Highlights

Budget 2021: An overview of live music, arts and entertainment funding announced

It’s been an unforeseen 12 months since we last discussed the Budget in regards to…

The 25 best songs of the month

The best of September 2020.

Handpicked new tunes: Anderson .Paak, Roosevelt, Nealo, Erica Cody, Channel Tres, Fia Moon & more

Friday is release day and here’s the first things that caught my ear while listening…

Nialler9 Podcast: Ailbhe Reddy’s personal debut album in review

On this week’s pod we have some surprise guests from chimney sweepers who interrupt the recording process more than once. Welcome to the home office. We review Ailbhe Reddy’s debut album, discuss new Bicep, Kynsy, Bon Iver guests on a track and we talk Eddie Van Halen’s legacy.

10 of our favourite new songs this week

Music from Ultraflex, Mansur Brown, Keeley Forsyth, Anna B Savage, PVA, Arp Frique, Purity Ring, Dan Kye, Babeheaven & more.

Chromatic & Maija Sofia haunt The National War Memorial Gardens during performance of ‘The Gold Shoes’

Chromatic are an Irish film collective who specialise in capturing once-off, boutique live performances from…

Introducing: Newry 18-year-old Lauren Ann has the grunge pop smarts on ‘How It Works’

The North of Ireland has always been a hotbed of guitar and rock music, usually…

Bicep announce new album Isles & release new single ‘Apricots’

Bicep have announced a new album Isles, will be released on Ninja Tune on January…

15 new Irish songs you should hear this week

New music from Jehnova, Kynsy, JEAG, Alex Gough, USNA, Wyvern Lingo, Seba Safe, Rooue, Paddy Chambers, Lūna, Jar Jar jr, Mount Alaska, Autumns, A. Smyth Aural Air & more

Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock took the piss with his Rolling Stones Greatest album list submission

Rolling Stone recently published its list of 500 greatest albums , updating it for 2020.…

It’s Ireland Music Week – an overview who’s playing and what’s happening at the online showcase & conference event

It’s Ireland Music Week and normally, that would mean spending much of the next seven…

Review: Denise Chaila – Go Bravely

The most buzzed Irish artist of 2020, Denise Chaila released not a debut album but…

Nialler9 Podcast: Róisín Murphy feels the machine

On this week’s pod we review the new album from the queen with her disco machine Róisín Murphy, focus on reasons to be cheerful and new songs from Romy, Ultraflex, Tune-Yards and a load of Irish artists on the collab.

Listen to volume 3 of A Litany of Failures feat. Silverbacks, Junk Drawer, Post Punk Podge, The Bonk, Problem Patterns, Careerist, Rising Damp & many more

What started as a split four-track EP with four bands Oh Boland, Junk Drawer, That…

First listen: Loah & Bantum – ‘NGLA’

The partnership of Irish Sierra Leonean singer-songwriter and Cork producer Ruairi Lynch AKA Bantum continues…

Watch CMAT’s eh, cowboy-themed video for ‘I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby!’

It was one of our tracks of the week and continues CMAT’s run of excellent…

10 of our favourite new songs this week

Music from CMAT, Fatima Yamaha, Joji, Gadget & The Cloud, Fleet Foxes, Avalon Emerson, Clipping, Bonobo and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and more.

Nialler9 Podcast #106: Sufjan faces spiritual and societal struggles

Episode 106 of the Nialler9 Podcast finds us reviewing the ultra-long electronic hymnal album from Sufjan Stevens, discuss Autumn a lot and enthuse about Keanu Reeves classic film Speed.