It’s his 12th studio album, and one rife with references to his Orange County home.

Ty Segall, a singer-songwriter-drummer-guitarist and lead of the current iteration of his ensemble, Freedom Band, drops his latest record, “First Taste,” on Friday. A second collaborative DKMs/Woodie Guthrie album will be announced soon.A brand-new album, a two-month residency at one of the hottest ballrooms in Los Angeles and an upcoming European tour have one Laguna Beach musician feeling like the name of his hometown neighborhood: on Top of the World. The band alsorecently released a digital expanded edition, which features three live versions of songs on the original release and two alternate song versions. Dropkick Murphys and their longtime producer Ted Hutt aptly recorded it at The Church Studio in Tulsa (just a few minutes from Woody Guthrie’s birthplace, and the modern-day Woody Guthrie Center) and the album was also curated for the band by Woody’s daughter Nora Guthrie. The albumis unlike anything Dropkick Murphys have done to date: A full album of songs that bring Woody Guthrie’s words to life. Not a tribute album or a collection of covers, This Machine Still Kills Fascists is a collaboration between Dropkick Murphys and Woody Guthrie – artists separated by time and space, but connected by a common philosophy – to create something entirely new. These upcoming fully electric rock shows come off Dropkick Murphys’ largely successful European tour earlier this year as well as last fall’s highly-regarded (and first ever!) acoustic shows that explored the band’s powerful acoustic album This Machine Still Kills Fascists, released September 30. Patrick’s Day Tour. It heads to Orlando on March 3 at House of Blues. The Rumjacks and Jesse Ahern will open the show.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year … when Dropkick Murphys head out on their annual St.

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