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Dropkick Murphys

THE POWER OF YOUR EXAMPLE IS FAR GREATER THAN WHAT YOU SAY! Dropkick Murphys formed in 1996 in Boston, MA. The band was originally just a bunch of friends looking to play music for fun. We started playing in the basement of a friend’s barbershop and our goal was to blend the musical influences we had grown up with (Punk Rock, Irish Folk, Rock, and Hardcore) into one loud, raucous, chaotic, and often out of tune mix that we could call our own. To our surprise people seemed to like it and we began to record music and tour constantly. To date we have released numerous singles & EP's, a live album, a DVD and nine full length albums and have had the good fortune of being able to play across a large portion of the world

The Pogues: The Very Best Of The Pogues

by Skip Heller
March 30, 2013

The hybrid of punk rock and world music is by now expected, and the Pogues are by now the known avatar. But in 1984, when the band's debut album, Red Roses For Me (Stiff), was released, it made no impression. It didn't sell, and it wasn't written about much. Their blend of Celtic folk and English ...