Dropkick Murphys

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After 26 years, Boston’s Dropkick Murphys put down their pencils, picked up their acoustic guitars, and wrote an album of songs around some previously unseen <a href="spotify:artist:4rAgFKtlTr66ic18YZZyF1" data-name="Woody Guthrie">Woody Guthrie</a> lyrics. The power of Woody’s words meets the urgency of Dropkick Murphys&#39; music on This Machine Still Kills Fascists (out Sept. 30). 
 When Dropkick Murphys formed in a barbershop basement in 1996, the goal wasn&#39;t to turn the infield at Fenway Park into a concert stage, or to turn a forgotten scrap of a Woody Guthrie lyric into an anthem ("<a href="spotify:track:7rSERmjAT38lC5QhJ8hnQc" data-name="I&#39;m Shipping Up To Boston">I&#39;m Shipping Up To Boston</a>") that would echo from Martin Scorsese&#39;s Oscar-winning <a href="spotify:playlist:2CVLcNBkxgtYXivCrQVbYe" data-name="The Departed Soundtrack (OST)">The Departed Soundtrack (OST)</a> to sports arenas and championship parades. The goal wasn&#39;t to become punk rock icons or emblems of working class Boston. The goal certainly wasn&#39;t to still be going strong a quarter-century later. The goal was simply to win a bet. 
 After nearly a dozen studio albums, millions of records sold, thousands of shows before packed houses around the globe, it&#39;s safe to say that Dropkick Murphys won the bet. Their celebrated discography includes four consecutive Billboard top 10 album debuts – <a href="spotify:album:78w6uEHeU1OrOTCh1XwnYd" data-name="Turn Up That Dial (Expanded Version)">Turn Up That Dial (Expanded Version)</a> (2021), <a href="spotify:album:6KLf1lMP6iFIRzxKcD7PFz" data-name="11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory">11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory</a> (2017), <a href="spotify:album:5YYbg2ZO8rK84Zf4Z5yWPJ" data-name="SIGNED and SEALED in BLOOD">SIGNED and SEALED in BLOOD</a> (2013), <a href="spotify:track:0I90T32j5YVYMdD4zi2Naf" data-name="Going Out In Style">Going Out In Style</a> (2011) – along with 2005’s gold-selling <a href="spotify:track:6ivzLSDw82LpxXfToyb0He" data-name="The Warrior&#39;s Code">The Warrior&#39;s Code</a> featuring the near double platinum classic “I’m Shipping Up To Boston.”