Going Out in Style released

The band released their seventh studio album, Going Out in Style , on March 1, 2011. The album debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200 – the highest position ever for a Dropkick Murphys album–and sold 43,259 copies in the U.S. in its first week. The album features guest appearances by Bruce Springsteen , Fat Mike , Chris Cheney , and Lenny Clarke . The album’s title track was released as the first single and was followed by “Memorial Day” and “Sunday Hardcore Matinee” as singles. The band began an extensive tour to support the album which included the Shamrock-N-Roll Festival in September 2011. The opening bands on that tour included Chuck Ragan , the Mahones , the Parkington Sisters, various local acts and boxer Mickey Ward giving boxing demonstrations. The co-headlining act on the nine-date tour was Mike McColgan’s Street Dogs. This was the first time the two bands would tour together other than appearances on festival lineups such as the Warped Tour . McColgan joined his former band onstage for the first time in thirteen years for performances of songs including “Barroom Hero” and “Far Way Coast” from Do or Die . The band released an expanded version of the album titled Going Out in Style: Fenway Park Bonus Edition on March 13, 2012, that featured a twenty-song bonus CD of a show performed at Fenway Park .