Chicago’s own Tossers — the world’s loudest folk band — plant another hometown flag at Chop Shop on Wednesday, November 25. Tony Duggins and crew bring Flatfoot 56 and Three Blue Teardrops along for an 18+ Wicker Park night; doors 7, show 8, tickets from about twenty bucks. Before the turkey coma, it’s buckets of beer, banjos and blood on North Ave.
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The Popes: Storming Heaven Hits Streaming
According to our friends over at London Celtic Punks, the London-Irish Celtic-punk lifers The Popes just shoved their 2012 album New Church onto the streaming racks, and opener Storming Heaven is the first single out the gate. Mad Dog McGuinness’s sandpaper bark and Thin Lizzy-via-Dubliners crunch landed fresh on Spotify and YouTube as of September via STT Records. The fan-driven reissue aims to drag New Church out of the vault for a generation that never caught the band between MacGowan’s Snake days and the long silence after Mad Dog’s 2013 accident. Full album next month if the interest sticks; vinyl and CD if enough of ye dig it. Get ready. We’re storming heaven.
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Chasing Abbey: Cyber Celt Hits the Floor
Tullamore trio Chasing Abbey finally released their debut full-length, and Cyber Celt (out 18 September) is no polite folk handshake — it’s trad Irish bolts welded to electronic production, Gaeilge as a weapon, and a kick aimed at greed and colonialism.
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The Green Goblins: Turn It Around
Swiss Celtic Folk ‘n’ Roll brawlers The Green Goblins just lobbed their second pre-album single into the streaming pits. “Turn It Around” — out now with a video — is the latest teaser for their self-titled debut, landing 2 October via Metalville.
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Liptons Orphan: Pain Management
Frankie McLaughlin — the brilliant ex-Rumjack bootboy behind Liptons Orphan — has released a stark new single on Bandcamp. Pain Management, out September 18, started life as a personal scrap Frankie kept in the drawer. Friends pushed him to let it into the light, and he timed the first socials blast around World Suicide Prevention Day 2026.
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Radiators From Space: Anarchy Guests at the 3Arena
Ireland’s first punk band just got the call for the big room. The Radiators From Space are special guests when Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter hit Dublin’s 3Arena on Monday, December 7, 2026 — the Irish date on the Anarchy In The U.K. and Ireland tour marking fifty years of punk. From Television Screen through Ghostown, the late Phil Chevron’s old crew still carry the Dublin DNA that made Celtic punk possible.
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Flatfoot 56: Lafayette Parking-Lot Skirmish
Chicago Celtic punk lifers Flatfoot 56 are rolling into Indiana this Saturday — September 26 — for an all-ages, open-air bash at People’s Brewing Co. in Lafayette. Doors 6pm. Local melodic hardcore wreckers Criminal Record and Boilermaker ska crew Third Wheeling open the gates. Mom&Pop Productions is running the parking-lot shindig rain or shine; tickets about $18 at the brewery, ~$21 online, or $25 day of. Bagpipes, boots, and beer for the people — get there early before the pipes melt the patio.
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The Rumjacks: Balkans to Baltics Curtain Call
Sydney’s Celtic punk road dogs The Rumjacks are slamming the boot on their Balkans-to-Baltics European club run this week. Vilnius hits Mello tonight (23 September), Riga’s Melnā Piektdiena tomorrow, then first-time Estonia on Friday at Tallinn’s Paavli Kultuurivabrik with local openers Tabloited.
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The Scratch: Galway Weekend, Still Pulling Like a Dog
Dublin’s The Scratch — folk-metal strummers with a cajón where the kick should be — hit Galway for two nights at Monroe’s Live this week. Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September, doors at 8pm. DUG opens Thursday. Standing show, 18+, about thirty quid via the venue.
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Boiled in Lead: Halloween Curtain Call in Minneapolis
Minneapolis Celtic-punk lifers Boiled in Lead just dropped the pint-glass bombshell: after 43-odd years of fiddles, power chords, and world-folk chaos, they’re going on an indefinite hiatus. One last dance left — Halloween night, Saturday October 31, 2026, Dunsmore Room at Crooners in Fridley.
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