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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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T-Woc ar an raidio

I’ve really been enjoying T-Woc’s (Alphabet Set) radio show on Raidio na Life of late,…

Nouveau Noise

There is some absolute gems of musical talent coming out of Ireland lately, specifically in…

Bjork: She so crazy..

Cover of her new album Volta… With input from Timbaland, Konono no.1, Mark Bell (LFO),…

Electric Picnic 07 initial line-up

The Beastie Boys* Bjork* LCD Soundsystem* Iggy And The Stooges Jarvis Cocker* The Jesus And…

LCD Soundsystem live @ Electric Picnic

In anticipation for the 6pm lineup announcement, Chris @ Culture Bully has the live mp3s…

Squarepusher, Herbie Hancock and Brian Eno: The Album

As seen on the Electric Picnic forum, a piece of news that is dated from…

MRK1 @ !Kaboogie

Rolling into town on the good ship dubstep and fresh from releasing one of the…

Free! Herv – Ramps mix

Excellent vid for Herv’s ‘lost me’ by the dude(ttes) at Polygon Farmer Here’s one that’s…

Deerhoof – Kidz are so Small Video (Unofficial)

Deerhoof’s latest Friend Opportunity is a treasure trove of exhilarating day-glo rock ‘n’ roll songs…

Daft Punk: Geniuses or Rip off Merchants?

You may have seen this doing the rounds on the interweb recently. Sparked by a…

New Dizzeeee!

“Don’t make me get old school..” Diplo let this one slip on his Mad Decent…

The Bees: The best 60’s band of the 21st Century

(Barry likes The Bees. Barry would like to tell you about The Bees. Ladies and…

Every music blogger and their mothers..

..will be linking to this today. Arcade Fire live in an Elevator…”Neon Bible” & “Wake…

CocoRosie: Wicked & Weird

Before I listened to the new CocoRosie album, I was still undecided on the merit…

Guest Post: Messiah J @ SXSW

(In which Messiah J, from local hip hop heroes Messiah J and the Expert tells…

The Triptych

When I was a teenager, before the advent of iPods, I was quite fond of…

Speaking in Tongues

The latest fruits of the musical friendship between Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and Steve Reid…

Podcast 001 – March 07

I’m delighted to introduce to you, the first nialler9 monthly podcast presented by Aoife Mc,…

Treat her Right!

Quick post dedicated to all our mothers (although probably more so just a pretext to…

Sonar 2007 line-up

Very strong line-up so far this year. I reckon Beastie Boys, Cornelius and Devo will…