Hunkered down at home, Dropkick Murphys staved off depression by leaning on the music and leaning on each other. Way too many of our brothers and sisters lost their lives. All signs pointed to 2020 being maybe the most enjoyable and memorable year of the band’s career yet. On Friday 21st February 2020, the band walked onstage in front of 9,000 people at the majestic Alexandra Palace in London. The band shot two music videos the day before the final show of the tour. So they hit the road in Europe armed with a raucous new single, ‘Smash Shit Up’. By the end of 2020, they had written and recorded a little more than half of the music for what would become ‘Turn Up That Dial’. They’d just completed a marathon tour cycle behind ’11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory’-which boldly stared down the opiate epidemic-and made a conscious decision to uplift. Even before the sh*t hit the fan with the global pandemic, the boys wanted to “make a really fun and upbeat record,” according to Casey. That became something of a mantra for the guys in the studio. If there’s a message to this album, it’s ‘put your fist up and play it loud.’” As kids, we’d never been out of New England and here we are-we’ve made ten records and have been all over the globe. 25 years ago, somebody bet me 30 bucks I couldn’t form a band with three weeks’ notice to open for his band. We’re so fortunate and grateful to be in the position to share a little happiness in our own way. “We just hope it takes people’s minds off their troubles. “On this record, the overall theme is the importance of music, and the bands that made us who we are,” states Casey. Volume cranked, heads held high, smiles wide, eyes on the prize, Dropkick Murphys charge forward with the same spirit that brought them here in the first place…yet with a new determination and exuberance that brings both the live show and this album to the next level. After a couple hundred shows of the untethered duo shredding stages all over the world, their long-standing vocal trade-off explodes out of the speakers better than ever on ‘Turn Up That Dial’.

With Casey off his leash and free to roam the front of the stage with co-lead vocalist Al Barr, a new, powerful dynamic has ignited between the two. Over the last two years, following a surgery, bassist/co-lead vocalist Casey stopped playing, passing bass duties to longtime friend and road crew member Kevin Rheault.

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