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Canadian Celtic punk vets The Real McKenzies have put out their 13-track album, Paul McKenzie Sings…On Yer Bike via Cortex/Stomp. The album features “Shackleton,” “I Wanna Eat Sardines (With Yer Mother),” “The Mad Trapper of Rat River” and much more bagpipe punk mayhem. Remember, if it’s not Scottish, it’s crap! 01. Fortitudine Vincimus, The Final Voyage Of The Endurance02. Shackleton03. I Wanna…

Nashville’s (and formerly Rochester, New York’s) rowdiest pint-swilling Irish psychobilly punks, 1916, have dropped their sixth full-length album, Conscience of Kings, and it detonates! Produced by the legendary Ted Hutt, this 12-track, 37-minute riot of Irish punk, rockabilly swing, and foot-stomping Celtic fire is the breath of fresh air that the scene needs. Kicking off with the high-octane…

Yorkshire banjo punks, Shanghai Treason, have a new single out. Titled “Ring True,” it’s available through Spotify. The B-side is Scallywag. https://www.facebook.com/ShanghaiTreason https://shanghaitreason.bandcamp.com

I wanted to give a shout-out to Shank Painters, pirate punks, moored in Portland, Maine. On June 18th, they will be launching their fourth studio album, Spitfire. Spitfire is described as a rollicking mix of reimagined traditional sea shanties and Irish folk tunes, genre-bending originals, and floor-stomping rebel songs. Check out the video for “South Australia,” the advance single from the…

Folk punk supergroup, The Walker Roaders, release a new 7″ single, Maggie May Went to Heaven. The Walker Roaders are James Fearnley (The Pogues), Ted Hutt (Flogging Molly), and Marc Orrell (Dropkick Murphys). Pre-order here: https://walkerroaders.rosecityworks.com/collections/music

If you thought Celtic rock started with Dropkick Murphys or Flogging Molly spitting Murphys over a Marshall stack, it’s time to get a proper history lesson. Long before the current crop of tatted-up, flat-cap-wearing hooligans were even a glint in their da’s eye, Horslips were original prog-trotting pioneers. They took pristine, ancient Irish melodies, ran them through a meat grinder of heavy…

Strap in for a creamer from a Celtic punk legend! Frankie McLaughlin, the broken glass gargling punk poet formerly of The Rumjacks, unleashes his solo debut under the Liptons Orphan banner with Dressin’ Scottish / Drinkin’ Irish / Talkin’ Rubbish. This 10-track beast is a raw, rollicking ode to folk-punk mayhem, all songs written and performed by Frankie himself (bar a cheeky cover of Matt…

The beat’s gone quiet. Andrew Ranken, the Pogues’ founding drummer and the man who kept the whole mad circus thundering along—passed away on February 10, 2026, at 72. Andrew was responsible for the relentless, pounding rhythms on Rum Sodomy & the Lash, If I Should Fall from Grace, and every sweaty, glorious live brawl. Too many empty chairs at the table now. Philip Chevron (2013), Darryl Hunt…

THE MAHONES new Tribute Album “The Songs of Shane MacGowan” will be released just in time for their 35th Anniversary Tour. A Fairytale Intro If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Old Main Drag A Rainy Night In Soho Dirty Old Town Streams Of Whiskey I’m The Man You Don’t Meet Everyday A Pair Of Brown Eyes Down All The Days The Wild Rover St. John Of Gods A Fairytale Of New…

Norway’s Greenland Whalefishers have been churning out Pogues-inspired punk since the mid-90s, long before every Tom, Dick, and Murphy decided to pick up a tin whistle and call themselves Celtic-punk. These Bergen bhoys have always worn their influences on their sleeve – think early Pogues grit mixed with a solid punk backbone – and their latest (and eighth studio album), War: 11 Battlefields,…

My Druthers were a new discovery for me—a collective of grog-fueled rabble-rousers from the gritty port city of New London, Connecticut, self-described purveyors of songs of the sea and ballads of rebellion. Their debut Coming Up 3’s delivers 15 tracks of raw, rum-soaked sea shanties with a modern punk rock bite. Blending timeless traditionals (like “Whiskey Johnny,” “Hangin’ Johnny,” “Cape Cod…

Wanted to give a shout out to The Barking Lions, another new(ish) band from Buffalo, NY. They have a new album out on bandcamp, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Check ’em out. https://thebarkingirons1.bandcamp.com/

Our friends in Buffalo, Grass Mud Horse, have released a Celtic punk cover of Stompin’ Tom Connors’ iconic “The Hockey Song”. Check it out on Spotify. https://grassmudhorse.com/

Pete Holidai – Dublin’s original punk. Co-founder of The Radiators from Space in ’76, Ireland’s first punk snarlers, droppin’ bombs like “Television Screen” and “Enemies” that bridged raw rebellion with street-smart hooks. Through the heartbreak of the Radiators, the Trouble Pilgrims, and decades of grit, Pete has never lost his undyin’ love for 1970s glam – that glittery fuse that lit punk’s…

The Rumjacks are back with their sixth album, Dead Anthems, the second full-length with Mike Rivkees barking at the helm – the Boston bhoy who jumped aboard the ship Rumjack for 2021’s Hestia and gave the band a new lease of life after the departure of Frankie McLaughlin. Produced by Mike Rivkees with Pete Steinkopf from The Bouncing Souls co-producing, Dead Anthems got a crisp, punchy sound that…

It’s been a bit of a wait, hasn’t it, folks? After those two Woody Guthrie-inspired acoustic jaunts – This Machine Still Kills Fascists and Okemah Rising – that had the Dropkicks channeling their inner folk troubadours, the Boston street-punks are back with For The People, and Jaysus, it’s like they’ve plugged back into the electric grid of their Celtic punk origins. No more sittin’ ’round the…