The Dropkick Murphys channeled the true punk spirit of Warped Tour during their recent performance at the festival’s Long Beach, California stop. Frontman Ken Casey dedicated their scathing single “First Class Loser” to President Donald Trump and performed the track in front of a backdrop that cycles through videos and …
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“Music is sometimes a good way to kick the front door open,” says Ken Casey, the lead singer for the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys. On Friday, the 81st anniversary of D-Day, Casey and his band took to the stage on the National Mall, the headline act as several politicians …
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During the Dropkick Murphys’ St. Patrick’s Day run of shows in Boston on Saturday, singer and founder of the band Ken Casey blasted a fan for waving around a MAGA hat in the crowd. “This is America, there’s no kings here,” he said from the stage. “Anyway, if you mind, …
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The Dropkick Murphys spent the weekend leading into St. Patrick’s Day hosting three consecutive shows at MGM Music Hall at Fenway Park in Boston. And in true Irish fashion, the weekend concluded with frontman Ken Casey slamming an attendee who spent the duration of Saturday’s concert holding up the all-black …
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Irish music royalty Sinéad O’Connor and Shane MacGowan will be honored at an upcoming concert in New York City this spring. On Monday, Carnegie Hall announced a one-night-only tribute show for the two musicians, featuring the likes of Cat Power, Dropkick Murphys, and David Gray on March 20, with 100 …
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Nikki Lane leaves Nashville behind and, ahem, ships up to Boston to film a new video with Dropkick Murphys. The country singer-songwriter duets with DKM’s Ken Casey on “Never Git Drunk No More,” a track off the band’s Woody Guthrie album This Machine Still Kills Fascists. Directed by Mike Rivkees, …
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Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey was walking the booths and stalls of the Great Allentown Fair before his band’s show that night on the Grandstand Stage when he started to feel increasingly uneasy. The leader of the Boston band known for their Irish-influenced punk rock and vocal support of workers’ …
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After a summer where many music festivals felt anticlimactic and unfulfilling (Was standing on dirt or gravel for hours on end ever fun?), AmericanaFest 2022 delivered one of its most satisfying and diverse weeks in the history of the Nashville event. While the festival suffered a major blow with the …
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