Song of the Week: Dropkick Murphys

This week's Song of the Week is a classic from Dropkick Murphy's called Sunshine Highway. A personal favorite, I've heard several interpretations of the lyrics. The most compelling to me (and possibly the most factual?) is that "sunshine highway" was the name of the road to Dropkick Murphys (the detox center from which the band took its name). The drunks would drive this road and toss their bottles out the window, and all the broken glass would make the road light up when headlights shined on it. Regardless of whether this story is true, it's cool and the song is wicked fun. Check it out:

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February 23 (TONIGHT!)

-- Emarosa (at left), Chiodos, Go Radio, Decoder @ Middle East Downstairs (Cambridge) ALL AGES

February 25

-- Tijuana Sweetheart, Blow Your Face Out, Jason Bennett & The Resistance @ Middle East Upstairs (Cambridge) 18+

--Kill Conrad (at left), The Black Tie Operation, The Egos @ Royale Palace (email TexRailer@gmail.com for the address) (MA) ALL AGES

March 1

--Motorhead (at left), Clutch, Valient Thorr @ House Of Blues (Boston) ALL AGES

Setlist From WTBU Broadcast 2-14

Sorry for the lateness of this post, the setlist from this week will probably be up in the next couple days as well.

1 The Ramones - Outsider
2 Flatfoot 56 - Shiny Eyes
3 Wolves and the Radio - One Sitting
4 The Gaslight Anthem - Red at Night
5 Against Me - Cavalier Eternal
6 Frank Turner - Photosynthesis

Background: Modest Mouse - Float On

8 Flogging Molly - Float

9 Dropkick Murphys - The Wild Rover
10 Flatfoot 56 - The Hourglass
11 The Real Mckenzies - Will Ye No Come Back Again
12 The Briggs - Until Someone Gets Hurt

Background: Modest Mouse - Blame it On The Tetons

14 Alkaline Trio - Every Thug Needs A Lady
15 Four Year Strong - Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Hell
16 Teenage Bottlerocket - Fall For Me
17 Descendents - Nothing With You
18 NOFX - We Got Two Jealous Agains
19 Millencolin - Killercrush
20 Hi Standard - This is Love
21 The Loved Ones - Please Be Here

Background: Dropkick Murphys - Black Velvet Band

23 Evergreen Terrace - Chaney Cant Quite Riff Like Helmet's Page Hamilton
24 Hatebreed - I Will Be Heard
25 Every Time I Die - The New Black
26 The Bronx - White Tar
27 Love Equals Death - Bombs Over Brooklyn
28 The Misfits - Scream

Background: Modest Mouse - One Chance

30 Dillinger Four - Like Eye Contact in an Elevator
31 Avail - Black and Red
32 The Lawrence Arms - The Devil's Takin' Names
33 Dead To Me - Don't Lie
34 Bad Religion - Suffer
35 Against All Authority - The Restoration of Chaos and Order
36 Rancid - Olympia, WA
37 Chixdiggit - Geocities Kitty
38 The Sainte Catherines - The Shape Of Drunks to Come
39 The Creepshow - They All Fall Down
40 The Flatliners - Macoretta Boozer
41 The Johnstones - No Time For The Moment
42 Real Mckenzies - Best Day Until Tomorrow

Song of the Week: Casey Jones

Casey Jones is a straight-edge hardcore band (as you'll see from the video) from Jacksonville Florida. Featuring members of Evergreen Terrace, the band plays a bludgeoning form of hardcore that fans of Minor Threat and bands like This is Hell will find appealing. The group definitely displays some influences from its Evergreen Terrace members, brothers Josh and Caleb James (vocals and drums, respectively). Here's the first video off their album "I Hope We're Not The Last", the song is called "Hammer The Nails".

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Song of the Week: The Lawrence Arms

Played this one on the show this morning, it's "The Devil's Takin' Names" by The Lawrence Arms. This is a punk  ripper with probably some of the best and most tongue-in-cheek lines I've heard in a long time. My personal favorite: "You've got those moves and those eyes / I've got these shakes and bad breath". Check the video here, much thanks to Blank TV for putting up 90% of the videos I use here.

Setlist From WTBU Broadcast 2-7

This may be incomplete, as I based it purely off of the base setlist I wrote up before the show aired, anything extra unfortunately will not be listed here. If you have a question about a song that you don't see her, I can identify based on a lyric or maybe (big maybe) based on musical style. But feel free to leave me comments and requests for next week!




Meanwhile, In Hell... - The Flatliners
Bigger Than Kiss - Teenage Bottlerocket
I'm Warning You With Peace And Love - None More Black
I Remember You - Chixdiggit!
Overwinter - Banner Pilot
Nuthin Runnin Through My Brain - Dead to Me
When I Get Old - Descendents





Looking For A Kiss - New York Dolls
Communication Breakdown - D.O.A.
I'm Against It - The Ramones
Anarchy in the U.K. - The Sex Pistols
Voice of God is Government - Bad Religion
Numbers - The Adicts

Stupid Kid - Alkaline Trio
Sleeper - The Swellers
The Few That Remain - Set Your Goals
Nothing On My Back - Sum 41
On a Saturday - Four Year Strong







When You Don't Control Your Government - Anti-Flag
Gaia Bleeds (Make Way For Man) - Set Your Goals
Leaving Jesusland - NOFX
Summerpunks - Strike Anywhere
Let Them Eat War - Bad Religion
Numb America - Chaser







Cutshow - Big D and the Kids Table
What a Wicked Gang Are We Below - Streetlight Manifesto
Take a Ticket - The Expendables
Little Red Hook - The Expos
He Was a Jazzman - The Flatliners








Minus One - Wolves and the Radio
Breathe In - The Loved Ones
Rivalries - The Menzingers
The Dream Team - Fake Problems
I Coulda Been a Contender - The Gaslight Anthem

Song Of The Week!

Back to the normal schedule for Song Of The Week: it's Tijuana Sweetheart with Trash Candy. Four grimy rocker chicks that really know what they're doing. They'll be playing at the Middle East Upstairs in the People's Republic of Cambridge on February 25.

Oh and about the video: all I have to say is, Black Eyed Peas, ima let you finish, but Tijuana Sweetheart had one of the best Slash cameos of all time.

Anchorless Records Leaves Boston

Anchorless Records is an independent punk label that started in Orlando, Florida in 2004. From there they headed to Allston Rock City, Massachusetts. Now they're on the move again, and personally as a resident of Boston and Cambridge and someone who spends a good amount of time in Allston, I am sad to see them go. Over the years they have signed a number of bands, ranging from local upstarts like Wolves and the Radio to punk stalwarts like The Sainte Catherines. Although they are just going over to Brooklyn, the city of Boston will surely miss having them in our own backyard.

The bright side of this is that they are unloading their inventory at outrageously good prices to prepare for the move, so I will be hitting you guys with some reviews of recent releases from the label, including the recent Wolves and the Radio self-titled album.

Song Of The Week!

I know it's been a while, but fuck it, I'm back now and I got your Song Of The Week so relax. It's Gallows, with
"In The Belly Of A Shark". Real live British hardcore punk rock. A word of advice: if you see anyone more pissed off than Frank from Gallows, RUN. Here it is.

By the way, sorry for the censorship, I'm sure you kiddies can fill in the blanks.