The Dreadnoughts have yet to make it through a St. Patrick’s Day without somebody breaking a nose at one of their gigs. “We’ve actually had to stop a show and pull a stretcher into the venue,” says ...

Some punks come to roots music by a circuitous route, after years on a steady diet of hardcore, spent growling things like “Country music sucks.” But not Nick “the Fang” Smyth, guitarist and vocalist ...

To say the least, the Dreadnoughts are a complete racket, as the Vancouver, BC natives blend rough-around-the-edges street punk with polka beats and a bevy of Irish folk instrumentation, creating a ...

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 237th installment in the series. While for many ordinary people the outbreak of war in 1914 came as a ...