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Watch the Trailer for John Michael McDonagh’s New Dark Comedy ‘Calvary’

Writer and director John Michael McDonagh is following up The Guard with a new dark comedy that we’re just about as anxious waiting for as we will be anxious watching. The film, called Calvary, stars Brendan Gleeson as a priest haunted by a recent confession where an unidentified man says he plans to kill Gleeson in a week. The […]

REVIEW: The Ramshackle Army – ‘The Road Less Travelled’

Artist: The Ramshackle Army Album: The Road Less Travelled Genre: Celtic-Punk It’s no secret that despite its natural beauty and status as the world’s most livable city, Melbourne, Australia and indeed Australia as a nation, has a rather dark and sordid, yet fascinating past. Originally ‘settled’ as a penal colony by the British in order […]

ALBUM STREAM: The Ramshackle Army – ‘Letters From The Road Less Travelled’

Australian Celtic-Punk troubadours The Ramshackle Army have made their debut full-length Letters From The Road Less Travelled available for download and streaming over at their official Bandcamp page. The Ramshackle Army broke onto the local scene of Melbourne, Australia in 2010 and quickly set about playing to diverse crowds up and down the East Coast […]

Dropkick Murphys Announce St. Patrick’s Day Tour

Legendary Irish-punk group Dropkick Murphys announced their 2013 edition of their annual St. Patrick’s Day Tour, and we have all the dates here. Every year the shows are absolutely wild, and I can’t imagine a reason why this year would be any different. The dates span from late February to March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, […]

MOVIE REVIEW: Brave

Film: Brave Directed by: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell There are a few things certain in my life. I’ll always love pop punk music, I’ll always wish I was Indiana Jones, and I will always, almost to an obsessive point, love Pixar films. It’s a well-known fact that Pixar can put out almost any […]

LIVE REVIEW: 3.17.12 – Dropkick Murphys / Frank Turner / The Parkington Sisters

The Dropkick Murphys has always been one of my favorite bands. I’ve been listening to them since I was a freshman in high school, they were the band that I always warmed up to before I wrestled (I will always remember the match I terrified this kid as I got super stoked on “The Rocky […]