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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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Album of the Week: Young Montana? – Limerence

limerence (plural limerences) An involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic…

SBTRKT – ‘Wildfire’ (feat. Little Dragon)

Taken from SBTRKT’s forthcoming Young Turks debut album on June 24th comes this squelching dub…

The Very Best – Super Mom mixtape

Super Mom is a free download mixtape from The Very Best that coincided with Mother’s…

Trophy Boyfriend makes Jedward chillwavey

Before this morning, I had heard Jedward’s Irish Eurovision entry one time. Why I would…

The Nialler9 Dublin gig guide (10th – 16th May)

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

Exit Festival 2011 – tickets, flights and accomodation treasure hunt competition

Exit Festival takes place in the ominous sounding Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad in Serbia…

Battles – ‘Ice Cream’ (video)

Canada, the directors behind the WTF? clips for El Guincho’s ‘Bombay’ and Scissor Sisters’ ‘Invisible…

Listen to album streams from Friendly Fires, Austra, Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi, Atari Teenage Riot, EMA & more

The best of the last week’s album streams in A-Z. Plenty more in the Album…

Cashier No.9 – ‘Lost At Sea’

It’s been a while since I checked in with Casher No.9. The Belfast band have…

SebastiAn – ‘Love In Motion’ (Feat. Mayer Hawthorne)

Mayer Hawthorne provides the soulful colour on SebastiAn’s new electro funk song ‘Love In Motion’.…

White Denim – ‘Jay Time’ (Hard Stuff Cover)

Recorded just last week in Austin’s 5th Street Studio, ‘Jay Time’ is “a vaguely funky…

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Uffie – ‘Wordy Rappinghood’ (Tom Tom Club cover)

Bringing Tom Tom Club to another generation, Uffie finally comes good with a faithful cover…

Onra
Onra – ‘L.O.V.E’

It might be marked as a demo, but the twisted electronic funk of ‘L.O.V.E’ is…

Austra – ‘Lose It’ (video)

Less NSFW, more moody WTF? Directed by M Blash. Austra’s excellent album Feel It Break…

Watch this gurntastic Doncaster rave video from 1992

Rave till your grave you’re on Youtube. In 1992 I left mining to become a…

Nina Hynes – ‘Sewing Machine’

A new track from Nina Hynes available for download from Bandcamp. Nina will be launching…

Barbara Panther – ‘Moonlight People’

City Slang will release Barbara Panther’s self-titled debut album on May 16th. Based in Berlin,…

Black Lips – ‘Modern Art’

Mark Ronson is on production duties for Black Lips‘ upcoming sixth album Arabia Mountain (Lockett…

Album stream: Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact

Eye Contact is out on May 6th (Ireland), May 9th (UK) & May 10 (US)…

Introducing: Disclosure – South London brothers do buoyant post-dubstep

A contender for the best record label in the world that started life as a…