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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: Freelance Whales – ‘Generation 2nd Floor’

Masked banditos feature heavily in the snowy video for Freelance Whales‘ video for ‘Generation 2nd…

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Castlepalooza lineup announced

Castlepalooza has announced the lineup for their fifth year running and it looks like their…

Podcast 30 - Phantogram
Nialler9 Podcast #30 – Brahms, Memory Tapes, Oh No Ono, The Middle East, Pivot, Frederik & more

Nine of the bands featured in this podcast also played at South By Southwest this…

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Introducing: Peter Wolf Crier

Recently signed to JagJaguar, Peter Wolf Crier are one of the bands that got away…

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Woodhands – ‘Dissembler’

One of the bands who impressed me muchly at SXSW this year were Toronto’s Woodhands…

Video: Aloe Blacc – ‘I Need a Dollar’

Posting this here as this song deserves double exposure. It’s Aloe Blacc featuring El Michels…

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Nas rhymes over Gil Scott-Heron

Nas pops up on this version of ‘New York Is Killing Me’ one of the…

Video: Penguin Prison – ‘Something I’m Not’

This video was taken from footage of Skype conversations between director Roman Rappak and Chris…

Shugo Tokumaru’s new album – Port Entropy

The much-slept on Japanese folk artist Shugo Tokumaru deserves your eyes and ears. I first…

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The Nialler9 weekly Dublin gig guide

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

The Chemical Brothers – Escape Velocity (12 minute version)

Radio rip uploaded to Youtube of the first play of ‘Escape Velocity’ from their new…

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Lissie covers Lady Gaga & plays Dublin this month

Lissie plays The Academy on the 26th April in support to Joshua Radin so consider…

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We Have Band mega remix post

London three-piece and former record company employees, We Have Band officially release their debut album…

Video: Janelle Monae – ‘Tightrope’ feat. Big Boi

You remember the awesome comeback single I featured here in February? Well, there’s now a…

Stream She & Him Volume 2

 

A Glo-Fi mix
Now Wave - Glo-Fi Mix 1. Toro Y Moi - Thanks Vision 2. Small Black…
Stream Lali Puna’s Our Inventions

Listen to Lali Puna’s first album in six years, their fourth album in total. Our…

Dam Funk covers The Human League

Oddly this is for a Dr. Martens campaign celebrating 50 years which will see the…

New Wildbirds and Peacedrums – ‘Fight For Me’

This blew me away when I heard it yesterday. While I’ve always been a fan…

All City releases Onra 12″, Samiyam/ Ras_G LA 10″

The latest releases from Dublin’s All City include Onra’s ‘Long Distance’ / ‘High Hopes’ 12″…