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Our favourite music of May
June 01, 2023

Niall and Andrea with episode 216 of the Nialler9 Podcast and our monthly new music recommender for the month of May 2023.On Episode 216, there are some "face eggs"-themed albums from Water From Your Eyes, Eyes Of Others and Caoilian Sherlock along with s

"Don't Call Me Mama Anymore" - The Legacy of Cass Elliot
May 25, 2023

A reappraisal of the career of Cass Elliot, formerly known as Mama Cass, of The Mamas & Papas.For this week's episode (#215), Andrea Cleary, takes the lead for a deep dive into the life and times of Cass Elliot, the late-60s singer who recently went v

Nealo on the inspiring songs of his life
May 18, 2023

Nealo is a Dublin rapper and artist who is a regular on this site since first appearing in 2018. 2020's All The Leaves Are Falling was a Choice Music Prize-nominated debut album, an album exploring loss, friendship, family and the ties that keep us search

Celaviedmai on 6 key songs that influenced her
May 11, 2023

Galway rapper Celaviedmai is one of our favourite up and coming rappers and collaborators as she has shown adeptness at moving between rap, house, drill, Amapiano and Afrobeat in her music so far.Mai is an artist with ambition and exciting plans on the ho

Our favourite music of April
May 04, 2023

Its the monthly episode with Niall and Andrea discussing songs and albums we loved from the last month, and some older.On Episode 212, there are albums recommended by Feist, Kara Jackson, Benefits and Tom Trago, along with choice songs from Anna St. Loui

Music & AI - A primer of what's happening now
April 27, 2023

The generation of music content through AI has grown at a rate much faster than anyone anticipated in the last month. The technology we thought might have been a few months away, has accelerated to the point where AI has become a dominant talking point in

Frank Ocean & Jai Paul - Coachella & two sides of the enigmatic artist coin
April 20, 2023

Episode 210 of the Nialler9 Podcast is a two-hander.We are talking about the last of the enigmatic crooners who played the same festival - Coachella - and got on very differently.Firstly, Andrea takes the lead on recounting and speculating on what exactly

Louise Bruton on live venue accessibility in Dublin
April 13, 2023

Episode 209 is a chat with our pal, journalist, author, playwright, DJ and wheelchair user Louise Bruton.Louise has recently restarted her Legless In Dublin platform on a paid Substack (free to disabled people), where she is "covering areas of access and

boygenius & the sad girl trope
April 06, 2023

Episode 208 is a dive into the world of boygenius and their debut album the record.Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus came together as boygenius in 2018 with a debut EP on Matador. The EP combined their collective tones of tones of country, melo

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