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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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Grate..

I got The Grates album in the post a few weeks ago. The only song…

Warp – New Squarepusher

There’s a good chance you will have heard something from this already but if not…

Warp – Grizzly Bear

Continuing the diversification of Warp’s roster, Grizzly Bear are an unusual addition to the the…

How do you like your Battles in the morning?

Cheers to Mike for the last post! To continue with the Warp theme today, There’s…

Low Frequency Oscillation: A beginners guide

Sometime contributer Mike here. Hailing from a Leeds scene that included Nightmares on Wax and…

Human is Music

[youtube]SKiILPOhle8[/youtube] Signed to Rumracket, a small label from Copenhagen which also released Grizzly Bear’s first…

Time to Choose

Just a quick note to tell you all I’ve put a subscribe by email form…

The Simpsons VS The White Stripes

Deadly.. [youtube]qNwUKpHmxXA[/youtube]

Emily Haines solo album

Sometime Broken Social Scene member and Metric frontwoman, Emily Haines is releasing her first solo…

Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid live

The Spiegeltent is a great venue for the kind of collaboration offered by Kieran Hebden…

Synthesizers and Pop Melodies

I realized that Fujiya and Miyagi were from not Japan when I heard the lyrics…

Justice live next weekend

You may have seen Justice warm up for Daft Punk in Marley Park a few…

We all had a lovely time

It’s nice to come back home every now and again to visit the parents, say…

Wolf like Me video

I know I’ve been overdosing on the YouTube videos of late, but TV on the…

Dabrye

Hip hop inspired by P.E., DJ Premier, Kraftwerk, J Dilla, Dr. Dre; the sonic result…

New video from The Knife – “Like a Pen”

New video for The Knife’s “Like A Pen” directed by long time The Knife collaborator…

Soundtrack for the weekend

From a Dutch electropunk compilation – Some Tunes released by Basserk. Ladies and Gentlemen –…

Banksy, Twink, Joanna and Tunng

A few things of interest in the past few days…. Banksy’s been in the news…

Feed me great things

First things first for anybody who is subscribed to the site via RSS, I’ve updated…

Electric Picnic review: Highs, Lows and Videos

Normality is a hard thing to grasp after such an ecstatic weekend at Electric Picnic.…