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Street Dogs
Street Dogs (With Bonus CD Of Album)
(Dropkick Murphys)
Hellcat 80517
Released on August 31, 2010
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Mike McColgan – frontman, singer and songwriter for Boston’s beloved
punk rock quintet Street Dogs – has lived the life that other bands just
sing about. As the founding frontman of Dropkick Murphys, McColgan
helped bring his experiences as a Gulf War combat veteran to the
uncompromising, working class sound that launched that band. But in
1998, following a family tradition, McColgan left the band and music to
become a Boston firefighter. Four years later, he began jamming on
nights off with some old friends from the Boston punk scene; he found
he needed the voice that only fronting a band could give him, and the
Street Dogs were born. Now Street Dogs are ready to unleash their selftitled
fifth album, the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2008 Hellcat
debut State of Grace, which critics called "a raucous and purposeful
working man's ride" (Dallas Morning News) with “the kind of political
streak rarely heard since the Clash” (Cleveland Scene). After incessant
tours around the world alongside bands like The Offspring, Alkaline Trio,
and Anti-Flag, and headlining tours in US and UK in support of State of
Grace, Street Dogs were inspired by the ferocity of their audiences to
make a rabble-rousing, in-your-face punk record. With only one song
cracking the three-minute mark, McColgan and crew rail short and
sweet, with topics ranging from union-busting and modern radio to
information overload. Street Dogs is anthemic, heartfelt, and positive,
an answer to the dehumanization of modern life in the classic tradition
of punk from the Clash and Sham 69 to Green Day.
Includes a free CD of the entire album.
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