Dropkick Murphys are getting ready to launch their tenth full-length studio album, Flip Up That Dial, April 30 through band-owned Born & Bred Data. The album was produced by Ted Hutt and is offered for pre-order, with the brand new single “Middle Finger” out now.
As beforehand introduced, Dropkick Murphys will preview some tracks from Flip Up That Dial once they just about reunite with followers across the globe for his or her Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day Stream 2021…Nonetheless Locked All the way down to rejoice St. Patrick’s Day on Wednesday, March 17 at 7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT. The free streaming on-line live performance – with no in-person viewers – shall be simulcast worldwide through www.DKMstream.com and can function Dropkick Murphys performing socially distanced on an arena-sized stage with a full LED display screen and a model new video present.
With the 11 tracks on Flip Up That Dial, Dropkick Murphys rejoice the straightforward pleasure of music, the aid and launch from fear that comes whenever you “flip up that dial” and blast your troubles away. “On this document, the general theme is the significance of music, and the bands that made us who we’re,” explains DKM founder and co-lead vocalist Ken Casey. “We simply hope [the album] takes individuals’s minds off their troubles. We’re so lucky and grateful to be within the place to share just a little happiness in our personal method. Our gratitude ranges are off the chart. 25 years in the past, any individual wager me 30 bucks I couldn’t type a band with three weeks’ discover to open for his band. As children, we’d by no means been out of New England and right here we’re – we’ve made ten data and have been everywhere in the globe. If there’s a message to this album, it’s ‘put your fist up and play it loud.’”
During the last two years, following a surgical procedure, bassist/co-lead vocalist Casey stopped enjoying, passing bass duties to longtime buddy and street crew member Kevin Rheault. With Casey off his leash and free to roam the entrance of the stage with co-lead vocalist Al Barr, a brand new, highly effective dynamic has ignited between the 2. After a pair hundred exhibits of the untethered duo shredding phases everywhere in the world, their long-standing vocal trade-off explodes out of the audio system higher than ever on Flip Up That Dial.
Quantity cranked, heads held excessive, smiles large, eyes on the prize, Dropkick Murphys cost ahead with the identical spirit that introduced them right here within the first place…but with a brand new willpower and enthusiasm that brings each the reside present and this album to the subsequent stage.
Hunkered down at dwelling in the course of the pandemic, Dropkick Murphys staved off melancholy by leaning on the music and leaning on one another. As they’ve since 1996, they started throwing down rousing tracks that span the hole from punk rock ragers to melodic, Irish-inspired tunes.
Understanding of Q Division Studios in Somerville, MA with longtime producer Ted Hutt, they recorded Flip Up That Dial in shifts of two members at a time. For the ultimate weeks of recording, Hutt ran the periods through video convention from his studio in LA. For background vocals, the fellows arrange separate mics in 5 totally different rooms so they might all concurrently sing safely. “We have been all one another out the window, at the very least,” remembers Casey.
Dropkick Murphys steamrolled their method by the album with a string of anthems, beginning with the title observe. “Flip Up That Dial” lays naked the entire level of the gathering within the first verse: “You’re my inspiration, you bought one thing to say / Now flip up that dial ‘til it takes me away.” It’s simple to think about the band members considering again to their teenage selves: blasting The Conflict on a Walkman, feeling their favourite bands have been sticking up for them greater than anybody else on the earth. This album is fueled by these bands that captured the vitality of the streets, distilled life’s complexities to raging choruses, and have been fixed companions.
On the brand new single “Center Finger,” Al Barr spits out the verses with an evil, tongue-in-cheek grin, because the observe explodes into the refrain, “I may by no means preserve that center finger down.” Not one to shirk duty, Casey affords this reflection: “Considering of my youthful days, I made issues rather a lot more durable for myself than they wanted to be – and nonetheless pay for a few of these errors now.”
The band closes the album with a tribute to Al’s late father Woody Barr on the transferring tribute “I Want You Had been Right here.” Flip Up That Dial waves goodbye with accordion, bagpipes, and a drum march. “Al’s dad was simply an unbelievable man,” Casey explains. “He and Al had a really particular bond. To observe Al grieve his loss of life was heartbreaking. He persevered by it, even once we had to return on the street, away from household. He saved his head held excessive. We’ve by no means ended an album with a gradual track, however we needed to finish it with a tip of the cap to pay our respects to Woody and so many others. It’s a second to cease, depend our blessings, and bear in mind those that we’ve misplaced, together with the 400,000-plus individuals to this virus.”
In good instances and unhealthy instances, we flip to music. Our document collections and playlists carry us by any hardships, adversities, and bother the world throws our method. If you press play, the ache simply goes away. It’s why we pay attention within the first place. And that’s what Dropkick Murphys got down to do – and undoubtedly completed – on the brand new album Flip Up That Dial. They boot within the entrance door of 2021 with a document that punches you sq. within the face and says, within the phrases of Ken Casey, “Stand up, get out of these sweatpants you’ve been sporting for the final 12 months…higher instances are forward – LET’S F-in’ GO!!”
“We’ve all achieved loads of lamenting, so the primary objective was to maintain this enjoyable,” Casey leaves off. “The darker the instances received, the more durable we fought to uplift with this music. No matter we’re doubtlessly giving to followers, belief me, they’re giving it to us tenfold. Now, flip up that f*cking dial.”
Whereas awaiting the discharge of Flip Up That Dial, be part of Dropkick Murphys to rejoice St. Patrick’s Day throughout Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day Stream 2021…Nonetheless Locked Down, which is introduced by Boston-area tech firm Pega (a number one supplier of digital transformation software program) and sponsored by YOU. As a substitute of charging for tickets, the band will “go the digital hat” to take donations to assist assist their efforts to maintain paying their workers, and a portion of donations will go to charity as all the time. Those that donate upfront or in the course of the stream (through www.DKMstream.com) will see their identify scroll throughout the ticker on the backside of the display screen throughout Nonetheless Locked Down.
Dropkick Murphys have a protracted historical past of giving again and discovering artistic methods to attach with followers, they usually’ve continued this custom all through the pandemic. On St. Patrick’s Day 2020, simply as COVID-19 was hitting crucial mass in the USA, Dropkick Murphys held their Streaming Up From Boston reside stream occasion in lieu of their regular Boston Blowout St. Patrick’s Day celebration. So far, it’s been watched greater than 13 million instances throughout platforms, was featured on CBS This Morning Saturday, CNN, NBC Nightly Information, The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, and within the Wall Avenue Journal, and raised greater than $60,000 by the band’s charitable group, The Claddagh Fund.
In Could 2020, they masterminded the historic Streaming Outta Fenway reside stream introduced by Pega. Taking the infield at Fenway Park devices in-hand, it stood out because the first-ever music occasion with out an in-person viewers at a serious U.S. sports activities venue, and the primary music efficiency immediately on the infield at Fenway. Bruce Springsteen joined on the Jumbotron for a two-song “Double Play” of DKM’s “Rose Tattoo” and his “American Land.” Most significantly, they hauled in $700,000-plus to profit charities similar to Boston Resiliency Fund, Feeding America®, and Habitat for Humanity, Better Boston.
Dropkick Murphys are: Al Barr (lead vocals), Tim Brennan (guitars, tin whistle, accordion, piano, vocals), Ken Casey (lead vocals), Jeff DaRosa (guitars, banjo, mandolin, vocals), Matt Kelly (drums, percussion, vocals), James Lynch (guitars, vocals), Kevin Rheault (touring bassist) and Lee Forshner (touring bagpipe participant).
For extra info on Dropkick Murphys, go to: www.dropkickmurphys.com.
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