Dropkick Murphys' Going Out In Style Debuts at #6

By: Mar. 09, 2011
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Dropkick Murphys' critically acclaimed new CD Going Out In Style (Born & Bred Records/ILG) debuts at #6 on the Billboard Top 200, marking the groups highest chart debut to date. The album is receiving overwhelming praise, with USA Today declaring it "funny, moving, inspiring and, above all, entertaining," while the New York Times applauds its "gruff punk with some rowdy Irish roots and offer no mercy for posers or phonies."

The band's video for "Memorial Day," the first radio single from seventh full-length studio album, will debut on MTV2 and mtvU next Thursday, March 17 in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. With band performance footage interspersed throughout, the "Memorial Day" video follows dual story lines. In one, Dropkick's Ken Casey and Al Barr appear as motivational speakers at a leadership conference, running their corporate audience through familiar team-building exercises. The other flashes back to follow a delinquent youth from elementary school exploits to teenage run-ins with the law.

The video for the song "Going Out In Style" premiered at Rolling Stone last week, and can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7g3RuoreRc&feature=channel_video_title

Dropkick Murphys--Al Barr (lead vocals), Tim Brennan (guitars, accordion, whistle, vocals), Ken Casey (lead vocals, bass guitar), Jeff DaRosa (banjo, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica, vocals), Matt Kelly (drums, vocals), James Lynch (guitar, vocals), and Scruffy Wallace (bagpipes)-are currently touring the U.S. on their annual St. Patrick's Day trek which wraps up in Boston with a string of St. Patty's Day week hometown gigs.

Dropkick Murphys' current U.S. tour dates are as follows:

3/9 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
3/10 - New York, NY - Roseland Ballroom
3/11 - New York, NY - Roseland Ballroom
3/12 - Washington D.C. - Shamrock Fest at RFK Stadium
3/13 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
3/16 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
3/17 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
3/18 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
3/19 - Lowell, MA - Tsongas Arena
3/20 - Boston, MA - The Paradise (Claddagh Fund Benefit)



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