Our tour of the regional scenes finally makes it Down Under, the country that gave us Roaring Jack and The Rumjacks (who, for the record, are currently somewhere between Tokyo and Bandung). Summer’s coming in the southern hemisphere, and so is a good chunk of the Celtic punk world. But first, the locals.
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New York & New Jersey Scene Report: A World Record, Christmas at Connolly’s and Dublin Comes to Brooklyn
First stop on our tour of the regional scenes: the five boroughs, Long Island, upstate and across the Hudson to Jersey. There’s a world record on Second Avenue, the Bronx bar-band tradition is alive and still thirsty, and Brooklyn is about to get a double helping of new-wave Irish trad. Here’s the NY/NJ radar from mid-October through Christmas.
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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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