Track-by-track: Get to know Limerick’s Martian Subculture’s excellent new Bank Prologue LP

The Limerick city artist Martian Subculture quietly released one of the best Irish records of…

Here are the changes the government is planning to bring in to allow nightclubs to stay open to 6am

The government’s overhaul of licensing in Ireland will mean a modernisation of Irish nightlife.

St. Patrick’s Festival: 6 music highlights to see this week

As you can see from this week’s gig guide, there is a lot happening in…

A Kyiv producer, currently in Kerry, on Ukraine’s electronic music scene

I’m Dari Maksymova, a Kyiv-based music producer, born and raised in Eastern Ukraine (aka Donbas).…

Podcast: Our best new music picks of February

It’s Andrea and Niall with our monthly new music recommender episode. We are talking albums from Big Thief (yes…

5 favourite albums from February

Big Thief, Cate Le Bon, ASIWYFA, Black Country New Road, Whozyerman?

Podcast: Why do we love Steely Dan?

Exploring the samples and the enduring appeal of Steely Dan’s jazzy high-fidelity rock studio albums.

Thinking of ditching Spotify? Musician Joel Harkin explores alternative music platforms so you don’t have to

Belfast-based songwriter Joel Harkin wrote to us in response to our alternatives to Spotify podcast,…

Nialler9 Podcast – A visit to Black Gate in Galway

A few weeks ago, Myself and Andrea took a day trip to Galway city to…

Waltons is marking 100 years of business in 2022; win a €250 voucher from the Dublin music institution

Did you know the iconic music shop Waltons is celebrating being open for 100 years…

Nialler9’s Top 30 albums of 2021

30. Four Tet Parallel Four Tet’s eleventh album was released on Christmas Day 2020, alongside…

Nialler9’s Top 100 songs of 2021: #50 – #1

See all best of 2021 coverage. The best songs of the year #100 to #51…

Nialler9’s Top 100 Irish songs of 2021

If Nialler9 has helped you discover new music this year, or any other year, consider…

Nialler9’s Top 100 songs of 2021: 100-51

See all best of 2021 coverage. Part one of our best songs of 2021 posts.…

Nialler9’s Top 25 Irish albums of 2021

There was hope that 2021 would be a different kind of year to 2020, but…

Music Generation: Where are they now? – with Mayo noise-rock band Nerves

Music Generation is Ireland’s national music education programme which aims to transform the lives of…

Nialler9 Podcast: The best albums of 2021

Part one of the trilogy of the Nialler9 Best of the year podcasts is here,…

The 30 best new Irish artists of 2021

Welcome to the fourth annual Nialler9 new artists list! As with last year’s list, this…

Nialler9 Podcast: Adele has some big feelings on 30

On this week’s Nialler9 Podcast, Andrea and Niall are talking about Adele. “Mummy’s been having…