There’s plenty of inspiration from legendary bands like Stiff Little Fingers and Sham 69 in Boston’s formidable Street Dogs, who cover Menace (with updated lyrics examining how the GOP is full of shit, shit, shit shit shit!) and Steve Earle on a never-ending mission to speak up for the man on the street, and presumably his dog, too. Started in 2002 by Mike McColgan, co-founder of the Dropkick Murphys, Street Dogs released a ferocious set of Boston-ian Oi!-punk albums that led them to Hellcat Records—also famously once home of Dropkick Murphys—and now to Pirate’s Press Records, where they get to be labelmates with Cock Sparrer. While there’s no new full-length yet, they’ve put out a recent and relentless set of EPs and splits that prove they’re just as rabid as ever.
Fri., Oct. 24, 9 p.m., 2014
