The Best of the Month episode is Patreon-only. This is a preview on the public feed. This month’s best of the month guest is music writer Vanessa Roulston Mooney. We pick our favourite music of the ...

Double headliner with Bristol indie post-punks and Dublin rockers. Support from Limerick’s Some Images of Paradise. Cathal Ryan is a music journalist based in Limerick. With Nialler9, he writes gig ...

“I’ve missed you, let’s get intimate,” says Kevin Smith. “It’s been too long since I’ve played a show so I’ve decided to do a couple super small, intimate gigs so I can show you what I’ve been working ...

Dublin Gig Guide Highlights: They Are Gutting A Body Of Water, CC:Disco, Dangerous Currents, Magdalena Baty, Leftfield, Halina Rice, Burglar, Euroworld, Ben UFO, 49th ...

Rory Sweeney is a Dublin producer, DJ and sound artist who last year released his debut solo album Old Earth – “a meditation on time, decay, memory, and myth in the digital age. The album maps a dream ...

The Galway-born Manchester-based singer-songwriter Dove Ellis debut album Blizzard was released in November. Blizzard capitalised on Ellis’ already buzzing reputation that was helped by an American ...

Dublin Gig Guide Highlights: Whelan’s Ones To Watch , Mr Scruff, Biffy Clyro, First Fortnight, Tolü Makay, Nealo, Melina Malone, Ailbhe Reddy, Ham Sandwich ...

Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish ...

I had to cap this year’s list to 50 out of time necessity, but I had a list of 120+ songs that I thought were great from Irish artists and bands this year that was worthy of a list like this but alas, ...

This is Delu Kanam’s debut release entitled ‘Mafaro’. Led by label producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ Matt Davies AKA Dirty Hairy, this ensemble’s infectious African groove shines through. We’re ...

Galway-based DJ and broadcaster Cian Ó Cíobháin hosts An Taobh Tuathail week-nights on RTÉ RnaG. When not on the airwaves, Cian has been throwing Disco Dána parties in intimate venues around the ...

My obsession with this album endures. This track following ‘West End Girl’ is like a kick. It feels like a shock, as Allen traverses from the dreamy romance to the break down of the relationship.