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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