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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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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…

LEYODE, Tyondai Braxton

Signed to Prefuse 73’s Eastern Developments label, Brooklyn’s LEYODE (All Caps please) come across as…

It’s the new style…Jumpstyle!

If anything was right with the world, the kids would put down their Wii’s, forget…

Modeselektor Boogy Bites Mix

Modeselektor have contributed to the third volume of the Boogy Bytes mix series on bPitch…

Beirut live video – The Bowery Ballroom

To wet your appetite for next month, here’s a beautifully shot live video from NY…

Architecture in Helsinki DJ /Rupture remix

You know we’re a big fans of Architecture in Helsinki around here and now another…

Introducing…The Cool Kids

Rockin’ a line of hip hop harking back to the days of EPMD and Eric…

Bertie Ahern is a Dirty C**t

Well its election time in Ireland so I felt it was ripe time that the…

Sunday Song Shocka

The Funniest story of the week appeared in the Guardian on Saturday: Radio 1 was…

Super Furries in the Studio

Recording their new album Hey Venus! The first song you hear is the title track.…

Song of the Week – Feist – 1234

I’ve been sick the last few days hence the lack of updates. Dizziness, headaches and…

Gig Madness – May & June

May and June are absolutely jam-packed with Gigs, there’s bound to be a few I’m…

New Beastie Boys Album!

It’s called The Mix-Up and is out on July 10th. It’s an all instrumental album…