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Interview: the Chieftains at Symphony Hall — again
At 69, Paddy Moloney is still the world’s foremost uilleann-pipes player.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 12, 2008

Show and tell

A whole new year of live music
After a brief late-December break from the usual boatload of good shows, the flood picks up right where it left off in early January.
By WILL SPITZ | January 04, 2008

Electro-folk

Finding sounds with Patrick McGinley’s Murmer
Patrick McGinley is an inveterate traveler.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | December 31, 2007

More than a decade into their career, Dropkick Murphys accept success — and pay tribute to the people and the city who helped them earn it
On Boston Harbor’s Long Island, two miles out in Quincy Bay, the Curley Building stands hulking and decrepit.
By MIKE MILIARD | September 07, 2007

Trouble at the top

The Walter Reed fiasco is a national disgrace
The back of our limo has one of those yellow ribbon decals that say “Support Our Troops” — just above the “Impeach Bush” sticker.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | March 14, 2007

In the moment

The Pogues, Avalon, March 8, 2007
The Pogues live in the moment, and last Thursday that moment lasted two hours at Avalon.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 12, 2007

The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 15

The Pogues | Axis | July 2, 1986

By PHOENIX STAFF | October 25, 2006

Set ’em up, knock ’em back - side

By | March 17, 2006

30 songs to spill beer on your iPod to - side

By | March 17, 2006

30 songs to spill beer on your iPod to

The greatest drinking songs of all time
No song captures the quiet desperation of a hard-drinking, hardscrabble nowhere town better than this one.
By MIKE MILIARD | March 16, 2006

Regaining Shane

The return of the MacGowan Pogues
It was 1985 and it was time for a new kind of kick. I did not expect to find it with guys playing tin whistle, banjo, and accordion, and a guy who used to sing for the B-level punk band, the Nips ( nés Nipple Erectors) — that would be the dentally challenged Shane MacGowan.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 07, 2006