Sarsparilla – Slave to the Cat Gang

Damien Lynch aka Sarsparilla’s last album Karahee was one of 2007’s best Irish albums in…

New track from The Knife

Taken from the studio version of the band’s Darwinian Opera Tomorrow, In A Year out…

Sending Letters to Sea

Here’s an album which was quietly launched at the tail-end of last year. Sending Letters…

Video: Mos Def and Talib Kweli – History feat. Talib Kweli

Mos Def and Talib Kweli reunited on The Ecstatic last year over this J Dilla-beat.…

Ceol Ar An Imeall promo video

A promo video for Una Mullally’s (formerly UnaRocks) new TG4 music show which airs from…

Jinder – Youth Blood promo mix

Here’s a great promo mix by Trouble and Bass’ The Captain to promote Stockholm lass…

365 Days of Dubstep

After some conversations with friends about dubstep recently, I thought I’d put up some tunes…

Jay-Z – On To The Next One

My favourite track from The Blueprint III gets the much-deserved video treatment. Swizz Beats produced…

Remixes of the year 2009
La Roux – In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix) Sébastien Tellier –…
NYE in Dublin

I’m staying out of Dublin for New Year’s but if you are in the capital,…

Flying Lotus decade mix by Gaslamp Killer

I’m interrupting my self-imposed post-Christmas break to let you know about this in case you…

Nialler9 Irish albums of 2009 poll results

Below you will find the countdown of the 30 albums that got the highest number of votes in the Irish album poll. There are some surprises in there to me. The number one album on the list actually won by a fair few points in the end. In a year where there was no clear favourite, it’s interesting to see such an album top the list. A few of the albums charted quite highly considering they were only released in the last month or so.

Nialler9 Irish songs of 2009 poll results

  The results of the poll are ready to be revealed. First up, the Irish…

Nialler9’s albums of 2009

Yes, it’s still list season. As State kicks off its Top 50 of the year,…

And So I Watch You From Afar – The Voiceless live in Thomas House

Taken at the almost-secret gig the band played last night in Dublin’s Thomas House after…

Video: Somadrone – Providence

Director Eoghan Kidney rounds off an impressive year with a new “minus-budget affair” video for…

Video: The Drums – I Felt Stupid

Nostalgic soft-focus black and white video for The Drums‘ 80s-tastic ‘I Felt Stupid’. It was…

And So I Watch You From Afar basement gig this Sunday

One of my bands of the year, And So I Watch You From Afar are…

Interview with Diplo, win a limited t-shirt

Here’s an interesting interview conducted by CTRL (a Top Man yokey) with Diplo where he…

The best entries in the Rubberbandits drawing competition

On Monday I asked you, on behalf of the Rubberbandits to draw a picture of…