Hit play and hear a song from each album in my top 30 of 2011.30. The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (whole album stream)
29. Cut Copy – Zonoscope
28. Modeselektor – Monkeytown
27. Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
Here we are. The end of the sixth year of the Nialler9 poll. Thank you all once again for voting. We had about 100 or so votes that made up the results in songs, new artists, EPs and now, the big one – albums. Our
Image above courtesy of Nouveaunoise’s artwork.The annual Nialler9 readers’ poll is back. For the sixth time, I’m looking for your top 5 Irish albums and songs of the year. Lat year’s best album was awarded to Villagers’ Becoming A Jackal and best song went
Following the recent closure of his long running Small Hours show on Today FM, Donal Dineen is currently taking a month out of broadcasting to spend some down time back at the drawing board, but watch out for collaborations with Myles O’Reilly in the new
Sent out to funders of her upcoming Goldmine project, Nina Hynes (with Fabien Leseure) covers a song from Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas (aka the best Christmas album ever). The album is three-quarters the way towards completion with vinyl copies promised for February/March.Download
Two years ago, I ran a series of guest posts from people involved in Irish music featuring their top 5 Irish acts at that moment. This time around, I thought I’d shift the focus to international and ask a similar question – “Who are your top 5 new art…
The final night of the St. James’ Church recordings and it’s possibly the best of the lot. We begin with an unknown which we quickly want to find out more about. Ben Howard is an English singer songw…
After establishing a pocket of Ireland’s musical space all to themselves with Volume #1 a year ago, the Popical Island collective have checked back with the finest of the country’s indie-pop and alternative bands, and enlisted some new ones to bring us Volume #2, which will be released on June 25th on CD and download. [...]
Following on from last year’s rather brilliant elaborate series which culminated in a live concert (so much more than that), Jonna Lee and her iamamiwhoami friends return with a new song and video. Cue the “What does it all meaaan?” …
Having already released the Lover’s Holiday EP this year which featured Glasser, Dave Sitek, Solange and Sara Quin from Tegan and Sara, Theo L has announced his full-length proper Timez Are Weird These Days will come out on July 19th in the U.S. ‘Last Name London’ is being offered up as a free download for [...]