Dropkick Murphys team up with Violent Femmes to fight the Ku Klux Klan on the new collaborative track “Gotta Get to Peekskill.” It’s the latest single from Dropkick’s upcoming album, Okemah Rising.
As previously reported, Okemah Rising (due May 12th) is the second Dropkick album to interpret the words of late folk legend Woody Guthrie, following last year’s This Machine Still Kills Fascists.
The song features the distinctive voices of Violent Femmes frontman Gordon Gano and Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey, as they trade verses on the track, singing Guthrie’s lyrics about confronting the Ku Klux Klan.
“We had the privilege of collaborating with the Violent Femmes on this feisty track,” said Casey in a press release. “Acoustic Dropkicks sounds a lot like the Violent Femmes in my opinion, so the collaboration is musically and symbolically fitting. And singing a song about fighting the Ku Klux Klan is always extra fun.
As previously reported, Okemah Rising (due May 12th) is the second Dropkick album to interpret the words of late folk legend Woody Guthrie, following last year’s This Machine Still Kills Fascists.
The song features the distinctive voices of Violent Femmes frontman Gordon Gano and Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey, as they trade verses on the track, singing Guthrie’s lyrics about confronting the Ku Klux Klan.
“We had the privilege of collaborating with the Violent Femmes on this feisty track,” said Casey in a press release. “Acoustic Dropkicks sounds a lot like the Violent Femmes in my opinion, so the collaboration is musically and symbolically fitting. And singing a song about fighting the Ku Klux Klan is always extra fun.
- 3/31/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Dropkick Murphys have announced a second album of songs featuring lyrics by folk legend Woody Guthrie. The new LP, titled Okemah Rising, arrives May 12th and is preceded by the single “I Know How It Feels.”
Okemah Rising follows 2022’s This Machine Still Kills Fascists, which also is comprised of acoustic songs written around Guthrie’s previously-unpublished lyrics. Among the guests on the upcoming release are Violent Femmes, Jesse Ahern, and Jaime Wyatt.
“Every night, when the audience is singing along with Woody’s words, his steadfast defense of the working class, and his fight against social injustice and the abuse of political power comes across loud and clear,” said Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey in a press release. “So as long as Dropkick Murphys are involved, Woody’s message will always be heard.”
Dropkick Murphys embarked on a 2022 acoustic tour in support of This Machine Still Kills Fascists, but...
Okemah Rising follows 2022’s This Machine Still Kills Fascists, which also is comprised of acoustic songs written around Guthrie’s previously-unpublished lyrics. Among the guests on the upcoming release are Violent Femmes, Jesse Ahern, and Jaime Wyatt.
“Every night, when the audience is singing along with Woody’s words, his steadfast defense of the working class, and his fight against social injustice and the abuse of political power comes across loud and clear,” said Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey in a press release. “So as long as Dropkick Murphys are involved, Woody’s message will always be heard.”
Dropkick Murphys embarked on a 2022 acoustic tour in support of This Machine Still Kills Fascists, but...
- 3/1/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Nikki Lane leaves Nashville behind and, ahem, ships up to Boston to film a new video with Dropkick Murphys. The country singer-songwriter duets with Dkm’s Ken Casey on “Never Git Drunk No More,” a track off the band’s Woody Guthrie album This Machine Still Kills Fascists.
Directed by Mike Rivkees, the video opens with an anachronistic conversation between Casey and Lane: he calls her up from a pay phone and she answers on a land line. The entire first half of the video finds them singing into the phones,...
Directed by Mike Rivkees, the video opens with an anachronistic conversation between Casey and Lane: he calls her up from a pay phone and she answers on a land line. The entire first half of the video finds them singing into the phones,...
- 2/10/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey was walking the booths and stalls of the Great Allentown Fair before his band’s show that night on the Grandstand Stage when he started to feel increasingly uneasy. The leader of the Boston band known for their Irish-influenced punk rock and vocal support of workers’ rights saw more than a few vendors at the 170th edition of the eastern Pennsylvania fair selling divisively political hats, shirts, and bumper stickers of the “Let’s Go Brandon” variety.
“I felt like we were playing a Maga flea market,...
“I felt like we were playing a Maga flea market,...
- 10/10/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
After a summer where many music festivals felt anticlimactic and unfulfilling (Was standing on dirt or gravel for hours on end ever fun?), AmericanaFest 2022 delivered one of its most satisfying and diverse weeks in the history of the Nashville event. While the festival suffered a major blow with the loss of its de facto home base, the Cannery Complex, to the city’s aggressive development, artists and bands found new venues at which to play and friendly audiences eager to experience something fresh. Here’s the sounds, parties, and places that moved us.
- 9/19/2022
- by Jon Freeman, Joseph Hudak and Charlie Zaillian
- Rollingstone.com
Dropkick Murphys and Rancid will embark on their second co-headlining tour later this summer.
