Subtle Bluntness

Yeah, I know I missed actual St. Patrick’s Day.  I suck at being Irish.  I’ll just blame it on the booze I didn’t drink, and we’ll all pretend that it wasn’t because I came home from work and fell right to sleep.  Deal?  Deal.  I’m totally not old and lame at 27.  (Well, okay, I [...]

Well, not real Irish, but Irish enough due to lead singer Dave King. This band, ladies and gents, is my favorite band ever, and the best live band I’ve ever seen. They’re Flogging Molly, and I’ve been their biggest supporter since their first album came out. YouTube is full of great songs of theirs, and [...]

I still like Mike McColgan better than Al Barr, but I think Dirty Glass is one of the best Dropkick Murphys songs they’ve ever done, and I’m pleasantly surprised at how cute Stephanie Dougherty is. Still, I’ve always wondered if the really rough, gravely parts of the song (“you get him high and you left [...]