Dropkick Murphys’ Highly effective New Album ‘For The Folks’ Out Now On All Digital Platforms

Dropkick Murphys have simply launched the digital version of their well timed and passionate new album For The Folks through the band’s Dummy Luck Music / Play It Once more Sam label. The vinyl and CD launch will observe October 10 and can embrace 5 bonus tracks. Further singles and movies may even be launched within the coming weeks.

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Because the band’s 13^th studio album, For The Folks reveals braveness and confidence, talking up in opposition to the injustices taking place in the US, and doing so with the power and energy that harkens again to Dropkick Murphys‘ earliest punk rock roots. For The Folks is greater than a title. It’s a heartfelt stance, a declaration of who this band is – and who they’ve at all times been. Whether or not writing about politics, household, associates or just “life” on For The Folks, the tales run deep, the reminiscences push exhausting, and the enjoyment stays infectious.

 To drive the message residence additional, For The Folks is accompanied by an album cowl created by famend social/political artist Shepard Fairey‘s design agency Studio Quantity One and depicts a black rose, symbolizing change, renewal, new beginnings, braveness, confidence, power and energy.

 Pre-order For The Folks vinyl in numerous shade variants: https://dropkickmurphys.retailer

 The album is led by the primary single, “Who’ll Stand With Us?,” which empowers listeners to take motion. It’s a name for unity, a return to sanity, and a have a look at what – and who – is actually dividing us, joined by a robust video that depicts the disturbing actuality of individuals disappearing in the US. MeidasTouch Community, the U.S.-based pro-democracy information podcast (and the #1 podcast within the U.S. and Canada), took observe, shared the video, and has proven ongoing help for the band’s efforts to face up in opposition to injustice.

 Notably, Ken Casey was additionally interviewed by Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor In Chief of The Atlantic, for a profile on Dropkick Murphys and For The Folks. As Goldberg noticed, “Fury runs like a purple streak by way of For The Folks.”

Watch the “Who’ll Stand With Us?” video: https://youtu.be/5BRHuiRyVEE?si=c94yla-74tT5kcCS

Hearken to the “Who’ll Stand With Us?” single: https://dropkick-murphys.ffm.to/whollstandwithus

Right here’s a pattern of further Dropkick Murphys‘ current media help:

“…their new album For the Folks…is a robust and invigorating name to motion designed to incite consciousness and reclaim the ability of the individuals.” –Liza Lentini, SPIN.com

“…the Celtic punk legends are in reeling, anthem-filled kind, bolstered by their trademark gang vocal hooks. It’s basic Murphys – a band with nothing left to show, however a lot nonetheless to supply. That opener is solely the very best music they’ve launched in over a decade, carried out with the kind of exhausting pushed, working-class conviction that gave them life within the first place.” –Steve Beebee, Kerrang!

“Boston’s Dropkick Murphys have been making extraordinarily enjoyable and fired-up Celtic punk for practically 30 years, they usually aren’t slowing down anytime quickly.” –Tom Breihan, Stereogum

“The Dropkick Murphys have been collectively for practically three a long time, they usually’re no strangers to taking a stand.”

–Simón Rios, WBUR (NPR Boston)

“Dropkick Murphys’ terrific punk scorcher, ‘Who’ll Stand With Us?’ [is] unabashedly political … with bulls-eye talent, tackles trickle-down economics and authoritarianism.” –Jackson Maxwell, Guitar World

“The searing punk tune [‘Who’ll Stand With Us?’] options outstanding bagpipes and commanding vocals that declare, ‘We’ve been robbed of our freedom.’ It’s a direct rallying cry, echoing singer Ken Casey’s current sentiment that America is embroiled in ‘a category struggle.’” –Jon Hadusek, Consequence

“For The Folks has an old-fashioned punk chew…There are songs that dig into nostalgia and youthful pleasure on For the Folks. But it surely’s a pointed document with a pointed title and loads of pointed messages: the raging rock of anti-social media screed ‘Fiending for the Lies,’ the Celtic stomp of working class unity anthem ‘Bury the Bones’.” –Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald

“It must be no shock, no less than for many who have listened to the Celtic punk chaos unleashed by Dropkick Murphys for the previous 30 years, that they’ve been there each step of the way in which with regards to standing with marginalized demographics and communities.” –Jason Greenough, Vanyaland

 To have a good time the discharge of For The Folks, Dropkick Murphys have two particular appearances scheduled within the Boston space:

 Friday, July 11 – Dropkick Murphys Evening At Fenway Park In Boston, MA

Followers can take pleasure in an evening of enjoyable with Dropkick Murphys and the Boston Crimson Sox and may take residence a restricted version Dropkick Murphys’ “I’m Transport Up To Boston” bobblehead once they buy tickets right here: https://www.redsox.com/dropkick. A portion of ticket proceeds will profit Dropkick Murphys‘ official charity, The Claddagh Fund, which has raised over $20 million to help non-profit organizations which are targeted on youngsters, veterans and dependancy restoration. (Notice: The band is not performing on the sport.)

