Highlights

For Those I Love is playing a Tolka Park benefit gig

Dave Balfe is an avid Shelbourne FC supporter and the club is pretty central to…

Galway’s Black Gate have a 12-part TG4 music series featuring Sam Amidon, Rachael Lavelle, Mary Wallopers, New Jackson, Seamus Begley, Junior Brother & many more

CUMASC: Seisiúin sa Black Gate is a new 12-part music series that blends a concert…

Podcast: The music that got us through January

It’s a new year, but the same old us. Andrea and Niall kick off 2022 (yes, we…

AVA Festival announces Jon Hopkins, Mura Masa, Overmono, Biig Piig, Ross From Friends & more for 2022 Belfast edition

AVA Festival has added a rake of acts to its 2022 Belfast edition which this…

10 great new songs to love this week

New music from Sworn Virgins, Silverbacks, Yenkee, Fred again, HAAi, Romy, Boy Harsher, Hiro Ama, Andhim, Gerd Jansen, Bodega, Max Cooper.

Róisín Murphy for 3Olympia Dublin gig

After not being able to play a gig this past New Year’s Eve due to…

Caribou at Vicar Street is now happening next week

Due to happenings of a complete reopening of hospitality and events on Friday, the scheduled…

Have you heard the one about Meatloaf’s gig in Moate?

Ronan Casey has a great story about Meatloaf playing a tour of rural Ireland when…

12 new Irish songs you should hear this week

Featuring Tara Nome Doyle, Long Island Sound, Junk Drawer, Skripteh, 49th & Main, Elzzz, Travis, Lucy Gaffney, Fia Moon, Jena Keating, Tung In Cheek, Blondmodel, Find-Joy, Matt O.

Pillow Queens announce second album Leave The Light On & new song ‘Be By Your Side’

Good news this Wednesday morning. Pillow Queens have announced that their second album Leave The…

Podcast: How we can change Ireland’s licensing laws today with Give Us The Night

Sunil Sharpe and Robbie Kitt of The Give Us The Night Campaign join us to talk the modernisation of the licensing laws and the open consultation which close to the public this week.

Primal Scream to play Screamadelica live at Fairview Park

Primal Scream released their class psychedelic album Screamadelica 30 years ago last year, and the…

The 10 best new tracks released today: FKA Twigs, Soulé, Warmduscher, Guerilla Toss & more

The 10 best new tracks out today – also featuring Imarhan, Hot Chip, Earl Sweatshirt, !!!, Kae Tempest, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, DJ Shadow.

Kae Tempest announces Irish tour

The English poet Kae Tempest will play four Irish dates in Ireland this year. They…

15 new Irish songs you should hear this week

Featuring Crash Ensemble/ELLLL, banríon, Duke Dimez, Sprints, Kyoto Love Hotel, Tomike, IMLÉ, Róisín Seoighe, No Monster Club, Nina Hynes, Rory Sweeney, Curtisy, Ahmed With Love, Pirate, CK & McG, Nixer, Súil Amháin, Anamoe Drive.

Watch: Stevie Appleby perform ‘Mother Of Pearl’ in the ruins of a manor reclaimed by nature

Chromatic is a video series capturing musicians in unique places around Ireland. See previous episodes…

Fontaines D.C. announce third album Skinty Fia & new song ‘Jackie Down The Line’

Dublin band Fontaines D.C. have released the first taste of new music from their forthcoming…

The Nialler9 Radio Show – January 2022

Kicking off the new year on the site with a radio show available to all…

Here are the nominees for the Irish album of the year // RTÉ Choice Music Prize 2021

The 10 nominees for the seventeenth RTÉ Choice Music Prize 2021 were announced this week,…

Nialler9’s Top 30 albums of 2021

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