The record finds Casey and the band setting their supercharged brand of music to the lyrics of Woody Guthrie, the quintessential folk-protest singer and Oklahoma native who championed the working class and famously scribbled “This machine kills fascists” on his acoustic guitar. If for some reason, there’s still confusion, Dropkick Murphys’ new album This Machine Still Kills Fascists will clear it up.
“Some people were saying, ‘I can’t believe you talk to your fans like that.’ I said, hold on, you don’t know the whole story… If you’ve been around since the beginning, you have to know where we stand on a lot of things in the political agenda, about how we feel about workers rights in particular.” “Because you’re being duped by the greatest swindler in the history of the world…and a bunch of grifters and billionaires who don’t give a shit about you or your family!”Ī few weeks after the Allentown smackdown, Casey isn’t budging from his remarks. “If you’re out there buying these fucking hats that these swindlers are selling…then you’re part of the problem!” Casey yelled. The rant - in which he threatened to fight election deniers outside the fair - was captured on video and earned Casey both praise and death threats. When Dropkick Murphys took the stage later that September evening, he stopped the show, asked for a moment of the crowd’s time, and proceeded to metaphorically flip over the tables of the MAGA moneychangers. But he couldn’t stop thinking about what he’d just witnessed. “I said, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, I ain’t taking a fucking picture with you with that shirt on,’” he says.Ĭasey removed himself from the conversation and made his way back to his band. It was like I was dropped into another planet.”Ĭasey reached his breaking point when he was approached by a guy who claimed to be a Dropkick Murphys fan wearing a T-shirt with what Casey calls a “pro-QAnon slash insurrection” slogan on the front. I was a little overwhelmed and befuddled. “Every other table was selling the MAGA gear and the ‘Fuck Joe Biden’ gear and all this stuff. “I felt like we were playing a MAGA flea market,” Casey tells Rolling Stone. The leader of the Boston band known for their Irish-influenced punk rock and vocal support of workers’ rights saw more than a few vendors at the 170th edition of the eastern Pennsylvania fair selling divisively political hats, shirts, and bumper stickers of the “Let’s Go Brandon” variety. Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey was walking the booths and stalls of the Great Allentown Fair before his band’s show that night on the Grandstand Stage when he started to feel increasingly uneasy.
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