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Dropkick Murphys | Whiskey Republic | March 14, 2011
The Dropkick Murphys perform live at the exclusive grand opening party for Whiskey Republic on March 14, 2011.
By CAROLYN BUBEL | March 16, 2011

The Irish rovers

The Pogues return to their other 'old main drag'
"The Pogues and Boston go together in ways that belong in the realm of the unexplainable."
By MIKE MILIARD | March 18, 2009

Gems from the Emerald Isle
With the Boston Celtic Music Festival taking over a host of venues January 9 and 10 it can be easy to forget that not all Irish music is . . . Celtic music.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | January 09, 2009

Celtic tigers

Interview: the Chieftains at Symphony Hall — again
At 69, Paddy Moloney is still the world’s foremost uilleann-pipes player.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 12, 2008

Show and tell

A whole new year of live music
After a brief late-December break from the usual boatload of good shows, the flood picks up right where it left off in early January.
By WILL SPITZ | January 04, 2008

Electro-folk

Finding sounds with Patrick McGinley’s Murmer
Patrick McGinley is an inveterate traveler.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | December 31, 2007

The best of times

More than a decade into their career, Dropkick Murphys accept success — and pay tribute to the people and the city who helped them earn it
On Boston Harbor’s Long Island, two miles out in Quincy Bay, the Curley Building stands hulking and decrepit.
By MIKE MILIARD | September 07, 2007

Trouble at the top

The Walter Reed fiasco is a national disgrace
The back of our limo has one of those yellow ribbon decals that say “Support Our Troops” — just above the “Impeach Bush” sticker.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | March 14, 2007

In the moment

The Pogues, Avalon, March 8, 2007
The Pogues live in the moment, and last Thursday that moment lasted two hours at Avalon.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 12, 2007

The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 15

Set ’em up, knock ’em back - side

By | March 17, 2006

30 songs to spill beer on your iPod to - side

By | March 17, 2006

30 songs to spill beer on your iPod to

The greatest drinking songs of all time
No song captures the quiet desperation of a hard-drinking, hardscrabble nowhere town better than this one.
By MIKE MILIARD | March 16, 2006

Regaining Shane

The return of the MacGowan Pogues
It was 1985 and it was time for a new kind of kick. I did not expect to find it with guys playing tin whistle, banjo, and accordion, and a guy who used to sing for the B-level punk band, the Nips ( nés Nipple Erectors) — that would be the dentally challenged Shane MacGowan.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 07, 2006