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Nialler9EuropeBook Raves: the ambient music reading trend now coming to Dublin An ambient reading event is happening in Dublin city on Sunday November 15th.

Nialler9EuropeRecommended new albums: Ciarán, Skepta, Travy, New Jackson, Party Dozen, Sufjan, Ryan Vail, Shygirl + more Belfast-born Ciarán, formerly Bearface of BROCKHAMPTON, is our album of the week with his Ninja Tune debut Róisín.…

Nialler9EuropeKhakiKid's 'Must Be a Man' takes on modern masculinity and is one of his best songs and music videos The Dublin rapper returns with the tongue-in-cheek 'Must Be a Man', released during Movember with a video directed by David Willis, ahead of Irish tour dates this month.

Nialler9Europe15 events to see at Sound of Belfast 2026 From the punk exhibition launch to The New Wave, 15 picks from the 11-day Sound of Belfast festival, running November 5th to 15th.

Nialler9EuropeA €1 million fund is available for Irish musicians and groups to buy instruments through the Music Capital Scheme €1,000,000 has been confirmed for the 2026 Music Capital Scheme, with Awards 1, 2 and 3 open for applications until Tuesday December 15th at 2pm.

Nialler9EuropeBorderline Festival announces first acts for 2027 and adds a third venue Singular Artists' emerging music festival returns for a fourth year from February 18th to 20th.

Nialler9EuropeMeet Cailín Lofa: the New York-based duo making Irish-language club rap Cailín Lofa are straddling the traditional and the transgressive.

Nialler9EuropeCMAT and Elton John team up for a new version of 'Step Into Christmas' CMAT joins Elton John on a new recording of his 1973 festive single 'Step Into Christmas', out now as this year's Amazon Music Original Christmas song.

Nialler9EuropeRaye announces Marlay Park show for June 2027 The Mercury Prize winner plays Marlay Park on Thursday June 24th 2027, with tickets from €69.90 on sale Tuesday November 10th.

Nialler9EuropeBricknasty release new EP forever featuring Dove Ellis The Dublin collective's most hook-driven EP yet, forever, is out via FAMM, with Dove Ellis guesting on 'G unit'.

Nialler9EuropeWhat is the Sound Of Belfast? (Podcast) Claire Hall and Charlotte Dryden on this year’s Sound of Belfast, the local-focused city festival built around a…

Nialler9EuropeThe Cope share 'Low', a video dedicated to the late lighting designer Conor Biddle The song was written in 2022 and filmed in 2024. Its meaning changed after Biddle died in April 2025.

Nialler9EuropeKynsy returns with new song 'eleanor' The Dublin-born, London-based artist follows her 2024 EP Utopia with a jagged indie-rock single co-produced with her live band.

Nialler9EuropeNiamh Regan shares new song 'Personality Hire', with an animated video directed by Róisín Kelly The Galway singer-songwriter's latest song is a wry take on a job interview, produced by Brendan Jenkinson.

Nialler9EuropeGilla Band announce Irish tour and an extra Dublin show in April Six new dates in Belfast, Kilkenny, Cork, Dublin, Limerick and Galway, with tickets on sale this Friday.

Nialler9EuropeLeonard Cohen's son Adam Cohen brings Everybody Knows, a celebration of his father's songs to 3Arena The family-produced tribute marks ten years since Leonard Cohen's death, and plays Dublin on Friday 29 January 2027.

Nialler9EuropeThe Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide: Quiet Light, Other Voices, Cat Power, Modeselektor, Underscores, All Tvvins, Hunee, Kibo, Sorcha Richardson and more What gigs and club nights are on this week in Dublin?

Nialler9EuropeVegyn's Headache project share new song 'Make A Wish' The project from poet Francis Hornsby Clark and producer Vegyn returns on PLZ Make It Ruins, with live dates across North America and London.

Nialler9EuropeSpecial Request headlines Asahi Super Dry presents 'Super Nights' this Friday with listening bar events lined up this week A hidden Japanese-style convenience store on Liberty Lane, a vinyl-only listening bar and a club night with Special Request, on 5 and 6 November.

Nialler9Europeunderscores b2b umru play Tengu afterparty on Monday The Double-U Dublin show takes place on Monday 9 November.

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· Trade shows and launch events, this week's stories from each corner of the industry, and what its press is covering.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

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