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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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Wavvvvvvvvvvvves

How many Vs is too many? I haven’t got my hands on Wavves newest album…

Video: Rubberbandits live in Limerick

Some footage of Rubberbandits‘ Christmas gig in Trinity Rooms, Limerick. ‘Anthony’s Eye’ and ‘Bags of…

Shunda K (Yo Majesty) & Kotchy free EP

Shunda K of Yo Majesty and Brooklyn producer Kotchy recently got together to record the…

State’s 2009 mixtape

Kill Krinkle Club as shot by Feargal Ward for State. Have you seen this yet?…

Premiere: Villagers – Hollow Kind EP

Since the first inklings of Conor J. O’ Brien’s new Villagers project was whispered about…

Video: Alela Diane – ‘White As Diamonds’

I’ve enthused about this song before. Now there’s a video. It’s from her forthcoming album…

New Cadence Weapon mixtape – Separation Anxiety

New mixtape from Rollie serves as a nice stopgap between Afterparty Babies and what comes…

Fair thee well The Indie Hour

The view from the Anna Livia/DCFM studio, home to The Indie Hour for the last…

D&N Digital Friday

Out today and on the site. I’ve written a guide for artists and musicians to…

R.I.P. Road Records

A really sad day for Dublin’s independent music scene. Road Records is to close in…

MAP – January 09

Emmy the Great – chosen by our English MAP blog – The Daily Growl. A…

Video: Beirut – ‘La Llorona’

Zach Condon and friends have a two-disc EP package forthcoming. This tune is taken from…

Choice Music Prize shortlist

As a judge, I’m saying nothing right now. Tighter than a duck’s arse my lips…

New MF Doom & Dr. Who Dat?

From the new album Born Like This coming soon (we don’t really know when)…thanks to…

Crunchy crunchy Subscape remix

Subscape is well urban photoshoot innit? This song is crunchier than Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.. Oooh…

Peter Bjorn and John – Nothing to Worry About

Kanye leaked this track and you can see why. It’s a bit of a stylistic…

Video: M.Ward – Hold Time

Video for the title track of M.Ward’s upcoming album of the same name which is…

Barry’s 3 albums you my have missed in 2008

Now that the site is back working again, here’s a post Barry wrote for the…

Jaydiohead -2009’s first worthy mashup album

We’ve been here before. 1) Dangermouse’s Grey album featured Jay-Z mashed up with The Beatles.…

Bloggy blog blog

Not that I need another award to validate this blog’s existence (two is enough and…