Yorkshire flat cap banjo punks Shanghai Treason have finally put a name and a date on the next one. Faultlines, their fourth studio album, lands February 19, 2027, and pre-orders are open now on Bandcamp.
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Canada Scene Report: Rise Again Anniversaries, Atlantic Christmas Runs and a Dropkick Invasion
First stop on our Canada beat, and the map is busy from Kingston to the Rock: anniversary tours, Newfoundland Christmas halls, bagpipes in Ontario legion basements, and a Boston invasion with thirteen Canadian dates of its own.
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Dropkick Murphys Lock In the 2027 Boston Homestand
Dropkick Murphys have filled in the Boston blanks. Their 2027 St. Patrick’s Day Tour now ends with the usual hometown homestand: four shows at MGM Music Hall at Fenway, March 12-14, then St. Patrick’s night itself at Citizens House of Blues on March 17.
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Liptons Orphan: Come Ahead!
Frankie McLaughlin’s one-man wrecking crew Liptons Orphan is back on Bandcamp with Come Ahead, a sharp turn from September’s stark Pain Management. Come ahead is Glasgow for “go on then, have a go,” and the cover says the same thing with a skull-ringed middle finger.
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Ireland Scene Report: The Undertones at 50, Damo’s Vicar Street Marathon and Kíla Turn 40
Next stop on our tour of the regional scenes is the old country, where the run-up to Christmas looks like a session with no last orders. Derry’s finest are doing a 50th-anniversary lap of the island, Damo is moving into Vicar Street, a Lankum voice goes solo and Kíla hit 40.
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Horslips’ Barry Devlin and Jim Lockhart Join the Johnny Fean Rhythm & Blues Festival
The second Johnny Fean Rhythm & Blues Festival, honouring the late Horslips guitarist and the man behind that Dearg Doom riff, runs October 23–26 across Shannon and Limerick, hosted by the Shannon Springs Hotel. And yes, Horslips will be in the house.
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Sick Bed of MacGowan: How The Pogues Remade What Irish Music Could Be
Irish music critic Stephen White has a new Last Mixed Tape episode out, and it’s a sharp 16-minute dig into Shane MacGowan’s long fight with what Irish music was “allowed” to sound like.
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The Rumjacks, The Rumpled and Pirates of the Pubs Board Mighty Sounds 2027
Tábor’s getting a proper dose of the jig next summer. Czech punk and ska bash Mighty Sounds has added The Rumjacks, The Rumpled and Pirates of the Pubs to its 2027 bill, running June 25 to 27 in Tábor, Czech Republic.
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Finnegan’s Hell: My Life Is Out, Glorious Mess Closing In
Swedish Celtic punk wreckers Finnegan’s Hell just lobbed their fastest track yet. “My Life” — third single from Glorious Mess, due October 30 on Wild Kingdom — is out now: Irish melody welded to full-throttle punk, with a lyrical wink at Sunday Morning Coming Down.
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Meryl Streek: Stories They Don’t Teach You At School Is Out
Dublin’s people’s punk poet Meryl Streek has put out his third album, Stories They Don’t Teach You At School — twelve tracks of housing fights, landlord politics, contested deaths and working-class Ireland, out now on Venn Records.
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