Persbericht: Street Dogs return to
studio for 'rabble rousing' new album
Full UK & European Tour This March
Punk rock proponents for social justice, Street
Dogs, have announced plans to return to the studio in
February to record their fifth studio album and
follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2008 Hellcat
debut State of Grace. The band will be recording with
bassist Johnny Rioux as producer and Rick Barton
(original Dropkick Murphys guitarist) co-producing at
the infamous punk rock studio the Blasting Room in Fort
Collins, Colorado which was built by members of
Descendents, All and Black Flag.
Punk rock runs deep in the veins of Street Dogs, with
former Dropkick Murphys singer Mike McColgan’s
uncompromising lyrics alongside bassist Johnny Rioux,
guitarists Marcus Hollar and Tobe Bean III and drummer
Paul Rucker’s fist pumping street punk anthems. The band
burst onto the scene in 2002 and has released a string
of classic albums including 2008’s State of Grace, which
Mike Davies – BBC radio called "the most raw, honest and
punk rock record The Street Dogs have ever done”.
After incessant tours around the world alongside bands
like The Offspring, Alkaline Trio, Anti-Flag, Reverend
Horton Heat and headlining tours in US and UK in support
of State of Grace, Street Dogs will enter the studio in
February ready to shake the system and rally the people
like never before on their fifth studio album.
“Every time we go into the studio we are trying to make
our finest record,” says McColgan. “So on February ninth
when we enter the Blasting Room in Fort Collins,
Colorado that is the goal to make our best record. Also
this record will be more of a rabble rousing punk record
than our previous records and have more of an edge and
an attack on it. We will work to all of our strengths on
this effort and we are very excited to have Rick Barton
co-producing the record.”
“Our next and fifth record will capture the purest form
of the band to date,” adds Rioux. “We are making it as
if it were our first record. The punk and hardcore songs
will be MORE punk and hardcore. Our Celtic influence and
songs will be more Celtic, the folk, folkier and so on.
It's almost as if we are making records in the reverse
of most bands. Ending up back at square one, and square
one never sounded better. Basically, we want to make our
new favorite record.”
The band will follow their studio stint with an
extensive 2 month European tour, starting this March in
the UK.
Take a sneak peek at the recording process as Street
Dogs give you a personal tour of the compound!
