Artist Spotlights Artist Spotlight - Dropkick Murphys | Artist Spotlight - Dropkick Murphys |
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| Written by Alex Therrian | |
| Monday, 07 July 2008 | |
 Yes, the Dropkick
Murphys are THAT band. The band that you heard endlessly during
MLB promos featuring Boston Red Sox playoff runs, they’re
the band whose song “Shipping Up to Boston” kicked off
the Oscar winning movie The Departed. Since 1996, the
seven piece band has flown under the radar, but the band crashed the
radar with that previously mentioned exposure and its been a steady
climb for the past few years. The Murphys are out on tour
supporting their biggest charting album to date, last year’s The Meanest of Times. The album debuted on the
Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at #20, a personal best for the band.The album is a ode to the crap kicking, hard drinking lifestyle the band maintains in Boston. Songs like “Famous For Nothing” and “Flannigan’s Ball,” which takes elements of typical Irish music heard in bars, and turns it up on its head. The band mixes their ancestral heritage with punk rock, to create something made for St. Patrick’s Day and beyond. The highlight cut on the new record is “The State of Massachusetts,” which probably encapsulates the band’s sound more than anything else on the record. If you get the deluxe version, there’s also a really killer cover of Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak.” The band’s summer
tour is their biggest to date, as the band heads to summer
sheds for the first time as a headliner. The tour starts today (July 7th)
in Chicago and comes to Freedom Hill in Sterling Heights tomorrow (July 8th).
Expect the band to unleash material from “The Meanest Of Times”
and as well as aptly titled fan favorites as “The Spicy
McHaggis Jig” and “Kiss Me, I’m S—faced.”
The tour runs through July 26th before the band heads to
Europe for the end of summer festival circuit. The band is bringing along a name from the punk past, as they bring 90s punk superstars the Mighty Mighty Bosstones along with them, who are back after their 2004 break. The band has prepped a few new songs for the tour, as well as some of the songs that put them on the map as well. If you’re in a mood for s---kicking music and green beer (yes, you heard me right; Freedom Hill is plugging the fact that they are selling green beer that night), check out the Dropkick Murphys heading our way. The Dropkick Murphys play Freedom Hill on Tuesday, July 8th. Tickets range from $20 to $36 and are available at www.ticketmaster.com. Additional dates can be found at www.dropkickmurphys.com. . |
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