With their Irish pride in hand, the Dropkick Murphys will be blowing the bagpipes and lacing up the raucous punk skills that made them one of Boston's finest hometown heroes.

The Murphys' Irish folk and hardcore punk sounds will be on display 8 p.m. tonight at Crowbar, 420 E. Beaver Ave.

The band originally started out as a bunch of friends playing in the basement of a local barber shop.

They have since released two full-length albums — Do or Die and The Gang's All Here — and have two more albums in the works.

Dropkick Murphys sings with the intention of sharing its experiences and beliefs in working class solidarity, friendship, loyalty and self-improvement as a means to bettering society.

The members have an obligation to their young fanbase to pass on pride and morals along with enough musical energy to ignite a frantic mosh pit, according to their Web page.

The self-proclaimed loud, raucous, chaotic and often out of tune band blends the very eclectic sounds of punk, rock, Irish folk and hardcore.

The band's first full-length album released in 1998, Do or Die, features a variety of drinking songs and bagpipes that gained them respect among underage punksters nationwide.

Dropkick Murphys' second release, The Gang's All Here, goes along with the band's over-riding message of taking control of their own destiny and making the most out of what happens.

The Celtic Rock band is composed of vocalist Al Barr, guitarist Rick Barton, bassist Ken Casey, drummer Matt Kelly and newly acquired guitarist James Lynch, formerly of the Ducky Boys.

The Murphys have developed somewhat of a dedicated following around the State College region.

"I might be the biggest Dropkick Murphys fan at Penn State ever since I saw them on MTV.

They rock, I mean who else could make the bagpipes sound so tough," Harry Guinan (senior-business logistics) said.

According to Guinan, the Dropkick Murphys have been falsely accused of being racist skinheads.

The accusations were made because of the Murphys' hardcore lyrics and their shaved heads.

"The only racist remarks they've had were about British folks, but that was all in good humor, they were just being Irish punks . . . I think sometimes people should just lighten up," he said.

Fellow punk bands Vigilantes, Beer Zone and Running Riot will also be performing at the all ages' show tonight.