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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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Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands – Contact Sports

The Skinny Wolves-released Patrick Kelleher 7″ for Contact Sports featuring the original track and the…

Kendal Johansson – ‘Blue Moon’ (Big Star cover)

Kendal Johansson’s cover of Big Star’s ‘Blue Moon’ has been doing the blog rounds this…

Trophy Boyfriend – ‘Distant Chimes’

I first featured Gregor Ruigrok aka Trophy Boyfriend back in October’s MAP but since then…

Video: Chemical Brothers – ‘Swoon’

We’ve already had the 12-minute ‘Escape Velocity’ but the first single proper ‘Swoon’ arrived today.…

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The result of the IMRO & music blogger meeting

Today, Darragh (Asleep On A Compost Heap), Shane (The Torture Garden) and I met with…

Small Hours Summer Mornings Mix

“A Foggy Notions CD curated by Donal Dineen and released in 2007 to accompany the…

James Blake – ‘CMYK’

Beautiful. If there’s one song that’s been providing a quick headtrip away from all the…

Video: Kele – ‘Tenderoni’

The music videography of Kylie meets The Klaxons for Kele’s first solo video. Great tune.…

Mondkopf – the bastard child of Moderat & M83

One of the better albums I’ve heard in recent months is Galaxy of Nowhere from…

The Nialler9 weekly Dublin gig guide

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

Video: Avi Buffalo – ‘What’s In It For?’

Lovely track from Avi Buffalo from their self-titled Sub Pop debut. These kids are on…

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Mountain Man – ‘Animal Tracks’

The wonderful Mountain Man who I caught at SXSW where “three girls huddled around a…

Department of Eagles
Department of Eagles – ‘Brightest Minds’

Archive 2003 – 2006, a collection of unreleased songs from Department of Eagles will be…

iamamiwhoami part 9

Watch til the end… Previous videos.

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3×3 with Low Sea

The Low Sea are a little known Galway-based band made up of Billie and Bobby…

Grand Pocket Orchestra – ‘Basketballs’

The bounciest little ball of fun in Irish music are back with a new single,…

Kele – ‘Tenderoni’

Kele Bloc Party debuted the first single produced by XXXChange from his solo album The…

This music blogger IMRO licence thing..

Calling all bloggers, bands, labels, managers, PR, composers and artists – this affects you. Update:…

Hear Flying Lotus’ Cosmogramma now

Flying Lotus is streaming the album on his Myspace now. Or sample four tracks here:…