Dropkick Murphys’ New Album ‘Turn Up That Dial” Out April 30; “Middle Finger” Single Out Now; Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day With Free Streaming Performance

Dropkick Murphys

Announce New Studio Album

Flip Up That Dial

Out April 30 Through Born & Bred Data

Pre-Order The Album Here

New Single “Middle Finger” Out Now

Band To Rejoice St. Patrick’s Day With Followers Worldwide Through

Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day Stream 2021…Nonetheless Locked Down

Offered By Pega…Sponsored By YOU

March 17 At 7:00 PM ET / 4:00 PM PT

Dropkick Murphys are making ready to launch their 10^th 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 after they nearly reunite with followers across the globe for his or her Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day Stream 2021…Nonetheless Locked Down to have fun 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 – will probably 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 and a model new video present.

With the 11 tracks on Flip Up That Dial, Dropkick Murphys have fun the easy pleasure of music, the aid and launch from fear that comes while you “flip up that dial” and blast your troubles away. “On this report, 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 folks’s minds off their troubles. We’re so lucky and grateful to be within the place to share slightly happiness in our personal approach. Our gratitude ranges are off the chart. 25 years in the past, any person wager me 30 bucks I couldn’t kind a band with three weeks’ discover to open for his band. As youngsters, we’d by no means been out of New England and right here we’re – we’ve made ten information 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.’”

Over the past two years, following a surgical procedure, bassist/co-lead vocalist Casey stopped taking part in, passing bass duties to longtime good friend 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 reveals 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 huge, 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 stay present and this album to the following stage.

Hunkered down at house in the course of the pandemic, Dropkick Murphys staved off despair 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.

Figuring out 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 had been all one another out the window, no less than,” recollects Casey. 

Dropkick Murphys steamrolled their approach by way of the album with a string of anthems, beginning with the title monitor. “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 straightforward to think about the band members pondering again to their teenage selves: blasting The Conflict on a Walkman, feeling their favourite bands had been sticking up for them greater than anybody else on the planet. This album is fueled by these bands that captured the vitality of the streets, distilled life’s complexities to raging choruses, and had 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 monitor explodes into the refrain, “I may by no means maintain that center finger down.” Not one to shirk duty, Casey affords this reflection: “Considering of my youthful days, I made issues so much 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 shifting 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 unimaginable man,” Casey explains. “He and Al had a really particular bond. To look at Al grieve his demise was heartbreaking. He persevered by way of 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 music, 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, rely our blessings, and bear in mind those that we’ve misplaced, together with the 400,000-plus folks to this virus.”

In good instances and dangerous instances, we flip to music. Our report collections and playlists carry us by way of any hardships, adversities, and bother the world throws our approach. While you press play, the ache simply goes away. It’s why we hear within the first place. And that’s what Dropkick Murphys got down to do – and positively achieved – on the brand new album Flip Up That Dial. They boot within the entrance door of 2021 with a report that punches you sq. within the face and says, within the phrases of Ken Casey, “Rise 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 executed loads of lamenting, so the principle purpose was to maintain this enjoyable,” Casey leaves off. “The darker the instances obtained, 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 have fun St. Patrick’s Day throughout Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day Stream 2021…Nonetheless Locked Down, which is offered 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 “cross the digital hat” to take donations to assist help their efforts to maintain paying their staff, and a portion of donations will go to charity as all the time. Those that donate prematurely 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 throughout Nonetheless Locked Down.

Dropkick Murphys have a protracted historical past of giving again and discovering inventive 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 america, Dropkick Murphys held their Streaming Up From Boston stay stream occasion in lieu of their regular Boston Blowout St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Up to now, 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 Road Journal, and raised greater than $60,000 by way of the band’s charitable group, The Claddagh Fund.

In Could 2020, they masterminded the historic Streaming Outta Fenway stay stream offered 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 straight 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 learn charities comparable to Boston Resiliency Fund, Feeding America®, and Habitat for Humanity, Larger 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.

Flip Up That Dial Monitor Itemizing:

1. Flip Up That Dial
2. L-EE-B-O-Y
3. Middle Finger
4. Queen Of Suffolk County
5. Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding
6. H.B.D.M.F.
7. Good As Gold
8. Smash Shit Up
9. Chosen Few
10. Metropolis By The Sea
11. I Wish You Were Here

About Dropkick Murphys

Dropkick Murphys proudly stay Boston’s rock ‘n’ roll underdogs turned champions. Since 1996, the boys have thrown down with the type of rock ‘n’ roll that’s meant to be chanted eventually name, in packed arenas, and in the course of the fourth quarter, third interval, or ninth inning of a comeback rally. With a celebrated discography together with 2005’s gold-selling The Warrior’s Code and the close to double platinum traditional “I’m Transport Up To Boston,” they’ve quietly moved 8 million-plus items worldwide. Whether or not you caught a legendary gig at The Rathskeller (The Rat) below Kenmore Sq., discovered the band by taking the T to Newbury Comics to cop Do Or Die in ’98, found them in Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-winning The Departed, or noticed ‘em throw down at Coachella (or one among tons of of different festivals), you’ve grow to be part of their prolonged household. Amongst many accolades, they’ve earned three Prime 10 albums on the Billboard Prime 200, generated half-a-billion streams, and offered out gigs on a number of continents. To not point out, The Signed and Sealed in Blood standout “Rose Tattoo” graced Loudwire’s “Prime 66 Greatest Of The Decade Rock Songs” at #21 with a bullet. Most just lately, 2017’s 11 Brief Tales Of Ache & Glory (launched by way of the band’s personal Born & Bred Data), bowed at #8 on the Billboard Prime 200 and emerged because the #1 independently launched album. In 2021, they return with a easy request on their tenth full-length album: Flip Up That Dial!

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Streaming Outta Fenway (2020 stay stream): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzkMA_1NbfY

(Photograph by Ken Susi)