Flogging Molly

Founded in Los Angeles in 1994, Flogging Molly has always defied categorization. The infectious originality of their songs is a badge of honor and key to the band’s creativity, their urgency. They infuse punk rock with Celtic instruments — violin, mandolin, and the accordion — and they merge blues progressions with grinding guitars and traditional Irish music. Theirs is music of exile, rebellion, struggle, and history, with one sole criterion: that it matters.

Social and political awareness has always been at the forefront of Flogging Molly’s music, including such landmark releases as 2006’s RIAA Platinum certified Whiskey On A Sunday, 2008’s Float (which topped Billboard’s “Independent Albums” chart and peaked among the top 5 on the overall Billboard 200), and their most recent studio album, 2022’s Anthem, a career-defining collection that saw the band reunited with renowned producer/engineer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies), with whom they previously collaborated on 2000’s studio debut album, Swagger, and its RIAA Gold certified 2002 follow-up, Drunken Lullabies.

Through all of this, Flogging Molly – first, last, and always – is a live band, playing raucous and adrenaline-fueled shows on countless headline tours, festivals in North America, Europe, and Japan, and of course, the hugely popular – and always sold out – Flogging Molly’s Salty Dog Cruise.