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The Radiators from Space: Dollar for Your Dreams

At long last, Dollar for Your Dreams gets the full-length CD release we’ve been waiting for. Initially released in 1987 on cassette only, the cassette version has become hard and expensive to obtain in recent years. If you did manage to get your hands on one, what do you play it on? The Radiators were the pioneers of Irish punk, full stop. Before U2 were playing church halls, these northside…

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Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners

I’m really enjoying the new EP from Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners, In The Key of Guinness. Celtic folk rock with elements of old-school rock and roll. Kier, of course, was formerly of Boston alt-country rockers Three Day Threshold, who contributed to the now legendary (if I do say so myself) Shite’n’Onions Vol 2. The Kettle Burners have three EPs up on Spotify:Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners…

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The Dreadnoughts: Green Willow

Two years after its digital debut, Green Willow finally lands on vinyl, and it’s a damn fine excuse to dust off the turntable and down a double of good Canadian whiskey and a shot of vodka. The Dreadnoughts have never been ones to play it tame, and Green Willow is another glorious stew of Celtic punk, polka fury, and sea shanty swagger—like a Czech wedding crashing into a Galway wake. From…

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The Killigans: New Single

Long-running Nebraska-based folk-punks, The Killigans, have a new single out, Can’t Eat the Rich. It’s very good. Check it out on Spotify. What’s up?

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The Peelers: The Holy Crux of Honour

The Peelers are back, and they’ve done it again with The Holy Crux of Honour, their latest and greatest, which is a whiskey-soaked, foot-stomping, fist-pumping blast of Celtic punk that’s as rowdy and ruckus as a Saturday night in a dodgy Dublin pub on the wrong side of the Liffey, and as passionate and, heartfelt as an old rebel tune sung way past closing time. The album kicks off with the…

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Ferocious Dog: Kleptocracy

Red Ken and his band of merry men have returned with their sixth full-length album, ready to storm the gates of Downing Street. If you are unfamiliar with Ferocious Dog, where the hell have you been? In the last ten years, the band has risen to be arguably the biggest folk-punk band in the UK, mixing punk, Celtic, gypsy, and protest folk (and the first non-signed band ever to sell out the…

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The Go Set: Drink To The Night (Live)

Drink To The Night (Live) is a 20-year live retrospective of one of the planet’s best and most original Celtic punk bands, Melbourne’s The Go Set. If you are unfamiliar with The Go Set, they are a bagpipe-heavy, alternative/punk outfit with a distinctive Aussies style – (old) AC/DC, The The, and Weddings Parties Anything all come to mind when I try to describe them. Drink To The Night is a best…

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Philip Chevron new music

The late legendary Philip Chevron of The Radiators from Space and The Pogues wrote a collection of songs for a musical, The Turner. The Turner is the tale of Irish-American boxer Jack Rooney. Contributors to the album included Kirsty MacColl, Dubliners legend Ronnie Drew, and fellow Pogues Andrew Rankin and Spider Stacy. The CD version of The Turner is limited to 250 copies and is available now…

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UltraBomb: Dying To Smile

Well, this is a surprise. As much as I loved the debut UltraBomb album, Time To Burn, I assumed it would be a one-off project, especially after the band’s problems with tour cancellations, COVID-19, and other serious illnesses. But no, UltraBomb is back with a second album, Dying To Smile, and a highly successful tour of the US East Coast opening for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.  If you are…

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The Peelers: US Dates

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Dropkick Murphys: Okemah Rising

Okemah Rising is the companion album to the Dropkick Murphys 2022 release, This Machine Still Kills Fascists, i.e. it’s the unpublished lyrics of legendary American folk singer Woody Guthrie as interpreted by the Dropkick Murphys. Al Barr is still absent from the band, so vocal duties fall to Ken Casey. Like This Machine…., Okemah Rising is more rooted in Americana than punk, though it still has…

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The Langers Ball: New Single!

The Langers Ball have a new single, The Irish Rover (2024), available via Bandcamp.

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The Peelers: Back in the US

The Peepers are rescheduling the shows they had to cancel last year. Dates so far include: August 16th – The Stone Church, Newmarket, NH August 17th – Hyannis August 18th – Askew, Providence, RI The Pourmen open on all three dates. More details to follow. https://www.facebook.com/ThePeelersFC

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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes with Ultrabomb at Big Night Live, Boston

First off, Big Night Live, is a high-end venue. Tucked into the legendary Boston Garden, the two-thousand-capacity music hall offers booths and bottle service to the punter with too much money. It’s not very punk rock, but it’s a fine venue. Tonight was a three-band bill, all punk super groups, Ultrabomb, The Defiant, and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.  The reason I was there, Ultrabomb, opened.…

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The Go Set: New Live Album

Aussie Celtic-punk band The Go Set has a new live album, Drink To The Night (Live), to celebrate 20 years of bagpipe punk rock. The album is available on all the usual streaming platforms. It doesn’t look like there is a physical release (boo). https://snd.click/DrinkToTheNight https://www.thegoset.com

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Rest In Peace, Leeson, Slán agus beannacht

I was saddened and stunned to read of the death of Neck’s main man, Leeson O’Keeffe, earlier this week. I knew Leeson was in hospital, but I was convinced he would be on the road to recovery and beat whatever ailment he had. Leeson was a larger-than-life character who came up through life the hard way yet, despite all adversity, loved life. Leeson was among the most enthusiastic people I ever…

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Bunch of Bastards: Drink, Holler and Dance

Drink, Holler and Dance, the new album from Dutch, Celtic-punks, Bunch of Bastards, came about quite by chance. The Bastards had booked some studio time to record a couple of songs over a weekend. Well, drinks did flow, and songs did spill, and the boys two songs, ended up being an 11 track new album. Six new songs, a cover of, Tell Me Ma, and four older tracks re-recorded. Drink, Holler and…