Al Barr, vocalist for Boston, MA's Dropkick Murphys took some time to speak to Jersey Beat about the band's plans for the end of the year. Barr commented on the band's touring plans for the rest of the year, and also the band's current writing status:

We kind of try to write as you go so that way when you get to the point where you're ready to start working on a new record you're not just cramming, you know what I mean? But as far as the new year goes, we're real excited because we got the Big Day Out, which is a big festival in Australia, so we're planning on going to Australia for about three weeks in January, and New Zealand as well. We really love Australia. We've been to New Zealand only one other time and that was really cool, so we're looking forward to that, y'know. It's really cool, this band has afforded us all the luxury of being able to travel all over the world and that's pretty amazing.

The band released The Meanest of Times last year through East/West. You can read the entire interview here.