"That the band is a full-time band. That whatever Street Dogs is doing, whether recording or playing live, we're gonna give 110%. Always. But the thing i'd like to convey most through bio or anything is that this music has an honesty and earnestness to it. The lyrics are from legitimate life experiences from the band members. The End." You know, Mike McColgan could leave it at that. Few bands can sum themselves up so succinctly and accuratly and truthfully in a paragraph.They have to resort to hyperbole and clichés and any other public relations gimmick to make themselves interesting. With Street Dogs, you get truth -- real feelings, uncontrived sentiments -- and music that is as gritty and unwashed as their name. Case in point: their newly-minted second album Back to the World. From the opening anthem strikes through the stirring closer Unions And The Law Back to the World is a defiantly hopeful, inspiring journey through the tattered heart of The Everyman. McColgan and bandmates Johnny Rioux (bass), former Mighty Mighty Bosstone Joe Sirois (drums) and Marcus Hollar (guitar) speak plainly and loudly as they champion the working man (⤦In Defense of Dorchester, Unions and the Law or the grunt soldier missing his girl and kids, Back to the World, and lament the state of the country/world Tale of Mass Deceptio or declare a night of drunken abandon Drink Tonigh You understand and agree with every word as if they were copied verbatim from your soul. While we're indulging in some of that hyperbole: the folksy sensibilities and rollicking guitar rock sounds like Billy Bragg backed by the Clash; Bob Dylan on Red Bull and Guinness; Bob Marley fronting The Replacements; Joe Jackson having guzzled a liquefied Che Guevara,then ditching decorum and belching loud and proud. Get the drift? It's punk, but it's also heartland rock -- the sound of freedom. The sound of union workers walking home at quitting time. The sound of world- and work-weariness, imbued with the irrepressible, unwavering nerve and determination of the working man.

Back to the World was written in the short year-long period following the release of their 2003 debut Savin Hill and is the first release on Street Dogs own imprint Brass Tacks, which will be marketed via DRT Entertainment. Fellow hometown boys Matthew Ellard (Converge, Billy Bragg and Wilco) and Nate Albert (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones) produced part of the album at Q Division; Paul Q. Kolderie (The Blake Babies, Dinosaur Jr.) handled the rest at his facility, the erstwhile home of legendary platter factory Fort Apache. It sounds great thanks to these guys hard work -- proof that Street Dogs ethos is its ace. Street Dogs is McColgan's first project post-The Dropkick Murphys, which he co-founded, singing on the EP Boys on the Docks and LP Do or Die, two of punk rock's modern classics. He left the band in 1998 to fulfill his lifelong dream as a member of the Boston Fire Department. I have no misgivings, no regrets and there are no bad feelings he says proudly. still talk to those guys. Unable to stay away from music, McColgan and Rioux formed Street Dogs in 2002, quickly recorded the acclaimed Savin Hill album, and hit the road. The band has been touring constantly since and building a following on rapid word of mouth. They've recently finished a successful jaunt with Flogging Molly in the US and the UK. Once you hear the record, the only word left is real, which bassist Johnny Rioux hits upon in this convenient bookend quote: ⤦Punk rock music says Rioux, it's a rebellious type of music, especially these days. There is so much crazy stuff, from injustice to rebelliousness, to brush over and [instead] sing about breaking up. You're really serving music an injustice by not addressing issues. But there's a way to combine influences iinto good, catchy, hooky songs with a message thats even better. That;s real rebel music, you know



STREET DOGS Savin Hill ENHANCED CD $14.99	STREET DOGS Savin Hill LP w/Bonus non CD Track LTD EDITION GREEN VINYL 600 MADE $15
1. Savin Hill 2. Cutdown On The 12th 3. Star 4. Fighter 5. The Pilgrim: Chapter 33 6. Justifiable Fisticuffs 7. Stand Up 8. When It Ends 9. Don't Preach To Me 10. 2 Bottles 11. Doclaration 12. Jakes 13. Last Call 14. Borstal Breakout (Boston Version) 15. Modern Day Labor Anthem	SIDE 1 1. Savin Hill 2. Cutdown On The 12th 3. Star 4. Fighter 5. The Pilgrim: Chapter 33 6. Justifiable Fisticuffs 7. Stand Up 8. When It Ends SIDE 2 1. Don't Preach To Me 2. 2 Bottles 3. Doclaration 4. Jakes 5. Last Call 6. Borstal Breakout (Boston Version) 7. Modern Day Labor Anthem 8. Locked & Loaded (Bonus Non-CD TRACK)


STREET DOGS Back To The World CD $15.99	STREET DOGS Fading American Dream CD $14.99
1. Strike A Blow 2. You Alone 3. In Defense Of Dorchester 4. Back To The World 5. Tale Of Mass Deception 6. Drink Tonight 7. Stagger 8. White Collar Fraud 9. Patrick 10. Pull The Pin 11. Hands Down 12. Unions And The Law	1. Common People 2. Not Without a Purpose 3. Fatty 4. Decency Police 5. There Is Power in a Union 6. Tobe's Got a Drinking Problem 7. Shards of Life 8. Sell Your Lies 9. Rights to Your Soul 10. Hard Luck Kid 11. Fading American Dream 12. Final Transmission 13. Katie at the Door

STREET DOGS Fading American Dream LP $11.99

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