Dropkick Murphys announce new album and single ahead of St Patrick’s Day livestream concert

DROPKICK MURPHYS are set to launch their long-awaited tenth studio album subsequent month. 

Flip Up That Dial is being launched, through the band’s personal Born & Bred Data label, on April 30 whereas a brand new single, Center Finger, is out now.

Dropkick Murphys are planning to preview a number of tracks from Flip Up That Dial after they just about 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 likely be simulcast worldwide through www.DKMstream.com and can characteristic Dropkick Murphys performing socially distanced on an arena-sized stage with a full LED display and brand-new video present.

In line with the band, Flip Up That Dial is a celebration of “the straightforward pleasure of music, the reduction and launch from fear that comes while you ‘flip up that dial’ and blast your troubles away.”

That’s a very necessary and wholly related message in these unsure instances.

“On this report, the general theme is the significance of music, and the bands that made us who we’re,” Dropkick Murphys founder and co-lead vocalist Ken Casey defined.

“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 somewhat happiness in our personal means. Our gratitude ranges are off the chart.

“25 years in the past, anyone guess me 30 bucks I couldn’t kind 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 information and have been all around the globe. If there’s a message to this album, it’s ‘put your fist up and play it loud.’”

Hunkered down at dwelling like so many others through the pandemic, Dropkick Murphys staved off melancholy by specializing in their music and leaning on one another. As they’ve ever since they first burst on the scene 1996, the band set about creating rousing tracks that mix punk rock and melodic Irish-inspired tunes with aplomb.

Figuring out of Q Division Studios in Somerville, MA with longtime producer Ted Hutt, they have been cautious to stick to any and all security protocols round Covid-19.

Flip Up That Dial was recorded 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 completely different rooms so they may all concurrently sing safely. “We have been all taking a look at one another out the window, no less than,” recollects Casey.

This album is fuelled by these bands that captured the vitality of the streets, distilled life’s complexities to raging choruses, and have been fixed companions.

Their new single Center Finger, serves as a well-known present of defiance from the Boston rebels, whereas the album additionally incorporates a shifting tribute to band member Al Barr’s late father with the tune I Want You Have been Right here and concludes with an epic crescendo of accordion, bagpipes and 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 via 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 sluggish tune, 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.”

For Casey the message of the brand new album is emphatic:  “Stand up, get out of these sweatpants you’ve been carrying for the final yr…higher instances are forward – LET’S F-in’ GO!!”

“We’ve all finished loads of lamenting, so the primary objective was to maintain this enjoyable,” Casey provides. “The darker the instances bought, the tougher 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.”

Forward of the discharge of Flip Up That Dial, followers are invited to hitch Dropkick Murphys and  have fun St. Patrick’s Day on the 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 help their efforts to maintain paying their workers, and a portion of donations will go to charity as at all times. Those that donate prematurely or through the stream (through www.DKMstream.com) will see their title 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 artistic methods to attach with followers, and so they’ve continued this custom all through the pandemic. On St. Patrick’s Day 2020, simply as COVID-19 was hitting vital mass in the US, Dropkick Murphys held their Streaming Up From Boston dwell stream occasion in lieu of their regular Boston Blowout St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

Thus far, it’s been watched greater than 13 million instances throughout platforms and raised greater than $60,000through the band’s charitable organisation, The Claddagh Fund.

In Might 2020, in addition they masterminded the historic Streaming Outta Fenway dwell 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 significant U.S. sports activities venue, and the primary music efficiency instantly 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.

With one other St Patrick’s Day epic on the playing cards and a brand new album to return, 2021 is trying good for the Dropkick Murphys.