Two boozy bands, one January. Sydney’s Celtic punk road dogs The Cloverhearts are back in Japan for their first visit in two years, and they’re bringing Japan’s own Celtic punk veterans The Cherry Coke$ along for a three-night run.
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Stiff Little Fingers: Barbed Wire Love Tells the Story in the Fans’ Own Words
Belfast’s finest are getting the oral-history treatment. Barbed Wire Love: A People’s History of Stiff Little Fingers, compiled and edited by Ian Templeton, is out March 5, 2027 on Spenwood Books, and the band announced it on October 24.
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Enter the Haggis: Exit the Haggis Hits Streaming, Then One More Round in Texas
Enter the Haggis said goodbye in 2025, and now the goodbye is on every streaming service. Exit the Haggis, the Canadian Celtic rockers’ live double album, landed on Spotify and Apple Music on October 1: 27 tracks and two hours of music, recorded over two sold-out farewell nights in Troy, New York.
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20th Century Paddy: Shane MacGowan Tribute Gets Global Launch Parties
Shane MacGowan tribute album 20th Century Paddy isn’t out until November 13, but the wake starts early. Rubyworks has announced launch events running November 9 to 18 across Ireland, the UK, Europe, Japan, Australia and New York.
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Dónal Lunny, 1947–2026: The Bouzouki Man Who Rewired Irish Music
Dónal Lunny, the bouzouki man who rewired Irish music, died Friday morning in Dublin’s St James’s Hospital after a battle with cancer. He was 79.
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The Langer’s Ball Kickstart Shamrocktoberfest: St. Patrick’s Day Meets the Beer Garden
St. Paul’s Irish folk-punk two-piece The Langer’s Ball have launched a Kickstarter for Shamrocktoberfest, a 14-track album that’s already recorded and built to carry you from St. Patrick’s Day to Oktoberfest and back again.
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Madra Salach Take Gorta on the Road: 2027 Europe, UK and Ireland Tour
Three weeks after debut album Gorta lands on Island Records on January 15, Dublin’s Madra Salach take it on the road, with the Gorta tour kicking off February 4 in Stockholm.
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Tir Nan Og: Call of the Void Lands Tomorrow, Then the Born To Folk Tour
Bavarian Irish folk-rockers Tir Nan Og mark 25 years with Call of the Void, their seventh album, out tomorrow, October 23. Fan-funded, it’s pipes and fiddle wrapped round mythology, life, death and a good kick at the state of things.
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Chicago & Midwest Scene Report: The Elders Come Home, Stone Clover Take Hamtramck and a Wallopers Invasion
First stop for the Midwest in our tour of the regional scenes: Chicago and the big flat middle, from the Great Lakes down to the Kansas City stockyards. Flatfoot 56 and The Tossers country, where the drive between gigs is longer than the set. Here’s what’s new.
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Fiddler’s Green Unveil Shamrock Castle 2027: Skinny Lister, Manky Melters and More
Fiddler’s Green have unveiled the line-up for the 16th Shamrock Castle, their own Celtic and new folk festival in the grounds of Schloss Jägersburg in Franconia’s Fränkische Schweiz, on July 9 and 10, 2027. The Erlangen speedfolk lifers headline, with London folk-punk shouters Skinny Lister right behind them.
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