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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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Free Madlib / Talib Kweli album – The Liberation

Anybody who’s a regular visitor to the site will know I dig Stones Throw Records.…

2007 album previews

Right, now that 2006 has been put to bed, let’s look forward to some releases…

Big Ups

The Alphabet Set Christmas party was banging last night, the Voodoo Lounge was packed and…

Shugo Tokumaru covers M.Ward, Peter, Bjorn and John

As part of their end of year round-up, Cokemachineglow have put up a podcast of…

From the Basement mp3s

Now that From the Basement is available for broadcast to your computer screen or for…

Top Irish albums of 2006 – The Results

Thanks to everyone who voted this past week. In total we had 198 votes with…

Eraser remixes

Thom Yorke posted two remixes of songs from The Eraser on theeraser.net yesterday. On DeadAirSpace,…

Top 20 Albums of 2006 – 10-1

10. Cut Chemist – The Audience’s Listening When Cut Chemist left Jurassic 5 earlier this…

Top 20 Albums of 2006 – 15-11

15. Nomo – New Tones The funkiest album on the list, Michigan-based Nomo take their…

Top 20 Albums of 2006 – 20-16

It’s December so that means only one thing. Time for plenty of best of lists!…

From the Basement

This looks like it could be worth a look. From The Basement is a live…

Top Brass

Most of you probably know Herb Alpert already and it’d be pretty surprising if any…

Top Irish albums of 2006 poll: Vote!

I’ve been compiling my end of year album and songs list over the past few…

The case of the Mystery Techno Mix

Hello all, Mike here. Today I have a treat for techno afficionados (but maybe not…

New El-P

2 new songs from El-P forthcoming I’ll Sleep when you’re Dead album out in March…

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…