This ’80s ballad version of Rihanna & Calvin Harris’ ‘This Is What You Came For’ rules

Last year, Justin Bieber’s songs were reimagined as drippy ’80s ballads by Tronicbox. Now, Glasgow-based…

Here’s a Spotify playlist featuring all of Anderson .Paak guest spots & collabs

Anderson .Paak owned 2016 around here with Malibu being my album of the year since…

Kaytranada & Alicia Keys link up on a new song

Kaytranada is known for providing bumping instrumentals that suit honey-voiced R&B singers and Alicia Keys…

7 new songs you need to hear this week

Follow the Nialler9 New Music playlist on Spotify. This is only a selection of new…

Fans of Solange & Kelela, listen to Alexandria’s new LP

For R&B fans, Alexandria’s newest LP, Cut Of Cloth, which just dropped on Awful Records…

Listen to The 202s new single ‘Up In Thin Air’

Six years after the release of their debut album which drew favourable reviews and comparisons…

Watch rapper Lethal Dialect’s powerful spoken word piece about Apollo House

Apollo House in Dublin is a vacant building that has been occupied by the Home…

Album of the week: Run The Jewels – RTJ3

El-P and Killer Mike’s partnership continues at full clip with the release of their third…

17 New Artists To Love in 2017

Now we’ve kicked 2016 to the curb, it’s time to look forward. January is all…

This Run The Jewels / DJ Shadow mashup mix is magic

DJ Skarface took beats from DJ Shadow’s discography and paired them with acapellas from Run…

Young Dubliner Reuben James channels Kendrick on ‘What You Want’

There’s an undeniable influence on Reuben James‘ impressive new track ‘What You Want’. The flow…

Irish beatmaker Plant Food & MC Ganiyu TLG collaborate on the grimey ‘Shivers’
https://soundcloud.com/plantfoodmusic/sets/the-greenroom

The Dublin beatmaker Plant Food dropped a fine EP of Brainfeeder-style beats late last year,…

Brian Eno has already done two great things in 2017

On January 1st, Brian Eno released his latest excursion into ambient music – Reflection. The…

London Grammar return with ‘Rooting For You’

The London three-piece London Grammar released their debut album If You Wait and the band…

Listen to David Kitt’s new album Yous

David Kitt released his first album in in his own name in in eight years…

Watch the first episode of Donal Dineen’s new online show This Ain’t No Disco

As trailed back in November with Donal Dineen reflecting on the No Disco TV show…

Top 10 Tracks of 2016: Eve DJs

Eve are a Dublin-based female DJ collective host all-female parties of electronic music in the…

Top 10 Tracks of 2016: Colm K

Colm K is a Cork DJ and producer who is among our best. He has…

Top 10 Tracks of 2016: Ghostboy

Phil Boyle aka Ghostboy is a DJ resident at Mother in Dublin and a producer…

Nialler9’s Top 40 albums of 2016

2016 Best of | Best albums | Best songs | Irish albums | Irish songs…