For folks who keep the Chieftains and Bad Religion on the same playlists. Their latest, Two Devils Will Talk, is arguably the best current-day amalgam of contemporary punk energy and traditional Celtic folk.
This Canadian Celt-punk delegation have been at it since their inception in 1992, with frontman Paul McKenzie as the only constant. (You should also check out their track “I Will Not Follow,” a swipe at a superstar Irish stadium-rock band.) The bittersweet “Whole Of The Moon” is a bona fide classic. Read More: 9 House Of Pain songs that aren’t “Jump Around”Īlthough Waterboys founder Mike Scott is a card-carrying Scotsman, he and his band have used various Celtic, Scottish and English folk tropes as launchpads for his inspired songwriting. The follow-up to 2011’s Speed Of Darkness is due this year. He and life-partner/fiddle player Bridget Regan have turned FloMo into an Irish-punk juggernaut with five albums, Warped Tour stints and sold-out tours to their name. Rock crits scratched their head when Dave King-formerly of ’80s metal act Fastway alongside former members of UFO and Mötorhead-unveiled Flogging Molly to the LA club scene in 1993. The band’s new album, Odd Boat, wil be released on Sailor’s Grave Records on April 28. And sorry Jonathan Davis, the 6’ers Eric McMahon could take you on in a bagpipe faceoff. Duggins has a voice best described as “classic,” offering both melodic expression and a gruff barking that puts 88.8 percent of all street-punk frontmen to shame.įormed at the beginning of the century, Flatfoot 56 have evolved as players and songwriters, from their early rough-housing to the spirited rave-ups that make up 2012’s Toil. The Chicago-based sextet are a force in the genre and recently had their 10th album, Smash The Windows, released earlier this month on Victory. Read more: 9 Dropkick Murphys songs that aren’t “I’m Shipping Up To Boston”