Nialler9 — I’m away to Barcelona for Primavera Sound this week, as I’m sure many of you are. Here’s a 20-track mixtape from artists playing at the festival from Thursday to Friday. Check back on Friday for an exclusive first listen to the double A-side si... more info

Nialler9 — Richie Egan returns to Jape next week with the release of a double A-side single ‘Hands of Fire’/'Lying on a Deathbed’ next Friday May 27th. through new Irish label music/is/for/losers (which appears to count MOTHS and Sun Glitters on its roste... more info

Nialler9 — POD have revealed the lineup for their two day Forbidden Fruit Festival which takes place at the Grounds of the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham on June 4th and 5th. Sat 4th June: The Flaming Lips, Wild Beasts, Erol Alkan, Aeroplane, Jape, Ham Sandwich, ... more info

Nialler9 — A fundraising gig for Dylan Haskins’ Independent campaign to get elected in Dublin South East featuring: Fight Like Apes, Jape, Heathers, The Minutes & Adebisi Shank DJ set. The Button Factory Saturday February 19th. 7pm, €10. Declaration of inte... more info

Nialler9 — After the first Autumn EP from Jape and Niall Byrne of The Rednecks’ side project Visionair in October, the duo are giving away a second EP for free download as of today. Grab it as a ZIP and get the first EP. Jape is playing The Button Factory thi... more info

Nialler9 — As part of the Offset Festival Shock after-party in Twisted Pepper, Richie Egan and Niall Byrne (there’s a few of us about) of The Redneck Manifesto will perform their debut gig as Vision Air, the “vintage synths” project that Richie revealed t... more info

Nialler9 — Richie Egan has been posting new demos on his Soundcloud for a while now but today he went ahead and put up all three of his albums for stream. After the jump, you can listen to 2008′s Choice Prize-winning Ritual, 2004′s The Monkeys In The Zoo Ha... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Noel Gallagher was the icing on the wedding cake for Zahl and Hajigul Buhari.I revealed yesterday how the Oasis legend and Kasabian gatecrashed a wedding do at a Hertfordshire hotel after the Leicester band headlined V Festival in Essex on Sunday.Noe... more info

Nialler9 — Jape was in the studio with Donal Dineen last week where he talked about recording with the Rednecks, revealed that he’s working on another project with Niall from the band called Visionair, played a track called ‘Uh-oh’ from that project as w... more info

Nialler9 — A perfect Friday mix from Today FM’s Donal Dineen including some of my favourite tunes from Joy Orbison, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Floating Points, the Jape remix of Patrick Kelleher, Darkstar’s ‘Aidy’s Girls a Computer’ and more ... more info