Vancouver’s clusterfolk crew The Dreadnoughts are heading back east in January. They hit Scottish Dave’s Pub in Clinton, Connecticut on Friday, January 15, then Deep Cuts in Medford, Massachusetts on Saturday, January 16, with Consuelo’s Revenge riding shotgun.
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The Rumjacks: Down To Nothing Lands as Series 1 of 6
The Rumjacks have a new single out. “Down To Nothing” landed Friday, a two-and-a-half-minute shot of Celtic punk now sitting as their latest release on Apple Music and the artist pick on Spotify.
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Common Run: Live For Today Is West Virginia’s Celtic Street Rock Debut
West Virginia’s Common Run have their debut EP, Live For Today, out now: four tracks of what the band call “Celtic street rock and roll,” released on their own Common Run Records. It’s the first proper release from a crew based in the state’s eastern panhandle.
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The Pogues Go Back to The Nips: Spider Stacy Sings “Gabrielle” for Shane
The Pogues didn’t cover a Pogues song for Shane MacGowan’s tribute album. They went back further, to “Gabrielle” by Shane’s pre-Pogues punk band The Nips, with Spider Stacy on lead vocal. It released Friday, November 13 on 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan (Rubyworks).
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Sharks Come Cruisin: Last PVD Shanty Sings as The Parlour Goes Up for Sale
Providence shanty crew Sharks Come Cruisin are marking the end of an era. Their longtime North Main Street home, The Parlour, is up for sale — and the band’s November newsletter flags the next two PVD Shanty Sings as the last ones at the room that made the sing possible.
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The Guzzlers: Drinking The Dream Is Out Today
Limerick brothers Tom and Cian O’Dowd — The Guzzlers — put their debut out today. Drinking The Dream lands on Campus Label: ten tracks cut live and entirely acoustic, the first ten songs they ever wrote together.
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Dave King Back With Flogging Molly: First Stage Return Since 2024
Dave King is back on stage with Flogging Molly. The band confirmed their frontman rejoined them on stage during late October’s Salty Dog Cruise — their first time playing together since 2024, after King’s traumatic brain injury wiped out the 2025 calendar and scrubbed their Warped Tour dates.
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Muirsheen Durkin & Friends: Bunch Of Bastards
Eight years is a long stretch between pints, but Muirsheen Durkin & Friends are back with Bunch Of Bastards, and the Arnsberg crew haven’t softened a bit. Same no-frills Teutonic Celtic punk that made 11 Pints & 3 Shots (2018) such a stomper — pipes up front, Mac Rünker’s sandpaper bark on the mic, and songs built for sticky floors and flying elbows.
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The Men They Couldn’t Hang: The Queen’s Shilling Lands Friday
The Men They Couldn’t Hang keep The Wave rolling. The Queen’s Shilling, their second fundraising demo volume, lands on Bandcamp Friday, November 6.
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Stöj Snak Pull Gravity: Danish Folk-Punk Quartet Land New EP Nov 28
Denmark’s Stöj Snak are back with Gravity, a four-track EP landing November 28 on TNSrecords and 5FeetUnder Records. After a few years on pause, frontman Niels Højgaard Sørensen kept writing — mellow ballads one minute, angry-at-the-world ragers the next — and decided the band could be whatever they want it to be.
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