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The best music of March: Lankum, Lana, JPEGMafia & Danny Brown, Yves Tumor...
March 30, 2023

It's the monthly episode with Niall and Andrea discussing songs and albums we loved from the last month.March has given us a jam-packed month of albums to get our ears around, including:Lankum - False Lankum Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunn

MayKay on Fight Like Apes & Palestine
March 22, 2023

A second episode this week as it's a timely chat with MayKay, the vocalist, singer-songwriter and Other Voices presenter who is returning to her original role as lead vocalist with the band Fight Like Apes.The band split up in 2016 after releasing three a

Meet Me In The Bathroom with Dave Hanratty
March 21, 2023

On this episode of the Nialler9 Podcast, Niall is joined by No Encore's Dave Hanratty for a chat about Meet Me In The Bathroom, the recent documentary about the New York City music scene of the early 2000s.The film by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern&nbsp

David Holmes on making his 1997 classic Let's Get Killed
March 14, 2023

In 1996, the Belfast DJ and producer David Holmes travelled to New York to make a record. While hanging out in the Lower East Side and Alphabet City, Holmes and some pals, armed with a DAT recorder, dropped some acid and wandered around the city recording

Our music highlights of February
March 07, 2023

February was a short month but there was lots to love (and talk about).It's the monthly episode with Niall and Andrea discussing songs and albums we loved from the last month.Just before Andrea went off to India for the rest of the month, and after last w

Who will win the Choice Music Prize?
March 01, 2023

On this two-hour episode, Niall and Andrea are joined by writer and journalist Una Mullally, to discuss the 10 nominated albums in this year's Choice Music Prize Irish album of the year 2022 category.10 nominated albums are in the process to be pored ov

Our favourite samples in music
February 23, 2023

Episode 201 is a journey through some of the last 35 years in music through the medium of the sample, from the Amen break to famous sample-heavy albums to our own personal favourite sampled songs.We discuss how an obscure 1960s B-side became the most samp

200th Episode Q&A special
February 16, 2023

We mark 200 episodes of the Nialler9 Podcast by taking some questions from readers about indie sleaze, our favourite music videos, best interviewees, albums and gigs of 2023 we're looking forward to, podcast influences, dream jobs, and favourite albums si

B-sides, box sets & the vinyl revival
February 09, 2023

Episode 199 of the Nialler9 Podcast is about scarcity and rarity.Prompted by the news of a Strokes box set of 7" singles this month, Andrea Cleary talks about the particular form and use of B-sides in the streaming era, the role of singles in the ongoing

The 1975 live, our music favourites from January
February 02, 2023

Our first podcast of 2023 with Nialler and Andrea Cleary is a warm up for the year to come.Firstly, Andrea went to the 1975 live concert in Dublin last week and has some surprising thoughts on things, as well as a bit of a gush. For the rest of the episod