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Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys are an American Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1996. The current lineup consists of co-lead vocalist and bassist Ken Casey, drummer Matt Kelly, co-lead vocalist Al Barr (on hiatus from the band since 2022), rhythm and lead guitarist James Lynch, lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Tim Brennan, multi-instrumentalist and rhythm guitarist Jeff DaRosa and bassist Kevin Rheault. Casey has been the band's only constant member since the band formed. The band was initially signed to independent punk record label Hellcat Records; they released five albums for the label and built a reputation around New England and the East coast through persistent touring. They expanded their schedule to include national and international tour dates, and began a tradition of yearly St. Patrick's Day week shows, held in and around Boston. The 2004 single, " Tessie,” an homage to a Boston Red Sox fanclub (the Royal Rooters) became the band's first mainst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Foltz
Ryan Foltz is an American producer, audio engineer and musician from Mansfield, Ohio. Foltz is best known for being a member of the Dropkick Murphys from 2001 to 2003 where he played mandolin, tin whistle and dulcimer on the band's 2001 album '' Sing Loud, Sing Proud'' and 2003's '' Blackout'' before leaving the band. Foltz also was a member of Motel Blonde (bass) and also has played tin whistle, mandolin, and trumpet in The Pogues cover bandThe Boys From The County Hellfor over fifteen years. He was also a member of the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps. Foltz from 2000-2003 was a member of the Dropkick Murphys and would recorded 2001's '' Sing Loud, Sing Proud'' and 2003's '' Blackout'' before leaving the band. Foltz was employed from 2006-2014 as touring monitor technician for Rancid, and has also toured doing sound for: Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, Tim Armstrong, Dropkick Murphys, The Unseen, and Tiger Army Tiger Army is an American psychobilly band based in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The State Of Massachusetts
"The State of Massachusetts" is a song by American rock band Dropkick Murphys. It was released on February 4, 2008 as the lead single from their sixth studio album, '' The Meanest of Times''. The song is about the effects of drugs on individuals and their families. Although the title is an obvious play on words, as Massachusetts is a state, it is actually one of four states who are officially known as commonwealths. "The State of Massachusetts" was one of the 100-most-played songs on U.S. modern rock radio in October 2007. By January 2008, the song had become one of the 60-most-played alternative rock songs in the United States. The song was #83 on ''Rolling Stone''s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. It is the theme song to the MTV show '' Nitro Circus''. The music video was filmed on location in the unused and abandoned Curley Auditorium on the Long Island Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York (state), New York state, extending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Meanest Of Times
''The Meanest of Times'' is the sixth studio album by American celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys. It was released on September 18, 2007, through their vanity label, Born & Bred Records, a division of Cooking Vinyl Records. The album was their first to not be released through Hellcat Records and their last to feature guitarist Marc Orrell, who left the band following the tour in support of the album. The picture on the album's cover was taken at Saint Brendan School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, close to Quincy, Massachusetts whence the band hails. Local kids posed in the picture. Songs The songs "(F)lannigan's Ball", "Fairmount Hill" and " Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya" are based on traditional Irish tunes. The lyrics of both "(F)lannigan's Ball" (based on "Lanigan's Ball") and "Fairmount Hill" (based on " Spancil Hill") were altered. They include multiple references to places in the Boston region and people associated with the band. "(F)lannigan's Ball" was partially recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Brennan
Tim Brennan is an American musician who is a lead guitarist, vocalist and one of the primary songwriters of the Boston Celtic punk group Dropkick Murphys. Early life and career Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, Brennan played drums for numerous punk, hardcore and rock bands in Connecticut where he graduated from Kingswood-Oxford preparatory high school in West Hartford CT in 2000 before moving to Worcester MA to attend Assumption University. While in high school, Tim had a teacher who gave him a Pogues cassette tape. Tim learned how to play the tin whistle while listening to that tape. Later, the same teacher gave Tim the Dropkick Murphys album ''Do or Die'' thus fully introducing Tim to Celtic punk music. In 2003, Brennan was asked to join the Dropkick Murphys on tour to sell merchandise on the Warped Tour. While on tour they had him play accordion on a few songs. When the Warped Tour ended Tim went back to college to finish his degree. A month after being back in schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff DaRosa
Jeffrey DaRosa (born July 31, 1982) is an American musician who is a multi-instrumentalist and a member of the Boston-based Dropkick Murphys. Early life and career Growing up in Watertown, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) and Somerville, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...), DaRosa later moved to New York City, where he joined The Exit. On November 26, 2007, an announcement was made that DaRosa would be joining Boston's Dropkick Murphys after Marc Orrell left the band. Personal life He married Michelle Nolan of Straylight Run on October 8, 2006, and also tours with them as a backup musician. References External links * Living people 1982 births American people of Italian descent American multi-instrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National ShamrockFest
