Brooklyn
Bowl Las Vegas, recently named “Best Live Music Venue” by Las Vegas Weekly and
“Best New Venue” by Vegas Seven, is thrilled to announce Dropkick Murphys live
at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas.
Dropkick
Murphys come out swinging on their eighth full-length album, "SIGNED and
SEALED in BLOOD" [Born & Bred Records/ADA]. This time around,
everything has been cranked up past 10. The guitars are ballsier, the gang
vocals are louder, the hooks are catchier, the lyrics stop you in your tracks.
The brashest moments of "SIGNED and SEALED in BLOOD" feel like the
last 30 seconds of a Stanley Cup hockey game: frenetic, on the edge, dangerous.
The softest songs are testaments to the values that pump through the Dropkicks'
veins: family, neighborhoods, honor, respect, roots and remembering those who
are gone. Every second of "SIGNED and SEALED in BLOOD" is evidence of
one thing: Dropkick Murphys aren't just loud and brash, they're at the top of
their game as songwriters.
It's
no accident. This time around, the band curtailed its always-on tour schedule
-- which means they played only a month of the biggest summer festivals in
Europe -- to take advantage of an unprecedented songwriting attack that started
in the spring. They took a couple new songs on tour, weaving them into each
night's set. "Rose Tattoo" was a standout. At the Rock im Park
Festival in Germany, at Hellfest in France, at Download Festival in England,
the new songs moved the seas of DKM fans just as much as the band's most beloved
tunes. The band knew they were onto something. So after the last festival, they
returned excitedly to new digs, a warehouse in South Boston that serves as a
rehearsal space/clubhouse for writing and rehearsing with enough wall space to
hang backdrops from tours past. The seven members convened to shape their
trademark blend of guitars and acoustic folk instruments into the collection of
songs before you.
Knowing
this, it's no surprise upon hearing the opening line of the opening song:
"The boys are back and they're looking for trouble." ...they most
certainly are.
The
Dropkicks' music is universal stuff. Songs for the common man, about common
things, that come together with such fury and infectious melody that everyone
within earshot is struck straight. Dropkick Murphys, as much as any of the
'punk' or 'blue collar' labels they've earned, are fantastic songwriters. They
are on the same quest as their beloved Woody Guthrie or their buddy Bruce
Springsteen: how to get that big truth to come out the other end of the
speakers in a way people all over the world will feel in their bones.
Saturday,
November 8, 2014
Doors
8:00 PM || Show 9:00 PM
Ages:
18+ with ID welcome
Tickets
are available online -www.ilovelvtix.com/ResultsGeneral.aspx?stype=0&kwds=Drop%20Kick
, or to charge tickets by phone, call 702.862.2695. Tickets available also at
the Brooklyn Bowl
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