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Street Dogs
Song: Two Angry Kids
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Mike McColgan already made his name as the frontman for the Dropkick Murphys, the standard-bearers of Boston punk during the late 1990s. Most musicians dream of achieving that kind of success once in a lifetime, but the Murphys' rise to fame was something of an entr'acte for the duty-bound McColgan, who aspired to follow in the footsteps of his uncle and join the Boston Fire Department. So it was that McColgan left the stage for the firehouse in 1998. Now, with the Street Dogs, he returns one last time before heading off into the sunset. The new album, State of Grace, paints the picture of a band that adamantly and unapologetically has things to say. Rather than serving as the closing orations for a punk rock band, the new album serves to put the world on notice that everything up until this point has been little but prologue, and that the story of the Street Dogs begins now.