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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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Marina & the Diamonds – The Shampain Sleeper

So If you gathered anything from this blog in the last five months, it should…

Electric Picnic 2009 line up

So despite pretty persistent rumours of the festival’s demise this year, the launch takes place…

MAP – the music blog mixtape – April 09

MAP (Music Alliance Pact) the global music blogger mixtape is back! 24 music bloggers across…

Micachu & the Shapes

One of the more singular UK groups doing the rounds at the moment is oddball…

Newsflash! The Horrors are good shocker

Of all the musically-challenged groups to appear over the last few years, The Horrors were…

Animal Collective – My Girls (Nice unofficial video)

This unofficial ‘My Girls’ video by Rob Chestnutt certainly exceeds the original in syncopation and…

C.R.E.A.M (Soul band version)

Nice and chill late Good Friday afternoon instrumental version of Wu-Tang’s ‘C.R.E.A.M’ by the El…

Introducing: Ume

File under “another-SXSW-band-I-didn’t-see-but-were-apparently-awesome”, Ume are from Austin themselves and will rock yer face. Their Sunshower…

South Park parodies Kanye West

A perfect parody of ‘Heartless’.

MASH – This Sunday

On behalf of State, i’m curating a part of MASH on Sunday in the Twisted…

Introducing: Ribbons

You know the way Myspace has those genre descriptions on the band pages? Well Ribbons‘…

Video: Valerie Francis – Punches

Another gorgeous production from director Eoghan Kidney who has to be the best Irish music…

Giveaway: Leaf Label digital sampler

Quick competition time now. I’ve got three digital compilations from the excellent Leaf Label to…

Daedelus and Jogger EP

Speaking of LA beatmakers, there’s a new release from Daedelus in the form of split…

Flying Lotus & Blu – GNG BNG

LA rapper Blu appropriates one of the standout tracks from Los Angeles for his own…

Soul Jazz – Dancehall & Fly Girls

My favourite label (and I’m sure many others) for releasing quality archival compilations is Soul…

Introducing: The Big Pink

I was pleased a couple of weeks ago when a previous tip of mine The…

Chequerboard=Boldypants

John Lambert who goes under the name of Chequerboard now has another name to add…

My 50 best Irish music acts right now

I took my cue from the list published in The Irish Times today. While that…

MP3: Thom Yorke remixes DOOM

“Born like this / Into this / As the chalk faces smile / As Mrs…