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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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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…

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Win tickets to The Redneck Manifesto in Tripod

This Saturday (March 27th) sees the launch of The Redneck Manifesto’s long-awaited fourth album in…

New Holy Fuck track ‘Latin America’

The first single from Holy Fuck’s new album Latin is available as a free download.…

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Introducing: Jamaica

Formerly known as Poney Poney, this French duo’s first album was produced by Xavier de…

Download ‘BloodBuzz Ohio’ from The National

After the delicious debuting of ‘Terrible Love’ on Fallon, The National have decided to release…

Video: Hudson Mohawke – Joy Fantastic (feat. Olivier Daysoul)

Awesome day-glo music vid to promote Hud Mo’s forthcoming UK tour called Pegasus Rising. Deets…

Electric Picnic 2010 lineup

Awoke from jetlagged sleep to this. Lineup: Roxy Music, Leftfield*, Massive Attack, Gil Scott-Heron, Fever…

SXSW 2010: Sleigh Bells, The Drums, Rye Rye, Best Coast, Woodhands and more

The final day of South By saw Perez Hilton party overshadow the official part of…

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SXSW 2010: Mountain Man, Memory Tapes, Broken Social Scene, Holy Fuck & more

A mammoth day in which I caught a lot of bands. Here are the highlights…

SXSW 2010: The Middle East, SoKo, She & Him, Fucked Up, Marina & more

With the Patrick’s Day madness over, Thursday saw lines outside venues a little bit more…

SXSW 2010 video: Dam Funk

Modern gangsta funk is an intriguing concept in theory but as Dam Funk’s mammoth 5-LP…

SXSW 2010 video: The Middle East

Sometimes….very rarely.. but sometimes, a band surpasses your already high expectations. The Middle East gave…

SXSW 2010 – Flying Lotus, Morning Benders, Frightened Rabbit, Pivot & more

The gauntlet has been thrown down. South by South West is upon us once again.…

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iamamiwhoami revealed – A song

WELL SORT OF.. Can we stop the Christina Aguilera rumours now? Another iamamiwhoami video appeared…

MAP – The music blogger mixtape March 2010

Every month, MAP (Music Alliance Pact) asks 36 music bloggers across the world to share…