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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Eugene Hutz: Lost Innocent World
Eugene Hutz is putting the gypsy-punk odyssey between hard covers. Lost Innocent World: Chronicles of a Ukrainian Punk Rocker in the Free World arrives December 8 via Matt Holt Books — Chernobyl fallout, European refugee camps, a Sonic Youth show in Kiev, then Vermont asylum, CBGB, Gogol Bordello, Rick Rubin sessions and the Whitney Biennial, with a foreword from Thurston Moore.
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Kate Nash Goes Full Cailín: Tin Whistle, Punk Fury and a US Tour
Kate Nash, yes, the “Foundations” Kate Nash, has made an Irish punk record, and it’s no flirtation. Cailín, her sixth album, lands January 22 on Kill Rock Stars, eleven years in the making and cut on Ireland’s west coast at Stiúideo Cuan with trad man Charlie Lennon keeping watch.
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UK Scene Report: Ferocious Dog’s Final Bark, Skinny Lister’s Blowout and Levellers Fill Hammersmith
First stop on the UK beat, and it looks like a farewell year that refuses to quiet down. Nottinghamshire folk-punkers are counting the last Hell Hound nights, the shanty crew are packing Camden, Brighton’s crusty standard-bearers finally fill Hammersmith, and the visitors keep pouring through.
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Shanghai Treason Announce Fourth Album Faultlines
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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