After their annual Boston St. Patrick’s Day (including a guest performance by Bruce Springsteen), Dropkick Murphys have announced North American summer tour dates in support of [...]

Boston‘s own Dropkick Murphys are set to release their seventh full-length studio album entitled Going Out In Style on March 1st. The record will be released on the [...]

New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus have announced on their website that this coming spring will see them embark on a short tour with none other than [...]

Bagpipes play prevalently in Irish music (moreso in Scottish tuneage but I show my haggis-eatin’ bias). And the drone of the pipes comes through traditionally [...]

Despite the various reports that The Pogues would be breaking up after their forthcoming “Farewell Christmas Tour,” Paul Chevron has posted to The Pogues’ official [...]

To the uninitiated, the best way to describe The Twilight Sad’s sound is as such: imagine Ian Curtis singing in a Scottish brogue, backed up [...]

The Irish Tenors have released their new album, Ireland, which explores the depth of Irelands most famous and regarded songs. This collection of music pays tribute to [...]

In the print version of Verbicide, I once declared that Flogging Molly were the best active punk band in the world. I stand by that, [...]

There’s no doubting that with the times we’re in, everyone is feeling a little more blue collar than they may be used to. But there’s [...]

The Street Dogs, it is somewhat of an understatement to say, are from Boston. Mike McColgan’s name was already indelibly linked with the city, as [...]

I’m going to say this right off the bat: if you’re not considering buying this box set, there’s going to be an emptiness in your music collection, thus making the rest of your collection worthless without it.

To Flogging Molly fans, Nathen Maxwell is the bass player who lends his voice to “Queen Anne’s Revenge,” one of the louder and faster songs [...]

Best known for his thundering bass playing on Flogging Molly’s punch-drunk rave-ups, Nathen Maxwell isn’t the first member of the band you’d think to launch [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #22 Irish-American rock band Flogging Molly are primed to enjoy an exciting 2008, with the release of a new album [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #14 Blood or Whiskey, a six-piece band featuring guitar, banjo, tin whistle, accordion, drums, and bass, hail from Kildare and [...]