National ShamrockFest, also commonly referred to as ''ShamrockFest'', is a one-day music festival held in Washington, D.C. to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.ShamrockFestis held in a very large, paved, parking-lot type of area at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium called the ''RFK Stadium Festival Fairgounds''. (The festival is ''not'' held inside the stadium itself.) The festival is held on a Saturday near Saint Patrick's Day, typically from about 1pm to 9pm. The festival goes on regardless of weather, which can often be cold and rainy in Washington, D.C., in March. Typically, about 50 artists perform on approximately 7 stages for an audience of about 40,000 attendees. Though some emphasis is placed on Celtic music and other folk music, rock artists also perform at ShamrockFest. ShamrockFest also includes carnival rides and games, craft vendors, food and drink vendors, and roving entertainers. The RFK Stadium Festival Fairgrounds is cordoned off into two areas for ShamrockFest: one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Orrell
Marc John Orrell (born November 7, 1982) is an American guitarist known for being a former member of the Boston Celtic punk band the Dropkick Murphys. Nicknamed "The Kid", Orrell joined the band in 2000 when he was 17 years old. He first appeared on their 2001 album '' Sing Loud, Sing Proud'' and would appear on 2003's '' Blackout'', 2005's ''The Warrior's Code'' and 2007's ''The Meanest of Times'', his final album with the group before leaving the band following the tour in January 2008 to pursue a different musical style. Orrell has played with the bands The Eleventh Hour, Gimme Danger, Far From Finished, The Black Pacific, and most recently, Wild Roses. In June 2019, Orrell, alongside Flogging Molly's Ted Hutt and The Pogues The Pogues are an English Celtic punk band founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, by Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy and Jem Finer. Originally named Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation of the Irish language, Irish phrase :wikt:póg mo thóin, ''p� ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Distribution Alliance
Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) is a music distribution company owned by Warner Music Group, which represents the rights to various independent record labels. ADA provides "independent artist and label partners with access to the resources, relationships and experience required to share their creative vision with a global audience." History As the independent music distribution arm of Warner Music Group, ADA Worldwide was created in 1993 as a joint-venture between WMG and Restless Records to offer a distribution system and marketing, merchandising, promotion, and music licensing services. In January 2008, ADA acquired Insound, an online music retailer. In 2012, Warner Music Group merged the Independent Label Group with ADA, creating a full-service company. The new ADA offered global distribution—both physical and digital—along with physical production, merchandise services, account management, and in-house music licensing. Additional offerings included custom pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imprint Label
"Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing, promotion, and enforcement of copyright for sound recordings and music videos, while also conducting talent scouting and development of new artists, artist financing and maintaining contracts with recording artists and their managers. The term "record label" derives from the circular label in the center of a vinyl record which prominently displays the manufacturer's name, along with other information. Within the mainstream music industry, recording artists have traditionally been reliant upon record labels to broaden their consumer base, market their albums, and promote their singles on streaming services, radio, and television. Record labels also provide publici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Departed
''The Departed'' is a 2006 crime film, crime thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. It is both an English-language remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film ''Infernal Affairs'' and also loosely based on the real-life Boston Winter Hill Gang; the character Colin Sullivan is based on the Police corruption, corrupt FBI agent John Connolly (FBI), John Connolly, while the character Frank Costello is based on Irish Mob, Irish-American gangster and crime boss Whitey Bulger. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg, with Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Alec Baldwin, Anthony Anderson and James Badge Dale in supporting roles. The film takes place in Boston and the surrounding metro area, primarily in the South Boston neighborhood. Irish Mob boss Frank Costello (Nicholson) plants Colin Sullivan (Damon) as a spy within the Massachusetts State Police; simultaneously, the police assign Undercover, undercover state t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Shipping Up To Boston
"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" is a song by the Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys, with lyrics written by folk singer Woody Guthrie. The original version of the song was released in 2004 on ''Give 'Em the Boot IV'' and was re-recorded for their certified gold selling 2005 album, '' The Warrior's Code''. The song gained worldwide attention for its use in the 2006 film ''The Departed'', which boosted the band's popularity. The song's lyrics describe a sailor who lost a prosthetic leg climbing the topsail, and is shipping up to Boston to "find my wooden leg." These were taken from a fragment of paper that Ken Casey found while looking through Woody Guthrie's archives. The Dropkick Murphys put music to the lyrics as they did with the song "Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight" from the 2003 album '' Blackout''. The single is the band's most successful to date and was certified double platinum. It reached No. 1 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and sold over 1,044,000 digital copies without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
