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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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Download SertOne’s free Versions mixtape and Owensie remix

SertOne’s free 13-track mixtape of remixes Versions is perfect Friday listening. Contains reworks of Crystal…

The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales Video Medley (video)

More info on The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales Suite out in June.

Album Of the Week: Planningtorock – W

Janine Rostron’s second album W is clearly the result of an informed and talented musician,…

Listen to Barbara Panther’s debut album

As a followup to Ms. Panther’s introduction, City Slang are now streaming the Rwandan-born, Berlin-based…

Starfucker – ‘Julius’ (video)

Taken from Starfucker’s album Reptilians which is still streaming. Video directed by Jason Miller.

Free Irish compilation: Loud Mouth Volume One with Bingo, The Bastard, Luke B & more

Loud Mouth Compilation Volume 1 is an eclectic mix from the Loud Mouth collective of…

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…