Next stop on our tour of the regional scenes: California and the West Coast, from San Diego up to the Puget Sound. Flogging Molly’s home turf, where the Irish pubs have patios and the circle pits get sunburnt. The Mollys are out at sea this week with no 2027 dates posted yet, so here’s what everyone else is up to.
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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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New England Scene Update: Boston Music Awards Nods for the Murphys, Kettle Burners Hit the Slopes
The Boston Music Awards shortlist landed last Friday, and the Hub’s Celtic punk and Irish rock lot are all over it. Public voting is open through November 16 at bostonmusicawards.com, with the winners crowned at Big Night Live on December 16. Here’s your fortnightly New England round-up. Vote early, vote often (you can’t, it’s one vote each, but you get the spirit).
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Philly & Mid-Atlantic Scene Report: Celtic Christmas at 16, a Timonium Hooley and Scythian’s Ugly Sweaters
Next stop on our tour of the regional scenes: Philadelphia and the Mid-Atlantic, from the Delaware Valley through Baltimore and DC to the Virginia hills. Pub-band heartland, never short of fiddles or thirst, and the run to Christmas is stacked: a holiday show turning sixteen, a three-day indoor hooley in Timonium and touring heavyweights booked through March.
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Canada Scene Report: Rise Again Anniversaries, Atlantic Christmas Runs and a Dropkick Invasion
First stop on our Canada beat, and the map is busy from Kingston to the Rock: anniversary tours, Newfoundland Christmas halls, bagpipes in Ontario legion basements, and a Boston invasion with thirteen Canadian dates of its own.
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Dropkick Murphys Lock In the 2027 Boston Homestand
Dropkick Murphys have filled in the Boston blanks. Their 2027 St. Patrick’s Day Tour now ends with the usual hometown homestand: four shows at MGM Music Hall at Fenway, March 12-14, then St. Patrick’s night itself at Citizens House of Blues on March 17.
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Dropkick Murphys Line Up a Big European Summer for 2027
Dropkick Murphys have next summer sorted. Before the St. Patrick’s Day paddywagon rolls, Quincy’s finest are booked into a run of big European festivals for June 2027.
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Dropkick Murphys: St. Patrick’s Day 2027 Tour
Dust off the green pint glass. Dropkick Murphys have announced their St. Patrick’s Day 2027 Tour, a six-week US and Canada slog kicking off February 5th in Albuquerque, with Home Front and Spiritual Cramp riding shotgun.
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Dropkick Murphys: The Meanest of Times Back on Wax
Boston’s Dropkick Murphys just dropped The Meanest of Times back onto the turntable — a BMG double-vinyl reissue of their 2007 classic, out September 25th.
Continue reading Dropkick Murphys: The Meanest of Times Back on WaxThe Walker Roaders: Maggie May Went to Heaven 7″ Vinyl
Folk punk supergroup, The Walker Roaders, release a new 7″ single, Maggie May Went to Heaven. The Walker Roaders are James Fearnley (The Pogues), Ted Hutt (Flogging Molly), and Marc Orrell (Dropkick Murphys).
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