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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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New Visionair EP for download – Richie Egan (Jape) & Niall Byrne (The Redneck Manifesto)

Richie Egan posted a link to a free Visionair EP for download a short time…

Video: Glasser – ‘Mirrorage’

Glasser’s album Ring is one of my top albums of the year. You can still…

New James Vincent McMorrow – Red Dust 7″

James Vincent McMorrow is currently in the US, supporting BellX1 and playing CMJ (he plays…

warpaint
The Nialler9 weekly gig guide

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

Video: Baths – ‘Stupor’

Any excuse to remind you to check out Baths brilliant album Cerulean is an opportunity…

Memory Tapes – ‘Green Knight’ (Mission Control remix)

Memory Tapes‘ Seek Magic still gets constant play from me regularly. It was an album…

Video: Gazelle Twin – ‘Changelings’

Dark and edgy electronica from Brighton’s Gazelle Twin released on November 8th through SomethingNothing Records.…

Video: Best Coast – ‘Boyfriend’
Video: Massive Attack – ‘Atlas Air’

Non embeddable Vimeo version here. After you watch the above new clip for Massive Attack’s…

Introducing: The Casanova Wave

Having already received some nice blog love already in recent weeks, you may be aware…

Video: Flying Lotus – ‘Kill Your Co-Workers’

The track from this vid is taken from Fly Lo’s recent Pattern+Grid World EP and…

Listen to Warpaint’s album The Fool

Warpaint’s pretty great debut album The Fool is now here to listen to courtesy of…

New Gruff Rhys – ‘Shark Ridden Waters’ & Irish gigs

SFA’s Gruff Rhys returns to his solo material this month. Firstly with a new song…

Video: James Blake – ‘Limit To Your Love’ (Feist cover)

A song for a Friday. James Blake follows up his superb Klavierwerke EP with a…

The Go! Team
New: The Go! Team – T.O.R.N.A.D.O

Pitchfork just debuted the first track from The Go! Team’s new album Rolling Blackouts which…

State Intervention #7 – Heathers

On Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago, the Heathers twins played a short set in…

MAP – The international music blog mixtape – Oct 2010

Every month, MAP (Music Alliance Pact) asks 35 music bloggers across the world to share…

Strands mixtape

Strands, the solo project of producer Stephen Shannon will be releasing a self-titled debut this…

Video: Holy Fuck – ‘Red Lights’ (Cat-tastic)

I don’t think Holy Fuck could have come up with a more internet-friendly music video…

Live: Mount Kimbie in Dublin

I popped along to The Academy 2 last night, that most dreaded of venues, for…