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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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The best of free Irish music downloads

For this week’s Day And Night column, I wrote about Irish bands and artists who…

Nialler9 on tour: The Nightlife Exchange Project

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to visit South Africa courtesy of Smirnoff where…

Video: Arcade Fire – ‘The Suburbs’ – directed by Spike Jonze

Shot in Austin, Texas.

Video: Twin Sister – ‘All Around And Away We Go’

Cute video for this solid Twin Sister track from their double-package EP release Color Your…

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Introducing: Maverick Sabre – an Irish-raised dub-tinged singer

I’m very impressed with this kid. London-born and raised in Ireland, Michael Stafford is a…

Download Girl Talk’s All Day

In case you somehow haven’t heard this yet. Girl Talk’s new album All Day was…

Video: Hot Chip, Bernard Sumner & Hot City – ‘I Didn’t Know What Love Was’

The official video directed by Andreas Nilsson (Fever Ray ‘If I Had a Heart‘, Yeasayer…

Introducing: Father Longlegs

All the way from Westport, Connecticut, Father LongLegs is the enigmatic work of an individual…

The Nialler9 weekly gig guide

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

Adebisi Shank remixes

Adebisi Shank today released four quality remixes of songs from their second album. What is…

iamamiwhoami’s epic concert film

It begins with a long car journey prelude. Our intrepid protaganist is led down an…

Video: Gorillaz – ‘Doncamatic (All Played Out)’ (feat. Daley)

This tune went down well at the Gorillaz gig last week. The most common sentiment…

Mix: WTF is Post-Dubstep?

Awesome mix from Liam Griffin for State Magazine featuring the best of what has been…

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MAP – The global music blog mixtape – November 2010

Every month, MAP (Music Alliance Pact) asks 34 music bloggers across the world to share…

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The best of Nialler9: October 2010 edition

Glasser photo by Wayne Fox. You don’t have time to check blogs every day, never…

Dancing About Architecture #2 Podcast

Along with Phil Udell from State, I participated in week two of Dancing About Architecture…

Video: Glasser – ‘Treasury of We’ (live)

Stunning performance from Glasser and band highlighting just how intricate those arrangements are on Ring.

Video: Chromeo – ‘Hot Mess’

My favourite track from Chromeo’s Business Casual (and the first one on our latest podcast)…

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Photos: Gorillaz at The O2, Dublin

Photos by Danielle Graham from the Gorillaz show last night which featured guests Bobby Womack,…

New Squarehead – ‘Baseball Ghosts’

From Squarehead’s debut album out early next year comes ‘Baseball Ghosts’. You can get the…