The two rock outfits previously hit the road together in 2017. The Boston to Berkeley II trek was originally scheduled for last May but was postponed because of the pandemic. The run is now set to launch August 10th at the Lege Amphitheater in Waite Park, Minnesota, and wrap October 16th at the Shrine L.A, Outdoors in Los Angeles. Both Dropkick Murphys and Rancid are also booked to play sets at Riot Fest in Chicago (September...
The two rock outfits previously hit the road together in 2017. The Boston to Berkeley II trek was originally scheduled for last May but was postponed because of the pandemic. The run is now set to launch August 10th at the Lege Amphitheater in Waite Park, Minnesota, and wrap October 16th at the Shrine L.A, Outdoors in Los Angeles. Both Dropkick Murphys and Rancid are also booked to play sets at Riot Fest in Chicago (September...
- 6/14/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
With eight musicians in their current touring incarnation — bagpiper very much included — Boston roots-punk gods the Dropkick Murphys are one of the only bands who practically qualify as a mass gathering in their own right. But with their Streaming Outta Fenway show Friday night, they managed to put on the loudest, most joyful show of the pandemic era — with help from Bruce Springsteen — while adhering with admirable strictness to social-distancing guidelines. All it took was an eerily empty Fenway Park, a few cameras (most of them on flying drones), and...
- 5/30/2020
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
1:04 Pm Pt -- A rep for Dropkick Murphys tells us the reason Ken got into a fight with the fan actually had to do with the fact that the guy was elbowing women in the face. We're told Ken asked the man to calm down, but clearly he didn't listen. The rest is ... well, signed and sealed in blood. Dropkick Murphys stayed true to their name when one of their own got into a...
- 3/16/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Punk band Dropkick Murphys formed in Massachusetts in the '90s, long celebrating their love for the city of Boston with live albums nodding to Fenway Park and singles with names like "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" and "The State of Massachusetts." So when two explosions at this week's Boston Marathon injured dozens of victims, the band members mobilized, doing their part to help their beloved city.
Dropkick Murphys, made up of Ken Casey, Matt Kelly, Al Barr, James Lynch, Tim Brennan, Josh Wallace, and Jeff DaRosa, began marketing a "For Boston" t-shirt on their band's website, pledging all proceeds from the shirt sales to victims of the bombings, writing, "100 percent of all proceeds from this shirt will go directly to the victims and families of the Boston bombings." The band was able to reach $65,000 in the first 15 hours of sales, approaching the $100,000 mark soon after.
The Dropkick Murphys aren't...
Dropkick Murphys, made up of Ken Casey, Matt Kelly, Al Barr, James Lynch, Tim Brennan, Josh Wallace, and Jeff DaRosa, began marketing a "For Boston" t-shirt on their band's website, pledging all proceeds from the shirt sales to victims of the bombings, writing, "100 percent of all proceeds from this shirt will go directly to the victims and families of the Boston bombings." The band was able to reach $65,000 in the first 15 hours of sales, approaching the $100,000 mark soon after.
The Dropkick Murphys aren't...
- 4/20/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
**Warning Explicit Language**Attention Nazis: stay the hell away from Dropkick Murphys concerts ... or they will kick your ass on stage.This story is crazy ... the Murphs were playing a show at Terminal 5 in NYC last week when they invited the crowd on stage for a couple songs ... including AC/DC's "TNT" ... and some skinhead dumbass started doing the Nazi salute in time to the music.Singer Ken Casey caught the sieg heiling out of...
- 3/20/2013
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Boston's Irish-punk band Dropkick Murphys didn't waste any time with a concertgoer last week in New York City, attacking him onstage after he gave a Nazi salute.
In videos posted on YouTube from various attendees bassist/singer Ken Casey and the band were playing New York's Terminal 5 when the incident took place. Approximate one minute and 30 seconds into the YouTube clip above, Casey looks across the stage filled with fans to see a male saluting on the other side of the stage. "Here it comes... watch bass player," a statement reads on the clip.
Casey walks across the stage and grabs the skinhead by the throat, causing the guy to fall to the stage. The bassist then removes his bass guitar and swings it down on the male before roadies and others intervene as the band continues playing a cover of AC/DC's 'T.N.T.'
"Holy shit! Do...
In videos posted on YouTube from various attendees bassist/singer Ken Casey and the band were playing New York's Terminal 5 when the incident took place. Approximate one minute and 30 seconds into the YouTube clip above, Casey looks across the stage filled with fans to see a male saluting on the other side of the stage. "Here it comes... watch bass player," a statement reads on the clip.
Casey walks across the stage and grabs the skinhead by the throat, causing the guy to fall to the stage. The bassist then removes his bass guitar and swings it down on the male before roadies and others intervene as the band continues playing a cover of AC/DC's 'T.N.T.'
"Holy shit! Do...
- 3/20/2013
- by Huffington Post Music Canada
- Huffington Post
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.