Shane MacGowan’s tribute album 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan is out today on Rubyworks. The 36-track set is on streaming now, and in three physical formats: 3LP vinyl, a 2CD set, and a deluxe bookpack with liner notes, artists’ contributions, and Shane’s own drawings and memorabilia.
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Flatfoot 56 Count The Perks: First New Song in Four Years, Album Due Spring
Chicago’s bagpipe brawlers Flatfoot 56 are back with “The Perks,” their first new music in four years and their first for Pirates Press Records. The video premiered today on New Noise, and the single hits streaming services Friday, November 13.
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UK Scene Report: The Pogues Take the Hits Round Britain, SLF Go Gold and Skerryvore’s Beautiful Mistakes
Second lap of the UK beat, and the winter calendar is all big rooms and long goodbyes: the London-Irish originals taking the hits round Britain, Belfast’s finest going gold, a Scottish crew out on the road with a new record, and Nottinghamshire’s Hell Hounds down to their final week.
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The Rumpled Unveil Balkan Nights: Folk-Punk for the Dark Days
Trento folk-punks The Rumpled are out with “Balkan Nights”, the latest taste of their new album The Road Goes On. The single landed on October 30, and it swaps the usual pub-floor knees-up for something darker.
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Canada Scene Report: Rum Ragged Go Coast to Coast, Dreadnoughts Double Up at the Rickshaw and Mudmen Hit the Legions
Second lap of the Canada beat, and the theme is winter: Newfoundland halls booked solid through Christmas, Ontario legions getting the bagpipe treatment, a Quebec Christmas party with a condiment for a name, and a spring calendar that’s already filling up from Vancouver to Montréal.
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Skinny Lister’s Big Blowout: Camden Christmas Knees-Up With Pet Needs and Mad Dog Mcrea
Skinny Lister are dragging their annual Christmas party into Camden’s Electric Ballroom on Friday, December 11, and the band reckon this one’s their biggest bash yet. One month to go. Get the stretching in now.
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Foxes Faux Come Out of Retirement for Captain Hotknives
Keighley folk-punks Foxes Faux called time on the band in 2024, but they’ve dusted off the mandolins for one last round: a two-track single, out since October 28, for two friends they’ve lost. Every penny goes to Bradford’s 1in12 Club, the members-run punk institution.
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Brave, daft, or why did they bother. Take your pick. Hozier and Jessie Buckley have cut their own “Fairytale of New York,” and it’s out Friday, November 13.
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Ireland Scene Report: Hermitage Green Take Over St Luke’s, Hothouse Flowers Hit the Road and The Pogues Come Home for Christmas
Back to the old country for the November check-in, and the Irish winter is filling up nicely: a Limerick band marking 15 years with a Cork mini-residency, Tyrone’s finest booking the Ulster Hall, Hothouse Flowers lining up a spring run, and a 20-plus-strong collective releasing a double album about crime and punishment in 19th-century Ireland.
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Jesse Ahern: Peace Love & Revolution Is Out Now
Boston’s Jesse Ahern has a new record out. Peace Love & Revolution landed November 6, produced by Elio DeLuca at The Soul Shop in Medford, and it’s ten tracks of working-class roots rock with a punk backbone — the same streak that made him a Dropkick Murphys favourite and got Roots Rock Rebel out on their label.
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