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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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Video: M.I.A. – ‘XXXO’

 

Video: Tricky – ‘Murder Weapon’

Tricky returns with his new album Mixed Race on August 30th on Domino Records. He…

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Win tickets to Hands Up Who Wants to Die this Saturday

Rain Machine’s favourite heavy Irish band Hands Up Who Wants to Die are doing an…

Introducing: Sea Pinks – A Girls Names solo project

The drummer in Belfast’s noise-pop band Girls Names Neil, has a solo project called Sea…

Video: Summer Camp – ‘Round The Moon’

A new video for Summer Camp’s new single debuted on Gorilla Vs Bear yesterday. The…

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Hear Mark Pritchard and Bear in Heaven remix Gonjasufi

Bibio, Dam Mantle, Shlomo, Broadcast, Mark Pritchard and Bear in Heaven are amongst the artists…

Video: Broken Social Scene – ‘All To All’

It was only last week when Broken Social Scene debuted a video for ‘Forced To…

Chromeo – ‘Don’t Turn the Lights On’ (Aeroplane Remix)

Chromeo will release their new album Business Casual in September and will play Tripod, Dublin…

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Introducing: Factory Floor – industrial post-ravers

Dirty, gritty, dystopian, hypnotic, trance-inducing, industrial, loud. All of these words can be applied to…

Introducing: Young Montana

Someone, I can’t remember who, told me to check out this new blog You’ll Soon…

The Nialler9 weekly Dublin gig guide

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

Hear two songs from Animal Collective’s visual album Oddsac

‘Mr. Fingers’ and ‘Screens’ are two expectedly weird and ambient cuts from AnCo’s visual album…

New Perfume Genius – ‘Your Drum’

This song does not feature on Perfume Genius‘ debut album Learning, rather it was uploaded…

DOOM finally set to play Ireland

It’s been a long time coming. DOOM aka MF Doom aka Victor Vaughn has finally…

More Shangaan Electro videos

It’s great to see coverage of the South African Shangaan Electro scene internationally. Spurred on…

Video: Fucked Up – ‘Year of the Ox’ feat. Duchess Says

I posted this a while back but now it’s embedabble so it’s worth a few…

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New Squarepusher – ‘Cryptic Motion’ (split release by Warp / Ed Banger)

A surprising release for sure, but this new split 12″, with Squarepusher credited as Shobaleader…

Video: Steve Mason – ‘Am I Just A Man’

The second single from Steve Mason’s Richard X-produced album Boys Outside has an undeniable Beta…

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New Fight Like Apes – ‘Poached Egg’

Fight Like Apes are due to release their awesomely-titled second album The Body of Christ…

Video: Kanye West – ‘Power’

Hugely impressive but only 1 minute 43 seconds long? Odd. Kanye tweeted – “It’s not…