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Like Gogol Bordello and Flogging Molly, New Orleans quintet the Zydepunks pull from two divergent styles — folk and punk — to produce music that pushes traditional limitations without abandoning its origins. The group, known because of its manic interpretations of Western and Louisiana folk music and a multilingual repertoire …

The hardcore punk/Celtic folk outfit Dropkick Murphys formed in South Boston in 1995; vocalist Mike McColgan, guitarist Rick Barton, and bassist Ken Casey comprised the initial nucleus of the group, with some drummers transferring through the lineup prior to the addition of Matt Kelly in 1997. After some EPs, including …

Originally started one night in the first ’90s for a number of the members from the Finnish alternative rock-band Kumukameli to pass enough time after a show, Eläkeläiset took popular songs and added a normal Finnish humppa (or oompah) element to them, albeit with modern instrumentation. With Onni Varis on …

A transcendent singer/songwriter and two-fisted gutter poet whose notorious drunken behavior, rotten tooth, and drug-fueled excesses frequently threatened to eclipse his popularity being a performer, Shane MacGowan was created on Christmas Time, 1957, in Kent, Britain. Within a few months, his family came back to their indigenous Ireland, where he …

The Boggs — vocalist/guitarist Jason Friedman, slide guitarist Zeke Healy, drummer Brad Conroy, and banjo player Phil Roebuck — began playing their raw, stripped-down version of folk on street corners and subway platforms in Brooklyn, NY, through the winter of 2001. After playing a gig at New York’s Mercury Lounge …

During the period of nine years, Wolfstone dragged Scottish music — occasionally kicking and screaming, but often quite loudly — in to the globe of rock. These were noisy and very pleased and moved Seattle’s grunge ethic in the Pacific Northwest towards the Highlands, putting it on to both traditional …

Hardly any bands have the ability to stay jointly for many decades. Also fewer are capable of doing it when their best focus is normally politics. But once again, there aren’t many around just like the Wolfe Shades. Acquiring their name from Wolfe Build, among the leaders from the 1798 …

Because of his father’s impact, David Coulter started quite in early stages the road to becoming the proficient multi-instrumentalist that he’s today. He discovered how to perform his first devices, a harmonica along with a jew’s-harp, before he discovered how consider his first toddling footsteps. The harmonium and violin adopted …

The original music of Western Africa and Ireland is fused right into a seamless blend by Afro Celt AUDIO SYSTEM. The band’s thrilling performances have grown to be a popular appeal on the WOMAD celebration in Reading, Britain, since 1995, while their 1996 debut record, Quantity 1, remains perhaps one …

In the center of the otherwise barren Colorado Desert in Southern California, second and then Death Valley in its utter desolation, there’s the improbable Salton Sea, a massive man-made saltwater lake created virtually unintentionally in the first many years of the 20th century. The crazed garage area punk outfit Toss …