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Best of 2022

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Screw the Oscars, screw the MTV awards, screw Rolling Stone and the CMA, here is Shite’n’Onions best of 2022 list. The only list that matters.

#1 THE MAHONES: JAMESON STREET

A full force Céilí romp and possibly the most authentic trad sound I’ve ever heard coming out of any Celtic punk band.

#2 FINNEGAN’S HELL: ONE FINGER SALUTE

 As good as anything the big boys are doing

#3 THE WINTER CODES: SET THE DARKNESS REELING

Barney still has a voice that could strip paint at 50 feet

#4 FLOGGING MOLLY: ANTHEM

Their most Celtic-sounding album with an almost Seán Ó Riada style Celtic orchestration

#5 SIR REG: KINGS OF SWEET FECK ALL

Something you can’t fake. 

#6 JESSE AHERN: HEARTACHE AND LOVE

This is real blue-collar rock’n’roll with the authenticity you can only get from someone who actually works hard for a living.

#7 DAN BOOTH & NICK BURBRIDGE: ICONS

 Beautiful – musically, lyrically, and sounding

Best album to piss off your neighbors with:

THE TEMPLARS OF DOOM: RISING OF THE DOOM!

And on this one, the bagpipes go up to 11.

Best vanity project (just kidding) album:

DROPKICK MURPHY: THIS MACHINE STILL KILLS FASCISTS

Dropkick Murphys ode to Woody Guthrie

Best punk supergroup album:

ULTRABOMB: TIME TO BURN

Fast, powerful punk rock with great melodies, kind of like, well,…………Hüsker Dü

If there was an justice these guys would be huge album:

BRAND NEW ZEROS: BACK TO ZERO

Back to Zero, is really great rock’n’roll and an album I suspect I’ll be listening to for a long time into the future.

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Dropkick Murphys: Okemah Rising

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It’s not only Woody from the movie Toy Story who had squeal. The Dropkick Murphys are giving Americas favorite fokie, Woody Guthrie, a squeal with a follow up to, This Machine Still Kills Fascists, titled, Okemah Rising. The album features guest performances by folk punk pioneers Violent Femmes, Jesse Ahern from Quincy, Mass., and Jamie Wyatt. Okemah Rising comes out May 12 on CD, LP and on streaming services worldwide.

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Dropkick Murphy: This Machine Still Kills Fascists

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This Machine Kills Fascists is the famous 1940s slogan written on the guitar of America’s folk poet, Woody Guthrie (1912 – 1967). This Machine Still Kills Fascists, is the Dropkick Murphys ode to Woody. Of course, most of you will know ,Shipping Up To Boston, the Dropkick Murphys crossover ‘”hit”, popular with punks, skins, Celts and soccer moms was originally a Woody Guthrie song.

The Dropkick Murphys were approached by Woody’s family to do an album based on Woody’s unpublished lyrics and hence we have, This Machine Still Kills Fascists. The Murphys here have stuck to Woody’s acoustic tradition but just a wee bit harder in the style of, Boys On The Docks.

Honestly, this is a solid album with a few fillers. There is some great stuff like, the low down and dirty, Cadillac, Cadillac. Where Trouble Is At, is reminiscent of Peace & Love era Pogues. Dig A Hole, features Woody Guthrie himself. Talking Jukebox, is like slowed down surf punk and Ten Times More, is that chant along/shout along style we love so much from the Murphys. There are a couple of somewhat dull tracks such as, Waters Are A’Rising, but all in all it’s a great concept for an album.

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Dropkick Murphys: This Machine Still Kills Fascists

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Dropkick Murphys have announced a September release for their new album, This Machine Still Kills Fascists. If the title seems vaguely familiar it’s because it’s based on the ol’ Woody Guthrie slogan. The album itself is a collection of new acoustic music set to the lyrics of Guthrie – hence the title I guess. Dropkick Murphys interpretation of Woodies’ Shipping Up To Boston pushed the Murphys into the big time and endeared them to a nation of Firemen, Bros and Soccer Moms.

This Machine Still Kills Fascists was recorded in Tulsa, OK., Woodie’s hometown, and produced by Ted Hutt (Walker Roaders). The album will be without Al Barr who is currently absent from the band due to family health issues. The Murphys will support the album with an acoustic tour in October. I’m seeing them at the Ryman in Nashville. So if you’re there, buy us a pint. 

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