Famed for their gutsy and resolute blue-collared anthems, THE TOSSERS are stepping in a different direction by releasing two songs for the holiday season - an original, ‘Merry Christmas,’ and the traditional New Year’s poem ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ penned by Robert Burns in 1788.
Guitarist Mike Pawula explains, “'Merry Christmas’ is a song that Tony (Duggins, mandolinist and lead vocalist) wrote a few years ago that he had been kicking...
With their new album, Smash The Windows, in-stores now, THE TOSSERS have released a lyric video for the politically charged anthem ‘Erin Go Bragh.’ “Our voices resound through the halls of the town, all the way to the President’s door,” lashes vocalist Tony Duggins on the current policies of American immigration. “For me personally and others in the band, we have grandparents from Ireland. We grew up in Chicago, which...
“Uncle Sam, as you know, changed our names long ago when we got to America’s door,” wails front-man Tony Duggins on “Erin Go Bragh,” the brand new video from THE TOSSERS. “I wanted to tell the story of Irish immigration I’ve heard all my life,” explains Duggins. “A story of racism, rejection, and how they overcame the obstacles, and I think that reflects kind of what’s going on now.”
THE TOSSERS are giving you a first listen to their eighth full length album, Smash The Windows, listen HERE now- the album is available tomorrow. Smash The Windows is an anthemic and sometimes rollicking, rowdy journey through Irish American culture coupled with melancholy overtures inspired by devotion and pride. It is truly an album and piece of work that fits America’s current socio-economic state of affairs and will strike...
