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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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Juana Molina live

Something about the revered anticipation that greeted Juana Molina as she took the stage in…

Top Ten Worst Sounding Records

Stylus scribe Nick Southall lists 10 albums which he considers to have bad production values…

Clipse – Hell Hath no Fury

Taken from Clipse’s forthcoming Hell Hath no Fury – an album considered to be a…

Deep Burial

Black Music is an apt title for Dublin duo Deep Burial’s latest release. It is…

Secret Ecuadorian Friends!

Nialler9 guest Mike here again to take you crazy kidz on a magical trip down…

Aaargh, how did I not know this?

Annuals, the band that have released one of my favourite albums of this year are…

Squarepusher BBC Culture Show

[youtube]uZ0LL1SJ-6U[/youtube] A brief interview from Squarepusher on the BBC’s Culture Show aired last month. As…

Playing catchup

The site was out of action over the weekend. The database is acting up so…

Live review: Metric in Spirit, Dublin, 2006

And so, another member of the musical juggernaut known as Broken Social Scene came to…

CSS Suxxx!!

CSS rocked the stage in the Village last night and wouldn’t let go until the…

LFO Live

Some photos and videos of last night’s LFO show, his first ever in Ireland. The…

Calexico, Beirut and a Hawk and a Hacksaw live

I was present at the above show in the Olympia on Thursday night thanks to…

Primal Skream

Digging deeper into dubstep over the last few weeks, I found Skream, currently man of…

The best of the blogosphere

Over the last few months, a barrage of posts on music blogs that I frequent…

Future Shorts short

It was a mad busy weekend for myself so there was no time to blog.…

New Gruff Rhys – CandyLion!

What was I saying a few posts ago! Gruff (SFA) has got a new MySpace…

Messiah J & The Expert

Messiah J and the Expert have raised the bar for Irish hip hop with the…

Miho Hatori

I remember buying the Cibo Matto album Stereo Type A on a whim in a…

New Madvillain video

Click to Adult Swim to see the animated video for the newest Madvillain song “Monkey…

Annuals album release

Just a quick reminder to all who were impressed with the Annuals songs posted here…