Dropkick Murphys

The Best of Coachella, Weekend One

Karen O's Outfit Karen O's wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah's front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor cape draped over a suit that looked like it was made of mercury. The vibrant collage was topped with a headpiece that Liberace might have worn had he ever bee ... More >>

Dropkick Murphys - Terminal 5 - 3/12/13

Better Than: Watching The Departed on loop while shooting Jameson in your apartment on St. Patrick's Day. It might as well have been at a sporting event. Chants of "let's go Murphys [clap clap clap clap clap]" and waves of amped attendees in black and gold jerseys egging each other on and fighting ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 3/11/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this week, in no particular order.

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Which NFL Playoff City Has the Best Musical History: Boston, SF, Baltimore or Atlanta?

A View From The Bench: Bruce Springsteen's Legacy On Wrecking Ball And Jimmy Fallon

You don't expect a legacy artist to still be able to surprise you, to put out music 40 years later that is genuinely interesting and expansive and making a good honest attempt at being relevant. Not in the "Mick Jagger getting his young minions to curate the hottest young live music acts for the Sto ... More >>

Win A Pair Of Tickets To See Dropkick Murphys At Mohegan Sun (And A Hotel Room For The Night)

The Dropkick Murphys—the band of Boston miscreants who've had their music blared in Martin Scorsese films and at Fenway Park— will perform at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut this Saturday, March 10, and Sound of the City is giving away a pair of tickets to the show, as well as accom ... More >>

Sports Vs. Sounds: The Staff Of The Classical Runs Down The Best Post-Punk Sports Songs

​During my discussion with the fellows behind The Classical, the forthcoming sports site named after the Mark E. Smith composition that reportedly cost the band a recording deal with Motown thanks to the slur about 35 seconds in, I asked why there aren't many punk or post-punk songs about spor ... More >>

Q&A: Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey On Shipping Up To Boston For Charity, Getting Advice From Donnie Wahlberg, And The Red Sox-Yankees Rivalry

by Heather Muse ​This weekend, the Yankees and the Red Sox will duke it out in Boston to determine who will top the AL East. As of Thursday afternoon, the Red Sox were a game ahead. Why should a music blog care about such things? We could get into an entire treatise about the relationship bet ... More >>

Week In Review: "In Reality, There Is No Greatest of All Time"

​"In reality, there is no greatest of all time," wrote Prodigy, wisely from prison. This sort of wisdom resonates in a week during which Phil Collins says "That's All" (sort of) to his epic career, and the Dropkick Murphys make a confusing Billboard Top Ten debut with an album called Going Out ... More >>

Roseland Was Totally On Fire

A two-alarm fire broke out at Roseland tonight around 10:30 (originating on the mezzanine level) and was contained a little over an hour later; the latest report at the moment says six firefighters suffered minor injuries, but thankfully that's the extent of it. There was no show happening, thank ... More >>

Adele Is Selling A Crapload Of Records

​2011 finally has its first legitimate chart superstar: Say hello to Adele, certain to engage in yet more anti-diva-like behavior now that her new record, 21, has been certified gold after just two weeks out, selling 168,000 copies to easily take the #1 Billboard spot for the second straight w ... More >>

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'Finnish Metal Tour 2'

Saying Goodbye to Teddy Kennedy--We Dare You to Play "Holiday in Cambodia" Tonight

Goodbye There will inevitably be a prankster-coward contingent pumping our local jukeboxes with Dead Kennedys' anthems through the weekend. As it is, half a day after the 47 year Senator's passing, such poor-taste giggling has already flooded Twitter, Mary-Jo-Kopechne-as-Trending-Topic and all. Eve ... More >>

This Classic-Album-Tour Trend Is Nifty and All, But Does the World Really Need Aerosmith to Do Toys in the Attic?

Further evidence that the classic-album tour trend has gone off the rails: the official word that Aerosmith will be performing Toys in the Attic in its entirety at Jones Beach next week and Madison Square Garden in September 14. These dates had been previously announced back in April, but not offici ... More >>

'Paganfest America Part II'

Happy St. Patrick's Day

We have noticed that the young folk attending the Parade in recent years are less inclined toward sentimental Kennedy-era Irish kitsch, and more toward the darker, more modern vibe of the Dropkick Murphys and Boondock Saints. While we approve of alt-Celt and FIGHT ME I'M IRISH t-shirts, we are gl ... More >>

SONIC BOOM

John Reis stomps his way to Santos'

Status Ain't Hood's Greatest Hits

Grading the iTunes Hits

Why You Can't Hear Against Me's Masterpiece

Miranda Lambert and the Nature of Pop

Martin Scorsese Loves the Dropkick Murphys

Live: New Yorkers Love Some Basement Jaxx

Live: NOFX Get Drunk, Cuss at People

Moral Authority

A good young soldier, fresh from the Baghdad front, produces some compelling country music about the war

Boxing Days Are Here Again as the Summer Elbows Throw

Rock

Fat Mike Against the First President "To Enter Office With a Criminal Record"

Listings

Return to Whenever

Retro Girls Go Gore Crazy

Rock 'n' Rai

Immigrant Songs

Live and Erect

Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action