Dropkick Murphys Signed And Sealed In Blood (Born and Bred) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Signed and Sealed In Blood, the eighth album from Boston’s resident Irish-punk collective Dropkick Murphys, opens with the line, “The boys are back and they’re looking for trouble.” Perhaps a more fitting line has never been sung to start [...]

The Dropkick Murphys show off their ink with “Rose Tattoo,” a lilting folk song that uses Ken Casey’s tattooed skin to weave a larger story about the band, its hometown, and its fans. “The pictures tell the story,” Casey sings in a punky brogue during the first verse, his voice drawing equally from punk rock [...]

The 2010 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival announced its line-up Tuesday, featuring artists ranging from John Fogerty to Weezer to Jay-Z. The festival, which takes place June 10-13 in Manchester, Tennessee, will also include perennial crowd favorites, The Flaming Lips, who will be performing Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety. Other [...]