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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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Twitter mixtape – What’s your favourite song right now?

This morning on Twitter and on a whim, I asked the question: What’s your favourite…

Introducing: Ellie Goulding

Oh shit. Cast your mind back a year or so to when you first heard…

I’m ringing church bells

I saw this video over the weekend. The song blew me away considering I didn’t…

Lee Fields and the Expressions

Time to talk soul once again. Summer soul. How could anyone not love this? Lee…

XXXChange plays Dublin

You know XXXChange’s production and remix work for Spank Rock, Amanda Blank, Santigold, Thom Yorke,…

Video: Sam Amidon – The Cobblestone

I thought this might have been a good gig and my it was, and then…

New Beastie Boys – Lee Majors Come Again

Word is this is from a surprise 7″ that came with the recent Check Your…

Burial & Four Tet 12″

I’m sure all you savvy people are aware by now that Burial and Four Tet…

Major Lazer – Hold the Line remixes

As Major Lazer remixes start dropping officially and unofficially everywhere on the music blogosphere, I’ve…

Julie Feeney – Love is a Tricky Thing

Ms. Feeney returns from an extended break with second album Pages on May 29th and…

Celebrate The Body Electric (It Came From An Angel)

Ponytail’s new video is probably the most random music video you’ll see this week..

Sam Amidon Irish shows this & next week

From Icelandic electronic/folk/avant-garde label Bedroom Community which houses Nico Mulhy, Valgeir Sigurösson and Ben Frost,…

The XX – Crystalised

Despite being on the radar since January or so, ‘Crystalised’ is the debut single from…

Introducing: The Hundred In The Hands

Hellllllllllllllloooooooo Broooooooklyn!!!! Yes, it’s yet another band from that NY borough to kick off our…

Adrian Crowley – Season of the Sparks

Last week I picked my top five Irish records so far this year and among…

Video: Starfucker – Medicine

Oooh, new video for the infectious tune featured on our podcast yesterday from the one…

Modeselektor Happy Birthday! remixes

While Modeselektor having been busy making music with Apparat under the banner Moderat, the German…

Miike Snow – Animal

I really do hope this song is massive. Then, the world will finally be ready…

Nialler9 Podcast #25 – Hud Mo / Moderat / Starfucker / Clark & more

Our quarter-century podcast is all about new releases. We’ve got superb new tasty tunes from…

Video: Mayer Hawthorne – Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out

Nice vid for fly white soul boy Mayer Hawthorne’s “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out” directed…