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Dublin Gig Guide
The best gigs in Dublin this week – April 9th to 15th

Gig Guide highlights: Dry Cleaning, The Hives, Or:La, Alabaster DePlume, Omni, Horse Lords, Somebody’s Child, J Mascis, After Eight Club, Peach Club, Muireann Bradley, Rally for Rafah, Bryson Tiller.

Lambrini Girls (Photo: Marilena Vlachopoulou)
Artists call on The Great Escape Festival to drop sponsor due to ties to Israel arms companies

Solidarity groups have posted an open statement for the Brighton new music festival The Great…

Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple’s Tidal is our next Listening Party album at The Big Romance

The hosts of the Nialler9 Podcast (Niall Byrne and Andrea Cleary) in conjunction with The…

Interpol
Interpol bring Antics anniversary show to Dublin’s 3Arena

As fans have hoped, The Antics 20th Anniversary Tour is coming to Ireland later this…

10 new songs we love this week

Featuring Charli XCX, Khruangbin, NxWorries, Mount Kimbie, King Krule, System Olympia, Working Men’s Club, Mike Lindsay, Anna B Savage, Vegyn, John Glacier, Annie-Claude Deschênes , Porij.

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Nialler9 Podcast: The ABCs of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter

Niall and Andrea are talking about the A B, and Cs of Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé’s…

Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit day-by-day lineup and new acts added

The city festival has revealed its day lineups and added new acts to its 12th…

Glass Animals. Photo: Lillie Eiger.
Glass Animals for Dublin 3Arena show

The English band Glass Animals have announced a 41-date world tour. Glass Animals will release…

Dublin Gig Guide
The best gigs in Dublin this week: April 2nd – 8th

Gig Guide highlights: Fight Like Apes, Metronome Weekender, Lumo Club, Declan McKenna, Pissed Jeans, Fynch, Sharkett, Oisin Leech, Boys Noize, Stomptown Brass, The Hives, Conway The Machine.

10 best new Irish tracks of the week

Featuring Niamh Bury, Bobby Basil, Ugolino, Sharkett, Shee, 49th & Main, Lar Kaye, Maria Kelly, Really Good Time, Cable Boy, Good Company.

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The 20 best songs of March

Featuring: Waxahatchee, New Jackson, Bolis Pupul, Glass Beams, Kim Gordon, TATYANA, Bad With Phones, Sloucho, Declan McKenna, Ezra Williams, Four Tet, Empress Of.

Podcast: Andrea & Niall’s favourite music of March

It’s the Nialler9 Podcast’s monthly episode where Niall and Andrea talk about the albums and…

Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend for 3Arena Dublin show

Vampire Weekend have announced a European and UK tour with a Dublin show. The band…

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10 best new Irish tracks of the week

Featuring Fears, New Jackson, Melts, Travis, Elzzz, Sello, Kormac, MayKay, Papa Romeo, Fizzy Orange, Darcy Faith, Donkobz, Brale.

Palmerstown House
District X is a new 20,000-cap dance festival from Index and District 8

With the announcement of the cancellation of this year’s Life Festival, dance festivalgoers will have…

DJ Shadow / Dublin Gig Guide
The best gigs in Dublin this week (Easter edition)

Gig Guide highlights: A Litany of Failures Weekender, Cian O’Ciobhain’s Disco Dàna, DJ Shadow, Jungle, Thundercat, Mary Lattimore, Kormac, New Jackson, Tinlicker, Crazy P, Justin Robertson, Bella Festa, Happy Days Fest, Widowspeak, Bill Ryder Jones, Lucy McWilliams.

Lumo Club is happening at the Workman’s Cellar on April 6th for the first time

Our long running club night Lumo is going on the road this year as it…

Biig Piig performing at All Together Now 2023. by Aron Cahill.
All Together Now: 8 acts to see at the festival this year

Ahead of All Together Now’s imminent return to the fields of Curraghmore in Waterford this…

Cuba, Galway
Galway clubs Cuba & Electric to reopen this weekend

The well-known Galway club Cuba was an institution back in the day. The iconic Galway…

Portishead.
Nialler9 Podcast: A deep dive into Portishead – Dummy (1994)

Dummy was a darker, stranger record that would become a trip-hop classic that paired hip-hop, jazz, and electronic textures with Beth Gibbons spine-tingling voice and twangy tremolo guitars that belong in spy movies.