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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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Strong Arm Steady – ‘Best of Times’

Absolutely stonking hip-hop jam produced by Madlib from Strong Arm Steady’s album In Search Of…

Gruff Rhys records album with Brazilian TV repairman

Gruff Rhys has hooked up with Brazilian TV and VCR repairman Tony Da Gatorra for…

Siriusmo DJ Mix

This is the first DJ-mix from Siriusmo which was aired on Shir Khan’s radioshow at…

Video: Small Black – ‘Despicable Dogs’

Caught these guys at CMJ last year. In truth, I wasn’t hugely impressed by the…

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Win tickets to Dublin Guitar Quartet plays Philip Glass & a poster designed by M&E

Dublin Guitar Quartet will be performing a special once-off Philip Glass – The Quartets concert…

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Delorean – ‘Stay Close’

Spain’s Delorean made an impression with the people I know who saw them at SXSW…

Video: MGMT – Flash Delirium

 

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The Nialler9 weekly Dublin gig guide

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

New Two Door Cinema Club video & remix

Two Door Cinema Club have shot a summery new video for ‘Something This Good Can…

Amazing Fight Like Apes Lego video

Unofficial clip by Oblong Pictures for Fight Like Apes‘ ‘Knucklehead’ which casts Pockets as a…

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The Beta Band’s Steve Mason is back

After the announcement that the former Beta Band frontman is playing Electric Picnic, it has…

Fucked Up / Duchess Says super session

 This Bande Ápart session is too awesome not to mention. Canadian bands Duchess Says and…

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Bloc Party’s Kele for solo Irish tour / album with Hudson Mohawke / XXXChange

Exclooosive! Kele Okereke of Bloc Party will play four Irish shows in May (Limerick, Cork,…

Nialler9 wins Best Music Blog award. Again.

Nialler9 won its fourth Irish music blog award in a row at the Irish Blog…

The Ambience Affair song featured on CSI: NY!

Congrats to The Ambience Affair for getting a song off their most recent Patterns EP,…

New LCD Soundsystem – ‘Drunk Girls’

A stream of the first single from the still-untitled final LCD album out on May…

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Kitsuné Maison 9 minimix

Kitsuné Maison compilations are always worth a listen considering previous compilations have debuted tracks from…

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Jennifer Evans launches EP tonight

Salient Point is the new EP from the burgeoning talent of Jennifer Evans. You may…

10 Irish Music Blogs / SXSW Day and Night feature

In this week’s Day And Night Column, in between Marion Cotillard’s Forehead Tittaes and the…

Two more Broken Social Scene songs from Forgiveness Rock Record

‘Forced to Love’ and ‘All to All’ are available for stream here or for purchase…