Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shane MacGowan, the lead singer and songwriter of Celtic punk band The Pogues, who mashed up Irish folk music with raw rock, has ...

From the raw energy of punk to stadium-filling anthems, these 21 artists define the defiant, melodic soul of Irish music ...

Mr Irish Bastard ignite The Underworld in Camden on St. Patrick’s Day with a high-energy Celtic punk performance packed with ...

The New York State Fair is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this week by adding some Celtic folk and Irish punk to the 2023 concert lineup. Irish punk band The Prodigals will perform at the NYS Fair’s ...

AITKIN — It’s been 40 years since pioneering Celtic-punk-folk band Boiled In Lead’s first show at the Upper Deck in 1983 in Minneapolis. With their star still on the wall at First Avenue in ...

The top 3 Lehigh Valley-area concerts this week are action-packed with two tributes to legendary rock bands, and a Celtic punk/folk septet. First is the “World’s #1 Tribute to Bruce Springsteen & The ...

You may think you know Irish, but have you ever listened to the new wave of Irish folk music? If your answer is no, Celtic Utopia (Útóipe Cheilteach) can help you out. The documentary from the ...

When you think about Celtic music, piercing tin whistles, mournful violins and galloping bodhran drums generally come to mind. But in the last few decades, many bands have picked up The Pogues' lead ...

John F. Kennedy once pondered: “What’s the use of being Irish if the world doesn’t break your heart?” The Irish interpretation might be: Feel and live every moment, and don’t go down without kicking ...

“In Ireland, folk music is a living tradition,” a crotchety old drunk in a Galway pub once told me. It wasn’t simply about revering the past by teaching children the songs of their forefathers, he ...

The hard-drinking singer-songwriter penned the dark holiday classic 'Fairytale of New York' and was the subject of Julien Temple's Johnny Depp-produced 2020 documentary 'Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds ...