘The Dog’ (Tenaka remix)

Ronan Carroll aka Tenaka is currently putting the finishing touches to his debut album Drifting.…

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Theophilus London – ‘Last Name London’

Having already released the Lover’s Holiday EP this year which featured Glasser, Dave Sitek, Solange…

Cults – ‘Abducted’ (video)

Originally released as a single for Record Store Day, Cults‘ ‘Abducted’ gets the video treatment.…

Memory Tapes – ‘Wait In The Dark’

That brilliant image above serves as the album artwork for Dayve Hawke aka Memory Tapes…

Introducing: Tasseomancy – Austra’s folky backing singers

If you thought you recognised the backing singers and dancers in Austra, it might be…