 Saturday, July 12 – Free For The Folks Album Launch Present In Quincy, MA

Dropkick Murphys invite followers from round New England and elsewhere to hitch them on the free For The Folks Album Launch Present in Quincy, Massachusetts, the place the band fashioned in 1996. This free present is in reference to the Quincy400, celebrating the 400^th yr of town’s settlement. The stage for Dropkick Murphys efficiency shall be positioned at Hancock Road at The Frequent in Quincy Heart and the occasion begins at 4:00 PM.

 A few week later, Dropkick Murphys and Dangerous Faith will proceed to share their message of preventing for what’s proper throughout the co-headlining U.S. Summer season Of Discontent Tour from July 22 by way of August 17. See under for all present Dropkick Murphys‘ tour dates, together with the Summer season Of Discontent Tour, North American festivals (Punk In The Park Denver, Warped Tour Lengthy Seaside, Rock La Cauze, Seisiún, CityFolk, Riot Fest and Furnace Fest), as effectively a fall European headlining tour. Discover extra information at: https://dropkickmurphys.com/tour/.

 The present Dropkick Murphys tour itinerary is as follows: 

 Notice: All North American dates are a part of the Summer season of Discontent tour with co-headliners Dangerous Faith and openers The Mainliners until in any other case famous. All European dates are with Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls and Haywire until in any other case famous.

 Dropkick Murphys are:

 Ken Casey (vocals)

Tim Brennan (guitars, tin whistle, accordion, piano, vocals)

Jeff DaRosa (guitars, banjo, mandolin, vocals),

Matt Kelly (drums, percussion, vocals)

James Lynch (guitars, vocals)

Kevin Rheault (bass)

Campbell Webster (bagpipes and Uilleann pipes)

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Twitch: www.twitch.television/dropkickmurphys

Twitter: www.twitter.com/DropkickMurphys

YouTube: www.youtube.com/DropkickMurphys

About Dropkick Murphys:

Dropkick Murphys proudly stay Boston’s rock ‘n’ roll underdogs turned champions. Since 1996, the boys have created the type of music that’s meant to be chanted eventually name, in packed arenas, and throughout the fourth quarter, third interval, or ninth inning of a comeback rally. Their celebrated discography contains 4 consecutive Billboard prime 10 album debuts (Flip Up That Dial, 11 Quick Tales Of Ache & Glory, Signed and Sealed in Blood, Going Out In Type), together with 2005’s Licensed-Gold album The Warrior’s Code that includes the double platinum basic “I’m Transport Up To Boston.” Whether or not you caught a legendary gig at The Rathskeller (The Rat) underneath Kenmore Sq., discovered the band by taking the T to Newbury Comics to cop Do Or Die in ’98, found them in Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award profitable The Departed, or noticed ’em throw down at Coachella (or one in all a whole bunch of different festivals), you’ve turn into part of their prolonged household. Dropkick Murphys’ music has generated half-a-billion streams, they’ve quietly moved 8 million-plus items worldwide and the band has bought out gigs on a number of continents.

Dropkick Murphys’ official charity, The Claddagh Fund, has raised over $20 million to help non-profit organizations which are targeted on youngsters, veterans and dependancy restoration. In 2020, the band was one of many first to embrace streaming performances, beginning with their Streaming Up From Boston St. Patrick’s Day digital efficiency. It was adopted by their landmark Streaming Outta Fenway livestream, which drew greater than 5.9 million viewers and held the #3 spot on Pollstar‘s “Prime 2020 Dwell Streams” chart. Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day Stream 2021…Nonetheless Locked Down, was #1 on Pollstar‘s Livestream chart for the week ending March 22, 2021, logging over 1 million views. Dropkick Murphys returned in 2022 with their first-ever all-acoustic album, This Machine Nonetheless Kills Fascists (Dummy Luck Music / Play It Once more Sam), and seated theater tour. This Machine Nonetheless Kills Fascists–and their follow-up album Okemah Rising–breathe musical life into principally unpublished lyrics by the legendary Woody Guthrie, curated for the band by Woody’s daughter Nora Guthrie. Dropkick Murphys’ new album For The Folks rises to its second: an expression of humanity at a time of relentless dehumanization, a promise of hope in an period fueled by fear-mongering, a declaration of solidarity in an age of disunion, a defiant rebuttal to the charlatans and demagogues who search to divide us for their very own energy and revenue.