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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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Free and Legal: Netlab releases

While we’re on the subject there’s a teasure trove of albums by quality electronic artists…

Free and Legal: Explosions in the Sky – “The Rescue EP”

I wasn’t a big fan of Explosions in the Sky’s latest All Of A Sudden…

Bonde do Rock ‘n’ Role!

It’s always a party when these three Brazilians are in town. Silly samples and dance…

Leftfield live @ Homelands 2000 full set

Oh yes. This is a big one for me because it was one of the…

Lupe Fiasco samples Thom Yorke

The rapper with the most graphically designed album cover of all time releases a song…

Battles live TBMC 25th May 07

Finally the band I’ve been enthusing about for the previous year or so make it…

Christ on a bike! Feist on a bus!

My dad reminded me of this (note: My dad is cool). “I Feel it All”…

Drunk French people

A quick post on last night’s TTC gig in the Village. Organised by the French…

Subtle live

Subtle were great on Friday. Doseone is a great performer and MC. Here’s a taster…

Full gig videos: Battles, Animal Collective, Girl Talk, Joanna Newsom and more

Some from youTube, some from Stage6. You may need a Divx Web player to watch…

Podcast 003 – May 07

No great fanfare this month, just great tunes. Presented by Aoife Mc, presenter of The…

Monday Mashup: R Kelly flirts with BSS

Without a doubt, one of the most hilarious craziest WTF? entertaining mashups I’ve heard since…

Balkan Gypsy Folk revisited

So you dig a bit of Beirut and you’d like to hear more Eastern Folk…

Mice Parade new album

That’s right, Adam Pierce is about to release his seventh studio album as Mice Parade…

Win tickets to Electric Picnic!

You may or may not have noticed that things were quiet here last week. The…

New Beastie Boys – The Rat Cage!

From the forthcoming instrumental album The Mix Up! Seems like it’s going to be somewhere…

Clipse show rescheduled (now Cancelled)

Just got a call from Ticketmaster (WTF?) to tell me the Clipse show in Vicar…

Prelude to UNKLE

Today, sees the release of a limited edition UNKLE 7″ ep A Prelude to War…

“Lend me your Face” video

Further to the mention of Fight like Apes yesterday, Eddie at No Clarity alerted me…

Let’s take a look shall we..

I want to do a quick post on some music and blogs I’ve seen over…