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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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Unreleased: Dabrye – Game Over (Flying Lotus remix)

You may have heard that Flying Lotus is the latest addition to the Warp family.…

Win two tickets to Beirut!

Gulag Orkestar was one of the best albums of last year and last week showed…

Life Festival

Following the Garden Party, next weekend sees the arrival of Life Festival, the first three…

When time becomes a loop

Phil Hartnoll of Orbital is playing with his new project, Long Range (accompanied by Propellerheads…

Kid Sister and Fools Gold records

We featured some of Kid Sister’s kid brother’s music in our April podcast as Flosstradamus…

Tonight! Skream!

Looking forward to this loads. It’ll be bubblin in Dublin with dubstep tonight! Crawdaddy –…

Os Mutantes playing Ireland!

Tropicalia legends Os Mutantes reformed in 2006 and played their first shows ever outside of…

Zach Condon (Beirut) – Venice

From a free CD given away with Believer magazine comes this gem of a tune…

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…