First stop for the Midwest in our tour of the regional scenes: Chicago and the big flat middle, from the Great Lakes down to the Kansas City stockyards. Flatfoot 56 and The Tossers country, where the drive between gigs is longer than the set. Here’s what’s new.
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Fiddler’s Green Unveil Shamrock Castle 2027: Skinny Lister, Manky Melters and More
Fiddler’s Green have unveiled the line-up for the 16th Shamrock Castle, their own Celtic and new folk festival in the grounds of Schloss Jägersburg in Franconia’s Fränkische Schweiz, on July 9 and 10, 2027. The Erlangen speedfolk lifers headline, with London folk-punk shouters Skinny Lister right behind them.
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New England Scene Update: Boston Music Awards Nods for the Murphys, Kettle Burners Hit the Slopes
The Boston Music Awards shortlist landed last Friday, and the Hub’s Celtic punk and Irish rock lot are all over it. Public voting is open through November 16 at bostonmusicawards.com, with the winners crowned at Big Night Live on December 16. Here’s your fortnightly New England round-up. Vote early, vote often (you can’t, it’s one vote each, but you get the spirit).
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The Rumpled: The Road Goes On, New Album and a 2027 UK/EU Tour
Trento’s accordion-powered folk-punks The Rumpled have named the next one. New album The Road Goes On lands April 9, 2027, and pre-orders for black vinyl, a 100-copy yellow vinyl and CD opened October 13 on the band’s shop.
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Philly & Mid-Atlantic Scene Report: Celtic Christmas at 16, a Timonium Hooley and Scythian’s Ugly Sweaters
Next stop on our tour of the regional scenes: Philadelphia and the Mid-Atlantic, from the Delaware Valley through Baltimore and DC to the Virginia hills. Pub-band heartland, never short of fiddles or thirst, and the run to Christmas is stacked: a holiday show turning sixteen, a three-day indoor hooley in Timonium and touring heavyweights booked through March.
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Whistling on Deck Sink The Irish Rover
Hamburg shantypunks Whistling on Deck are out with Sinking The Irish Rover, a new five-track EP on Bandcamp that follows last year’s Messmates.
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The Bards of Sweeney Bring The Craic: Their First Original Single
Tours, France’s The Bards of Sweeney have spent five years and 250-plus gigs belting out Irish trad and Pogues covers across France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. Now they’ve written their own: “The Craic”, the band’s first original single, is out now.
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The Radiators From Space Call Time at the 3Arena
Ireland’s first punk band are calling time, and they’re doing it back in the room where they once opened for The Pogues. Pete Holidai says The Radiators From Space’s special-guest slot with Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter at Dublin’s 3Arena on Monday, December 7, will be the last time he and Steve Rapid ever perform under the name.
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Tenholes: Satya Keeps the Fire Burning in Jakarta
East Jakarta Celtic punks Tenholes are back with Satya, their third album, out now on demajors. Eight Indonesian-language songs follow one life from street-corner kid to a father standing up for his own: family, promises, love, loss, the working-class grind and a fight that won’t go out.
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This Is Lorelei Digs Out The Popes’ The Song With No Name
Everybody covers The Pogues. Hardly anybody touches Shane MacGowan & The Popes. Nate Amos, the New York songwriter behind This Is Lorelei, just did, taking a solo voice-and-guitar run at “The Song With No Name” in a live session SiriusXM posted this week.
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