If there’s a message to this album, it’s ‘put your fist up and play it loud.’” As kids, we’d never been out of New England and here we are-we’ve made ten records and have been all over the globe. 25 years ago, somebody bet me 30 bucks I couldn’t form a band with three weeks’ notice to open for his band. We’re so fortunate and grateful to be in the position to share a little happiness in our own way. “We just hope it takes people’s minds off their troubles. “On this record, the overall theme is the importance of music, and the bands that made us who we are,” states Casey.
Volume cranked, heads held high, smiles wide, eyes on the prize, Dropkick Murphys charge forward with the same spirit that brought them here in the first place.yet with a new determination and exuberance that brings both the live show and this album to the next level. After a couple hundred shows of the untethered duo shredding stages all over the world, their long-standing vocal trade-off explodes out of the speakers better than ever on Turn Up That Dial. With Casey off his leash and free to roam the front of the stage with co-lead vocalist Al Barr, a new, powerful dynamic has ignited between the two. Over the last two years, following a surgery, bassist/co-lead vocalist Casey stopped playing, passing bass duties to longtime friend and road crew member Kevin Rheault. They boot in the front door of 2021 with a record that punches you square in the face and says, in the words of Ken Casey, “Get up, get out of those sweatpants you’ve been wearing for the last year.better times are ahead – LET’S F-in’ GO!!” It’s why we listen in the first place.Īnd that’s what Dropkick Murphys set out to do - and definitely accomplished - on the new album Turn Up That Dial.
When you press play, the pain just goes away. Our record collections and playlists carry us through any hardships, adversities, and trouble the world throws our way. Although if he’s at Long Wharf that may be Haymarket he’s smelling.ĩ) “I wanna be there for the start of every season, head back to Fenway, yeah, it seems like a good reason.” You knew there had to be a Red Sox reference, and they get it in under the wire with this stanza from “City by the Sea.” Hopefully more than 12 percent of the band was able to get in for opening day.ġ0) “Going home to friends and family, the best thing I ever did, I may be far away but I’m still a Boston kid.” From that same track, this line maybe sums it up best: The young Irish punks may be all grown up, but they’re just as Boston as ever - and no matter where they wind up, they’re not going anywhere.In good times and bad times, we turn to music. 8) “City by the Sea.” We may be more prone to think of it as a city by the harbor, but on the album’s penultimate track - wherein Casey, trading verses with Barr, declares “I wanna be home by the ocean so I can smell the sea, I wanna be around a bunch of salty knuckleheads like you and me” - there’s no doubt which city he’s referring to.
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