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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 cohost 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, event curator and producer of gigs, parties & events.

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Animal Collective live BBC Culture Show

Taken from the BBC’s Culture show and recorded live in La Scala, London in 2005.…

Oh Yeah Computer! Radiohead covers

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of OK Computer, the folks at Oh…

El-P returns to Dublin to play Cargo

Tucked away in the listings section of the Pod website is the announcement that El-P…

Dan Deacon: Gig of the year

I went to a Dan Deacon show and I walked out wearing a fluorescent yellow…

New Aesop Rock – Citronella

Another preview from Aesop Rock’s forthcoming None Shall Pass out August 28th. “Citronella” features The…

Source of The Go! Team’s My World

Continuing the cover tip, after the Go! Team video post yesterday and the subsequent discovery…

Jimmy Aaja!

I’ll assume you’ve all seen the new video for “Jimmy” by MIA by now. When…

“This one will put some bubbles in your bath”

I haven’t mentioned a lot of dubstep on the blog recently, the reason being I…

The Go! Team – My World

Promo video for the Go! Team’s fantastic new album Proof of Youth featuring the instrumental…

Memphis Series: Shawn Lane

The second in a series on Memphis music, where Don shares some love for music…

Voodoo Lounge in Polaroids

As promised, here are the polaroids I took on Friday night. For those interested the…

10 reasons why this is the best video ever (this week)

Our housemate Amy showed us this video yesterday. It is probably the best music video…

Voodoo and the Observer Music Magazine

Savage night on Friday with a capacity Voodoo crowd and a great buzz about the…

Hip Hop ain’t dead.. here’s proof

All the good hip hop these days is in the control of the producers, hence…

Hard Working Class Heroes Line-up

Forget about this dull and predictable Arcade Fire ticket fiasco, here’s the lineup for the…

UNKLE live footage

In case you were wondering, it looks like it could be an Electric Picnic highlight…

CD Giveaway: 2 Tall, Dudley Perkins & Georgia Ann Muldrow closes today

Copies of 2 Tall, Dudley Perkins & Georgia Ann Muldrow’s album and t-shirts to giveaway.…

Gig this Friday: The best of new Irish music

This Friday, a gig featuring some of the best new Irish bands in Voodoo Lounge…

The legacy of The Clash

It was the “Straight to Hell”-sampling “Paper Planes” from MIA’s forthcoming Kala that reminded me…

Prefuse 73 album & Irish date

Awesome. In the inbox this morning from Warp, an email telling of the new forthcoming…