When the Red Sox are away, the Dropkick Murphys will play, at Fenway Park that is. Red Sox Executive Vice President/COO Sam Kennedy praised the band as the team confirmed they'll be headlining shows on Thursday and Friday, September 8 and 9, at Fenway Park when the Sox are scheduled to be in Tampa Bay. All that's needed is the city of Boston's approval.
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Tickets for up to three games of the Stanley Cup finals in Boston sold out within minutes of going on sale at 11 a.m.
Music is always an important part of St. Patrick’s Day in Massachusetts. Of course the Dropkick Murphy's are in town and will be rocking the House of Blues in Boston tonight and tomorrow. The Tinker's Son in Norwell features a whole weekend of Celtic music with Dublin Free Press on Friday and Devri on Sunday. The Irish Cultural Centre in Canton has U2 tribute band The Joshua Tree on Friday. Senator Jack Hart's big moment in the St. Patrick’s Day celebration comes Sunday at the St. Patrick's Day Breakfast in South Boston. Jokes, food, music, and dancing are involved in this traditional event.Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
The Cambridge Fire Department rescued a young springer spaniel named Maggie from the Charles River Monday. Carmen Guzman wants the Suffolk County District Attorney's office to release the case file on Craigslist Killer Philip Markoff, who took the life of her daughter, Julissa Brisman. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty Jr got the coolest endorsement yet in Boston's 2009 Mayoral race: Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys. Casey sings for Boston's leading local band and, said he hopes Flaherty can "bring people together," which he says is a goal of the band. Casey said Flaherty shares "working-class values" with the Dropkick Murphys. Sounds good so far, right? Well, according to the Globe, Flaherty's campaign got the name of one of the band's signature songs wrong. They referred to "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" as "Ship It Up to Boston," which is a mistake not even a pink-hat wearing Red Sox fan would ever make lest you risk the wrath of Jonathan Papelbon. The Globe's Scott Helman tried to help by suggesting someone "ship some Dropkick Murphys albums" to Flaherty. We know what he meant. He's right. But, in 2009, sending a physical copy of the music is, politely, uncommon. The kids these days download the rock music off of the Internets.
There's something heartwarming about tradition. It brings people together, it gives those people something to celebrate, and it provides us all with a little something to look forward to. However, when it comes to punk rock, it's always been this Bostonist's humble opinion that breaking with tradition and rejecting the histrionics of ritualized performance for something meaningful, even downright touching, is what defines punk.
While some of these guys have moved away, here is a band that spreads Boston punk to the masses around the world singing anthems of family, friends, and justice. There's no bagpipe or fiddles to be heard in the Street Dogs, yet diehard Dropkick fans will recognize singer Mike McColgan from the early "Do or Die" era of the Dropkick Murphys.
Much as the Dropkick Murphys are part of the Boston fabric, much like the marathon and the Red Sox, they might have stretched themselves a tad too far with their latest adventure. Red Sox Monster noted that they opened a sports bar today--McGreevy's 3rd Base Saloon at 911 Boylston.
Bennifer version 2.0 was in town this weekend stumping for Barack Obama. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner hosted a sold out party at Rumor’s night club on Sunday night. Affleck, who first met Senator Obama in 2004 when Boston hosted the Democratic National Convention, has become a fan of the Senator’s and feels he’s the right man for the job. While Ben seemed to have done most of the talking and schmoozing for the evening, Garner stayed in the background. She’s been in town filming Ghosts of Girlfriends Past with a fully clothed Matthew McConaughey.
Boston Sports in 2007. It wasn't all about the grim, joyless dispatching of foes left and right. In fact, there were quite a few yuks to be had over the course of the year. So without further ado, we present the Bostonist 10 Funniest Sports Moments of the Year:
Bostonist just left the 2007 Boston Music Awards, and while we'll have ruminations on the awards ceremony for your Sunday reading pleasure, you can find below the crop of winners from the 20th anniversary ceremony, presented here in chronological order: Outstanding Funk/Jam Band of the Year: Westbound Train Outstanding Blues/Soul Act of the Year: Eli "Paperboy" Reed & the True Loves Outstanding DJ/Dance Act of the Year: DJ BC Outstanding Rock Band of the Year:...
