The Nialler9 Weekly Dublin Gig Guide

Win guestlist here: Thursday: Booka Brass @ The Sugar Club (€17.50) Friday: Out To Lunch with Sassy…

Watch the trailer for an upcoming documentary on Norwegian disco

Norway is a surprising hotbed of electronic disco talent with the likes of Prins Thomas,…

New seaside festival Live On Air announced for Sligo: The Riptide Movement, Rusangano Family, Wyvern Lingo, Meltybrains? , This Side Up

A new festival to take place by the seaside Enniscrone, Co. Sligo has been announced…

Castlepalooza add more acts: Le Boom, Cinema, Hvmmingbyrd, Tu-Ki, Farah Elle, Lumigraph & more

Castlepalooza already announced the first bands and comedy acts for this year’s festival in Charleville Castle,…

Treat your ears with Sampha’s Tiny Desk Concert

The ever essential NPR Tiny Desk Concert series hosted Sampha recently who played stripped-down versions…

The Nialler9 Weekly Cork Gig Guide

WEDNESDAY 29TH MARCH: CIT Battle of the Bands Final @ Cyprus Avenue (8pm, €2) The…

Watch Katie Kim collaborate on ‘Salt Interventions’ with Crash Ensemble

Waterford artist Katie Kim released her The Choice Music Prize nominated album Salt in 2016…

Village People, Deacon Blue, Boney M & All Saints are playing the Punchestown Festival

The Punchestown Festival filled that Oxegen-shaped hole on the Irish festival circuit for pure nostalgia…

Premiere: Cinema – ‘Floating’ feat. Christy Leech

Kildare producer Peter Fleming aka Cinema released an under the radar electronic album A Night…

Pet Shop Boys for Dublin gig

Pet Shop Boys are to play Bord Gais Energy Theatre on Tuesday September 5th in…

Villagers has given this White Kite song a techno spin

In February, Conor O’Brien aka Villagers surprised everyone by releasing a very banging remix of…

Dublin edit label Orange Tree Edits releases 002, hear Robbie Kitt’s edit

New Dublin edit label Orange Tree Edits released their first 12″ in January and it…

Future Islands – ‘Cave’

Following on from ‘Ran’, Future Islands return with their signature bass-lead synth rhythm on ‘Cave’…

Hvmmingbyrd get a do-over to address male harassment in the ‘Legacy’ music video

Hvmmingbyrd’s new video for their EP song ‘Legacy’ gives women who are the subject of…

Gorillaz drop 4 new songs featuring Vince Staples, Savages, Popcaan & D.R.A.M.

Gorillaz returned last night with news of a new album Humanz and as promised, a…

Kendrick Lamar drops ‘The Heart Part 4’

After cryptic Instagram clues, Kendrick dropped his new single ‘The Heart Part 4’ last night,…

Lumo Club returns this Saturday, here are our DJs’ current favourites

Our monthly club night, Lumo is back in Yamamori Tengu, off Great Strand Street (near…

Knockanstockan announce gig series in lieu of festival this year

As was announced last year, Knockanstockan is on a fallow year in 2017 but the…

Here’s one of my songs of the year: Ships – ‘All Will Be’

One of my favourite Irish bands of the last five years, the disco synth-pop band…

Aspiring Irish women DJs – there’s a day of female/ LGBTQ workshops lined up

Last week, I pointed out the lack of women on a small dance music festival’s…