Artist Dropkick Murphys

Website
Dropkick Murphys

Boston’s Dropkick Murphys have been doing very well lately—even after St. Patrick’s Day, when the band’s Pogues-gone-hardcore sound has earned it a standing hometown gig, as documented on the upcoming Live On Landsdowne. They may be Beantown's second-proudest musical sons after Aerosmith (sorry, Pixies), and their fist-pumping, pub-born populist punk has been adopted as the city's de facto jock jam. The Red Sox even rallied their drought-ending 2004 World Series championship behind the Murphys’ redo of the Broadway anthem “Tessie.”

Updated 02/17/2010