Bostonist saw today's "Rolling Rally," featuring the players riding duck boats across the city and relief pitcher Jonathan Papelbon dancing to the Dropkick Murphys, from two different vantage points--near the Common and at the Hynes Convention Center. Everyone clearly enjoyed themselves, especially Papelbon: Wherever you were along the parade route, it was simply madness. Of course, the Red Sox faithful turned out in their jerseys. Hundreds of little kids skipped school. College students sat down...
Be prepared to take a long lunch break tomorrow. Mayor Menino has announced that Red Sox celebration festivities will begin tomorrow at noon. Bostonist watched the WBZ webcast of Mayor Menino giving the details. The players will be riding in duck boats in a repeat of 2004's "rolling rally." Menino said that the parade will follow the same route as it did in 2004. Here's an image of last year's route from the Globe....
Have you played a show in Boston over within the last 18 months? Have you ever crashed on a Boston couch? Do you know someone who did? If so, check out the Boston Music Award nominations. You or they just might be nominated. Listen, we actually enjoy the fact that local musicians are honored once a year through the BMAs. Sure, it's always dominated by the usual suspects (Aerosmith, Dropkick Murphys, Dresden Dolls and, most...
--Sure, people like to collect knickknacks. Salt-and-pepper shakers, Beanie Babies, comic books, parking meters. Yeah, parking meters, 123 of 'em, in fact. Thomas Gannon of Cambridge had cut the meters off poles all over Cambridge and Somerville. Police stumbled upon them when visiting Gannon for other reasons on Monday night. Master of understatement and Cambridge PD spokesman Frank Pasquarello said, "This does seem to be odd." Indeed. --Police arrested 17-year-old Derek Lodie, of Revere, for...
Congratulations, Sox fans! You made it through approximately three minutes of the Red Sox Rally Monday festivities at City Hall Plaza before the first chants of "Yankees Suck" filled the air. New record! Well done! A few thousand fans descended upon the plaza early Monday afternoon to cheer on their hometown baseball team (and decry the arch rivals) for the Boston version of the shindigs going on across the country. Rally Monday was a tradition...
Armin Van Buuren will be at the Avalon tonight, September 16, starting at 9:00 pm.
--Sure, a little disorderly is expected on St. Patrick's Day. But some Dropkick Murphys fans took it to the limit at the band's show yesterday. The BPD rounded up six fans who had been ejected and weren't very happy about it. One of the guys, a Belmont resident, got so upset that he "punched and kicked several security guards."
This week the music world turns its gaze to the party they call SXSW. A number of local bands are hitting the scene in hopes that it will propel them to some worldwide tour – or at least help them get out of that "garden level" apartment in Medford. While some eyes turn south to Texas where an immigration debate runs wild the US immigration policy has taken a toll on the local concert...
The temperature heats up a little this week. There will be a bit more humidity in the air. But unlike last week we're not going to be engaged in the same mad-dash around the city every night to catch all the good music. This week we can take our pick, settle in with a pint, and catch the good tunes at a single venue. Fantastic line-ups mark this weeks picks. From the opening band...
Just in case the 106th annual St. Patty’s Day parade doesn’t satisfy your thirst for Irish fun, join Bostonist on March 16th for the Saw Doctors show. With the Dropkick Murphys show sold out, Bostonians can head over the Roxy on Thursday to get their energetic Irish fix by a group of pure-blooded blokes.
Dear Ask Bostonist, I have two out-of-town friends (NYC and DC) who are visiting me next weekend. They are all excited about being in Boston for St. Patrick's Day, but every time I venture out of the 17th in Boston, I don't seem to have a good time...very long lines, cheesy bars (Purple Shamrock, anyone?), or just a skeleton crew is left. Any suggestions where I can take them on St. Patty's Day after work?...
We’ve been digging out all day. After we held our ground on the second floor yesterday only to find that our exterior door was all but snowed shut when it was time to go to work this morning. A bit of shoveling later we’re turning to warm hearts not cold snow. There's a good week ahead of us, temperatures are due to rise, indoors and out. Dinner reservations are hard to come by for tomorrow, and $54 prix fixe is steep. Bostonist has another plan: grab a bottle of Mad Dog, a paper bag, and hop the T for one of this week’s music agenda shows:
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