Rap & Hip-Hop

Aesop Rock live in Crawdaddy

Aesop is one rapper I’ve always wanted to see live and the opportunity came to…

Upcoming gigs: Edan/Dagha, Percee P, Guilty Simpson, Cool Kids, Aesop Rock

Some shows worthy of notice by promoters Choice Cuts, particularly Edan & Dagha on the…

Forthcoming: Cadence Weapon – Afterparty Babies

Cadence Weapon AKA Edmonton, Canada resident Rollie Pemberton released Breaking Kayfabe last year. It featured…

Barry’s top 3 albums you may have overlooked

Well its nearly the end of 2007 so I asked nialler if I could do…

Top 30 Albums of 2007

My subjective offering of albums I utterly loved this year. Ooh, and please don’t tell…

Girl Talk, Foggy Notions Xmas Party

For one night only last Thursday, Whelans turned into an amalgamation of sorority/fraternity parties usually…

DJ Krush to play Dublin in January

Japan’s legendary hip hop DJ, DJ Krush is playing The Sugar Club on 24th January…

Music Board of Ireland Documentary

Here’s a music documentary you won’t be seeing in its entirety on Irish TV any…

Favourite Songs of 2007

I relish compiling lists. So much so that I ended up with a list of…

13 Things you may have missed this week

I’m back from a great week in Poland (not as cold as Ireland despite my…

nialler9 Podcast #9: November

Well, myself and Aoife are heading off to Poland for the week so we are…

Pet Sounds in the key of J Dilla

London producer Bullion has taken his sample inspiration from two very different sources for this…

Shape of Broad Minds photos

After the Terrordactyl gig on Friday, we headed to the Shape of Broad Minds late…

Weekend Jukebox #4

I want those strip lights that Simian Mobile Disco are using. I want a full…

Ticket Giveaway: Shape of Broad Minds

The crew behind one of the best hip hop albums of the year, Shape of…

Spank Rock – Pu$$y video

You’d want to have watched a lot of pornography for this video to be considered…

EP Giveaway: Spank Rock – Bangers & Cash

I’ve got one copy of the nasty sex-fuelled Bangers & Cash EP from Spank Rock…

Saul Williams does a Radiohead

Saul Williams is releasing his album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! online next…

Company Flow re-unite @ CMJ (kinda)

The worst kept secret in New York last week was that at Def Jux’s CMJ…

nialler9 Podcast #8: October

We finally recorded number eight last night, despite being overcome with random giddiness all day…